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14 Feb 1014
Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry II Roman German Emperor
14 Feb 1130
Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II
14 Feb 1556
English Archbishop Thomas Cranmer declared a heretic
14 Feb 1630
Dutch fleet of 69 ships reaches Pernambuco Brazil
14 Feb 1670
Roman Catholic Emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna
14 Feb 1689
English parliament places Mary Stuart and Prince William III on the throne
14 Feb 1747
Astronomer James Bradley presents his discovery of the wobbling motion of the Earth on its axis to the Royal Society London
14 Feb 1766
Dutch governor Falck and King Keerthisiri Rajasinghe of Kandy sign Treaty of Batticaloa
14 Feb 1778
Stars & Stripes arrives in foreign port for 1st time (France)
14 Feb 1794
1st US textile machinery patent granted to James Davenport Philadelphia
14 Feb 1803
Apple parer patented by Moses Coats Downington Pennsylvania
14 Feb 1804
Karadjordje leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire
14 Feb 1831
Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay
14 Feb 1844
Lt. John C. Frmont becomes first European to discover Lake Tahoe in the US
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.
14 Feb 1862
Galena 1st US iron-clad warship for service at sea launched Connecticut
14 Feb 1867
Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Co issues 1st policy
14 Feb 1870
Esther Morris appointed US first female in Justice of the Peace in South Pass City Wyoming after previous justice R.S. Barr resigned to protest passage of Wyoming Territorys womens suffrage amendment in 1869
14 Feb 1872
1st US state bird refuge authorized (Lake Merritt California)
14 Feb 1876
Alexander G. Bell & Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor
14 Feb 1883
1st state labor union legislation New Jersey legalizes unions
14 Feb 1887
Cubs sell Mike King Kelly to Boston for record 10000
14 Feb 1889
1st train load of fruit (oranges) leaves LA for east
14 Feb 1890
1st NSW v South Australia 1st-class cricket game
14 Feb 1896
George Lohmann takes a hat-trick for England v South Africa 8-7 for inning - their lowest ever
14 Feb 1896
Stanley Cup Winnipeg Victorias beat Montreal Victorias 2-0
14 Feb 1896
Austro-Hungarian Zionist Theodor Herzl publishes Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State) encouraging Jews to purchase land in Palestine
14 Feb 1900
Date of events in Australian movie Picnic at Hanging Rock
14 Feb 1900
Russia responds to international pressure to free Finland by tightening imperial control over the country
14 Feb 1912
1st US submarines with diesel engines commissioned Groton Connecticut
14 Feb 1912
Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state
14 Feb 1914
High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands
14 Feb 1918
H Atteridge & S Rombergs musical Sinbad premieres in NYC
14 Feb 1918
USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar (originally Feb 1)
14 Feb 1921
Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing Ulysses in New York
14 Feb 1925
State of emergency crisis in Bavaria ends NSDAP re-allowed
14 Feb 1928
Clas Thunberg of Finland wins his 2nd gold medal of the Games and 4th career title when he takes out the 1500m speed skating at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics
14 Feb 1928
Per-Erik Hedlund leads a Swedish sweep of the medals in the 50k cross-country at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics Gustaf Jonsson & Volgar Andersson take the minor medals
14 Feb 1931
Spanish government of General Damasco Berenguer falls
14 Feb 1932
South Africa all out for 36 in 1st innings v Australia (Ironmonger 5-6)
14 Feb 1934
NHL Ace Bailey Benefit Game Toronto beats All-Stars 7-3 in Toronto
14 Feb 1936
Karl Schfer of Austria wins his 2nd consecutive mens figure skating Olympic gold medal at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games in Germany
14 Feb 1936
Norwegian speed skater Ivar Ballangrud sets Olympic record 1724.3 to win the 10000m at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games his 3rd gold medal from 4 events and 4th career Olympic gold
14 Feb 1941
One millionth vehicle traverses the NY Midtown Tunnel
14 Feb 1941
Carson McCullers Reflections in a Golden Eye published
14 Feb 1941
Cebrie Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street
14 Feb 1942
Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra
14 Feb 1942
The Polish resistance movement the Home Army is formed and will eventually become the largest resistance movement in occupied Europe
14 Feb 1942
World War II Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
14 Feb 1943
German offensive against US troops through de Faid-pass Tunisia begins starting the Battle of Sidi Bou Zid
14 Feb 1943
The Soviet Union recaptures the city of Rostov-on-Don liberating Russia from the German 17th Army during WWII
14 Feb 1944
Carl Wick publishes Salmon Trolling for Commercial & Sport Fishing
14 Feb 1945
Second day of the bombing of Dresden by Allied air forces
14 Feb 1945
World War II Prague is bombed probably due to a mistake in the orientation of the pilots bombing Dresden.
