About February 14
February 14, 2023 is the 45th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 320 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 361 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 14
- 1831 –Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.
- 1835 –The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.
- 1843 –The event that inspired the Beatles song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! is held in England.
- 1899 –Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
- 1900 –Second Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.
- 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.
- 1934 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dog in Chinese astrology.
- 1943 –World War II: Tunisia Campaign – General Hans-Jurgen von Arnim’s Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
- 1945 –President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially starting the U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relationship.
- 1945 –World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans.
- 1946 –The Bank of England is nationalized.
- 1950 –Chinese Civil War: The National Revolutionary Army instigates the unsuccessful Battle of Tianquan against the People’s Liberation Army.
- 1962 –First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.
- 1966 –Australian currency is decimalised.
- 1983 –United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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