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Data de 14 Februarie cu toti stim ca aceasta zi este dedicata indragostitilor ziua dragostei a iubirii si e vremea cadourilor.Insa in acest post eu nu am sa va vorbesc despre semnificatia zilei de 14 Februarie, 14 februarie poate fi si o zi normala din punctul unora de vedere, asta nu inseamna ca ziua de 14 februarie se refera strict la Valentine’s Day

February 14, 2001 Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft becomes first vehicle to land on an asteroid (433 Eros)
February 14, 1995 Roseanne weds bodyguard Ben Thomas
February 14, 1995 Wellington 2-498d and 4-475 beat Canterbury 496 and 2-476d
February 14, 1994 Alexander Golubev skates Olympic record 500m (36.33)
February 14, 1994 Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia (51) weds Deborah Koons
February 14, 1993 Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79
February 14, 1992 Andre Cason runs world record 6 m indoor (6.41 sec)
February 14, 1992 Cease fire in Somalia begins
February 14, 1992 Kieren John Perkins swims world record 800m freestyle (7:46.60)
February 14, 1992 Merlene Ottey runs world record 60m indoor (6.96 sec)
February 14, 1991 “Mule Bone” opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater New York City for 67 performances
February 14, 1991 NL Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record $3 mil salary arbitration
February 14, 1990 Alan Ayckbourn’s “Man of the Moment,” premieres in London
February 14, 1990 Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some
February 14, 1990 Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system
February 14, 1989 African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam
February 14, 1989 Boxer Mike Tyson divorces actress Robin Givens
February 14, 1989 Khomeini orders Moslems to murder “Satanic Verses” novelist Rushdie
February 14, 1989 Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in Dom Rep
February 14, 1989 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopol disaster
February 14, 1989 World’s 1st satellite Skyphone opens
February 14, 1988 49th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player
February 14, 1988 Alfredo Stroessner re-elected president of Paraguay
February 14, 1988 Bobby Allison at 50 becomes oldest driver to win Daytona 500
February 14, 1988 General hospital star Jackie Zeman marries Glenn Gorden
February 14, 1988 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
February 14, 1987 53,745 largest NBA crowd to date-Philadelphia at Detroit
February 14, 1985 Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut
February 14, 1984 Singer Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney Australia
February 14, 1982 “Night of 100 Stars” takes place at New York’s Radio City Music Hall
February 14, 1982 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
February 14, 1980 “West Side Story” opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 341 performances
February 14, 1980 13th Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, New York
February 14, 1980 U.S. launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares
February 14, 1979 “Whoopee!” opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 204 performances
February 14, 1978 1st “micro on a chip” patented by Texas Instruments
February 14, 1978 In girls’ High School basketball, Chicago Latin beats Harvard St. George
February 14, 1976 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
February 14, 1975 Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station
February 14, 1972 John and Yoko co-host “Mike Douglas Show” for entire week
February 14, 1972 Luna 20 (Russia) launched to orbit and soft landing on Moon
February 14, 1971 Movie “Ben Hur” 1st shown on television
February 14, 1971 Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House
February 14, 1970 “Gantry” closes at George Abbott Theater New York City after 1 performance
February 14, 1968 Pennsylvania Railroad/New York City Central merge into Penn Central
February 14, 1968 WHKY TV channel 14 in Hickory, North Carolina (IND) begins broadcasting
February 14, 1967 Aretha Franklin records “Respect”
February 14, 1967 Latin American nuclear free zone proposal drawn up
February 14, 1966 Australia introduces 1st decimal currency postage stamps
February 14, 1966 Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points
February 14, 1966 Writers Andrei Sinjavski and Joeij Daniel found guilty
February 14, 1963 U.S. launches communications satellite Syncom 1
February 14, 1962 1st lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV
February 14, 1961 Element 103, Lawrencium, 1st produced in Berkeley California
February 14, 1961 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Royal Poinciana Golf Invitational
February 14, 1960 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open
February 14, 1960 Marshal Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan
February 14, 1959 $3.6 million heroin seizure in New York City
February 14, 1958 Arab Federation of Iraq and Jordan forms
February 14, 1957 Georgia Senate unanimously approves Sen Leon Butts’ bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites
February 14, 1956 20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow
February 14, 1956 Indonesia withdraws from Netherlands Indonesian Union
February 14, 1956 Verhoeven/Nauta/De King/Wijnhout win Dutch 11 city skate
February 14, 1955 WFLA (now WXFL) TV channel 8 in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida (NBC) begins
February 14, 1954 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open
February 14, 1954 Senator John Kennedy appears on “Meet the Press”
February 14, 1954 WTOC TV channel 11 in Savannah, Georgia (CBS) begins broadcasting
February 14, 1952 6th Olympic winter games open at Oslo, Norway
February 14, 1952 Comedian Joey Adams marries gossip columnist Cindy Heller
