SomeFacts | February 14

On this day - February 14

748 — Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim ...

842 — Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of ...

1014 — Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry of Bavaria, King of Germany ...

1130 — The troubled 1130 papal election exposes a rift within the ...

1349 — Strasbourg massacre: Several thousand Jews are burned to death ...

1530 — Spanish conquistadores, led by Nuño de Guzmán, overthrow and ...

1556 — Coronation of Akbar as ruler of the Mughal Empire.

1556 — Having been declared a heretic and laicized by Pope Paul IV on ...

1613 — Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V of the ...

1655 — The Mapuches launch coordinated attacks against the Spanish in ...

1778 — The United States flag is formally recognized by a foreign ...

1779 — James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on ...

1779 — American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Kettle Creek is ...

1797 — French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent: John ...

1804 — Karađorđe leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman ...

1831 — Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills ...

1835 — The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, in the Latter Day ...

1849 — In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving ...

1852 — Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital ...

1855 — Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, ...

1859 — Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.

1876 — Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, ...

1879 — The War of the Pacific breaks out when the Chilean Army ...

1899 — Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in ...

1900 — The British Army begins the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an ...

1903 — The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is ...

1912 — The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered ...

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

1918 — Soviet Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar.

1919 — The Polish–Soviet War begins.

1920 — The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.

1924 — The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to ...

1929 — Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them ...

1939 — World War II: German battleship Bismarck is launched.

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

1943 — World War II: Tunisia Campaign: General Hans-Jürgen von ...

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

1944 — World War II: In the action of 14 February 1944, a Royal Navy ...

1945 — President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets King Ibn Saud of Saudi ...

1945 — World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans

1945 — World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing ...

1945 — World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the ...

1946 — The Bank of England is nationalized.

1947 — The act abolishing all noble ranks and related styles comes ...

1949 — The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the ...

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

1954 — First Indochina War - small French garrison at Đắk Đoa is ...

1961 — Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, ...

1979 — In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ...

1983 — United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its ...

1989 — Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging ...

1989 — Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian ...

1990 — The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth ...

1990 — Ninety-two people are killed when Indian Airlines Flight 605 ...

1998 — An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé, ...

2000 — The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 ...

2003 — Iraq disarmament crisis: UNMOVIC Executive Chairman Hans Blix ...

2004 — In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water ...

2005 — YouTube is launched by a group of college students, eventually ...

2005 — Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of ...

2005 — In Beirut, 23 people, including former Prime Minister Rafic ...

2008 — Northern Illinois University shooting: A gunman opens fire in ...

2011 — As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising begins with a ...

2018 — A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in ...

2018 — Jacob Zuma resigns as President of South Africa.

2019 — Pulwama attack takes place in Lethpora in Pulwama district, ...

2020 — At least 22 people are killed in an attack on a village in ...