14th February anniversaries

• Birth
• event
  • 1797
  • Great Britain
  • Battle of St Vincent
  • 1876
  • United States
  • Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray each file a patent for the telephone – Bell awarded the rights
  • 1909
  • Turkey
  • "The Grand Vizier of Turkey, Kamil Pasha, was forced to resign after a vote of no confidence"
  • 1919
  • "The Polish-Soviet War began. (Note: at the time it was only considered a border conflict, and wasnt recognised as a full-scale war until April 1920)"
  • 1929
  • United States
  • The St Valentines Day Massacre took place in Chicago
  • 1929
  • United States
  • Screen debut of Mickey Mouse – same day as St Valentine's Day massacre!
  • 1949
  • Israel
  • Israels Knesset (the legislative branch of government) met for the first time in Jerusalem
  • 1989
  • "Iran, Islamic Republic of"
  • "Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for the death of British author Salman Rushdie, whose novel The Satanic Verses was condemned as blasphemous against Muslims"
  • 1989
  • United States
  • The first of 24 satellites that make up the Global Positioning System (GPS) was launched by the US Department of Defence
  • 1991
  • Great Britain
  • Birmingham Six Freed
• Death
  • 1779
  • Great Britain
  • Captain Cook Killed
  • 1808
  • United States
  • "Death of John Dickinson, American lawyer, Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania."
  • 1959
  • United States
  • "Death of Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer and percussionist"
  • 1983
  • Germany
  • "Death of Lina Radke, German athlete, a pioneer of women’s athletics and the first women’s 800m Olympic champion."