14 February In History - What Happened On This Day

According to Gregory calendar, February 14 is the day number 45 in a given year. February 14 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1537	Sultan Bahadur Shah of Gujarat died due to drowning while escaping from the Portuguese.
1556	Akbar's Rajabhisheka took place in just 13 years at Kalanaur in Gurdaspur district of Punjab.
1658	After Shah Jahan, Dara Shikoh defeated Shah Shuja in the battle of Bahadurpur to take over the power of Delhi.
1735	St. Anna was installed in Russia in honor of the great Peter's daughter.
1747	Astronomer James Bradley presented for the Royal Society, London the discovery of the motion of the Earth on its axis.
1779	English explorer James Cook was killed near Kealakekua when he tried to kidnap Kalani??pu?u, the ruling chief of the Island of Hawaii.
1814	Napoleon I of France won against von Blücher in the Battle of the Vauchaps.
1820	Minh Mang's rule began in Vietnam.
1835	The members of the original Quorum of the Twelve of the LatterDay Saint movement were selected by the Three Witnesses.
1859	Oregon was accepted as the 33rd US state.
1876	Inventor Alexander Graham Bell and electrical engineer ElishaGray each filed a patent for the telephone, starting a controversy aboutwho invented it first.
1899	The US Congress started using a voting machine.
1905	Noted Urdu poet Dag Dehalvi died.
1912	The first diesel submarine was built in the city of Groton near London.
1919	The first serious armed conflict of the Polish–Soviet Wartook place near present-day Biaroza, Belarus.
1924	The Computing Tabulating Recording Company renamed itself toInternational Business Machines, one of the world's largest companies bymarket capitalization.
1933	Beautiful actress Madhubala was born.
1938	The British Navy started operations in Singapore.
1939	The German warship Bismarck was launched.
1942	The Battle of the Bilin River began in Burma.
1943	World War II: General Hans-Jurgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launched a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
1945	Peru, Paraguay, Chile and Ecuador became members of the United Nations.
1946	Bank of England became nationalized bank.
1949	The Knesset, the legislature of Israel, convened for the firsttime, succeeding the Assembly of Representatives that had functioned asthe Jewish community's parliament during the British Mandate Era.
1952	Sushma Swaraj, the top female politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party was born.
1959	The reign of the famous revolutionary Feudel Castro began over Cuba.
1961	Lawrencium, the metallic radioactive synthetic element withatomic number 103, was first made at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratoryon the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
1975	The famous writer Sir Pelham Graniwal Woodhouse died.
1985	CNN correspondent Jeremy Levine was released from captivity in Lebanon.
1989	The first satellite based on the Global Positioning System was placed near Earth's orbit in space.
1989	A fatwa was issued for the execution of Salman Rushdie forauthoring The Satanic Verses, a novel Islamic fundamentalists consideredblasphemous.
1990	The Voyager 1 space probe took an iconic photograph of planetEarth that later became famous as Pale Blue Dot.
1991	Upon the death of Carrie C. White, French woman Jeanne Calment became the world's oldest living person, and she went on to have the longest confirmed human life span in history, dying in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days.
1992	Marlene Othey made a world record of 60m indoor running in about 6.96 seconds.
1993	In a fire attack in Linux Departmental store that is in Tangshan China killed 79 people.
1994	Grateful Deeds, Jerry Garnia weds Deborah Hoons.
1995	In 1995, Koseanne weds her bodyguard whose name was Ben Thomas.
2001	NEAR known as Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous was a spacecraft that Leeame the first vehicle to land on asteroid.
2005	The video-sharing website YouTube was launched.
2005	Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri was assassinatedwhen explosives were detonated as his motorcade drove past the St.George Hotel in Beirut, sparking the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon.
2009	Naiya Masood was awarded the 'Saraswati Samman' of the year 2007 for her story collection Taus Chaman Ki Maina.
2010	Victor Yanukovyeh was declared as the official winner of Ukraine’s presidential elections.
2011	The Palestine Authority of Cabinet Members resigned and the Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad selected new administrators at the request of President, Mahmud Abbas.
2011	As a part of the Arab Spring, the still ongoing Bahrainiuprising, began with a Day of Rage.
2011	A 'Day of Rage' marked the beginning of the Bahraini uprising, part of the Arab Spring.
2012	The Love Letters written by poets, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning for each other were published online by Wellesley College and Baylor University in 2012.
2013	Bankrupt Carrier, American Airlines and US Airways merge to form world’s largest air carrier to trade under the name of American Airlines.
2014	The Italy’s Prime Minister, Enrico Letta resigned by following the friction within his own Democratic party.

Day/Observance	Level
Valentine's Day	International Day
Financial Literacy Week (14 to 18 Feb)	National Day

Birth Year	Name/Category/Country
1952	Sushma Swaraj / Politician / India
1483	Babar / Ruler / India
1908	Kengal Hanumanthaiah / Politician / India
1921	Damodaram Sanjivayya / Politician / India
1926	Shiv Chandra Mathur / Politician / India
1952	Sushma Swaraj / Politician / India
1975	Kiku Sharda / Actor / India
1990	Diksha Seth / Actress / India

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