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.
  • 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.
  • 1804
    Karadjordje leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
  • 1876
    Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
  • 1900
    Second Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.
  • 1924
    The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
  • 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: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
  • 1944
    World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java.
  • 1946
    The Bank of England is nationalized.
  • 1949
    The Knesset (Israeli parliament) convenes for the first time.
  • 1950
    Chinese Civil War: The National Revolutionary Army instigates the unsuccessful Battle of Tianquan against the People’s Liberation Army.
  • 1956
    The XX Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union begins in Moscow. On the last night of the meeting, Premier Nikita Khrushchev condemns Joseph Stalin’s crimes in a secret speech.
  • 1981
    Stardust Disaster: A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people
  • 1989
    Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill the author of The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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