February 14 historical events
763 — Alid revolt of 762–763
The Alid revolt of 762–763 or Revolt of Muhammad the Pure Soul was an uprising by the Hasanid branch of the Alids against the newly established Abbasid Caliphate. The Hasanids, led by the brothers Muhammad (called "the Pure Soul") and Ibrahim, rejected the legitimacy of the Abbasid family's claim to power.
The death of Ibrahim ibn Abdallah marks the end of the Alid revolt of 762–763.
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842 — Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg
Charles the Bald and Louis the German pledged to support one another. An account preserved the oaths in early Romance and Germanic forms.
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1014 — Henry II crowned Holy Roman Emperor
On 14 February 1014, Pope Benedict VIII crowned Henry II Holy Roman Emperor in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, on the site now within Vatican City.
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1120 — Battle of Botora
The Battle of Botora (Georgian: ბოტორის ბრძოლა) was fought between the armies of the Kingdom of Georgia and the Seljuk Empire on February 14, 1120.
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1130 — 1130 papal election
A papal election was held on 14 February 1130, after the death of Pope Honorius II, and resulted in a double election. Part of the cardinals, led by Cardinal-Chancellor Aymery de la Châtre, elected Gregorio Papareschi as Innocent II, but the rest of them refused to recognize him and elected Cardinal Pietro Pierleoni, who took the name of Anacletus II.
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1283 — Battle of Thị Nại Bay
The Battle of Thị Nại Bay was a military engagement between Champa and the Yuan dynasty in February 1283. The battle took place on the landing beach of Thị Nại Bay, near Champa's capital Vijaya (modern-day Qui Nhơn, Vietnam). Despite being outnumbered, the Yuan invaders managed to break the Cham defensive line, forced the Cham monarch Indravarman V to retreat to the western highlands, where he waged an successfully guerrilla campaign against the occupying Yuan forces.
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1349 — Strasbourg massacre
The Strasbourg massacre occurred on 14 February 1349, when the entire Jewish community of 2,000 Jews was publicly burnt to death as part of the Black Death persecutions. Starting in the spring of 1348, pogroms against Jews had occurred in European cities, starting in Toulon. By November of that year, they spread via Savoy to German-speaking territories.
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1548 — Battle of Uedahara
The Battle of Uedahara (上田原の戦い) was the first defeat suffered by Takeda Shingen, and the first field battle in Japan in which firearms were used. It took place in Shinano Province or the modern-day Nagano Prefecture.
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1613 — Elizabeth Stuart marries Frederick V at Whitehall Palace
Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of James I, married Frederick V, Elector Palatine, in the royal chapel at Whitehall Palace in London. A medal was struck to commemorate the wedding.
February 14 is the contemporary English Old Style date.
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1759 — Battle of Astarabad (1759)
The Battle of Astarabad, otherwise known as the Battle of Ashraf was fought outside the city of Astarabad on 14 February 1759, between the forces of Karim Khan Zand, commanded by Shaykh Ali Khan Zand, and Mohammad Hasan Khan Qajar. The battle resulted in a total Qajar defeat and caused the death of Mohammad Hasan Khan Qajar, ending the Qajar threat to the Zand dynasty until the conquests of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar.
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1778 — French warships return the Ranger’s salute at Quiberon Bay
John Paul Jones’s Ranger fired a salute in Quiberon Bay, and the French squadron under La Motte-Picquet returned it. It was the first formal French naval salute to the American Stars and Stripes.
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1779 — Battle of Kettle Creek
The Battle of Kettle Creek was the first major victory for Patriots in the back country of Georgia during the American Revolutionary War that took place on February 14, 1779. It was fought in Wilkes County about eleven miles (18 km) from present-day Washington, Georgia. A militia force of Patriots defeated and scattered a Loyalist militia force that was on its way to British-controlled Augusta.
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1779 — James Cook is killed at Kealakekua Bay
British navigator James Cook was killed at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, on February 14, 1779. The confrontation followed his attempt to take the Hawaiian ruler Kalaniʻōpuʻu hostage over a missing boat, during Cook's third Pacific voyage.
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1795 — Battle of the Gulf of Roses
The Battle of the Gulf of Roses, also known as the action of 14 February 1795, was a minor naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars. It was fought in the Gulf of Roses between a ship of Juan de Lángara's fleet and a French squadron which consisted of a frigate and a corvette.
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1797 — Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797)
The Battle of Cape St. Vincent was a fleet action fought on 14 February 1797 between the British and Spanish navies off Cape St. Vincent in Portugal as part of the War of the First Coalition. In one of the opening battles of the recently declared war between Britain and Spain, a British fleet under Admiral of the Blue Sir John Jervis defeated a larger Spanish fleet under Lieutenant-general José de Córdoba y Ramos which had left Cádiz to confront the British navy.
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1804 — First Serbian Uprising
The First Serbian Uprising was an uprising of Serbs in Orašac against the Dahije, and later the Ottoman Empire from 14 February 1804 to 7 October 1813. The uprising began as a local revolt against renegade janissary officers who had seized power in a coup d'état against the Ottoman sultan. It later evolved into a war for independence, known as the Serbian Revolution, after more than three centuries of Ottoman Empire rule and brief Austrian occupations.
