About February 14
February 14, 2024 is the 45th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 321 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 350 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 14
- 1556 –Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic.
- 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 rendered a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
- 1831 –Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.
- 1843 –The event that inspired the Beatles song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! is held in England.
- 1849 –In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
- 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.
- 1876 –Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
- 1899 –Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
- 1919 –The Polish-Soviet War begins.
- 1920 –The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1924 –The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
- 1943 –World War II: Tunisia Campaign – General Hans-Jurgen von Arnim’s Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: Prague is bombed probably due to a mistake in the orientation of the pilots bombing Dresden.
- 1949 –The Knesset (Israeli parliament) convenes for the first time.
- 1953 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Snake in Chinese astrology.
- 1956 –The XX Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union begins in Moscow. On the last night of the meeting, Premier Nikita Khrushchev condemns Joseph Stalin’s crimes in a secret speech.
- 1962 –First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.
- 1989 –Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill the author of The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie.
- 1998 –An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil drops a lit cigarette, creating a massive explosion which kills 120.
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