Historical Events and Current Affairs on February 14

1014 : Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry II, Roman German emperor
1076 : Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV
1130 : Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II
1540 : Emperor Charles V enters Ghent without resistance, executes rebels
1556 : Archbishop Thomas Cranmer declared a heretic
1610 : Polish king Sigismund III, Forges Dimitri #2 & Romanov family
1610 : sign covenant against czar Vasili Shushki
1613 : King James I's daughter Elizabeth marries Frederik
1630 : Dutch fleet of 69 ships reaches Pernambuco Brazil
1670 : Roman Catholic emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna
1689 : English parliament places Mary Stuart/Prince Willem III on the throne
1711 : H„ndels opera Rinaldo, premieres
1746 : Henry Pelham appointed English premier
1766 : Dutch governor Falck signs Treaty of Batticaloa with rebels
1778 : "Stars & Stripes" arrives in foreign port for 1st time (France)
1794 : 1st US textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Phila
1803 : Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington, Penn
1848 : James K Polk became 1st pres photographed in office (Matthew Brady)
1859 : Oregon admitted as 33rd state
1862 : Galena, 1st US iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Conn
1867 : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Co issues 1st policy
1867 : Morehouse College organizes (Augusta Georgia)
1872 : 1st state bird refuge authorized (Lake Merritt CA)
1876 : A G Bell & Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents
1876 : Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor
1879 : Chilean troops occupy Antofagasta
1883 : 1st state labor union legislation; NJ legalizes unions
1887 : Cubs sell Mike King Kelly to Boston for record $10,000
1889 : 1st train load of fruit (oranges) leaves LA for east
1894 : Venus is both a morning star & evening star
1895 : Oscar Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest," opens in London
1896 : George Lohmann takes a hat-trick v S Africa, 8-7 for inning
1896 : South Africa all out for 30 v England - their lowest ever
1896 : Stanley Cup: Winnipeg Victorias beat Montreal Victorias, 2-0
1896 : Theodor Herzl publishes "Der Judenstaat"
1899 : US Congress begins using voting machines
1900 : Date of events in movie "Picnic at Hanging Rock"
1903 : US Dept of Commerce & Labor forms
1907 : 1st US fox hound association forms in NYC
1912 : 1st US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton, Ct
1912 : Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state
1914 : High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands
1918 : H Atteridge & S Rombergs musical "Sinbad," premieres in NYC
1918 : USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar (originally Feb 1)
1919 : United Parcel Service forms
1920 : League of Women Voters forms in Chicago
1921 : Canadian 5› nickel coin is authorized
1921 : Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing "Ulysses," NY
1924 : IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson
1925 : State of emergency crisis in Bayern ends, NSDAP re-allowed
1929 : St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, 7 gangsters killed
1931 : Bradman scores 152 Aust v WI, 154 minutes, 13 fours 2 fives
1931 : Spanish Govt of General Damasco Berenguer falls
1932 : Reinmuth discovers asteroids 2290, 2560, 2879 Shimizu & #5532 Ichinohe
1932 : S Africa all out for 36 in 1st innings v Aust (Ironmonger 5-6)
1934 : NHL Ace Bailey Benefit Game: Toronto beats All-Stars 7-3 in Toronto
1936 : National Negro Congress organizes in Chicago
1936 : US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1936 : US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
1939 : Victor Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of Gone With the Wind
1940 : British merchant vessel fleet is armed
1941 : 1,000,000th vehicle traverses the NY Midtown Tunnel
1941 : Carson McCuller's "Reflections in a Golden Eye" published
1941 : Cebrie Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street
1941 : German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya
1942 : Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra
1942 : Rotterdam's Maas tunnel opens
1943 : German offensive through de Faid-pass Tunisia
1943 : Soviets recapture Rostov
1944 : Anti-Japanese revolt on Java
1944 : Carl Wick publishes "Salmon Trolling for Commercial & Sport Fishing
1945 : 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
1945 : Per£, Paraguay, Chile & Ecuador joins UN
1946 : Bank of England nationalized