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1807 — Raid on Samaná
The Raid on Samaná was a land and naval action where two Royal Navy ships attacked the French held port of Samaná in Santo Domingo on 14 February 1807 during the Napoleonic Wars. They captured and burned a fort and then captured a number of ships which included two prizes with only light losses.
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1814 — Battle of Vauchamps
The Battle of Vauchamps (14 February 1814) was the final major engagement of the Six Days Campaign of the War of the Sixth Coalition. It resulted in a part of the Grande Armée under Napoleon I defeating a superior Prussian and Russian force of the Army of Silesia under Field-marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. At the beginning of 1814, the armies of the French Empire, under the direct command of Emperor Napoleon I, were scrambling to defend Eastern France against the invading Coalition Armies. Despite fighting against vastly superior forces, Napoleon managed to score a few significant victories and, between 10 and 13 February repeatedly beat Blücher’s Army of Silesia.
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1821 — Kristiansand holds a new parliamentary vote in 1821
Kristiansand’s electors met again to choose the city’s representatives to Norway’s Storting. They returned Toruf Foss and Wilhelm Sebbelow.
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1831 — Battle of Debre Abbay
The Battle of Debre Abbay was a conflict between Ras Marye of Yejju, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia, and his rival from Tigray, Dejazmach Sabagadis of Agame. Although Ras Marye lost his life in this battle, Dejazmach Sabagadis was defeated, and after surrendering was executed by Ras Marye's Oromo followers. Ras Marye had inherited the mantle of Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia, and while admittedly a Christian, his Oromo ancestry caused much resentment from the other Christian aristocrats and nobles of Ethiopia. Dejazmach Sabagadis attempted to exploit this antipathy, and succeeded in forming a coalition with his fellow Christian lords of Gojjam, Lasta and Semien against Ras Marye.
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1831 — Battle of Stoczek
Battle of Stoczek is the first significant fight of the November Uprising in Poland. It took place on 14 February 1831 near the town of Stoczek Łukowski, near the Brest-Warsaw road. Polish troops scared away 2 regiments of Russian mounted jaegers, inflicting some heavy casualties on them.
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1835 — The first Latter-day Saint Quorum of the Twelve is selected
At a meeting in Kirtland, Ohio, the Three Witnesses announced the twelve men selected to form the first Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. The ordinations took place over several days.
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1848 — Siege of San José del Cabo
The siege of San José del Cabo, from January to February 1848, was a prolonged battle of the Mexican–American War in which Mexican militia besieged a smaller force of American marines, sailors and Californio militia. The final engagement during the battle involved half of the American garrison, and a landing party from a reinforcing warship, which successfully lifted the siege.
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1852 — Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children, is founded in London
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH, formerly the Hospital for Sick Children) is a children's hospital in the London Borough of Camden, and a part of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital is situated between Great Ormond Street and Guilford Street, just inside Holborn's traditional boundary with Bloomsbury. The hospital is the largest centre for child heart surgery in Britain and one of the largest centres for heart transplantation in the world.
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1859 — Oregon becomes the 33rd U.S. state
The federal act admitting Oregon was approved, bringing the state constitution into force.
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1864 — Meridian campaign
The Meridian campaign or Meridian expedition took place from February 14, 1864 – February 20, 1864, from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Meridian, Mississippi, by the Union Army of the Tennessee, led by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman. Sherman captured Meridian, Mississippi, inflicting heavy damage to it. The campaign is viewed by historians as a prelude to Sherman's March to the Sea (Savannah campaign) in that a large swath of damage and destruction was inflicted on Central Mississippi as Sherman marched across the state and back.
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1874 — Kragerø chooses new electors for its parliamentary rerun
Kragerø selected nine electors after the Storting ordered a new local election. The new group chose the town’s parliamentary representative two days later.
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1876 — Bell files a telephone patent application and Gray files a caveat
Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone patent application reached the U.S. Patent Office on the same day that Elisha Gray filed a notice of his own design for transmitting speech. Bell’s patent was granted the following month.
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1879 — Chilean occupation of Antofagasta
On 14 February 1879, Chilean forces occupied the port of Antofagasta, then administered by Bolivia, without resistance. The occupation preceded the formal declarations of war that followed in the War of the Pacific. Antofagasta is in present-day Chile.
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1885 — Battle of Shipu
The Battle of Shipu (Chinese: 石浦海戰) was a French naval victory during the Sino-French War (August 1884–April 1885). The battle took place on the night of 14 February 1885 in Shipu Bay (石浦灣), near Ningbo, China.
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1900 — Battle of the Tugela Heights
The Battle of Tugela (or Thukela) Heights, also known as the Battle of Pieters Hill, Battle of the Pieters, or the Battle of the Tugela River, consisted of a series of military actions lasting from 14 February through to 27 February 1900 in which General Sir Redvers Buller's British army forced Louis Botha's Boer army to lift the Siege of Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
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1903 — The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor)
The United States Department of Commerce and Labor was a short-lived Cabinet department of the United States government, which was concerned with fostering and supervising big business. It existed from 1903 to 1913. The United States Department of Commerce is its successor agency, and it also is the predecessor of the United States Department of Labor.
