A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on February 14 throughout history.
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Henry II (German: Heinrich II; Italian: Enrico II; Latin: Henricus; 6 May 973 – 13 July 1024), also known as Saint Henry, Obl. S. B., was Holy Roman Emperor (Latin: Romanorum Imperator) from 1014.
Henry IV (German: Heinrich IV; 11 November 1050 – 7 August 1106) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1084 to 1105, King of Germany from 1054 to 1105, and King of Italy and Burgundy from 1056 to 1105.
Battle of Cape St. Vincent: British fleet under Admiral Sir John Jervis defeats larger Spanish fleet under Admiral Don José de Córdoba y Ramos near Cape St. Vincent, Portugal. Captain Horatio Nelson distinguishes himself.
Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents, the Supreme Court eventually rules Bell the rightful inventor
Saint Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, seven gangsters are killed, allegedly on Al Capone's orders
Audio recordings of conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and Nixon administration officials, Nixon family members, and White House staff surfaced during the Watergate scandal in 1973…
Renfield is a 2023 American action comedy horror film inspired by characters from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula and its 1931 feature film adaptation.
"Night of 100 Stars", an all-star variety special celebrating the centennial of the Actors' Fund of America, takes place at NYC's Radio City Music Hall
YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, founded by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005.
Britain's Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean famously dominate ice dancing at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics, performing to Maurice Ravel's "Bolero" in their free dance routine and recording 9-of-9 perfect scores for artistic impression [1]
Alexandre Bilodeau wins the gold medal in the freestyle skiing men's moguls event, becoming the first Canadian to win gold during an Olympic Games hosted in Canada
Louis, dauphin of France (later Louis XI) (27) marries Charlotte of Savoy (9) without the consent of King Charles VII
The wedding of Frederick V of the Palatinate (1596–1632) and Princess Elizabeth (1596–1662), daughter of James VI and I, was celebrated in London in February 1613.
Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (27) weds Swiss watch heiress Emma Rauschenbach (19), until her death in 1955
German theoretical physicist Physicist Albert Einstein (39) divorces Serbian physicist and mathematician Mileva Marić (43) after 16 years of marriage
Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in the Dominican Republic
American singer Prince Rogers Nelson (40) divorces belly dancer Mayte Garcia (25) after 2 years of marriage
Charles II and Louis the German sign the Oaths of Strasbourg, a pact uniting their armies in the fight against their older brother Lothar
Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II
Dutch fleet of 69 ships reaches Pernambuco, Brazil
Dutch governor Falck and King Keerthisiri Rajasinghe of Kandy sign Treaty of Batticaloa
The "Stars & Stripes" flag is saluted by a foreign nation for the first time as John Paul Jones and the USS Ranger are acknowledged by the French Navy gunship Robuste at Quiberon Bay, France [1]
First US textile machinery patent is granted to James Davenport in Philadelphia
Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington, Pennsylvania
Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general who plotted to overthrow Napoleon in the Pichegru Conspiracy, arrested, and exiled to the United States
Sabagadis Woldu was a governor of Tigray Province of the Ethiopian Empire from 1822 to 1831.
Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas
Oregon ( ORR-ih-ghən, -gon) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
An ironclad was a steam-propelled warship protected by steel or iron armor constructed from 1859 to the early 1890s.
Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Co issues 1st policy
Esther Morris appointed US' first female in Justice of the Peace in South Pass City, Wyoming, after previous justice, R.S. Barr, resigned to protest passage of Wyoming Territory's women's suffrage amendment in 1869
1st US state bird refuge authorized (Lake Merritt, California)
Chilean troops occupy Antofagasta
1st state labor union legislation; New Jersey legalizes unions
Cubs sell Mike King Kelly to Boston for record $10,000
1st train load of fruit (oranges) leaves LA for east
Venus is both a morning star & evening star
Austro-Hungarian Zionist Theodor Herzl's "Der Judenstaat" (The Jewish State) is published, proposing a Jewish homeland as a means of escaping anti-Semitism in Europe
US Congress begins using voting machines
Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1975 Australian mystery film directed by Peter Weir from a screenplay by Cliff Green, based on the 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay.