February 14, 1951 Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta and takes middleweight title
February 14, 1950 Moroney scores cricket twin centuries for Australia at Johannesburg
February 14, 1950 U.S.S.R. and China sign peace treaty
February 14, 1949 1st session of Knesset (Jerusalem Israel)
February 14, 1949 Dutch Drees government presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses
February 14, 1946 Bank of England nationalized
February 14, 1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
February 14, 1945 Peru, Paraguay, Chile and Ecuador joins UN
February 14, 1944 Anti-Japanese revolt on Java
February 14, 1944 Carl Wick publishes “Salmon Trolling for Commercial and Sport Fishing
February 14, 1943 German offensive through de Faid-pass Tunisia
February 14, 1943 Soviets recapture Rostov
February 14, 1942 Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra
February 14, 1942 Rotterdam’s Maas tunnel opens
February 14, 1941 1,000,000th vehicle traverses the New York Midtown Tunnel
February 14, 1941 Carson McCuller’s “Reflections in a Golden Eye” published
February 14, 1941 Cebrie Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street
February 14, 1941 German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya
February 14, 1940 British merchant vessel fleet is armed
February 14, 1939 Victor Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of Gone With the Wind
February 14, 1936 National Negro Congress organizes in Chicago
February 14, 1936 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
February 14, 1936 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
February 14, 1934 NHL Ace Bailey Benefit Game: Toronto beats All-Stars 7-3 in Toronto
February 14, 1932 South Africa all out for 36 in 1st innings vs. Aust (Ironmonger 5-6)
February 14, 1931 Bradman scores 152 Aust vs. WI, 154 minutes, 13 fours 2 fives
February 14, 1931 Spanish Government of General Damasco Berenguer falls
February 14, 1929 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago, 7 gangsters killed
February 14, 1925 State of emergency crisis in Bayern ends, NSDAP re-allowed
February 14, 1924 IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson
February 14, 1921 Canadian 5 cent nickel coin is authorized
February 14, 1921 Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing “Ulysses,” NY
February 14, 1920 League of Women Voters forms in Chicago
February 14, 1919 United Parcel Service forms
February 14, 1918 H Atteridge and S Rombergs musical “Sinbad,” premieres in New York City
February 14, 1918 U.S.S.R. adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar (originally Feb 1)
February 14, 1914 High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands
February 14, 1912 1st U.S. submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton, Connecticut
February 14, 1912 Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state
February 14, 1907 1st U.S. fox hound association forms in New York City
February 14, 1903 U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor forms
February 14, 1900 Date of events in movie “Picnic at Hanging Rock”
February 14, 1899 U.S. Congress begins using voting machines
February 14, 1896 George Lohmann takes a hat-trick vs. South Africa, 8-7 for inning
February 14, 1896 South Africa all out for 30 vs. England - their lowest ever
February 14, 1896 Stanley Cup: Winnipeg Victorias beat Montreal Victorias, 2-0
February 14, 1896 Theodor Herzl publishes “Der Judenstaat”
February 14, 1895 Oscar Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest,” opens in London
February 14, 1894 Venus is both a morning star and evening star
February 14, 1890 1st NSW vs. South Australia 1st-class cricket game
February 14, 1889 1st train load of fruit (oranges) leaves Los Angeles for east
February 14, 1887 Cubs sell Mike King Kelly to Boston for record $10,000
February 14, 1883 1st state labor union legislation; New Jersey legalizes unions
February 14, 1879 Chilean troops occupy Antofagasta
February 14, 1876 A G Bell and Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor
February 14, 1872 1st state bird refuge authorized (Lake Merritt, California)
February 14, 1867 Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co. issues 1st policy
February 14, 1867 Morehouse College organizes (Augusta Georgia)
February 14, 1862 Galena, 1st U.S. iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Connecticut
February 14, 1859 Oregon admitted as 33rd state
February 14, 1848 James K. Polk became 1st President photographed in office by Matthew Brady
February 14, 1803 Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington, Pennsylvania
February 14, 1794 1st U.S. textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Phila
February 14, 1778 “Stars and Stripes” arrives in foreign port for 1st time (France)
February 14, 1766 Dutch governor Falck signs Treaty of Batticaloa with rebels
February 14, 1746 Henry Pelham appointed English premier
February 14, 1711 Handels opera Rinaldo, premieres
February 14, 1689 English parliament places Mary Stuart/Prince Willem III on the throne
February 14, 1670 Roman Catholic emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna
February 14, 1630 Dutch fleet of 69 ships reaches Pernambuco Brazil
February 14, 1613 King James I’s daughter Elizabeth marries Frederik
February 14, 1610 Polish king Sigismund III, Forges Dimitri #2 and Romanov family sign covenant against czar Vasili Shushki
February 14, 1556 Archbishop Thomas Cranmer declared a heretic
February 14, 1540 Emperor Charles V enters Ghent without resistance, executes rebels
February 14, 1130 Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II
February 14, 1076 Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV
February 14, 1014 Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry II, Roman German emperor
February 14, 842 Charles II and Louis the German sign treaty 

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