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.
- 1556 –Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic.
- 1778 –The United States Flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte rendered a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
- 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.
- 1859 –Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.
- 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.
- 1912 –In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.
- 1919 –The Polish-Soviet War begins.
- 1942 –Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
- 1943 –World War II: Tunisia Campaign – General Hans-Jurgen von Arnim’s Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
- 1944 –World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java.
- 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.
- 1950 –Chinese Civil War: The National Revolutionary Army instigates the unsuccessful Battle of Tianquan against the People’s Liberation Army.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2010 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- 2011 –2011 Bahraini uprising The 2011 Bahraini uprising, sometimes called the February 14 Revolution is a series of demonstrations, amounting to a sustained campaign of civil resistance, in the Persian Gulf country of Bahrain
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