1949 : 1st session of Knesset (Jerusalem Israel)
1949 : Dutch Drees govt presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses
1950 : USSR & China sign peace treaty
1951 : Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta & takes middleweight title
1952 : 6th Olympic winter games open at Oslo, Norway
1952 : Comedian Joey Adams marries gossip columnist Cindy Heller
1954 : Sen John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press"
1954 : WTOC TV channel 11 in Savannah, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 : WFLA (now WXFL) TV channel 8 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (NBC) begins
1956 : 20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow
1956 : Indonesia withdraws from Neth Indonesian Union
1956 : Verhoeven/Nauta/De King/Wijnhout win Dutch 11 city skate
1957 : blacks from playing baseball with whites
1957 : Georgia Senate unanimously approves Sen Leon Butts' bill barring
1958 : Arab Federation of Iraq & Jordan forms
1959 : $3.6 million heroin seizure in NYC
1960 : Marshal Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan
1961 : Element 103, Lawrencium, 1st produced in Berkeley Calif
1962 : 1st lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV
1963 : US launches communications satellite Syncom 1
1966 : Australia introduces 1st decimal currency postage stamps
1966 : Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points
1966 : Writers Andrei Sinjavski & Joeij Dani‰l found guilty
1967 : Aretha Franklin records "Respect"
1967 : Latin American nuclear free zone proposal drawn up
1968 : Pennsylvania Railroad/NYC Central merge into Penn Central
1968 : WHKY TV channel 14 in Hickory, NC (IND) begins broadcasting
1970 : "Gantry" closes at George Abbott Theater NYC after 1 performance
1971 : Movie "Ben Hur" 1st shown on television
1971 : Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House
1972 : John & Yoko co-host "Mike Douglas Show" for entire week
1972 : Luna 20 (Russia) launched to orbit & soft landing on Moon
1975 : Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station
1976 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 : 1st "micro on a chip" patented by Texas Instruments
1978 : In girls' HS basketball, Chicago Latin beats Harvard St George
1979 : "Whoopee!" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 204 performances
1980 : "West Side Story" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 341 performances
1980 : 13th Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, NY
1980 : US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares
1982 : "Night of 100 Stars" takes place at NY's Radio City Music Hall
1982 : L Brozek discovers asteroids #3424 & #7739
1984 : Singer Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney Australia
1985 : Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut
1987 : 53,745 largest NBA crowd to date-Phila at Detroit
1988 : Alfredo Stroessner re-elected president of Paraguay
1988 : Bobby Allison at 50 becomes oldest driver to win Daytona 500
1988 : General hospital star Jackie Zeman marries Glenn Gorden
1989 : African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam
1989 : Boxer Mike Tyson divorces actress Robin Givens
1989 : Khomeini orders Moslems to murder "Satanic Verses" novelist Rushdie
1989 : Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in Dom Rep
1989 : Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopol disaster
1989 : World's 1st satellite Skyphone opens
1990 : Alan Ayckbourn's "Man of the Moment," premieres in London
1990 : of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some
1990 : Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces
1990 : Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system
1991 : "Mule Bone" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC for 67 performances
1991 : Air raid shelter at Baghdad bombed killing 300 [or February 13?]
1991 : NL Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record $3 mil salary arbitration
1992 : Andre Cason runs world record 6 m indoor (6.41 sec)
1992 : Cease fire in Somalia begins
1992 : Kieren John Perkins swims world record 800m freestyle (7:46.60)
1992 : Merlene Ottey runs world record 60m indoor (6.96 sec)
1993 : Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79
1994 : Alexander Golubev skates Olympic record 500m (36.33)
1994 : Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (51) weds Deborah Koons
1995 : Roseanne weds bodyguard Ben Thomas
1995 : Wellington 2-498d & 4-475 beat Canterbury 496 & 2-476d

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