1st US foxhound association forms in NYC
Connecticut ( kə-NET-ih-kət) is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands
USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar (originally Feb 1)
The Polish–Soviet War (14 February 1919 – 18 March 1921) was fought primarily between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, following World War I and the...
The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonpartisan American nonprofit political organization.
The Canadian five-cent coin, commonly called a nickel, is a coin worth five cents or one-twentieth of a Canadian dollar. It was patterned on the corresponding coin in the neighbouring United States.
State of emergency crisis in Bavaria ends, NSDAP re-allowed
Spanish government of General Damasco Berenguer falls
The Ace Bailey Benefit Game was the first all-star game in National Hockey League (NHL) history.
Karl Schäfer of Austria wins his 2nd consecutive men’s figure skating Olympic gold medal at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games in Germany
British merchant vessel fleet is armed
Reflections in a Golden Eye is a 1941 novel by American author Carson McCullers. It first appeared in Harper's Bazaar in 1940, serialized in the October–November issues.
Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang, Sumatra
German offensive against US troops through de Faid-pass, Tunisia begins, starting the Battle of Sidi Bou Zid
Anti-Japanese revolt on Java
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west.
John William Mauchly (August 30, 1907 – January 8, 1980) was an American physicist who, along with J.
The Knesset is the unicameral legislature of Israel. The Knesset passes all laws, elects the president and prime minister, approves the cabinet, and supervises the work of the government, among other...
Moroney scores cricket twin centuries for Australia at Johannesburg
Giant slalom event for women debuts at the Winter Olympics at Oslo Games; American skier Andrea Mead-Lawrence wins gold ahead of Dagmar Rom of Austria and German Annemarie Buchner
"Trionfo di Afrodite (Triumph of Aphrodite)", the final work of Carl Orff's Trionfi trilogy premieres at La Scala Teatro in Milan, Italy
WFLA (now WXFL) TV channel 8 in Tampa-St Petersburg, Florida (NBC) begins
The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian: XX съезд Коммунистической партии Советского Союза, romanized: XX syezd Kommunisticheskoy partii Sovetskogo Soyuza) was held...
Georgia Senate unanimously approves Senator Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites
The Hashemite Arab Federation was a short-lived confederation that lasted from 14 February to 2 August 1958, between the Hashemite kingdoms of Iraq and Jordan.
$3.6 million heroin seizure in NYC
The Daytona 500 is a 500-mile-long (805 km) NASCAR Cup Series motor race held annually at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Element 103, Lawrencium, is first produced in Berkeley, California, by bombarding a three-milligram target of three isotopes of californium with boron-10 and boron-11 nuclei from the Heavy Ion Linear Accelerator
The 1965 Daytona 500, the 7th running of the event, was held on February 14, 1965, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Australian currency is decimalised, and decimal currency postage stamps introduced
Norwegian 15k Olympic cross country champion Harald Grønningen wins his second gold medal of the Grenoble Winter Olympics in the 4 x 10k relay
The CBS Late Movie is a CBS television series (later known as CBS Late Night) that aired during the 1970s and 1980s. The program ran in most American television markets from 11:30 p.m.
Right-wing radicals plant a bomb at Amsterdam's under construction Venserpolder metro station, hoping to turn public sentiment against those protesting the building of the subway system [1]
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
First "micro on a chip" or microchip is patented by Texas Instruments
In Kabul, Muslims kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police
The Stardust fire was a fatal fire at the Stardust nightclub in Artane, Dublin, Ireland, in the early hours of 14 February (Saint Valentine's Day) 1981.
Detroit Pistons-Philadelphia 76ers game draws crowd of 53,745 at Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac; third largest crowd in NBA history; Pistons win, 125-107
30th Daytona 500: Bobby Allison beats his son, Davey, to the finish line; remembered for Richard Petty's rollover crash in the tri-oval on lap 106, rolls over 8 times and hit by Brett Bodine; walks away unhurt
African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam
Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some
American sprinter Andre Cason runs world record 60m indoor (6.41s) in Madrid, Spain
Eric Robert Rudolph, also known as the Olympic Park Bomber, is an American domestic terrorist convicted of a series of bombings across the Southern United States between 1996 and 1998, which killed...
