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.
- 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.
- 1831 –Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.
- 1849 –In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
- 1903 –The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into Department of Commerce and Department of Labor).
- 1912 –Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
- 1915 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- 1918 –The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (on 1 February according to the Julian calendar).
- 1919 –The Polish-Soviet War begins.
- 1942 –Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
- 1943 –World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1989 –Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal Disaster.
- 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.
- 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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