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'''February 14'''
 
'''February 14'''
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* Every year: Saint Valentine's Day is celebrated by lovers and those in the greeting-card, flower, and chocolate business, but not by the Roman Catholic church, which removed the feast of Saint Valentine from the ecclesiastical calendar in 1969; there were possibly two Saint Valentines in the early church, thought to be martyrs for their faith.
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• 1258, Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed
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* 2003: The Roslyn Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, announced that the cloned sheep Dolly had been put down at the age of 6 1/2 following the discovery that she had a lung tumor caused by a virus; Dolly was stuffed and put on display at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.
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• 1635, the first public school in the U.S., Boston Latin School, is founded
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* 2002: The [[Directory:United States of America|U.S.]] House of Representatives passed the Shays-Meehan campaign financing bill, banning "soft money" contributions to federal candidates.
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• 1741, Andrew Bradford of Pennsylvania published the first American magazine. Titled "The American Magazine, or A Monthly View of the Political State of the British Colonies," it lasted three issues
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* 2000: The NASA space probe Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) entered orbit around the asteroid Eros.
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• 1795, the University of North Carolina became the first U.S. state university to admit students with the arrival of Hinton James, who was the only student on campus for two weeks
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* 1929: The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre occurred in Chicago; in one of the bloodiest mob executions in the 20th century, members of Al Capone's gang pretty much destroyed the "Bugs" Moran gang.
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• 1880, Thomas Edison observes the "Edison effect", the thermally excited charge emission process
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* 1918: Effective on this date, the Russians adopted the Gregorian, or New Style (N.S.), calendar, skipping 13 days (the previous day was January 31) to bring their calendar into line with the Western world.
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• 1920, the League of Nations recognized the perpetual neutrality of Switzerland
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* 869: Saint Cyril, the "Apostle to the Slavs" for whom the Cyrillic alphabet is named, died; his feast day is celebrated today (with that of his older brother, Methodius) by the Western church.
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• 1935, a jury in Flemington, N.J., found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-slaying of the son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. (Hauptmann was later executed.)
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• 1945, during World War II, the Soviets captured Budapest, Hungary, from the Germans. ALSO: Allied planes began bombing the German city of Dresden
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• 1955, Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls
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• 1960, France exploded its first atomic bomb, in the Sahara Desert
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• 1981, a series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky
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• 1990, an agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
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• 1997, Discovery's astronauts hauled the Hubble Space Telescope aboard the shuttle for a 1 billion-mile tuneup to allow it to peer even deeper into the far reaches of the universe. ALSO: On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average broke through the 7,000 barrier for the first time, ending the day at 7,022.44
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• 2000, the last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies
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• 2002, John Walker Lindh pleaded not-guilty in federal court in Alexandria, Va., to conspiring to kill Americans and supporting the Taliban and terrorist organizations. ALSO: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II made former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani an honorary knight
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• 2003, an investigative panel found that superheated air almost certainly seeped through a breach in space shuttle Columbia's left wing and possibly its wheel compartment during the craft's fiery descent, resulting in the deaths of all seven astronauts
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• 2006, auditors reported that millions of dollars in Hurricane Katrina disaster aid had been squandered, paying for such items as a $450 tattoo and $375-a-day beachfront condos
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• 2008, under oath and sometimes blistering questioning, seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens told Congress: "I have never taken steroids or HGH." ALSO: Hollywood writers ended their 100-day strike that had disrupted the TV season and canceled awards shows.
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• 2011, Egypt's military leaders dissolved parliament, suspended the constitution and promised elections in moves cautiously welcomed by protesters who'd helped topple President Hosni Mubarak
    
[[Category:February]] [[Category:Days of the Year]]
 
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