February 11th 55 – Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman Emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor.

February 11th 1531 – Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.

February 11th 1659 – The assault on Copenhagen by Swedish forces is beaten back with heavy losses.

February 11th 1752 – Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, opens.

February 11th 1790 – Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions U.S. Congress for abolition of slavery.

February 11th 1794 – First session of United States Senate open to the public.

February 11th 1808 – Anthracite coal is first burned as a fuel, experimentally.

February 11th 1809 – Robert Fulton files a patent for improvements to steamboat navigation

February 11th 1812 – Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry "gerrymanders" for the first time.

February 11th 1814 – Norway's independence is proclaimed, marking the ultimate end of the Kalmar Union.

February 11th 1826 – University College London is founded under the name University of London.

February 11th 1826 – Swaminarayan wrote the Shikshapatri, an important test within the Swaminarayan faith.

February 11th 1840 – Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Régiment receives its first performance in Paris.

February 11th 1843 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi receives its first performance in Milan.

February 11th 1855 – Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam

February 11th 1861 – American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.

February 11th 1873 – King Amadeus I of Spain abdicates.

February 11th 1889 – Meiji constitution of Japan is adopted; the first Diet of Japan convenes in 1890.

February 11th 1903 – Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna.

February 11th 1905 – Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos.

February 11th 1916 – Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control.

February 11th 1919 – Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.

February 11th 1929 – Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.

February 11th 1937 – A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers Union.

February 11th 1938 – BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R.U.R., which coined the term "robot".

February 11th 1939 – A Lockheed XP-38 flies from California to New York in 7 hours 2 minutes.

February 11th 1941 – The first gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".

February 11th 1942 – The Battle of Bukit Timah is fought in Singapore during World War II.

February 11th 1943 – World War II: General Dwight Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe.

February 11th 1948 – John Costello succeeds Éamon de Valera as Taoiseach of Ireland.

February 11th 1953 – President Dwight Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.

February 11th 1953 – The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.

February 11th 1963 – Julia Child's show The French Chef premieres.

February 11th 1964 – Greeks and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus.

February 11th 1964 – The Republic of China (Taiwan) breaks off diplomatic relations with France.

February 11th 1964 – The Beatles hold their first concert in the United States at the Washington Coliseum in Washington, D.C.

February 11th 1968 – Israeli-Jordanian border clashes.

February 11th 1971 – Eighty-seven countries, including the US, UK, and USSR, sign the Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons in international waters.

February 11th 1973 – Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.

February 11th 1978 – Censorship: the People's Republic of China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, Shakespeare and Dickens.

February 11th 1979 – Islamic revolution of Iran achieves victory under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

February 11th 1981 – 100,000 US gallons (380 m3) of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating 8 workers.

February 11th 1987 – Philippines constitution goes into effect.

February 11th 1990 – Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa.

February 11th 1991 – UNPO, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, forms in The Hague, Netherlands.

February 11th 1997 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.

February 11th 2006 – Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney accidentally shoots Harry Whittington in the face, neck, and upper torso while hunting quail.

February 11th 1990 – Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa.



I remember that day well,  Everyone tuned in and couldn't believe it was finally happening.  Massachusetts had a huge pro Mandela faction, we were the first to pull state investments in companies doing business with South Africa under apartheid, and when he came to the states on his speaking tour he said he would make it a point to come to Boston.  He came and we had a day long outdoor festival with Paul Simon and James Taylor, among the headliners.  Well over 100,000 turned out.  I still find it a point of pride.  I was there.

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I remember that day well,  Everyone tuned in and couldn't believe it was finally happening.  Massachusetts had a huge pro Mandela faction, we were the first to pull state investments in companies doing business with South Africa under apartheid, and when he came to the states on his speaking tour he said he would make it a point to come to Boston.  He came and we had a day long outdoor festival with Paul Simon and James Taylor, among the headliners.  Well over 100,000 turned out.  I still find it a point of pride.  I was there.

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We were watching it live on tv and learned about a new world icon.

February 11th 1989 - Rev. Barbara C. Harris, 58, was consecrated in Boston as the first woman bishop in the Anglican Church. (In 1988 the Church of England passed the first legislation which began opening the Anglican priesthood to women.)

February 11th 1858 - In Lourdes, France, 14-year-old French peasant Bernadette Soubirous experienced her first vision of the Virgin Mary. By July 16th of this year, she had experienced 18 such visions.

February 11th 1942  - "Archie" comic book debuts

very nice picture Danoota.  :)

very nice picture Danoota.  :)
A day to celebrate.

February 11th 1989 - Rev. Barbara C. Harris, 58, was consecrated in Boston as the first woman bishop in the Anglican Church. (In 1988 the Church of England passed the first legislation which began opening the Anglican priesthood to women.)


