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Events on the 14th of February in history

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14 Feb 0748 Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt.
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14 Feb 0842 Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages.
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14 Feb 0842 Charles II & Louis the German sign treaty
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14 Feb 1014 Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry of Bavaria, King of Germany and of Italy, as Holy Roman Emperor.
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14 Feb 1014 Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry II, Roman German emperor
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14 Feb 1076 Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
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14 Feb 1076 Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV
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14 Feb 1130 Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II
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14 Feb 1349 Several hundred Jews are burned to death by mobs while the remaining Jews are forcibly removed from Strasbourg.
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14 Feb 1349 2,000 Jews burned at the stake in Strasbourg France
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14 Feb 1400 Richard II of England dies, most probably from starvation, in Pontefract Castle, on the orders of Henry Bolingbroke.
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14 Feb 1540 Emperor Charles V enters Ghent without resistance, executes rebels
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14 Feb 1556 Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic.
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14 Feb 1556 Archbishop Thomas Cranmer declared a heretic
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14 Feb 1610 Polish king Sigismund III, Forges Dimitri #2 & Romanov family sign covenant against czar Vasili Shushki
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14 Feb 1613 King James I's daughter Elizabeth marries Frederik
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14 Feb 1630 Dutch fleet of 69 ships reaches Pernambuco Brazil
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14 Feb 1670 Roman Catholic emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna
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14 Feb 1689 English parliament places Mary Stuart/Prince Willem III on the throne
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14 Feb 1746 Henry Pelham appointed English premier
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14 Feb 1766 Dutch governor Falck signs Treaty of Batticaloa with rebels
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14 Feb 1778 "Stars & Stripes" arrives in foreign port for 1st time (France)
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14 Feb 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 renders a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
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14 Feb 1779 James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
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14 Feb 1779 American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia.
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14 Feb 1794 1st US textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Philadelphia PA
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14 Feb 1797 French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent – John Jervis, (later 1st Earl of St Vincent) and Horatio Nelson (later 1st Viscount Nelson) lead the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar.
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14 Feb 1803 Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington, Penn
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14 Feb 1804 Karađorđe leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
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14 Feb 1831 Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.
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14 Feb 1835 The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, in the Latter Day Saint movement, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.
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14 Feb 1848 James K Polk became 1st President photographed in office (Matthew Brady)
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14 Feb 1849 In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
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14 Feb 1852 Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children, is founded in London.
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14 Feb 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.
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14 Feb 1859 Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.
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14 Feb 1859 Oregon admitted as 33rd state
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14 Feb 1862 Galena, 1st US iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Connecticut
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14 Feb 1867 Morehouse College organizes (Augusta Georgia)
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14 Feb 1867 Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Company issues 1st policy
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14 Feb 1872 1st state bird refuge authorized (Lake Merritt CA)
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14 Feb 1876 Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
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14 Feb 1876 A G Bell & Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents; Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor
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14 Feb 1879 The War of the Pacific breaks out when Chilean armed forces occupy the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
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14 Feb 1879 Chilean troops occupy Antofagasta
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14 Feb 1883 1st state labor union legislation; New Jersey legalizes unions
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14 Feb 1887 Cubs sell Mike King Kelly to Boston for record $10,000
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14 Feb 1889 1st trainload of fruit (oranges) leaves Los Angeles for the east
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14 Feb 1890 1st New South Wales vs South Australia 1st-class cricket game
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14 Feb 1894 Venus is both a morning star & evening star
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14 Feb 1895 Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" opens in London
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14 Feb 1896 Stanley Cup: Winnipeg Victorias beat Montreal Victorias, 2-0
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14 Feb 1896 Theodor Herzl publishes "Der Judenstaat"
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14 Feb 1896 George Lohmann takes a hat-trick vs South Africa, 8-7 for inning
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14 Feb 1896 South Africa all out for 30 vs England - their lowest ever
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14 Feb 1896 Stanley Cup Winnipeg Victorias beat Montr
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14 Feb 1896 Theodor Herzl publishes "Der Judenstaat"
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14 Feb 1899 Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
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14 Feb 1899 US Congress begins using voting machines
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14 Feb 1900 Date of events in movie "Picnic at Hanging Rock"
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14 Feb 1900 Second Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.
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14 Feb 1903 US Department of Commerce & Labor forms
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14 Feb 1903 The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
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14 Feb 1903 US Dept of Commerce & Labor established
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14 Feb 1907 1st US fox hound association forms in New York NY
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14 Feb 1912 1st US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton, Connecticut
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14 Feb 1912 Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state
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14 Feb 1912 In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.
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14 Feb 1912 Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
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14 Feb 1912 Arizona becomes 48th state
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14 Feb 1914 High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands
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14 Feb 1918 H Atteridge and S Rombergs musical "Sinbad, " premieres in New York City
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14 Feb 1918 USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar (originally February 1)
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14 Feb 1918 The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (on 1 February according to the Julian calendar).