14 Feb 1945
World War II Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans.
14 Feb 1949
Dutch Drees government presents plan for the building of 30000 houses
14 Feb 1950
Moroney scores cricket twin centuries for Australia at Johannesburg
14 Feb 1952
Giant slalom event for women debuts at the Winter Olympics at Oslo Games American skier Andrea Mead-Lawrence wins gold ahead of Dagmar Rom of Austria and German Annemarie Buchner
14 Feb 1954
WTOC TV channel 11 in Savannah GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
14 Feb 1971
Tehran agreement signed oil companies accept 55 percent tax rate immediate increase in posted prices and further successive increases
14 Feb 1955
WFLA (now WXFL) TV channel 8 in Tampa-St Petersburg Florida (NBC) begins
14 Feb 1956
Indonesia withdraws from Netherlands Indonesian Union
14 Feb 1956
Verhoeven Nauta and De KingWijnhout win Dutch 11 city skate
14 Feb 1957
Georgia Senate unanimously approves Sen Leon Butts bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites
14 Feb 1960
Marshal Ayub Khan elected President of Pakistan
14 Feb 1961
Element 103 Lawrencium 1st produced in Berkeley Calif
14 Feb 1965
7th Daytona 500 Fred Lorenzen wins (141.539 MPH)
14 Feb 1966
Australian currency is decimalised and decimal currency postage stamps introduced
14 Feb 1966
Russian writers Andrei Sinyavsky & Joey Daniel found guilty under the offense of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda for publishing their satirical writings abroad
14 Feb 1967
Latin American nuclear free zone proposal drawn up
14 Feb 1968
Pennsylvania Railroad and NYC Central merge into Pennsylvania Central
14 Feb 1968
WHKY TV channel 14 in Hickory NC (IND) begins broadcasting
14 Feb 1968
Soviet Union goes 1-2 in pairs figure skating at the Grenoble Winter Olympics husband & wife team Oleg Protopopov and Liudmila Belousova edge team mates Tatiana Zhuk and Alexander Gorelik
14 Feb 1968
Norwegian 15k Olympic cross country champion Harald Grnningen wins his second gold medal of the Grenoble Winter Olympics in the 4 x 10k relay
14 Feb 1970
Gantry closes at George Abbott Theater NYC after 1 performance
14 Feb 1971
13th Daytona 500 Richard Petty wins (144.462 MPH)
14 Feb 1972
Luna 20 (Russia) launched to orbit & soft landing on Moon
14 Feb 1972
Lord Widgery arrives in Coleraine where the Bloody Sunday (30 January ) Tribunal was to be based and holds a preliminary hearing
14 Feb 1973
Muhammad Ali beats British heavyweight boxing champion Joe Bugner by unanimous points decision in 12 rounds at Las Vegas Convention Centre
14 Feb 1975
Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station
14 Feb 1978
1st micro on a chip patented by Texas Instruments
14 Feb 1978
In girls HS basketball Chicago Latin beats Harvard St George
14 Feb 1979
Whoopee opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 204 performances
14 Feb 1979
In Kabul Muslims kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police
14 Feb 1980
West Side Story opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 341 performances
14 Feb 1980
US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares
14 Feb 1980
Soviet cross-country skier Nikolay Zimyatov wins first of 3 gold medals at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics when he takes out 30k event also wins relay and 50k gold
