| Year |
14th February Major Events |
| 1349 |
Black Death massacre. More than a thousand Jews were burned alive in Strasbourg. Thousands were driven out of the city. On the allegation that they want to destroy Christians by mixing poison in water wells. |
| 1689 |
The English Parliament installed Mary Stuart and Prince William III on the throne of England. |
| 1849 |
James Knox Polk became the first US President whose photo was taken while in service. This photo was taken by Matthew Brady in New York. |
| 1870 |
Seraph Young became the first woman to legally vote in modern America. Two days after women got the right to vote. |
| 1876 |
Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray simultaneously applied for a patent for the invention of the telephone. However, the Supreme Court recognized Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone. |
| 1899 |
Use of voting machines began in the US Congress. |
| 1912 |
Arizona joined the union as the 48th state. |
| 1919 |
The Polish-Soviet War began. |
| 1924 |
Thomas J. Watson Sr. renamed the Computing-Recording Company (CTR) to International Business Machines (IBM). |
| 1943 |
During the Second World War, the Soviet Union liberated Russia from the German 17th Army by recapturing the city of Rostov-on-Don. |
| 1946 |
ENIAC, the first American computer, was brought to the masses. |
| 1950 |
Peace agreement signed between USSR and China. |
| 1952 |
The sixth Winter Olympic Games began in Oslo (Norway). |
| 1956 |
Indonesia withdrew from the Netherlands-Indonesian Union. |
| 1960 |
Marshal Ayub Khan was elected President of Pakistan. |
| 1963 |
America launches Syncom-1 communication satellite. |
| 1971 |
Tehran Agreement signed. Oil companies accepted the 55% tax rate, which immediately led to the price of oil rising and continuing to rise thereafter. |
| 1976 |
America conducts nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. |
| 1980 |
America launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study the sun’s rays. |
| 1989 |
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei issued a fatwa to kill writer Salman Rushdie and also placed a bounty on the writer’s head. All this happened because of Rushdie’s novel ‘Satanic Verses’. |
| 1989 |
The first satellite out of 24 GPS satellites was put into orbit. |
| 1990 |
Space probe Voyager 1 took photos of the entire solar system and sent them in real time, in which Earth looked like a small blue dot in the solar system. |
| 2005 |
The YouTube that the whole world knows today was started on February 14 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Javed Karim in San Mateo, California. |