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1912 — Arizona becomes the 48th U.S. state
President William Howard Taft issued a proclamation admitting Arizona to the United States. Arizona became the 48th state.
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1912 — The U.S. Navy commissions its first diesel-powered submarines
The submarines E-1 and E-2 entered U.S. Navy service. They introduced diesel propulsion to the American submarine fleet; E-1 was commanded by Lieutenant Chester W. Nimitz.
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1918 — Russia begins using the Gregorian civil calendar
Russia switched its civil calendar from the Julian to the Gregorian system. Under the change, January 31 was followed by February 14.
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1919 — Battle of Bereza Kartuska
The Battle of Bereza Kartuska was fought between the Second Polish Republic and Soviet Russia around the village Bereza Kartuska (now Byaroza, Belarus) first on 14 February 1919, and again between 21 and 26 July 1920. The first skirmish of Bereza is considered to be the initial engagement of the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921 by some historians.
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1919 — Polish–Soviet War
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 Russian Revolution. After the collapse of the Central Powers and the Armistice of 11 November 1918, Vladimir Lenin's Soviet Russia annulled the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and moved forces westward to reclaim the Ober Ost regions abandoned by the Germans.
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1920 — The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago
The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a non-partisan American nonprofit political organization. Founded in 1920, its ongoing major activities include registering voters, providing voter information, boosting voter turnout and advocating for voting rights. In addition, the LWV works with partners for specific campaigns including support for campaign finance reform, women's rights, health care reform and gun control.
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1922 — Battle of Volochayevka
The Battle of Volochayevka was an important battle of the Far Eastern Front in the latter part of the Russian Civil War. It occurred on February 10 through 12, 1922, near Volochayevka station on the Amur Railway, on the outskirts of the city of Khabarovsk. The People's Revolutionary Army of the Far Eastern Republic under Vasily Blyukher defeated units of the counterrevolutionary Far Eastern White Army led by Viktorin Molchanov.
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1924 — Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company becomes IBM
The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changed its name to International Business Machines Corporation. The name reflected the company’s expanding business in tabulating machines and other office equipment under Thomas J. Watson Sr.
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1929 — Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang on Saint Valentine's Day 1929. The men were gathered at a Lincoln Park, Chicago, garage when between four and six men entered, two of whom were disguised as police officers.
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1932 — Costa Rican general election, 1932
General elections were held in Costa Rica on 14 February 1932. Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno of the Independent National Republican Party won the presidential election, whilst the party also won the parliamentary election, in which they received 46.7% of the vote. Voter turnout was 64.2%.
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1939 — World War II: German battleship Bismarck is launched
Bismarck was the first of two Bismarck-class battleships built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. Named after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the ship was laid down at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg in July 1936 and launched in February 1939. Work was completed in August 1940, when she was commissioned into the German fleet.
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1942 — Battle of Bilin River
The Battle of Bilin River was among the early major battles of the Burma Campaign in World War II. Fought between 14 and 19 February 1942, the battle was a tactical victory for Japan over the British Indian Army, and it led to a decisive victory for Japan immediately afterwards at the Battle of Sittang Bridge.
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1942 — The Malay Regiment defends Bukit Chandu during the Battle of Pasir Panjang
Japanese forces attacked Bukit Chandu on Pasir Panjang Ridge. Soldiers from the Malay Regiment defended the position in one of the last major engagements before Singapore surrendered.
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1943 — Battle of Sidi Bou Zid
The Battle of Sidi Bou Zid (Unternehmen Frühlingswind/Operation Spring Breeze) took place during the Tunisia Campaign from 14–17 February 1943, in World War II. The battle was fought around Sidi Bou Zid, where a large number of American units were mauled by German and Italian forces. It resulted in the Axis recapturing the strategically important town of Sbeitla in central Tunisia. The success at Sidi Bou Zid was reversed by April by counter-attacks by British and American forces. The battle was planned by the Germans to be a two-part offensive-defensive operation against US positions in western Tunisia.
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1944 — Action of 14 February 1944
The action of 14 February 1944 refers to the sinking of a German U-boat off the Strait of Malacca during World War II by a British submarine. It was one of the few naval engagements of the Asian and Pacific theater involving German and Italian forces.
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1944 — Battle of Zabłocie
The Battle of Zabłocie (Polish: Bitwa pod Zabłocami, Ukrainian: Бій під Заблоцями; 14 February 1944) was fought between the 348th Platoon “Kirgiz” and Battalion “Ryś” of the Peasant Battalions and Platoon “Hardy” of the Home Army under the command of Stanisław Basaj and Mieczysław Olszak against the Third Reich, Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, 14th Grenadier Division of the Waffen–SS “Galizien”, and the German Gendarmerie in the Hrubieszów County of the Lublin Voivodeship.