14 Feb 1981
Stardust Disaster A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people
14 Feb 1982
Night of 100 Stars takes place at NYs Radio City Music Hall
14 Feb 1982
24th Daytona 500 Bobby Allison wins (153.991 MPH)
14 Feb 1984
Britains Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean famously dominate the ice dancing at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics perform to Ravels Bolero in free dance routine record 9-of-9 perfect scores for artistic impression
14 Feb 1984
Canadian speed skater Gatan Boucher takes out the 1000m gold medal at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics also wins 1500m narrowly beats Soviet skater Sergey Khlebnikov in both events
14 Feb 1985
Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut
14 Feb 1986
36th Berlin International Film Festival Stammheim wins the Golden Bear
14 Feb 1987
Detroit Pistons-Philadelphia 76ers game draws crowd of 53745 at Pontiac Silverdome Detroit third largest crowd in NBA history Pistons win 125-107
14 Feb 1988
Alfredo Stroessner re-elected President of Paraguay
14 Feb 1988
30th Daytona 500 Bobby Allison wins (137.531 MPH)
14 Feb 1989
African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam
14 Feb 1989
Union Carbide agrees to pay 470 mill damages for Bhopol disaster
14 Feb 1989
The first of 24 satellites of the Global Positioning System are placed into orbit.
14 Feb 1990
Alan Ayckbourns Man of the Moment premieres in London
14 Feb 1990
Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene a carcinogen are found in some
14 Feb 1990
Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system
14 Feb 1991
Mule Bone opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC for 67 performances
14 Feb 1991
NL Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record 3 mil salary arbitration
14 Feb 1992
Andre Cason runs world record 60 m indoor (6.41 sec)
14 Feb 1992
Kieren John Perkins swims world record 800m freestyle (746.60)
14 Feb 1992
Merlene Ottey runs world record 60m indoor (6.96 sec)
14 Feb 1993
Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China kills 79
14 Feb 1993
35th Daytona 500 Dale Jarrett wins (154.972 MPH)
14 Feb 1994
Alexander Golubev skates Olympic record 500m (36.33)
14 Feb 1994
Andrei Chikatilo a Russian serial killer is executed by shooting
14 Feb 1995
Wellington 2-498d & 4-475 beat Canterbury 496 & 2-476d
14 Feb 1998
Authorities in the United States announce that Eric Robert Rudolph is a suspect in an Alabama abortion clinic bombing.
14 Feb 1998
29th NAACP Image Awards Soul Food wins Outstanding Motion Picture
14 Feb 1999
41st Daytona 500 Jeff Gordon wins (161.551 MPH)
14 Feb 1999
30th NAACP Image Awards How Stella Got Her Groove Back wins Outstanding Motion Picture
14 Feb 2000
The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
14 Feb 2002
Fishing vessel Tullaghmurray Lass sinks off the coast of Kilkeel County Down Northern Ireland killing three members of the same family on board
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.
14 Feb 2005
Lebanons former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is assassinated prompting the country to fall into chaos.
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.
