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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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