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14 Feb 1918 USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar
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14 Feb 1918 H Atteridge & S Rombergs musical "Sinbad" premieres in New York NY
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14 Feb 1919 The Polish–Soviet War begins.
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14 Feb 1919 United Parcel Service forms
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14 Feb 1920 The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
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14 Feb 1920 League of Women Voters forms in Chicago
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14 Feb 1921 Canadian 5 cent nickel coin is authorized
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14 Feb 1921 Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing "Ulysses, " New York
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14 Feb 1921 Canadian 5
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14 Feb 1924 The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
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14 Feb 1924 IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson
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14 Feb 1925 State of emergency crisis in Bayern ends, NSDAP re-allowed
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14 Feb 1929 Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago.
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14 Feb 1929 St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago IL, 7 gangsters killed
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14 Feb 1931 Bradman scores 152 Australia vs West Indies, 154 minutes, 13 fours 2 fives
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14 Feb 1931 Spanish government of General Damasco Berenguer falls
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14 Feb 1932 South Africa all out for 36 in 1st innings vs Australia (Ironmonger 5-6)
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14 Feb 1934 NHL Ace Bailey Benefit Game Toronto beats All-Stars 7-3 in Toronto
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14 Feb 1936 National Negro Congress organizes in Chicago
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14 Feb 1936 US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
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14 Feb 1936 US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
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14 Feb 1939 Victor Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of Gone With the Wind
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14 Feb 1940 British merchant vessel fleet is armed
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14 Feb 1941 Carson McCuller's "Reflections in a Golden Eye" published
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14 Feb 1941 Cebrie Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street
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14 Feb 1941 1,000,000th vehicle traverses the New York Midtown Tunnel
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14 Feb 1941 German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya
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14 Feb 1942 Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
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14 Feb 1942 Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra
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14 Feb 1942 Rotterdam's Maas tunnel opens
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14 Feb 1943 World War II: Tunisia Campaign – General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
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14 Feb 1943 World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
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14 Feb 1943 German offensive through de Faid-pass Tunisia
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14 Feb 1943 Soviets recapture Rostov
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14 Feb 1944 Carl Wick publishes "Salmon Trolling for Commercial and Sport Fishing
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14 Feb 1944 World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java.
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14 Feb 1944 Anti-Japanese revolt on Java
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14 Feb 1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations.
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14 Feb 1945 World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans.
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14 Feb 1945 World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by an American squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet's Vistula–Oder Offensive.
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14 Feb 1945 World 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, the capital of the German state of Saxony.
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14 Feb 1945 Per
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14 Feb 1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
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14 Feb 1946 The Bank of England is nationalized.
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14 Feb 1949 1st session of Knesset (Jerusalem Israel)
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14 Feb 1949 The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
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14 Feb 1949 The Knesset (Israeli parliament) convenes for the first time.
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14 Feb 1949 1st session of Knesset opens in Jerusalem
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14 Feb 1949 Dutch Drees government presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses
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14 Feb 1950 Chinese Civil War: The National Revolutionary Army instigates the unsuccessful Battle of Tianquan against the People's Liberation Army.
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14 Feb 1950 Moroney scores cricket twin centuries for Australia at Johannesburg
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14 Feb 1950 USSR & China sign peace treaty
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14 Feb 1951 Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta & takes middleweight title
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14 Feb 1952 6th Olympic winter games open at Oslo, Norway
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14 Feb 1952 6th Winter Olympics games opens in Oslo, Norway
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14 Feb 1952 Comedian Joey Adams marries gossip columnist Cindy Heller
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14 Feb 1954 Sen John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press"
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14 Feb 1954 WTOC TV channel 11 in Savannah, Georgia (CBS) begins broadcasting
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14 Feb 1954 Senator John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press"
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14 Feb 1955 WFLA (now WXFL) TV channel 8 in Tampa-St Petersburg, Florida (NBC) begins
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14 Feb 1956 Verhoeven / Nauta / De King / Wijnhout win Dutch 11 city skate
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14 Feb 1956 The 20th 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.
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14 Feb 1956 Khrushchev denounces Stalin at USSR Communist Party Conference
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14 Feb 1956 20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow
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14 Feb 1956 Indonesia withdraws from Netherlands Indonesian Union
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14 Feb 1957 Georgia Senate unanimously approves Senator Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites
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14 Feb 1958 Arab Federation of Iraq & Jordan forms
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14 Feb 1959 $3.6 million heroin seizure in New York NY
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14 Feb 1960 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
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14 Feb 1960 Marshal Ayub Khan elected President of Pakistan
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14 Feb 1961 Element 103, Lawrencium, 1st produced in Berkeley, California
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14 Feb 1961 Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
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14 Feb 1961 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Royal Poinciana Golf Invitational
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14 Feb 1962 First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.
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14 Feb 1962 1st lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV
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14 Feb 1963 US launches communications satellite Syncom 1
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14 Feb 1966 Australian currency is decimalised.
