![]() 1939 – World War II: German battleship Bismarck is launched.1929 – Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago.1924 – The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).1920 – The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.1918 – Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar.Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines. 1912 – Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S.1903 – The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).1900 – The British Army begins the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.1899 – Voting machines are approved by the U.S.1879 – The War of the Pacific breaks out when the Chilean Army occupies the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.1876 – Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.1859 – Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S.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.1852 – Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children, is founded in London.1849 – In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.1835 – The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, in the Latter Day Saint movement, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.1831 – Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.1804 – Karađorđe leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.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. 1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St.1779 – James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia.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 renders a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones. ![]() 1655 – The Mapuches launch coordinated attacks against the Spanish in Chile beginning the Mapuche uprising of 1655.1613 – Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V of the Palatinate at Whitehall Palace, London.1556 – Coronation of Akbar as ruler of the Mughal Empire.1556 – Having been declared a heretic and laicized by Pope Paul IV on 4 December 1555, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is publicly defrocked at Christ Church Cathedral.1530 – Spanish conquistadores, led by Nuño de Guzmán, overthrow and execute Tangaxuan II, the last independent monarch of the Tarascan state in present-day central Mexico.1349 – Several hundred Jews are burned to death by mobs while the remaining Jews are forcibly removed from Strasbourg.1130 – The troubled 1130 papal election exposes a rift within the College of Cardinals.1014 – Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry of Bavaria, King of Germany and of Italy, as Holy Roman Emperor.842 – Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages.748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt.February 14 is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar 320 days remain until the end of the year (321 in leap years).
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