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1945 — 1945 PETA revolt in Blitar
The PETA revolt in Blitar (Indonesian: Pemberontakan PETA di Blitar) was an anti-occupation revolt in present-day Indonesia, which took place on 14 February 1945 by the PETA daidan (battalion) in Blitar. This revolt was widely known as the first major uprising of local armies in Indonesia during the Japanese occupation. The revolt ended unsuccessfully; most of the rebels abandoned the attack, or were captured or killed by the Japanese.
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1945 — Bombing of Prague
Prague, the capital and largest city of the German-occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, was bombed several times by the Allies during World War II. The first Allied aircraft to fly over Prague was a single bomber of the French Air Force in April 1940, but it dropped propaganda leaflets, not bombs. The first bombing mission was flown by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in October 1941.
World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by a United States Army Air Forces squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet Red Army's Vistula–Oder Offensive.
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1946 — ENIAC is demonstrated to the public in Philadelphia
The University of Pennsylvania’s team publicly demonstrated ENIAC, an early general-purpose electronic computer. The event preceded the machine’s formal dedication by one day.
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1946 — The Bank of England nationalisation act receives royal assent
The Bank of England Act received royal assent. It provided for the transfer of the bank’s privately held shares into public ownership on March 1, 1946.
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1949 — Asbestos strike
The Asbestos strike of 1949, based in and around the town of Asbestos, Quebec, Canada, was a four-month labour dispute by asbestos miners. It has traditionally been portrayed as a turning point in Quebec history that helped lead to the Quiet Revolution. It also helped launch the careers of Jean Marchand, Gérard Pelletier, and Pierre Trudeau.
The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
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1949 — Israel’s Constituent Assembly meets for the first time
Israel’s elected Constituent Assembly held its first sitting at the Jewish Agency building in Jerusalem. The assembly adopted the name Knesset two days later.
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1950 — Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance
The Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance (Russian: Советско-китайский договор о дружбе, союзе и взаимной помощи, simplified Chinese: 中苏友好同盟互助条约; traditional Chinese: 中蘇友好同盟互助條約; pinyin: Zhōng-Sū Yǒuhǎo Tóngméng Hùzhù Tiáoyuē), or Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance for short, was a bilateral treaty of alliance, collective security, aid and cooperation concluded between the People's Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on February 14, 1950.
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1951 — Battle of Chipyong-ni
The Battle of Chipyong-ni (French: Bataille de Chipyong-ni), also known as the Battle of Dipingli (Chinese: 砥平里战斗; pinyin: Dǐpínglǐ Zhàndòu), was a decisive battle of the Korean War that took place from 13 to 14 February 1951 between US and French units of the US 23rd Infantry Regiment and various units of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army (PVA) around the village of Chipyong-ni.
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1952 — Opening of 1952 Winter Olympics
The 1952 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VI Olympic Winter Games (Norwegian: De 6. olympiske vinterleker; Nynorsk: Dei 6. olympiske vinterleikane) and commonly known as Oslo 1952, were a winter multi-sport event held from 14 to 25 February 1952 in Oslo, the capital of Norway. Discussions about Oslo hosting the Winter Olympic Games began as early as 1935; the city was keen to host the 1948 Winter Olympics, but that was made impossible by World War II.
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1953 — 1953 Western Australian state election
Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 14 February 1953 to elect all 50 members to the Legislative Assembly. The two-term Liberal-Country Party coalition government, led by Premier Sir Ross McLarty, was defeated by the Labor Party, led by Opposition Leader Albert Hawke. The election was notable in that 22 of the 50 seats were not contested at the election.
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1953 — 1953 New South Wales state election
The 1953 New South Wales state election was held on 14 February 1953. It was conducted in single member constituencies with compulsory preferential voting and was held on boundaries created at a 1952 redistribution. The election was for all of the 94 seats in the Legislative Assembly.
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1956 — Soviet Communist Party’s Twentieth Congress opens
On 14 February 1956, the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union opened. Nikita Khrushchev’s later closed-session speech criticizing Stalin’s personality cult was delivered on February25, not on opening day.
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1958 — The Federation was formed on 14 February 1958, when King Faisal II of Iraq and his cousin, King Hussein of Jordan, sought to unite their two Hashemite kingdoms as a response to the formation of the United Arab Republic between Egypt and Syria
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. Although the name implies a federal structure, it was de facto a confederation. The Federation was formed on 14 February 1958, when King Faisal II of Iraq and his cousin, King Hussein of Jordan, sought to unite their two Hashemite kingdoms as a response to the formation of the United Arab Republic between Egypt and Syria.
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1961 — Berkeley researchers produce evidence for element 103
A team led by Albert Ghiorso bombarded californium with boron nuclei at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory. The researchers attributed the resulting activity to a new element and proposed the name lawrencium.
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1983 — Tennessee regulators close Knoxville's United American Bank
Tennessee's banking commissioner closed United American Bank in Knoxville after a state audit found major loan losses. The FDIC announced the bank's sale the following day.
