Notable Historical Events on February 14th
February 14th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
842 |
Charles II & Louis the German sign treaty |
1009 |
First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg. |
1014 |
Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry II Roman German Emperor |
1076 |
Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV (for the 1st time) |
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 sign covenant against Tsar Vasili Shushki |
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 William III on the throne |
1743 |
Henry Pelham becomes Britain's First Lord of Treasury |
1747 |
Astronomer James Bradley presents his discovery of the wobbling motion of the Earth on its axis to the Royal Society, London |
1766 |
Dutch governor Falck and King Keerthisiri Rajasinghe of Kandy sign Treaty of Batticaloa |
1778 |
"Stars & Stripes" arrives in foreign port for 1st time (France) |
1794 |
1st US textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Phila |
1797 |
The Battle of Cape St Vincent: British fleet under Admiral Sir John Jervis defeats larger Spanish fleet under Admiral Don José de Córdoba y Ramos near Cape St. Vincent, Portugal. Captain Horatio Nelson distinguishes himself. |
1803 |
Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington, Penn |
1803 |
Chief Justice John Marshall declares that any act of U.S. Congress that conflicts with the Constitution is void. |
1804 |
Karadjordje leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire. |
1831 |
Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay. |
1844 |
Lt. John C. Frémont first European to discover Lake Tahoe in the US |
1849 |
In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes first serving US President to have his photograph taken (by Matthew Brady). |
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. |
1859 |
Oregon admitted as 33rd state of the Union |
1862 |
Galena, 1st US iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Connecticut |
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 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 |
1890 |
1st NSW v South Australia 1st-class cricket game |
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 South 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" |
1900 |
Russia responds to international pressure to free Finland by tightening imperial control over the country. |
1903 |
US Dept of Commerce & Labor forms |
1907 |
1st US foxhound 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 |
1919 |
The Polish-Soviet War begins. |
1920 |
League of Women Voters forms in Chicago |
1921 |
Canadian 5 cent 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 Bavaria ends, NSDAP re-allowed |
1929 |
St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, 7 gangsters killed, allegedly on Al Capone's orders |
1931 |
Bradman scores 152 Aust v WI, 154 minutes, 13 fours 2 fives |
1931 |
Spanish government of General Damasco Berenguer falls |
1931 |
The original "Dracula", starring Bela Lugosi as the titular vampire, is released |
1932 |
South 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 |
One millionth 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 Afrika Korps lands in Tripoli, Libya |
1942 |
Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang, Sumatra |
1942 |
Rotterdam's Maas tunnel opens |
1942 |
WWII: Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore. |
1943 |
German offensive through de Faid-pass Tunisia |
1943 |
Soviets recapture Rostov |
1943 |
World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated. |
1944 |
Anti-Japanese revolt on Java |
1944 |
Carl Wick publishes "Salmon Trolling for Commercial & Sport Fishing |
1945 |
US 8th Air Force bombs Dresden |
1945 |
Peru, Paraguay, Chile & Ecuador joins UN |
1945 |
World War II: Prague is bombed probably due to a mistake in the orientation of the pilots bombing Dresden. |
1945 |
World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans. |
1946 |
Bank of England nationalized |
1949 |
1st session of Knesset (Jerusalem Israel) |
1949 |
Dutch Drees government presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses |
1950 |
Moroney scores cricket twin centuries for Australia at Johannesburg |
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 |
1954 |
Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open |
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 |
Georgia Senate unanimously approves Sen Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites |
1958 |
Arab Federation of Iraq & Jordan forms |
1959 |
$3.6 million heroin seizure in NYC |
1960 |
Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open |
1960 |
Marshal Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan |
1961 |
Element 103, Lawrencium, 1st produced in Berkeley Calif |
1961 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Royal Poinciana Golf Invitational |
1962 |
1st lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV |
1963 |
US launches communications satellite Syncom 1 |
1966 |
Australian currency is decimalised, and decimal currency postage stamps introduced |
