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What Happened on February 14th This Day in History

Year	Name
2019	Pulwama attack takes place in Lethpora in Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, India in which 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel and a suicide bomber were killed and 35 were injured.
2018	Jacob Zuma resigns as President of South Africa.
2018	A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida is one of the deadliest school massacres with 17 fatalities and 15 injuries.
2011	As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising begins with a 'Day of Rage'.
2008	Northern Illinois University shooting: A gunman opens fire in a lecture hall of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb County, Illinois, resulting in six fatalities (including the gunman) and 21 injuries.
2005	In Beirut, 23 people, including former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, are killed when the equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT is detonated while Hariri's motorcade drives through the city.
2005	Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit Makati, Davao City, and General Santos City, all in the Philippines.
2005	YouTube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos.
2004	In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 28 people, and wounding 193 others.
2003	Iraq disarmament crisis: UNMOVIC Executive Chairman Hans Blix reports to the United Nations Security Council that disarmament inspectors have found no weapons of mass destruction in Ba'athist Iraq.
2000	The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
1998	An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created a massive explosion which killed 120.
1990	Ninety-two people are killed when Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes in Bangalore, India.
1990	The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later becomes famous as Pale Blue Dot.
1989	Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.
1989	Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.
1983	United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud.
1979	In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
1966	Australian currency is decimalized.
1961	Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
1949	The Knesset (parliament of Israel) convenes for the first time.
1949	The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
1946	The Bank of England is nationalized.
1945	World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden.
1945	World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by a United States Army Air Forces squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet Red Army's Vistula–Oder Offensive.
1945	World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans
1945	President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations.
1944	World War II: In the action of 14 February 1944, a Royal Navy submarine sinks a German-controlled Italian Regia Marina submarine in the Strait of Malacca.
1943	World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
1943	World War II: Tunisia Campaign: General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
1942	Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
1929	Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago.
1924	The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
1920	The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
1919	The Polish–Soviet War begins.
1918	Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar.
1912	Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state.
1912	The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
1903	The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
1900	The British Army begins the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
1899	Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
1879	The War of the Pacific breaks out when the Chilean Army occupies the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
1876	Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
1859	Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.
1855	Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.
1852	Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children, is founded in London.
1849	In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
1835	The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, in the Latter Day Saint movement, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.
1831	Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.
1804	Karađorđe leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
1797	French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent: John Jervis, (later 1st Earl of St Vincent) and Horatio Nelson (later 1st Viscount Nelson) lead the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar.
1779	American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia.
1779	James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
1778	The United States flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte renders a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
1655	The Mapuches launch coordinated attacks against the Spanish in Chile beginning the Mapuche uprising of 1655.
1613	Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V of the Palatinate at Whitehall Palace, London.
1556	Having been declared a heretic and laicized by Pope Paul IV on 4 December 1555,[4] Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is publicly defrocked at Christ Church Cathedral.
1556	Coronation of Akbar as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
1530	Spanish conquistadores, led by Nuño de Guzmán, overthrow and execute Tangaxuan II, the last independent monarch of the Tarascan state in present-day central Mexico.
1349	Several hundred Jews are burned to death by mobs while the remaining Jews are forcibly removed from Strasbourg.
1130	The troubled 1130 papal election exposes a rift within the College of Cardinals.
1014	Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry of Bavaria, King of Germany and of Italy, as Holy Roman Emperor.
842	Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages.
748	Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt.

Famous People Born on February 14

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Year	Name
1939	Eugene Fama, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1989	Adam Matuszczyk, Polish footballer
1960	Meg Tilly, American actress and author
1884	Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish actor and director (d. 1947)
1924	Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (d. 2017)
1917	Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
1888	Chandrashekhar Agashe, Indian industrialist (d. 1956)
1983	Callix Crabbe, Virgin Islander baseball player
1967	Mark Rutte, Dutch businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1973	Tyus Edney, American basketball player and coach

Famous People Deaths On February 14

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Date	Name
1922	Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish lawyer and politician (b. 1880; assassinated)
2010	Doug Fieger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1952)
1987	Dmitry Kabalevsky, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1904)
1959	Baby Dodds, American drummer (b. 1898)
1967	Sig Ruman, German-American actor (b. 1884)
1950	Karl Guthe Jansky, American physicist and engineer (b. 1905)
1970	Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer and coach (b. 1880)
1996	Bob Paisley, English footballer and manager (b. 1919)
1440	Dietrich of Oldenburg, German nobleman
1676	Abraham Bosse, French engraver and illustrator (b. 1602)