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14 Feb 1966 Australia introduces 1st decimal currency postage stamps
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14 Feb 1966 Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points
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14 Feb 1966 Writers Andrei Sinjavski & Joeij Dani
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14 Feb 1967 Aretha Franklin records "Respect"
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14 Feb 1967 Aretha Franklin records "Respect"
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14 Feb 1967 Latin American nuclear free zone proposal drawn up
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14 Feb 1968 Pennsylvania Railroad/NYC Central merge into Pennsylvania Central
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14 Feb 1968 WHKY TV channel 14 in Hickory NC (IND) begins broadcasting
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14 Feb 1970 "Gantry" closes at George Abbott Theater NYC after 1 performance
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14 Feb 1970 The iconic live album Live at Leeds by The Who is recorded.
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14 Feb 1971 Movie "Ben Hur" 1st shown on television
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14 Feb 1971 Movie "Ben Hur" 1st shown on television
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14 Feb 1971 Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House
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14 Feb 1972 John andYoko co-host "Mike Douglas Show" for entire week
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14 Feb 1972 John & Yoko co-host "Mike Douglas Show" for entire week
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14 Feb 1972 Luna 20 (Russia) launched to orbit & soft landing on Moon
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14 Feb 1975 Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station
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14 Feb 1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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14 Feb 1978 1st "micro on a chip" patented by Texas Instruments
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14 Feb 1978 In girls' HS basketball, Chicago Latin beats Harvard St George
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14 Feb 1979 "Whoopee!" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 204 performances
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14 Feb 1979 In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
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14 Feb 1980 "West Side Story" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 341 performances
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14 Feb 1980 13th Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, New York
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14 Feb 1980 US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares
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14 Feb 1981 Stardust fire: A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people
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14 Feb 1982 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
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14 Feb 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" takes place at New York's Radio City Music Hall
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14 Feb 1983 United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud.
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14 Feb 1984 Singer Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney Australia
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14 Feb 1985 Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut
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14 Feb 1987 53,745 largest NBA crowd to date-Philadelphia at Detroit
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14 Feb 1988 Bobby Allison at 50 becomes oldest driver to win Daytona 500
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14 Feb 1988 General hospital star Jackie Zeman marries Glenn Gorden
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14 Feb 1988 49th PGA Seniors Golf Championship Gary Player
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14 Feb 1988 Alfredo Stroessner re-elected President of Paraguay
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14 Feb 1988 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
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14 Feb 1989 Boxer Mike Tyson divorces actress Robin Givens
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14 Feb 1989 Khomeini orders Moslems to murder "Satanic Verses" Novelist Rushdie
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14 Feb 1989 Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.
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14 Feb 1989 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.
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14 Feb 1989 Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in Dominican Republic
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14 Feb 1989 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million damages for Bhopol disaster
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14 Feb 1989 African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam
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14 Feb 1989 Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1 million-$3 million bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, "Satanic Verses"
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14 Feb 1989 World's 1st satellite Skyphone opens
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14 Feb 1990 The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth later become famous as Pale Blue Dot.
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14 Feb 1990 Ninety-two people are killed when Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes in Bangalore, India.
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14 Feb 1990 Alan Ayckbourn's "Man of the Moment" premieres in London
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14 Feb 1990 Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some
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14 Feb 1990 Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system
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14 Feb 1991 "Mule Bone" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC for 67 performances
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14 Feb 1991 Air raid shelter at Baghdad bombed killing 300
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14 Feb 1991 NL Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record $3 million salary arbitration
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14 Feb 1992 Andre Cason runs world record 60 meter indoor (6.41 seconds)
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14 Feb 1992 Cease fire in Somalia begins
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14 Feb 1992 Kieren John Perkins swims world record 800 meter freestyle (7 minutes 46.60 seconds)
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14 Feb 1992 Merlene Ottey runs world record 60 meter indoor (6.96 seconds)
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14 Feb 1993 Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79
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14 Feb 1994 Alexander Golubev skates Olympics record 500 meter (36.33)
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14 Feb 1994 Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (51) weds Deborah Koons
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14 Feb 1995 Wellington 2-498d and 4-475 beat Canterbury 496 and 2-476d
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14 Feb 1995 Roseanne weds bodyguard Ben Thomas
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14 Feb 1998 An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created a massive explosion which kills 120.
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14 Feb 2000 The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
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14 Feb 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.
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14 Feb 2005 YouTube 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.
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14 Feb 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.
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14 Feb 2005 Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon Rafic Hariri is killed, along with 21 others, when explosives, equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT, are detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel in Beirut.
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14 Feb 2008 Northern Illinois University shooting: A gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois university resulting in six fatalities (including gunman) and 21 injuries.
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14 Feb 2011 As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising, a series of demonstrations, amounting to a sustained campaign of civil resistance, in the Persian Gulf country of Bahrain begins with a 'Day of Rage'.
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14 Feb 2015 Two people are killed in shootings at a free-speech seminar and at a synagogue service in Copenhagen.
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