About February 14
February 14, 2021 is the 45th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 320 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 352 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.
- 1835 –The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.
- 1849 –In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
- 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.
- 1899 –Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
- 1903 –The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into Department of Commerce and Department of Labor).
- 1918 –The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (on 1 February according to the Julian calendar).
- 1924 –The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
- 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 –World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans.
- 1949 –The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
- 1949 –The Knesset (Israeli parliament) convenes for the first time.
- 1966 –Australian currency is decimalised.
- 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.
- 1981 –Stardust Disaster: A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people
- 1989 –Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal Disaster.
- 1990 –92 people are killed aboard Indian Airlines Flight 605 at Bangalore, India.
- 2000 –The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
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