I have been told I am pretty much a ringer for her.

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I have been told I am pretty much a ringer for her.

http://www.episcopalarchives.org/Afro-Anglican_history/exhibit/images/leadership/orig/Harris_1999_med.jpg

http://www.inthe00s.com/Users/Eleanormire/iPhoto Library/MyPicture-1.jpg



Sisters?

February 12th 881 – Pope John VIII crowns Charles the Fat, the King of Italy: Emperor

February 12th 1429 – English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orleans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and John Stuart in the Battle of Rouvray (also known as the Battle of the Herrings).

February 12th 1502 – Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.

February 12th 1541 – Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.

February 12th 1554 – A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.

February 12th 1689 – The Convention Parliament convenes and declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.

February 12th 1700 – The Great Northern War begins in Northern Europe.

February 12th 1719 – The Onderlinge van 1719 u.a., the oldest existing life insurance company in the Netherlands is founded.

February 12th 1733 – Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).

February 12th 1771 – Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.

February 12th 1816 – The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is destroyed by fire.

February 12th 1817 – An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops on the Battle of Chacabuco.

February 12th 1818 – Bernardo O'Higgins formally approved the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepción, Chile.

February 12th 1825 – The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government, and migrate west.

February 12th 1832 – Ecuador annexes the Galápagos Islands.

February 12th 1855 – Michigan State University is established.

February 12th 1870 – Women gain the right to vote in the Utah Territory.

February 12th 1879 – The first artificial ice rink in North America opens at Gilmore's Park in New York City.

February 12th 1894 – Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris's Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20.

February 12th 1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.

February 12th 1912 – Xuantong Emperor of the Manchu Qing dynasty, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.

February 12th 1912 – The Republic of China adopts the Gregorian calendar.

February 12th 1914 – In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.

February 12th 1924 – Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a political speech on radio.

February 12th 1934 – The Austrian Civil War begins.

February 12th 1934 – The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.

February 12th 1934 – In Spain the national council of Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista is inaugurated. The council decides to merge the movement with the Falange Española.

February 12th 1946 – World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.

February 12th 1961 – U.S.S.R. launches Venera 1 towards Venus.

February 12th 1966 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, announced the Six Points in Karachi as the election manifesto of Awami League, that later led to formation of Bangladesh.

February 12th 1973 – Vietnam War: The first United States prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong.

February 12th 1974 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.

February 12th 1990 – Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian History when she becomes premier of Western Australia.

February 12th 1997 – Hwang Jang-yop, secretary in the Workers' Party of Korea and a prime architect of North Korea's Juche doctrine, defects at the South Korean embassy in Beijing along with his aide, Kim Dok-hong.

February 12th 1999 – President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.

February 12th 1999 – President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
...and his is in the news again today.

February 12th 2001 – NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.

February 12th 2002 – The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He dies four years later before its conclusion.

February 12th 2002 – US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is a suitable site for a deep geological repository for the United States.

February 12th 2002 – An Iran Air Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119.

February 12th 1999 – President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.



I remember seeing that on TV that day. For the record it was the last time that Feb. 12 fell on a Friday.

February 12th 2004 – The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.

February 12th 2006 – A powerful winter storm blankets the Northeastern United States dumping 1 to 2 feet of snow from Washington D.C. to Boston, Massachusetts. The storm dumps a record 26.9 inches of snow in New York City.

February 12th 2007 – A gunman opens fire in a mall in Salt Lake City, killing 5 people wounding 4 others in the Trolley Square shooting.

February 12th 2009 – Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house near Buffalo, New York killing 50 people.

I remember seeing that on TV that day. For the record it was the last time that Feb. 12 fell on a Friday.
I missed seeing that, I think I was on one of my training courses back then.

...and his is in the news again today.

That's right; for a different reason.




I missed seeing that, I think I was on one of my training courses back then.

I was in my first year of college, but did not have any classes that day because it was a Friday and my classes were only on Monday through Thursday.

February 12th 1777 The Mission Santa Clara de Asis was established. It was one of nine missions founded by Spanish Franciscan missionary, Father Junipero Serra, between 1769-1784.

February 12th 1995  Murder trial against OJ Simpson, begins in Los Angeles

February 13th 1503 – Disfida di Barletta – famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.

February 13th 1542 – Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.

February 13th 1575 – Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims, marrying Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont on the same day.

February 13th 1633 – Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.

February 13th 1668 – Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.

February 13th 1689 – William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.

February 13th 1692 – Massacre of Glencoe: About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.

February 13th 1815 – The Cambridge Union Society is founded.

February 13th 1880 – Work begins on the covering of the Zenne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.

February 13th 1880 – Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.