Fishing vessel Tullaghmurray Lass sinks off the coast of Kilkeel, County Down, Northern Ireland killing three members of the same family on board
Roof of the Transvaal water park in Moscow collapses, killing more than 25 people and injuring more than 100 others
Lebanon, officially the Lebanese Republic, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.
A gunman opens fire in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb County, Illinois, killing six people, including himself, and injuring 18
52nd Daytona 500: Jamie McMurray, driving for Earnhardt Ganassi Racing wins; Mark Martin, oldest polesitter in Daytona 500 history at 51 years, 27 days
Bahraini uprising begins in Bahrain, calling for greater political freedom and equality for the Shia population and later an end to the monarchy
The Boston Marathon bombing, sometimes referred to as simply the Boston bombing, was an Islamist domestic terrorist attack that took place during the 117th annual Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013.
Amazon cancels plans to build a corporate campus in Long Island, Queens, New York after widespread opposition
Colombian Juan Carlos Sánchez Latorre jailed for sexual abuse of 276 children in Barranquilla
More than 800,000 people displaced from their homes in north-western Syria amid assault by Syrian pro-government forces on last rebel stronghold
63rd Daytona 500: Michael McDowell navigates through fiery, final-lap pileup to claim his first career NASCAR Cup Series win in his 14th season; race delayed by rain for 6 hours after huge Lap 14 crash
The megadrought affecting the American Southwest is now considered the worst for 1,200 years according to scientists [1]
At least 73 European-bound migrants are missing presumed dead after a boat capsizes off the coast of Libya, with just seven known survivors, according to the UN [1]
Indonesian presidential election: Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto appears to win by significant margin (full results 20 March) [1]
American jazz saxophonist Marshall Allen of the Sun Ra Arkestra releases "New Dawn," his debut album as a solo artist, recorded shortly after his 100th birthday
Italy's famous rock structure, the "Lovers' Arch," collapses on Valentine's Day after heavy rain and strong winds [1]
Babur is born
Frederick Douglass abolitionist, known for american abolitionist, was born on 1818-02-14. Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c.
Christopher Latham Sholes, American publisher and politician, known for american publisher and politician, was born on 1819-02-14.
Sakichi Toyoda is born
Carl Bernstein, American journalist, known for american journalist, was born on 1945-02-14. Carl Milton Bernstein is an American investigative journalist and author.
Jack Benny, American comedic entertainer, known for american comedic entertainer, was born on 1894-02-14.
Teller is born
Simon Pegg, English actor, known for english actor, was born on 1971-02-14. Simon John Pegg (né Beckingham; born 14 February 1970) is an English actor, comedian and screenwriter.
Danai Gurira, American zimbabwean-american actress, known for zimbabwean-american actress, was born on 1979-02-14.
Freddie Highmore, English actor, known for english actor, was born on 1993-02-14. Alfred Thomas Highmore is an English actor.
Rob Thomas, American musician, known for american musician, was born on 1973-02-14. Robert Kelly Thomas is an American musician.
Johnny Longden, American athlete, known for american horse trainer and jockey, was born on 1907-02-14.
Mickey Wright, American athlete, known for american professional golfer, was born on 1935-02-14.
Anna Howard Shaw is born
Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist, known for german philosopher and sociologist, was born on 1895-02-14.
Michael Bloomberg, American businessman and politician, known for american businessman and politician, was born on 1942-02-14. Michael Rubens Bloomberg is an American businessman and politician.
Mark Rutte, Dutch politician, known for dutch politician, was born on 1967-02-14. Mark Ruttek ˈrʏtə] ; born 14 February 1967) is a Dutch politician who has served as the 14th secretary general of…
James Cook, New Zealand explorer and naval officer, known for british explorer and naval officer, died on 1779-02-14.
William Blackstone, English jurist, judge, and politician, known for english jurist, judge, and politician, died on 1780-02-14.
Vicente Guerrero dies
Dolly the Sheep first cloned mammal, known for first cloned mammal, died on 2003-02-14.
