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.
- 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.
- 1797 –French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent – John Jervis, (later 1st Earl of St Vincent) and Horatio Nelson (later 1st Viscount Nelson) lead the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar.
- 1804 –Karadjordje leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
- 1835 –The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1912 –In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.
- 1920 –The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1924 –The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
- 1943 –World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
- 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.
- 1946 –The Bank of England is nationalized.
- 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.
- 1953 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Snake in Chinese astrology.
- 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 –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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