Thermionic emission is the heat-induced flow of charge carriers from a surface or over a potential-energy barrier. This occurs because the thermal energy given to the carrier overcomes the forces restraining it. The charge carriers can be electrons or ions, and in older literature are sometimes referred to as "thermions". After emission, a charge will initially be left behind in the emitting region that is equal in magnitude and opposite in sign to the total charge emitted. But if the emitter is connected to a battery, then this charge left behind will be neutralized by charge supplied by the battery, as the emitted charge carriers move away from the emitter, and finally the emitter will be in the same state as it was before emission. The thermionic emission of electrons is also known as thermal electron emission.

The classical example of thermionic emission is the emission of electrons from a hot metal cathode into a vacuum (archaically known as the Edison effect) in a vacuum tube. However, the term "thermionic emission" is now used to refer to any thermally excited charge emission process, even when the charge is emitted from one solid-state region into another. This process is crucially important in the operation of a variety of electronic devices and can be used for power generation or cooling. The magnitude of the charge flow increases dramatically with increasing temperature. However, vacuum emission from metals tends to become significant only for temperatures over 1000 K. The science dealing with this phenomenon has been known as thermionics, but this name seems to be gradually falling into disuse.

February 13th 1881 – The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.

February 13th 1894 – Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.

February 13th 1914 – Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.

February 13th 1920 – The Negro National League is formed.

February 13th 1934 – The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean.

February 13th 1935 – A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.

February 13th 1945 – World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.

February 13th 1945 – World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.

February 13th 1955 – Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.

February 13th 1960 – Nuclear weapons testing: France tests its first atomic bomb.

February 13th 1960 – Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.

February 13th 1967 – American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.

February 13th 1970 – Black Sabbath, arguably the very first heavy metal album, is released.

February 13th 1971 – Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.

February 13th 1975 – A fire breaks out in the World Trade Center in New York City, New York.

February 13th 1978 – Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.

February 13th 1979 – An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.

February 13th 1981 – A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.

February 13th 1982 – Río Negro massacre in Guatemala.

February 13th 1984 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

February 13th 1990 – German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.

February 13th 1991 – Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.

February 13th 2000 – The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.

February 13th 2001 – An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.

February 13th 2004 – The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".

February 13th 2007 – Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.

February 13th 2008 – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.

February 13th 1973 The National Council of U.S. Catholic Bishops announced that anyone undergoing or performing an abortion would be excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.

February 13th 1951 Death of Lloyd C. Douglas, 74, American Congregational clergyman and novelist. He published his first religious novel "Magnificent Obsession" in 1929, followed later by "The Robe" (1942) and "The Big Fisherman" (1948).

February 13th 1826 The American Temperance Society (later renamed the American Temperance Union) was organized in Boston. It quickly grew into a national crusade, and within a decade over 8,000 similar groups had been formed, boasting a total of 1.5 million members.

February 14th 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages.

February 14th 1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.

February 14th 1014 – Pope Benedict VIII recognizes Henry of Bavaria as King of Germany.

February 14th 1076 – Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.

February 14th 1349 – Approximately 2,000 Jews are burned to death by mobs or forcibly removed from the city of Strasbourg.

February 14th 1556 – Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic.

February 14th 1743 – Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister.

February 14th 1778 – The United States Flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte rendered a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.

February 14th 1779 – James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.

February 14th 1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent – John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent and Horatio Nelson (later 1st Viscount Nelson) lead the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar.

February 14th 1803 – Chief Justice John Marshall declares that any act of U.S. Congress that conflicts with the Constitution is void.

February 14th 1804 – Karadjordje leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.

February 14th 1831 – Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.

February 14th 1835 – The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.

February 14th 1849 – In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.

February 14th 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.

February 14th 1859 – Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.

February 14th 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.

February 14th 1879 – The War of the Pacific breaks out when Chilean armed forces occupy the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.

February 14th 1899 – Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.

February 14th 1900 – Second Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.

February 14th 1903 – The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into Department of Commerce and Department of Labor).

February 14th 1912 – Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.

February 14th 1912 – In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.

February 14th 1918 – The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (on 1 February according to the Julian calendar).

February 14th 1919 – The Polish-Soviet War begins.

February 14th 1920 – The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago, Illinois.

February 14th 1924 – The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is founded.

February 14th 1929 – St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.

February 14th 1942 – Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.

February 14th 1943 – World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.

February 14th 1943 – World War II: Tunisia Campaign – General Hans-Jurgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.

February 14th 1944 – World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java.

February 14th 1945 – World War II: On the first 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.

February 14th 1945 – World War II: Prague is bombed probably due to a mistake in the orientation of the pilots bombing Dresden.

February 14th 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.

February 14th 1945 – World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans.