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1985 — Construction completed at China’s first Antarctic research station
China’s first Antarctic expedition finished building the Great Wall Station on King George Island. The station was officially inaugurated on February 20.
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1986 — China approves the National Natural Science Foundation
China’s State Council approved the creation of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. The foundation expanded a pilot grant program into a national system for funding basic scientific research.
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1988 — Paraguayan general election, 1988
General elections were held in Paraguay on 14 February 1988. Alfredo Stroessner of the Colorado Party won the presidential elections, whilst the Colorado Party won 20 of the 30 seats in the Senate and 40 of the 60 seats in the Chamber of Deputues. Voter turnout was 92.2%. These were the last elections under Stroessner, who had won every election since 1954 with more than 70% of the vote, as he was overthrown in a coup in February 1989. Fresh elections were held in May 1989, the first time the opposition had been able to contest elections for seberal years.
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1988 — Cypriot presidential election, 1988
Presidential elections were held in Cyprus on 14 February 1988, with a second round on 21 February. They were the first presidential elections in the country's history to go to a second round, and resulted in a victory for George Vassiliou as an independent candidate supported by AKEL after he finished as the runner-up behind Glafcos Clerides of the Democratic Rally in the first round.
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1989 — First Block II GPS satellite launches
The first Block II Global Positioning System satellite was launched on 14 February 1989.
This records the first Block II satellite launch, not the first GPS satellite launch.
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1989 — India's Supreme Court approves a settlement over the Bhopal gas disaster
The Supreme Court of India ordered a US$470 million settlement to resolve claims arising from the Bhopal gas leak. The money was to be paid to the Indian government for the benefit of victims.
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1990 — Indian Airlines Flight 605
Indian Airlines Flight 605 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Bombay to Bangalore. On 14 February 1990, an Airbus A320 registered as VT-EPN, crashed onto a golf course while attempting to land at Bangalore, killing 92 of 146 people on board. The Indian investigative team ruled that the probable cause was the pilots selecting the "Open descent/flight idle" control mode rather than "Glideslope capture", allowing the aircraft to sink far below the correct flight path.
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1990 — Voyager 1 photographs Earth as a pale blue dot
Voyager 1 turned its camera toward Earth from roughly six billion kilometres away. Earth appears as a tiny point of light in the resulting photograph.
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1991 — Japan announces the first ten clubs for its professional football league
The organizers of Japan’s new professional football league announced the ten participating clubs. The league, later known as the J.League, began its inaugural season in 1993.
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1992 — Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 386
On 14 February 1992, food contaminated with cholera was distributed to the passengers on Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 386, operated by a Boeing 747-200. One of the passengers died from the illness.
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1993 — Lithuanian presidential election, 1993
Presidential elections were held in Lithuania on 14 February 1993. This was the first presidential election under the new Constitution of Lithuania of October 1992 and since the declaration of independence in March 1990. Algirdas Brazauskas, the former first secretary of the Communist Party of Lithuania and the then-current leader of the Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania (DLPL), won with over 60% of the vote. The runner up was Stasys Lozoraitis, an independent candidate endorsed by the Sąjūdis movement and other political parties.
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1993 — 1993 Albania v Kosovo football match
The international friendly between the Albania and Kosovo national football teams on 14 February 1993 was the first match played by Kosovo after the partition of Football Federation of Kosovo from Football Association of Yugoslavia. It took place at the Selman Stërmasi Stadium in Tirana, Albania with 14,000 fans in attendance.
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1993 — 1993 Cypriot presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Cyprus on 7 February 1993, with a second round on 14 February. The result was a victory for Glafcos Clerides of the Democratic Rally after he finished as runner-up behind George Vassiliou, supported by AKEL, in the first round, a reverse of the 1988 elections. Voter turnout was 92.4% in the first round and 93.3% in the second.
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1996 — 1996 Qatari coup attempt
The 1996 Qatari coup d'état attempt was a failed coup against Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (who had recently usurped the throne from his own father) that was foiled on the night of February 14, 1996, less than one year into Hamad bin Khalifa's reign. Qatari intelligence termed the coup attempt as "Operation Abu Ali".
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1997 — 1997 CAF Super Cup
The 1997 CAF Super Cup was the fifth CAF Super Cup, an annual football match in Africa organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), between the winners of the previous season's two CAF club competitions, the African Cup of Champions Clubs and the African Cup Winners' Cup. The match took place on 14 February 1997, at Cairo International Stadium in Cairo, Egypt, between Egyptian clubs Zamalek, the 1996 African Cup of Champions Clubs winner, and Al Mokawloon Al Arab, the 1996 African Cup Winners' Cup winner.
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1998 — Yaoundé train explosion
The Yaoundé train explosion was the catastrophic fire following the derailment and collision of two tanker trains hauling crude oil through the capital of Cameroon, Yaoundé. At least 200 people were killed in the explosion, which happened on February 14, 1998.
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1999 — St. Valentine's Day Massacre: In Your House
St. Valentine's Day Massacre: In Your House was a 1999 professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It was the 27th In Your House and took place on February 14, 1999, at the Memphis Pyramid in Memphis, Tennessee. The title of the event alluded to the Saint Valentine's Day massacre in the year 1929, which saw seven people murdered as a part of the gang war between Al Capone and Bugs Moran.