Charles II and Louis the German sign the Oaths of Strasbourg, a pact uniting their armies in the fight against their older brother Lothar
Henry II (German: Heinrich II; Italian: Enrico II; Latin: Henricus; 6 May 973 – 13 July 1024), also known as Saint Henry, Obl. S. B., was Holy Roman Emperor (Latin: Romanorum Imperator) from 1014.
Henry IV (German: Heinrich IV; 11 November 1050 – 7 August 1106) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1084 to 1105, King of Germany from 1054 to 1105, and King of Italy and Burgundy from 1056 to 1105.
Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II
Louis, dauphin of France (later Louis XI) (27) marries Charlotte of Savoy (9) without the consent of King Charles VII
Babur is born
The wedding of Frederick V of the Palatinate (1596–1632) and Princess Elizabeth (1596–1662), daughter of James VI and I, was celebrated in London in February 1613.
Dutch fleet of 69 ships reaches Pernambuco, Brazil
Dutch governor Falck and King Keerthisiri Rajasinghe of Kandy sign Treaty of Batticaloa
The "Stars & Stripes" flag is saluted by a foreign nation for the first time as John Paul Jones and the USS Ranger are acknowledged by the French Navy gunship Robuste at Quiberon Bay, France [1]
James Cook, New Zealand explorer and naval officer, known for british explorer and naval officer, died on 1779-02-14.
William Blackstone, English jurist, judge, and politician, known for english jurist, judge, and politician, died on 1780-02-14.
First US textile machinery patent is granted to James Davenport in Philadelphia
Battle of Cape St. Vincent: British fleet under Admiral Sir John Jervis defeats larger Spanish fleet under Admiral Don José de Córdoba y Ramos near Cape St. Vincent, Portugal. Captain Horatio Nelson distinguishes himself.
Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington, Pennsylvania
Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general who plotted to overthrow Napoleon in the Pichegru Conspiracy, arrested, and exiled to the United States
Frederick Douglass abolitionist, known for american abolitionist, was born on 1818-02-14. Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c.
Christopher Latham Sholes, American publisher and politician, known for american publisher and politician, was born on 1819-02-14.
Sabagadis Woldu was a governor of Tigray Province of the Ethiopian Empire from 1822 to 1831.
Vicente Guerrero dies
Anna Howard Shaw is born
Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas
Oregon ( ORR-ih-ghən, -gon) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
An ironclad was a steam-propelled warship protected by steel or iron armor constructed from 1859 to the early 1890s.
Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Co issues 1st policy
Sakichi Toyoda is born
Esther Morris appointed US' first female in Justice of the Peace in South Pass City, Wyoming, after previous justice, R.S. Barr, resigned to protest passage of Wyoming Territory's women's suffrage amendment in 1869
1st US state bird refuge authorized (Lake Merritt, California)
Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents, the Supreme Court eventually rules Bell the rightful inventor
Chilean troops occupy Antofagasta
1st state labor union legislation; New Jersey legalizes unions
Cubs sell Mike King Kelly to Boston for record $10,000
1st train load of fruit (oranges) leaves LA for east
Venus is both a morning star & evening star
Jack Benny, American comedic entertainer, known for american comedic entertainer, was born on 1894-02-14.
Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist, known for german philosopher and sociologist, was born on 1895-02-14.
Austro-Hungarian Zionist Theodor Herzl's "Der Judenstaat" (The Jewish State) is published, proposing a Jewish homeland as a means of escaping anti-Semitism in Europe
US Congress begins using voting machines
Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1975 Australian mystery film directed by Peter Weir from a screenplay by Cliff Green, based on the 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay.
Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (27) weds Swiss watch heiress Emma Rauschenbach (19), until her death in 1955
1st US foxhound association forms in NYC
Johnny Longden, American athlete, known for american horse trainer and jockey, was born on 1907-02-14.
Connecticut ( kə-NET-ih-kət) is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands
USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar (originally Feb 1)
German theoretical physicist Physicist Albert Einstein (39) divorces Serbian physicist and mathematician Mileva Marić (43) after 16 years of marriage
The Polish–Soviet War (14 February 1919 – 18 March 1921) was fought primarily between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, following World War I and the...
