About February 14
February 14, 2024 is the 45th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 321 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 350 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 14
- 1349 –Approximately 2,000 Jews are burned to death by mobs or forcibly removed from the city of Strasbourg.
- 1556 –Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic.
- 1831 –Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1899 –Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
- 1915 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- 1942 –Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
- 1943 –World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
- 1944 –World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java.
- 1945 –World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans.
- 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.
- 1966 –Australian currency is decimalised.
- 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.
- 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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