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2000 — NASA’s NEAR spacecraft enters orbit around Eros
NASA’s NEAR spacecraft entered orbit around the asteroid 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid. NASA later renamed it NEAR Shoemaker.
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2002 — 2002 Ogmore by-election
A by-election for the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of Ogmore was held on 14 February 2002, triggered by the death of incumbent Labour Party MP Sir Raymond Powell on 7 December 2001. It was won by Huw Irranca-Davies, who held the seat for Labour. Labour faced no realistic challenge in this very safe seat and retained it easily, with only Plaid Cymru making progress from their 2001 result.
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2002 — 2002 Uttaranchal Legislative Assembly election
The 2002 Uttaranchal Legislative Assembly election were the 1st Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) elections of the state of Uttaranchal in India, when the Indian National Congress emerged as the largest party and won a majority with 36 seats in the 70-seat legislature in the election. The Bharatiya Janata Party became the official opposition, holding 19 seats. This was the first time state assembly elections were held in Uttarakhand.
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2003 — Hans Blix briefs the Security Council on Iraq inspections
On 14 February 2003, Hans Blix briefed the UN Security Council in New York, United States, on weapons inspections in Iraq. He said UNMOVIC had so far found no weapons of mass destruction, only a small number of empty chemical munitions, while unresolved disarmament questions remained.
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2004 — ROH 2nd Anniversary Show
ROH 2nd Anniversary Show was the second ROH Anniversary Show professional wrestling event produced by Ring of Honor (ROH). It took place on February 14, 2004, at the National Guard Armory in Braintree, Massachusetts. The show featured a tournament to crown the inaugural Pure Wrestling Champion, with A.J. Styles defeating CM Punk in the tournament final to become the first Pure Wrestling Champion.
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2004 — 2004 Nevada Democratic presidential caucuses
The 2004 Nevada Democratic presidential caucuses took place on February 14, 2004, as part of the 2004 United States Democratic presidential primaries. The delegate allocation is Proportional. The candidates were awarded delegates in proportion to the percentage of votes received and the caucus was open to registered Democrats only. A total of 20 delegates are awarded proportionally. A 15 percent threshold was required to receive delegates.
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2004 — 2004 Africa Cup of Nations final
The 2004 African Cup of Nations final was a football match played on 14 February 2004 between Tunisia and Morocco. It determined the winner of the 2004 African Cup of Nations, the 24th edition of the biennial African tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The match was played at the 7 November Stadium in Tunis, Tunisia.
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2004 — The roof of Moscow's Transvaal Park collapses
The roof over the indoor pools at Transvaal Park in Moscow collapsed while the water park was open. Rescue crews searched the wreckage and evacuated survivors.
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2005 — Assassination of Rafic Hariri
On 14 February 2005, former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafic Hariri was assassinated along with 21 others in an explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. Explosives equivalent to around 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds) of TNT were detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel. Among the dead were several of Hariri's bodyguards and former Minister of Economy and Trade Bassel Fleihan. Hariri had been part of the anti-Assad opposition in Lebanon. His assassination triggered the Cedar Revolution, a popular movement which forced Syria to withdraw all its troops in Lebanon by April 2005.
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2005 — 2005 Sunjiawan mine disaster
The Sunjiawan mine disaster (Chinese: 孙家湾矿难) was a mine disaster that occurred on 14 February 2005 in Fuxin city, Liaoning province, in the northeastern part of the People's Republic of China. Initial reports indicated that at least 214 coal miners were killed, making it the worst mining disaster in China in at least 15 years.
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2005 — YouTube's founders register the website's domain name
Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim registered YouTube's domain as they began building their video-sharing site. The first video was uploaded in April, and the service opened to the public later.
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2005 — Bombs explode in Makati, Davao and General Santos
Three bombs exploded on the same evening in the Philippines. One went off aboard a bus in Makati, and the other two detonated in Davao and General Santos.
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2006 — 2006 Fort Lauderdale mayoral election
The 2006 Fort Lauderdale mayoral election took place on February 14, 2006. Incumbent Mayor Jim Naugle ran for re-election to a sixth term. He was challenged by former Miramar City Commissioner Dan Lewis, a political consultant. Naugle defeated Lewis in a landslide, winning re-election with 64 percent of the vote.
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2008 — 2008 Northern Illinois University shooting
The 2008 Northern Illinois University shooting was a school shooting that took place on Thursday, February 14, 2008, at Northern Illinois University (NIU) in DeKalb, Illinois. Steven Kazmierczak, 27 years old and a 2006 NIU graduate, opened fire with a shotgun and three pistols in a crowd of students on campus, killing 5 students and injuring 17 more people, before fatally shooting himself.
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2010 — TNA Against All Odds (2010)
The 2010 Against All Odds was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion, which took place on February 14, 2010 at the TNA Impact! Zone in Orlando, Florida. It was the sixth event under the Against All Odds chronology and the second event of the 2010 TNA PPV scheduled.