The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonpartisan American nonprofit political organization.
The Canadian five-cent coin, commonly called a nickel, is a coin worth five cents or one-twentieth of a Canadian dollar. It was patterned on the corresponding coin in the neighbouring United States.
State of emergency crisis in Bavaria ends, NSDAP re-allowed
Saint Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, seven gangsters are killed, allegedly on Al Capone's orders
Renfield is a 2023 American action comedy horror film inspired by characters from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula and its 1931 feature film adaptation.
Spanish government of General Damasco Berenguer falls
The Ace Bailey Benefit Game was the first all-star game in National Hockey League (NHL) history.
Mickey Wright, American athlete, known for american professional golfer, was born on 1935-02-14.
Karl Schäfer of Austria wins his 2nd consecutive men’s figure skating Olympic gold medal at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games in Germany
British merchant vessel fleet is armed
Reflections in a Golden Eye is a 1941 novel by American author Carson McCullers. It first appeared in Harper's Bazaar in 1940, serialized in the October–November issues.
Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang, Sumatra
Michael Bloomberg, American businessman and politician, known for american businessman and politician, was born on 1942-02-14. Michael Rubens Bloomberg is an American businessman and politician.
German offensive against US troops through de Faid-pass, Tunisia begins, starting the Battle of Sidi Bou Zid
Anti-Japanese revolt on Java
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west.
Carl Bernstein, American journalist, known for american journalist, was born on 1945-02-14. Carl Milton Bernstein is an American investigative journalist and author.
John William Mauchly (August 30, 1907 – January 8, 1980) was an American physicist who, along with J.
The Knesset is the unicameral legislature of Israel. The Knesset passes all laws, elects the president and prime minister, approves the cabinet, and supervises the work of the government, among other...
Teller is born
Moroney scores cricket twin centuries for Australia at Johannesburg
Giant slalom event for women debuts at the Winter Olympics at Oslo Games; American skier Andrea Mead-Lawrence wins gold ahead of Dagmar Rom of Austria and German Annemarie Buchner
"Trionfo di Afrodite (Triumph of Aphrodite)", the final work of Carl Orff's Trionfi trilogy premieres at La Scala Teatro in Milan, Italy
WFLA (now WXFL) TV channel 8 in Tampa-St Petersburg, Florida (NBC) begins
The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian: XX съезд Коммунистической партии Советского Союза, romanized: XX syezd Kommunisticheskoy partii Sovetskogo Soyuza) was held...
Georgia Senate unanimously approves Senator Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites
The Hashemite Arab Federation was a short-lived confederation that lasted from 14 February to 2 August 1958, between the Hashemite kingdoms of Iraq and Jordan.
$3.6 million heroin seizure in NYC
The Daytona 500 is a 500-mile-long (805 km) NASCAR Cup Series motor race held annually at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Element 103, Lawrencium, is first produced in Berkeley, California, by bombarding a three-milligram target of three isotopes of californium with boron-10 and boron-11 nuclei from the Heavy Ion Linear Accelerator
The 1965 Daytona 500, the 7th running of the event, was held on February 14, 1965, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Australian currency is decimalised, and decimal currency postage stamps introduced
Mark Rutte, Dutch politician, known for dutch politician, was born on 1967-02-14. Mark Ruttek ˈrʏtə] ; born 14 February 1967) is a Dutch politician who has served as the 14th secretary general of…
Norwegian 15k Olympic cross country champion Harald Grønningen wins his second gold medal of the Grenoble Winter Olympics in the 4 x 10k relay
Audio recordings of conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and Nixon administration officials, Nixon family members, and White House staff surfaced during the Watergate scandal in 1973…
Simon Pegg, English actor, known for english actor, was born on 1971-02-14. Simon John Pegg (né Beckingham; born 14 February 1970) is an English actor, comedian and screenwriter.
The CBS Late Movie is a CBS television series (later known as CBS Late Night) that aired during the 1970s and 1980s. The program ran in most American television markets from 11:30 p.m.
