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This day in history: 14 February

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410 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 14 February.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2020: At least 22 people are killed in an attack on a village in Northwest Region, Cameroon.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Cyril and Methodius, patron saints of Europe (Roman Catholic Church)

Christian feast day: Eleuchadius

Christian feast day: February 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Manchan

Christian feast day: Valentine (see also Valentine's Day)

Christian feast day: Vicente Vilar David

Parents' Worship Day (parts of India)

Presentation of Jesus at the Temple (Armenian Apostolic Church)

Statehood Day (Arizona, United States)

Statehood Day (Oregon, United States)

Events

2020At least 22 people are killed in an attack on a village in Northwest Region, Cameroon.

2019Pulwama 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.

2018A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida is one of the deadliest school massacres with 17 fatalities and 17 injuries.

2018Jacob Zuma resigns as President of South Africa.

2011As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising begins with a 'Day of Rage'.

2008Northern 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.

2005In 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.

2005Seven 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, all in the Philippines.

2005YouTube 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.

2004In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 28 people, and wounding 193 others.

2003Iraq 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.

2000The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.

1998An 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.

1990Ninety-two people are killed when Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes in Bangalore, India.

1990The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later becomes famous as Pale Blue Dot.

1989Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.

1989Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.

1983United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud.

1979In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.

1961Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.

1954First Indochina War - small French garrison at Đắk Đoa is overrun by the Viet Minh after a week's siege.

1949The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.

1949The Knesset (parliament of Israel) convenes for the first time.

1947The act abolishing all noble ranks and related styles comes into force in Hungary.

1946The Bank of England is nationalized.

1945President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations.

1945World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans

1945World 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.

1945World 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.

1944World 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.

1943World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.

1943World War II: Tunisia Campaign: General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launches a counter-attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.

1942World War II: Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.

1939World War II: German battleship Bismarck is launched.

1929Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago.

1924The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).

1920The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.

1919The Polish–Soviet War begins.

1918Soviet Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar.

1912Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state.

Born on this day

2002Jaxon Smith-Njigba, American football player

2000Gabriel Moreno, Venezuelan baseball player

1999Tyler Adams, American soccer player

1997Breel Embolo, Swiss footballer

1997Jaehyun, South Korean singer and actor

1996Lucas Hernandez, French footballer

1996Nikolaj Ehlers, Danish ice hockey player

1996Poasa Faamausili, New Zealand rugby league player

1993Alberto Rosende, American actor and singer

1993Jadeveon Clowney, American football player

1992Christian Eriksen, Danish footballer

1992Freddie Highmore, English actor

1992Petr Mrázek, Czech ice hockey player

1991Daniela Mona Lambin, Estonian footballer

1991Karol G, Colombian singer and songwriter

1990Bogdan Kiselevich, Russian ice hockey player

1990Brett Dier, Canadian actor

1990Chris Babb, American basketball player

1990Sefa Yılmaz, German-Turkish footballer

1989Adam Matuszczyk, Polish footballer

1989Brandon Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player

1989Byron Mullens, American basketball player

1989Derek Norris, American baseball player

1989Emma Miskew, Canadian curler

1989Jurij Tepeš, Slovenian ski jumper

1989Kristian Thomas, English gymnast

1989Néstor Calderón, Mexican footballer

1988Ángel Di María, Argentinian footballer

1988Katie Boland, Canadian actress, producer, and screenwriter

1988Siim Liivik, Estonian ice hockey player

1987Candice Wiggins, American basketball player

1987David Wheater, English footballer

1987Edinson Cavani, Uruguayan footballer

1987Tom Pyatt, Canadian ice hockey player

1986Gao Lin, Chinese footballer

1986Michael Ammermüller, German racing driver

1986Oliver Lee, English actor, director, and screenwriter

1986Tiffany Thornton, American actress and singer

1985Heart Evangelista, Filipino singer and actress

1985Karima Adebibe, English model and actress

Died on this day

2026Tom Noonan, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1951)

2021Carlos Menem, Argentine former president, lawyer, and statesman (born 1930)

2021William Meninger, American Trappist monk and a principal developer of Centering Prayer (born 1932)

2019Andrea Levy, English author (born 1956)

2018Morgan Tsvangirai, 2nd Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (born 1952)

2018Ruud Lubbers, Dutch politician and diplomat, Prime Minister and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (born 1939)

2016Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury, English lieutenant, engineer, and politician (born 1928)

2016Steven Stucky, American composer and academic (born 1949)

2015Franjo Mihalić, Croatian-Serbian runner and coach (born 1920)

2015Louis Jourdan, French-American actor and singer (born 1921)

2015Philip Levine, American poet and academic (born 1928)

2014Chris Pearson, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Premier of Yukon (born 1931)

2014Mike Stepovich, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Alaska Territory (born 1919)

2014Tom Finney, English footballer (born 1922)

2013Glenn Boyer, American historian and author (born 1924)

2013Ronald Dworkin, American philosopher and scholar (born 1931)

2012Dory Previn, American singer-songwriter (born 1925)

2012Mike Bernardo, South African boxer and martial artist (born 1969)

2012Péter Rusorán, Hungarian swimmer, water polo player, and coach (born 1940)

2012Tonmi Lillman, Finnish drummer and producer (born 1973)

2011George Shearing, English-American pianist and composer (born 1919)

2010Dick Francis, Welsh jockey and author (born 1920)

2010Doug Fieger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1952)

2010Linnart Mäll, Estonian historian, orientalist, and translator (born 1938)

2009Bernard Ashley, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Laura Ashley plc (born 1926)

2009Louie Bellson, American drummer and composer (born 1924)

2008Perry Lopez, American actor (born 1929)

2007Gareth Morris, English flute player and educator (born 1920)

2007Ryan Larkin, Canadian animator and director (born 1943)

2006Lynden David Hall, English singer-songwriter and producer (born 1974)

Quote of the day

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

attributed to Marcus Aurelius

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