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
- 842 –Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages.
- 1349 –Approximately 2,000 Jews are burned to death by mobs or forcibly removed from the city of Strasbourg.
- 1779 –James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1899 –Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
- 1912 –Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
- 1915 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- 1918 –The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (on 1 February according to the Julian calendar).
- 1919 –The Polish-Soviet War begins.
- 1929 –Saint Valentine’s Day massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone’s gang, are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1943 –World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
- 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.
- 1946 –The Bank of England is nationalized.
- 1949 –The Knesset (Israeli parliament) convenes for the first time.
- 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.
- 1989 –Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill the author of The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie.
- 1989 –Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal Disaster.
- 2008 –Northern Illinois University shooting: a gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois university resulting in 6 fatalities (including gunman) and 18 injuries.
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