Rob Thomas, American musician, known for american musician, was born on 1973-02-14. Robert Kelly Thomas is an American musician.
Right-wing radicals plant a bomb at Amsterdam's under construction Venserpolder metro station, hoping to turn public sentiment against those protesting the building of the subway system [1]
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
First "micro on a chip" or microchip is patented by Texas Instruments
In Kabul, Muslims kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police
Danai Gurira, American zimbabwean-american actress, known for zimbabwean-american actress, was born on 1979-02-14.
The Stardust fire was a fatal fire at the Stardust nightclub in Artane, Dublin, Ireland, in the early hours of 14 February (Saint Valentine's Day) 1981.
"Night of 100 Stars", an all-star variety special celebrating the centennial of the Actors' Fund of America, takes place at NYC's Radio City Music Hall
Britain's Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean famously dominate ice dancing at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics, performing to Maurice Ravel's "Bolero" in their free dance routine and recording 9-of-9 perfect scores for artistic impression [1]
Detroit Pistons-Philadelphia 76ers game draws crowd of 53,745 at Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac; third largest crowd in NBA history; Pistons win, 125-107
30th Daytona 500: Bobby Allison beats his son, Davey, to the finish line; remembered for Richard Petty's rollover crash in the tri-oval on lap 106, rolls over 8 times and hit by Brett Bodine; walks away unhurt
Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in the Dominican Republic
African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam
Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some
American sprinter Andre Cason runs world record 60m indoor (6.41s) in Madrid, Spain
Freddie Highmore, English actor, known for english actor, was born on 1993-02-14. Alfred Thomas Highmore is an English actor.
Eric Robert Rudolph, also known as the Olympic Park Bomber, is an American domestic terrorist convicted of a series of bombings across the Southern United States between 1996 and 1998, which killed...
American singer Prince Rogers Nelson (40) divorces belly dancer Mayte Garcia (25) after 2 years of marriage
Fishing vessel Tullaghmurray Lass sinks off the coast of Kilkeel, County Down, Northern Ireland killing three members of the same family on board
Dolly the Sheep first cloned mammal, known for first cloned mammal, died on 2003-02-14.
Roof of the Transvaal water park in Moscow collapses, killing more than 25 people and injuring more than 100 others
YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, founded by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005.
Lebanon, officially the Lebanese Republic, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.
A gunman opens fire in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb County, Illinois, killing six people, including himself, and injuring 18
Alexandre Bilodeau wins the gold medal in the freestyle skiing men's moguls event, becoming the first Canadian to win gold during an Olympic Games hosted in Canada
52nd Daytona 500: Jamie McMurray, driving for Earnhardt Ganassi Racing wins; Mark Martin, oldest polesitter in Daytona 500 history at 51 years, 27 days
Bahraini uprising begins in Bahrain, calling for greater political freedom and equality for the Shia population and later an end to the monarchy
The Boston Marathon bombing, sometimes referred to as simply the Boston bombing, was an Islamist domestic terrorist attack that took place during the 117th annual Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013.
Amazon cancels plans to build a corporate campus in Long Island, Queens, New York after widespread opposition
Colombian Juan Carlos Sánchez Latorre jailed for sexual abuse of 276 children in Barranquilla
More than 800,000 people displaced from their homes in north-western Syria amid assault by Syrian pro-government forces on last rebel stronghold
63rd Daytona 500: Michael McDowell navigates through fiery, final-lap pileup to claim his first career NASCAR Cup Series win in his 14th season; race delayed by rain for 6 hours after huge Lap 14 crash
The megadrought affecting the American Southwest is now considered the worst for 1,200 years according to scientists [1]
At least 73 European-bound migrants are missing presumed dead after a boat capsizes off the coast of Libya, with just seven known survivors, according to the UN [1]
Indonesian presidential election: Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto appears to win by significant margin (full results 20 March) [1]
American jazz saxophonist Marshall Allen of the Sun Ra Arkestra releases "New Dawn," his debut album as a solo artist, recorded shortly after his 100th birthday
Italy's famous rock structure, the "Lovers' Arch," collapses on Valentine's Day after heavy rain and strong winds [1]