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2010 — The first Philippine International Pyromusical Competition opens in Pasay
The first Philippine International Pyromusical Competition opened at SM Mall of Asia in Pasay. The programme combined fireworks with music, starting with a display by the Philippine host team.
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2013 — Tripura Legislative Assembly election, 2013
The Tripura Legislative Assembly election of 2013 took place in a single phase on 14 February 2013 to elect the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from each of the 60 Assembly Constituencies (ACs) in Tripura, India.
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2013 — Battle of Shaddadi (2013)
The Battle of Shaddadi was a three-day-long battle fought between government forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Islamist Al-Nusra Front fighters in the city of Shadadeh, located near the Iraqi border.
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2013 — Death of Lei Shuyan
On 14 February 2013, Lei Shuyan, a poet, died.
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2014 — 2014 Hazfi Cup final
The 2014 Hazfi Cup final was the 27th final since 1975. The match was between Mes Kerman and Tractor which Tractor won the match 1–0, with Saeid Daghighi scored in the 51st minute. Tractor qualified for the group stage of the 2015 AFC Champions League as the winner of the tournament.
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2014 — Ultra South Africa debuts in Cape Town
The inaugural Ultra South Africa electronic music festival opened in Cape Town. A second show followed in Johannesburg the next day.
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2015 — UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. Thatch
UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. Thatch (also known as UFC Fight Night 60) was a mixed martial arts event held on February 14, 2015, at the 1stBank Center in Broomfield, Colorado.
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2015 — 2015 Chinese FA Super Cup
Chang'an Ford 2015 Chinese FA Super Cup (Chinese: 长安福特2015中国足球协会超级杯) was the 13th Chinese FA Super Cup. The match was sponsored by Changan Ford Mazda Automobile Co., Ltd. and played at Yellow Dragon Sports Center on 14 February 2015, contested by Super League winners Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao and FA Cup winners Shandong Luneng Taishan.
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2015 — Tsai Cheng-yuan recall vote
Voters in Taipei’s fourth legislative constituency took part in a recall vote against Tsai Cheng-yuan. The recall failed because turnout did not reach the required threshold.
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2015 — Angola inaugurates its rebuilt Benguela Railway at Luau
A ceremony at Luau marked the formal reopening of the rebuilt Benguela Railway to Angola’s eastern border. The line runs west to the Atlantic port of Lobito, and China Railway Construction Corporation carried out its reconstruction.
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2016 — February 2016 Haitian presidential election
Indirect presidential elections were held in Haiti on 13 and 14 February 2016 following the annulment of the results of the 2015 elections by the Provisional Electoral Council, and after Michel Martelly resigned the presidency and Prime Minister Evans Paul assumed office as acting president on 7 February 2016. The members of the National Assembly voted for the interim President on 13 February 2016 in the first round and on 14 February in the second round.
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2017 — 2017 Minnesota House of Representatives district 32B special election
A special election was held in the U.S. state of Minnesota on February 14, 2017, to elect a new representative for District 32B in the Minnesota House of Representatives, caused by a ruling by the Minnesota Supreme Court that incumbent Bob Barrett was ineligible to be a candidate in the general election on November 8, 2016. Anne Neu Brindley, the Republican nominee, won the special election.
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2017 — Deir ez-Zor offensive (January–February 2017)
The Deir ez-Zor offensive (January–February 2017) was a military operation launched by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) against the Syrian Armed Forces, to capture the city of Deir ez-Zor, on 14 January 2017. The offensive came amid the group losing large amounts of territory in the Raqqa offensive as well as the Turkish military intervention in Syria, while Iraqi forces were advancing in its Iraq headquarters in Mosul.
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2018 — Inaghalawass skirmish
The Inaghalawass skirmish took place on February 14, 2018, between French forces and Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin fighters. In French airstrikes, former al-Mourabitoun commander Abu Hassan al-Ansari was killed.
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2018 — Parkland high school shooting
On February 14, 2018, 19-year-old Nikolas Jacob Cruz walked into his former school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida, and fatally shot seventeen people including fourteen students and three teachers, while wounding another 17. Cruz fled the scene on foot by blending in with the students and was arrested without incident approximately one hour and twenty minutes later in nearby Coral Springs.
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2018 — Jacob Zuma resigns as South Africa’s president
On 14 February 2018, Jacob Zuma announced his resignation as president of South Africa with immediate effect after pressure from the governing African National Congress. Cyril Ramaphosa succeeded him the next day.
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2019 — 2019 Pulwama attack
The 2019 Pulwama attack occurred on 14 February 2019, when a convoy of vehicles carrying Indian security personnel on the Jammu–Srinagar National Highway was attacked by a vehicle-borne suicide bomber at Lethapora in the Pulwama district of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. The attack killed 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel as well as the perpetrator — Adil Ahmad Dar— who was a local Kashmiri youth from the Pulwama district. The responsibility for the attack was claimed by the Pakistan-based Islamist terrorist group, Jaish-e-Mohammed. India blamed neighbouring Pakistan for the attack, while the latter condemned the attack and denied having any connections to it.