14 Feb 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.
14 Feb 2008
39th NAACP Image Awards The Great Debaters wins Outstanding Motion Picture
14 Feb 2010
59th NBA All-Star Game Cowboys Stadium Arlington TX East beats West 141-139 MVP Dwyane Wade Miami Heat G
14 Feb 2010
52nd Daytona 500 Jamie McMurray wins (137.284 MPH)
14 Feb 2010
Americas Cup Team USA defeats Alinghi 2-0 to win in Spain
14 Feb 2013
A suicide bombing kills 4 police officer and injures 5 in Dagestan
14 Feb 2013
Oscar Pistorius a South African amputee sprinter is charged with the murder of Reeva Steenkamp
14 Feb 2013
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) the worlds largest and highest-energy particle accelerator will be switched off for two years for upgrading
14 Feb 2013
The recession in the Eurozone economy deepens with a fall of 0.6% in GDP in the fourth quarter of 2012
14 Feb 2013
Japan remains in recession as the economy shrinks by a further 0.1%
14 Feb 2014
Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta resigns after less than a year in office
14 Feb 2016
69th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS) The Revenant Best Film Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu Best Director
14 Feb 2016
NBA All-Star Game Air Canada Centre Toronto ON West beats East 196-173 MVP Russell Westbrook OKC Thunder G
14 Feb 2018
South African President Jacob Zuma resigns from office
14 Feb 1014
Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry II Holy Roman Emperor
14 Feb 1870
Seraph Young becomes the first woman to legally vote in the modern United States two days after the Utah legislature passed a law allowing women the vote
14 Feb 1896
Stanley Cup Victoria Skating Rink Montreal Quebec Winnipeg Victorias beat Montreal Victorias 2-0
14 Feb 1960
2nd Daytona 500 Junior Johnson survives a 37 car crash on Turn 4 to win driving a John Masoni owned Chevrolet
14 Feb 1965
7th Daytona 500 Fred Lorenzen wins driving for Holman-Moody race ends on lap 133 due to persistent rain
14 Feb 1971
13th Daytona 500 Richard Petty wins his 3rd Great American Race goes on to win the inaugural Winston Cup title
14 Feb 1982
24th Daytona 500 Bobby Allison wins with margin of victory over Cale Yarborough an impressive 23 seconds more than half a lap
14 Feb 1988
30th Daytona 500 Bobby Allison beats his son Davey to the finish line remembered for Richard Pettys rollover crash in the tri-oval on lap 106 rolls over 8 times and hit by Brett Bodine walks away unhurt
14 Feb 1990
Space probe Voyager 1 takes a photograph of the entire solar system the images transmitted in real-time with earth a pale blue dot
14 Feb 1999
41st Daytona 500 Jeff Gordon wins first Daytona 500 pole sitter to win the race since Bill Elliott in 1987
14 Feb 2010
52nd Daytona 500 Jamie McMurray driving for Earnhardt Ganassi Racing wins Mark Martin oldest polesitter in Daytona 500 history at 51 years 27 days
14 Feb 2014
Britains Lizzy Yarnold wins her first of 2 consecutive Olympic womens skeleton gold medals in Sochi also wins event in Pyeongchang (2018)
14 Feb 1896
Theodor Hertzls Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State) is published proposing a Jewish homeland as a means of escaping anti-Semitism in Europe
14 Feb 1932
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show debuts on CBS radio airing there until 1937 moving to NBC until 1949 and returning to CBS in 1949 before moving to television
14 Feb 1968
Soviet Union goes 1-2 in pairs figure skating at the Grenoble Winter Olympics husband & wife team Oleg Protopopov and Liudmila Belousova edge teammates Tatiana Zhuk and Alexander Gorelik
14 Feb 1987
Detroit Pistons-Philadelphia 76ers game draws crowd of 53745 at Pontiac Silverdome Pontiac third largest crowd in NBA history Pistons win 125-107
14 Feb 2014
For the first time in mens figure skating all 3 Olympic singles medalists are of Asian descent Yuzuru Hanyu (Japan) gold Patrick Chan (Canada) and Denis Ten (Kazakhstan)
14 Feb 2014
Swiss cross country skier Dario Cologna wins his 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics in the 15k classical also wins 30k skiathlon
14 Feb 1804
Jean Victor Marie Moreau French general who plotted to overthrow Napoleon in the Pichegru Conspiracy arrested and exiled to the United States
14 Feb 1928
