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14 February, 2008

Northern Illinois University shooting: a gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois university resulting in 22 casualties; 6 fatalities (including gunman) and 16 injured.

14 February, 2005

Lebanons former Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri, is assassinated, prompting the country to fall into chaos.

14 February, 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.

14 February, 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.

14 February, 2002

The Tullaghmurray Lass sinks off the coast of Kilkeel, County Down, Northern Ireland killing three members of the same family on board.

14 February, 2000

The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.

14 February, 1998

Authorities in the United States announce that Eric Robert Rudolph is a suspect in an Alabama abortion clinic bombing.

14 February, 1996

China launches a Long March 3 rocket, carrying the Intelsat 708 satellite. The rocket flies off course 3 seconds after liftoff and crashes into a rural village.

14 February, 1994

Andrei Chikatilo, a Russian serial killer is executed by shooting.

14 February, 1992

The American rock band Weezer is formed.

14 February, 1990

92 people are killed aboard Indian Airlines Flight 605 at Bangalore, India.

14 February, 1989

Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal Disaster.

14 February, 1989

Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill the author of The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie.

14 February, 1989

The first of 24 satellites of the Global Positioning System are placed into orbit.

14 February, 1983

United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher is later convicted of fraud.

14 February, 1981

Stardust Disaster: A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people

14 February, 1979

In Kabul, Muslims kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.

14 February, 1976

Crystal Palace Football Club under the leadership of Malcolm Allison beats Chelsea F.C. at Stamford Bridge by a scoreline on 3-2 in the Fifth Round of the FA Cup in what will be remembered as one of the greatest upsets in FA Cup history.

14 February, 1966

Australian currency is decimalised.

14 February, 1962

First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.

14 February, 1961

Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.

14 February, 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 Josef Stalins crimes in a secret speech.

14 February, 1949

The Knesset (Israeli parliament) convenes for the first time.

14 February, 1949

The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.

14 February, 1946

The Bank of England is nationalized.

14 February, 1945

World War II: On the second 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.

14 February, 1945

World War II: Prague is bombed probably due to a mistake in the orientation of the pilots bombing Dresden.

14 February, 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.

14 February, 1945

World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans.

14 February, 1944

World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java.

14 February, 1943

World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.

14 February, 1943

World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass - German General Erwin Rommel and the Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia.

14 February, 1942

Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.

14 February, 1929

St. Valentines Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capones gang, are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.

14 February, 1924

The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is founded.

14 February, 1920

The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago, Illinois.

14 February, 1919

The Polish-Soviet War begins.

14 February, 1918

The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (on 1 February according to the Julian calendar).

14 February, 1912

Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.

14 February, 1912

In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.

14 February, 1903

The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into Department of Commerce and Department of Labor).

14 February, 1900

Russia responds to international pressure to free Finland by tightening imperial control over the country.

14 February, 1900

Second Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.

14 February, 1899

Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.

14 February, 1886

The first train load of oranges leaves Los Angeles via the transcontinental railroad.

14 February, 1879

The War of the Pacific breaks out when Chilean armed forces occupy the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.

14 February, 1876

Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.

14 February, 1859

Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.

14 February, 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.

14 February, 1849

In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.

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