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2020 — Ngarbuh massacre
The Ngarbuh massacre took place in northwestern Cameroon on 14 February 2020 during the Anglophone Crisis, and resulted in the murder of 21 civilians, including 13 children, by Cameroonian soldiers and armed Fulani militia.
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2020 — CMLL Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increíbles (2020)
The CMLL Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increíbles (2020) or the National Incredible Pairs Tournament (2020) was the 2020 version of an annual professional wrestling tag team tournament held by the Mexican wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). The tournament is based on the Lucha Libre Parejas Increíbles match concept, which pairs two wrestlers of opposite allegiance, one portraying a rudo, the antagonists of professional wrestling, and one portraying a técnicotécnico, the protagonist of professional wrestling The 2020 version of the tournament is the eleventh year in a row that CMLL held the tournament since the first tournament in 2010. The winners are presented with a trophy but not given any other tangible reward for the victory. The tournament started with the first block of eight teams on February 14, 2020, and ran over three Super Viernes shows.
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2020 — 2020 CAF Super Cup
The 2020 CAF Super Cup (officially the 2020 Total CAF Super Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 28th CAF Super Cup, an annual football match in Africa organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), between the winners of the previous season's two CAF club competitions, the CAF Champions League and the CAF Confederation Cup. The match was played between Espérance de Tunis from Tunisia, the 2018–19 CAF Champions League winners, and Zamalek from Egypt, the 2018–19 CAF Confederation Cup winners, at the Thani bin Jassim Stadium in Doha, Qatar on 14 February 2020.
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2020 — The first section of the Tuen Ma line opens
On 14 February 2020, the first section of Hong Kong’s Tuen Ma line opened, adding service between Tai Wai and Kai Tak.
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2021 — NXT TakeOver: Vengeance Day
NXT TakeOver: Vengeance Day was a 2021 professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE, held exclusively for wrestlers from the promotion's NXT brand division. It was simultaneously the 33rd NXT TakeOver event and the ninth Vengeance. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event took place on February 14, 2021, from the Capitol Wrestling Center, a bio-secure bubble that was hosted at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.
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2021 — 2021 Punjab, India local elections
Municipal elections were held in the Indian state of Punjab on 14 February 2021; the result was declared on 17 February. The elections are scheduled for 117 urban local bodies, including 8 municipal corporations and 109 municipal councils and nagar panchayats. Elections were originally scheduled to be held in October 2020, but were delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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2021 — 2021 Catalan regional election
A regional election was held in Catalonia on 14 February 2021 to elect the 13th/14th Parliament of the autonomous community. All 135 seats in the Parliament were up for election. After the 2017 election, pro-Catalan independence parties secured a parliamentary majority, electing Quim Torra as new Catalan president after attempts to have Carles Puigdemont and Jordi Turull elected to the office were foiled by Spanish courts.
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2021 — Operation Claw-Eagle 2
Operation Claw-Eagle 2 (Turkish: Pençe Kartal-2 Harekatı) was an air and ground operation launched by the Turkish Armed Forces against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Duhok Governorate of the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq. According to Turkey, it was launched to secure the border between Turkey and Iraq and to eliminate the PKK in the area and to rescue Turkish hostages held by the PKK.
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2022 — 2022 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election
Legislative Assembly elections were held in Uttarakhand on 14 February 2022 to elect 70 members of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. The votes were counted and the results were declared on 10 March 2022. It was the first time an incumbent government got re-elected after the creation of Uttarakhand. The Bharatiya Janata Party formed the government for a second consecutive term with 47 seats, despite losing 10 seats.
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2022 — 2022 Goa Legislative Assembly election
Legislative Assembly elections were held in Goa on 14 February 2022 to elect 40 members of the Eighth Goa Legislative Assembly. The votes were counted and the results were declared on 10 March 2022.
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2024 — 2024 Indonesian general election
General elections were held in Indonesia on 14 February 2024 to elect the president, vice president, and People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), which consists of the House of Representatives (DPR), the Regional Representative Council (DPD), and members of local legislative bodies (DPRD) at the provincial and city or regency levels. The newly elected members of the MPR were sworn in on 1 October 2024, while the elected president and vice president was sworn in on 20 October 2024.
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2024 — 2024 Indonesian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Indonesia on 14 February 2024 with defence minister and former general Prabowo Subianto contesting the elections against the former governor of Jakarta, Anies Baswedan and the former governor of Central Java, Ganjar Pranowo; incumbent president Joko Widodo was constitutionally barred from seeking a third term in office. On 20 March, the General Elections Commission (KPU) announced Prabowo's victory, having received over 96 million votes.
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2025 — Progress Chapter 176: For The Love of Progress 3
The Chapter 176: For The Love of Progress 3 was a professional wrestling event produced by Progress Wrestling. It took place on 14 February 2025, in Manchester, England, at the Bowlers BEC Arena. Seven matches were contested at the event. The main event saw Simon Miller defeat Charles Crowley to retain the Progress Proteus Championship.
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