February 14

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on February 14. From 1900 until now. February 14 is under the sign of Aquarius. Famous birthdays on this day include Michael Bloomberg (1942), Freddie Highmore (1992) and Barbara Hand Clow (1943). Several movies were released around February 14 over the years, such as Pyaasa in 1957 directed by Guru Dutt and To Be or Not to Be in 1942 directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
But much more happened on February 14 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Denmark - Fastelavn. Children dress up, much like Halloween in the US.
Arizona - Admission Day (1912).
Mexico - Day of National Mourning (1831).
Oregon - Admission Day (1859).
Western World - Valentine's Day.
Iraq - 'Communist Martyrs Day' celebrated by Iraqi Communist Party.
Europe/Catholicism - Feast day of Saints Cyril and Methodius, patron saints of Europe.
Saint Abraham (d. 422)
Saint Valentine (d. 422).
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Events

2019 2019 Pulwama attack: At least 46 members of India's security forces are killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up as a convoy of military vehicles drove on a highway in Jammu and Kashmir. (BBC)
2018 Syrian Civil War: Russian aircraft carry out airstrikes in Ma'arrat Hurma village in Idlib, Syria, killing seven civilians and injuring 10 others. (TRT World)
2017 Syrian Civil War, Idlib Governorate clashes (2017): Rival fighters between Tahrir al-Sham and Jund al-Aqsa clash in Syria's northern Idlib Governorate, killing "dozens" according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (BBC)
2016 War in Afghanistan: The United Nations reports that civilian casualties reached a record level in 2015; at least 3,545 non-combatants were killed and 7,457 injured. (Reuters)
2015 War in Donbass: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko warns of a threat to a planned ceasefire tonight from heavy fighting today and accuses Russia of "significantly increasing" its offensive. In a live interview he ordered all Ukrainian forces to cease fire after midnight. (BBC)
2014 Syrian Civil War:: From 18 to 43 people including civilians are killed and dozens wounded by a car bomb outside a mosque in the southern Syrian village of al-Yadouda according to local reports.(ABC News)
2013 Bahraini uprising (2011–present):: A 16-year-old child is shot dead at close range in Al-Daih, a village west of Manama, Bahrain. (Al Jazeera)A police officer is also killed after rioters threw firebombs at his patrol in Sehla, a village west of Manama, Bahrain. (Gulf Daily News)Amnesty International calls on the Bahraini regime to release prisoners of conscience it is holding in captivity. (BBC)
2012 The Syrian army continues its bombardments of Homs, as Arab officials confirm that regional governments would be prepared to arm the opposition if the fighting does not cease. (Reuters)
2011 The 2011 Bahraini uprising commenced.
2010 NATO admits it killed 12 civilians when two misfired rockets hit a house in Marjah, Helmand. President Hamid Karzai calls for an explanation. (BBC) (news.com.au) (Reuters)
2009 An oil spill occurs in the Celtic Sea near County Cork, Ireland. (Department of Transport)
2008 At Northern Illinois University, former student Stephen Kazmierczak fires over 50 shots, killing five students and himself, injuring 16 others.
2007 The United States redeploys the 173rd Airborne Brigade to Afghanistan to prepare for an anticipated spring offensive by the Taliban. (CNN)
2006 The British House of Commons votes by 384 to 184, on a conscience vote, to implement a full smoking ban in all enclosed public places in England from summer 2007. (BBC)
2005 Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon Rafik Hariri killed, along with 21 others, when explosives, equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT, are detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel in Beirut.
2004 In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others.
2003 Four ex-Symbionese Liberation Army members were sentenced to prison for the 1975 murder of Myrna Opsahl during a bank robbery in Carmichael, California.
2002 risoner Shaker Aamer moved to Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Aamer has been held since without charge and despite being cleared for release in 2007 and 2009.
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 Yaounde, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil drops a lit cigarette, creating a massive explosion which kills 120.
1996 Violent clashes erupt between Filipino soldiers and Vietnamese boat people, as the Philippines government attempts to forcibly repatriate hundreds of Vietnamese asylum seekers.
1995 Roseanne weds bodyguard Ben Thomas
1994 Alexander Golubev skates Olympics record 500 metre (36.33).
1993 Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79.
1992 Merlene Ottey runs world record 60 metre indoor (6.96 seconds).
1991 Mule Bone opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC for 67 performances
1990 Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system
1989 Boxer Mike Tyson divorces actress Robin Givens
1988 General hospital star Jackie Zeman marries Glenn Gorden
1987 53,745 largest NBA crowd to date - Philadelphia 76ers at Detroit Pistons.
1985 Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut, Lebanon.
1984 Singer Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney Australia
1983 United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher is later convicted of fraud.
1982 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic.
1981 Stardust Disaster: A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people
1980 West Side Story opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 341 performances
1979 Whoopee! opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 204 performances
1978 First "micro on a chip" patented by Texas Instruments.
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1975 Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station, Netherlands.
1973 The last American is conscripted into the armed forces.
1972 John andYoko co-host Mike Douglas Show for entire week
1971 Movie Ben Hur 1st shown on television
1970 Gantry closes at George Abbott Theater NYC after 1 performance
1969 Vito Genovese, US mafia chief, dies at age 71.
1968 WHKY TV channel 14 in Hickory, NC (IND) begins broadcasting
1967 Aretha Franklin records Respect
1966 Australia introduces 1st decimal currency postage stamps
1963 US launches communications satellite Syncom 1.
1962 First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.
1961 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Royal Poinciana Golf Invitational.
1960 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Saint Petersburg Golf Open.
1959 US$3.6 million heroin seizure in New York City, New York.
1958 Arab Federation of Iraq and Jordan forms.
1957 Georgia Senate unanimously approves Senator Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites.
1956 Verhoeven / Nauta / De King / Wijnhout win Dutch 11 city skate
1955 WFLA (now WXFL) TV channel 8 in Tampa-St Petersburg, Florida (NBC) begins
1954 Sen John Kennedy appears on Meet the Press
1952 Comedian Joey Adams marries gossip columnist Cindy Heller.
1951 Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta and takes middleweight title.
1950 USSR and China sign peace treaty.
1949 Dutch Drees government presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses.
1946 The Bank of England is nationalized.
1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially starting the U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relationship.
1944 Carl Wick publishes Salmon Trolling for Commercial and Sport Fishing
1943 German offensive through de Faid pass in Tunisia.
1942 Japanese parachutists land near oil center in Palembang, Sumatra.
1941 Cebrie Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street
1940 British merchant vessel fleet is armed.
1939 Victor Fleming replaces George Cukor as Director of Gone With the Wind
1938 The British naval base at Singapore begins operations.
1936 National Negro Congress organizes in Chicago
1934 NHL Ace Bailey Benefit Game: Toronto Maple Leafs beats All-Stars 7-3 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1931 Bradman scores 152 Aust vs. WI, 154 minutes, 13 fours 2 fives
1929 Saint Valentine's Day massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.
1927 An earthquake in Yugoslavia kills 100.
1925 State of emergency crisis in Bayern ends, NSDAP re-allowed.
1924 IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson
1921 Canadian 5-cent nickel coin is authorized.
1920 The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
1919 United Parcel Service forms.
1918 H Atteridge and S Rombergs musical "Sinbad" premieres in New York City, New York.
1914 High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands.
1912 Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state
1903 The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into Department of Commerce and Department of Labor).
1900 Date of events in movie "Picnic at Hanging Rock".
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