February 14th 1946 – The Bank of England is nationalized.

February 14th 1946 – ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer, is unveiled.

February 14th 1949 – The Knesset (Israeli parliament) convenes for the first time.

February 14th 1949 – The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.

February 14th 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 Joseph Stalin's crimes in a secret speech.

February 14th 1961 – Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.

February 14th 1962 – First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.

February 14th 1966 – Australian currency is decimalised.

February 14th 1979 – In Kabul, Muslims kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.

February 14th 1981 – Stardust Disaster: A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people

February 14th 1983 – United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher is later convicted of fraud.

February 14th 1989 – Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal Disaster.

February 14th 1989 – Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill the author of The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie.

February 14th 1989 – The first of 24 satellites of the Global Positioning System are placed into orbit.

February 14th 1990 – 92 people are killed aboard Indian Airlines Flight 605 at Bangalore, India.

February 14th 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.

February 14th 2000 – The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.

February 14th 2002 – Tullaghmurray Lass sinks off the coast of Kilkeel, County Down, Northern Ireland killing three members of the same family on board.

February 14th 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.

February 14th 2005 – Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon Rafik Hariri killed, along with 21 others, when explosives equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT were detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel in Beirut.

February 14th 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.

February 14th 2008 – Northern Illinois University shooting: a gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois university resulting in 6 fatalities (including gunman) and 18 injuries.

February 14th 1970 - "Gantry" closes at George Abbott Theater NYC after 1 performance

February 14th 1990 - Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system

February 14th 1985 - Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut

February 14th 1980 - US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares

February 15th 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia

February 15th 1637 – Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.

February 15th 1764 – The city of St. Louis, Missouri is established.

February 15th 1804 – Serbian revolution started.

February 15th 1805 – Harmony Society is officially formed.

February 15th 1835 – The first constitutional law in modern Serbia was adopted.

February 15th 1852 – Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits its first patient.

February 15th 1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant attacks Fort Donelson, Tennessee.

February 15th 1879 – Women's rights: American President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.

February 15th 1891 – AIK is founded at Biblioteksgatan 8 in Stockholm by Isidor Behrens.

February 15th 1898 – Spanish-American War: The USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing more than 260. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.

February 15th 1906 – The British Labour Party is organised.

February 15th 1909 – The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico, 250 die in the blaze.

February 15th 1933 – In Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago, Illinois Mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6, 1933.

February 15th 1942 – World War II: The Fall of Singapore. Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders. About 80,000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history. The Sook Ching massacre begins.

February 15th 1944 – World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy, begins.

February 15th 1950 – The Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China sign a mutual defense treaty.

February 15th 1952 – King George VI is buried in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.

February 15th 1961 – Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73, with the entire United States Figure Skating team, several coaches and family.

February 15th 1965 – A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.

February 15th 1970 – A Dominican DC-9 crashes into the sea during takeoff from Santo Domingo, killing 102.

February 15th 1971 – Decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day.

February 15th 1972 – Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.

February 15th 1976 – The 1976 Constitution of Cuba is adopted by the national referendum.

February 15th 1980 – Television One and Television Two (formerly South Pacific Television) under the newly formed Television New Zealand goes to air for the first time.

February 15th 1982 – The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 rig workers.

February 15th 1989 – Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan: The Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops have left Afghanistan.

February 15th 1991 – The Visegrád Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.

February 15th 1996 – At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people.

February 15th 1999 – Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party, widely recognized as terrorist organization), is arrested in Kenya.

February 15th 2000 – Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York State vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails.

February 15th 2001 – First draft of the complete Human Genome is published in Nature

February 15th 2003 – Protests against the Iraq war occur in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between 8 million to 30 million people took part, making this the largest peace demonstration in the history of the world.

February 15th 2005 – YouTube, the popular Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States.

Before I go, I have one thing I'd like to share about this date...

February 15th 2001 – First draft of the complete Human Genome is published in Nature



This was a very special day for my family and me. It was the day we got the keys to our new house!!! :D But we couldn't move in right away because we had someplace to go that weekend.

Before I go, I have one thing I'd like to share about this date...
This was a very special day for my family and me. It was the day we got the keys to our new house!!! :D But we couldn't move in right away because we had someplace to go that weekend.
Next year will be ten years there for your family.

February 15th 2005 – YouTube, the popular Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States.


5 years later and still popular and one of the best.

Next year will be ten years there for your family.

Yep...can't wait! :D

5 years later and still popular and one of the best.
It is popular with me.

It is popular with me.

me too. 8)

It is popular with me.


and more worldwide too.

February 16th 1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with Mongol Khagan of the Mongol Empire.

February 16th 1646 – Battle of Great Torrington, Devon – the last major battle of the first English Civil War.