Clas Thunberg of Finland wins his 2nd gold medal of the Games and 5th career title when he takes out the 1500m speed skating at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics
14 Feb 1972
The Musical Grease 1st opens on Broadway at the Eden Theatre
14 Feb 1953
Trionfo di Afrodite (Triumph of Aphrodite) the final work of Carl Orffs Trionfi trilogy premieres at La Scala in Milan Italy
14 Feb 1967
Promotional films (music videos) for the Beatles forthcoming single Penny Lane & Strawberry Fields debut on the Ed Sullivan Show in the US
14 Feb 1498
Treaty of Dordrecht establishes an anti-French alliance between Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and King Henry VII of England
14 Feb 1670
Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna
14 Feb 1970
Stanley Lebowsky and Fred Tobias musical Gantry based on Sinclair Lewis novel Elmer Gantry opens and closes at George Abbott Theater NYC. after 1 performance
14 Feb 1972
Jim Jacobs and Warren Caseys musical Grease starring Barry Bostwick Carole Demas and Adrienne Barbeau opens at the Eden Theatre (later transferring to the Broadhurst the Royale and the Majestic) NYC runs for 3388 performances
14 Feb 1979
Revival of Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahns musical comedy Whoopee opens at ANTA Theater NYC runs for 204 performances
14 Feb 1982
Night of 100 Stars an all-star variety special celebrating the centennial of the Actors Fund of America takes place at NYCs Radio City Music Hall
14 Feb 1992
American sprinter Andre Cason runs world record 60m indoor (6.41s) in Madrid Spain
14 Feb 1953
Trionfo di Afrodite (Triumph of Aphrodite) the final work of Carl Orffs Trionfi trilogy premieres at La Scala Teatro in Milan Italy
14 Feb 2005
Online video sharing site YouTube is launched in the United States by Steve Chen Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim headquarteredin San Bruno California
14 Feb 2018
Dutch speed skater Jorien ter Mors wins her 3rd career Olympic gold medal in the 1000m at Pyeongchang 1500m and team pursuit champion in Sochi (2014)
14 Feb 2018
Ex-student Nikolas Cruz shoots and kills 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Florida before being captured
14 Feb 1778
Stars & Stripes arrives in a foreign port for the first time (France)
14 Feb 1794
First US textile machinery patent is granted to James Davenport in Philadelphia
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
14 Feb 1921
Fictional character Skeezix is discovered on the Wallet familys doorstep in Frank Kings cartoon strip Gasoline Alley
14 Feb 1946
ENIAC the first US computer is announced to the public by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert
14 Feb 1957
Georgia Senate unanimously approves Senator Leon Butts bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites
14 Feb 1961
Element 103 Lawrencium is first produced in Berkeley California by bombarding a three-milligram target of three isotopes of californium with boron-10 and boron-11 nuclei from the Heavy Ion Linear Accelerator
14 Feb 1963
US launches communications satellite Syncom 1 [1]
14 Feb 1975
Right-wing radicals plant a bomb at Amsterdams under construction Venserpolder metro station hoping to turn public sentiment against those protesting the building of the subway system [1]
14 Feb 1978
First micro on a chip or microchip is patented by Texas Instruments
14 Feb 1989
The first of 24 satellites of the Global Positioning System is placed in orbit
14 Feb 1993
Fire in Linxi Department Store in Tangshan China kills 79
14 Feb 2004
Roof of the Transvaal water park in Moscow collapses killing more than 25 people and injuring more than 100 others
14 Feb 2005
Lebanons former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is assassinated prompting the country to fall into chaos
14 Feb 2005
Online video-sharing site YouTube is founded in San Mateo California by Steve Chen Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim
14 Feb 2005
Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected Al-Qaeda-linked militants in the Philippines that hit the Makati financial district in Metro Manila Davao City and General Santos City
14 Feb 2008
A gunman opens fire in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb County Illinois killing six people including himself and injuring 18
14 Feb 2011
Bahraini uprising begins in Bahrain calling for greater political freedom and equality for the Shia population and later an end to the monarchy