Year14th February Major Events1349Black 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.1689The English Parliament installed Mary Stuart and Prince William III on the throne of England.1849James Knox Polk became the first US President whose photo was taken while in service. This photo was taken by Matthew Brady in New York.1870Seraph Young became the first woman to legally vote in modern America. Two days after women got the right to vote.1876Alexander 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.1899Use of voting machines began in the US Congress.1912Arizona joined the union as the 48th state.1919The Polish-Soviet War began.1924Thomas J. Watson Sr. renamed the Computing-Recording Company (CTR) to International Business Machines (IBM).1943During the Second World War, the Soviet Union liberated Russia from the German 17th Army by recapturing the city of Rostov-on-Don.1946ENIAC, the first American computer, was brought to the masses.1950Peace agreement signed between USSR and China.1952The sixth Winter Olympic Games began in Oslo (Norway).1956Indonesia withdrew from the Netherlands-Indonesian Union.1960Marshal Ayub Khan was elected President of Pakistan.1963America launches Syncom-1 communication satellite.1971Tehran Agreement signed. Oil companies accepted the 55% tax rate, which immediately led to the price of oil rising and continuing to rise thereafter.1976America conducts nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.1980America launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study the sun’s rays.1989Iran’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’.1989The first satellite out of 24 GPS satellites was put into orbit.1990Space 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.2005The YouTube that the whole world knows today was started on February 14 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Javed Karim in San Mateo, California.