About February 14

February 14, 2025 is the 45th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 320 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 368 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On February 14

  • 1014 –
    Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry of Bavaria, King of Germany and of Italy, as Holy Roman Emperor.
  • 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.
  • 1849 –
    In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
  • 1852 –
    Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital providing in-patient beds specifically for children in the English-speaking world, is founded in London.
  • 1876 –
    Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
  • 1879 –
    The War of the Pacific breaks out when Chilean armed forces occupy the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
  • 1899 –
    Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
  • 1903 –
    The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into Department of Commerce and Department of Labor).
  • 1912 –
    In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.
  • 1918 –
    The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (on 1 February according to the Julian calendar).
  • 1919 –
    The Polish-Soviet War begins.
  • 1920 –
    The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
  • 1949 –
    The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
  • 1962 –
    First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.
  • 1983 –
    United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud.
  • 1990 –
    92 people are killed aboard Indian Airlines Flight 605 at Bangalore, India.
  • 1998 –
    An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil drops a lit cigarette, creating a massive explosion which kills 120.
  • 2000 –
    The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
  • 2005 –
    Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon Rafik 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.
  • 2010 –
    New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Tiger in Chinese astrology.

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