1966 |
Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points |
1966 |
Writers Andrei Sinjavski & Joeij Daniel 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 |
1971 |
Tehran agreement signed; oil companies accept 55 percent tax rate, immediate increase in posted prices, and further successive increases |
1972 |
John & Yoko co-host "Mike Douglas Show" for entire week |
1972 |
Luna 20 (Russia) launched to orbit & soft landing on Moon |
1972 |
CBS "Late Movie" premieres |
1972 |
Lord Widgery arrives in Coleraine, where the 'Bloody Sunday' (30 January 1972) Tribunal was to be based, and holds a preliminary hearing |
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 |
1979 |
In Kabul, Muslims kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police. |
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 |
1981 |
Stardust Disaster: A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people |
1982 |
"Night of 100 Stars" takes place at NY's Radio City Music Hall |
1982 |
Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
1985 |
Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut |
1987 |
53,745 largest NBA crowd to date-Phila at Detroit |
1988 |
49th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player |
1988 |
Alfredo Stroessner re-elected president of Paraguay |
1988 |
Bobby Allison at 50 becomes oldest driver to win Daytona 500 |
1988 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
1989 |
African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam |
1989 |
Ayatollah Khomeini orders Moslems to murder "Satanic Verses" novelist Rushdie |
1989 |
Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopol disaster |
1989 |
World's 1st satellite Skyphone opens |
1989 |
The first of 24 satellites of the Global Positioning System are placed into orbit. |
1990 |
Alan Ayckbourn's "Man of the Moment," premieres in London |
1990 |
Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some |
1990 |
Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system |
1991 |
"Mule Bone" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC for 67 performances |
1991 |
NL Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record $3 mil salary arbitration |
1991 |
"The Silence of the Lambs", starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, is released |
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 |
Andrei Chikatilo, a Russian serial killer is executed by shooting. |
1994 |
2nd ESPY Awards: Barry Bonds, Julie Krone win |
1995 |
Wellington 2-498d & 4-475 beat Canterbury 496 & 2-476d |
1995 |
The Portland Trail Blazers trade Clyde Drexler to the Houston Rockets, who end up winning the 1995 NBA Championship |
1998 |
Authorities in the United States announce that Eric Robert Rudolph is a suspect in an Alabama abortion clinic bombing. |
2000 |
The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid. |
2000 |
8th ESPY Awards: Tiger Woods, Mia Hamm win |
2002 |
Fishing vessel Tullaghmurray Lass sinks off the coast of Kilkeel, County Down, Northern Ireland killing three members of the same family on board. |
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. |
2005 |
Lebanon's former Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri, is assassinated, prompting the country to fall into chaos. |
2005 |
Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected Al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit the Philippines' Makati financial district in Metro Manila, Davao City, and General Santos City. |
2008 |
Northern Illinois University shooting: a gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois university resulting in 24 casualties; 6 fatalities (including gunman) and 18 injured. |
2010 |
Alexandre Bilodeau wins the Gold Medal in the freestyle skiing men's moguls event, becoming the first Canadian to win a Gold Medal during a Canadian-hosted Olympics |
2011 |
The 2011 Bahraini uprising commenced. |
2013 |
A suicide bombing kills 4 police officer and injures 5 in Dagestan |
2013 |
Oscar Pistorius, a South African amputee sprint runner, is charged with the murder of Reeva Steenkamp |
2013 |
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, will be switched off for two years for upgrading |
2013 |
The recession in the Eurozone economy deepens with a fall of 0.6% in GDP in the fourth quarter of 2012 |
2013 |
Japan remains in recession as the economy shrinks by a further 0.1% |
2014 |
Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta resigns after less than a year in office |
2016 |
Church of England criticized over prayers for atheist Richard Dawkins |
2016 |
Sports Illustrated has 3 swimsuit cover models this year |
2016 |
'The Revenant' wins top prize at British Academy Film Awards |
2017 |
Ku Klux Klan Leader Found Dead in Missouri |
2017 |
Seattle judge says Trump travel ban case should continue during appeals |
2017 |
UN Security Council condemns North Korea missile launching |
2018 |
Shaun White wins America's 100th Winter Olympics gold medal |
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