On this day: February 14th

On this day: February 14th

There are many and several events on this day in history. Read and discover what happened on this day: On this day: February 14th

Events On this day: February 14th

1876: Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
1849: Photographer Mathew Brady took the first photograph of a U.S. President in office, James Polk.
1918: The movie Tarzan of the Apes is released.
1924: IBM Corporation is founded.
1929: The St. Valentine’s Day massacre occurred in Chicago as seven members of the Bugs Moran gang were gunned down by five of Al Capone’s mobsters posing as police.
1949: The Knesset, the parliament of Israel, convenes for the first time. The term “Knesset” is derived from the Hebrew name of an ancient Great Assembly: Anshei Knesset HaGedolah.
1989: Union Carbide finally agrees to pay damages to the Indian government for the Bophal disaster. The company had a yearly turnover of 9.5 billion USD at the time; up to 25,000 people had died in the tragedy.
2000: First spacecraft orbits an asteroid.
2003: Dolly the sheep is put to death. Dolly, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult, had shown signs of premature aging and contracted various diseases.
2005: Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is assassinated. Several sources reported that the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon found compelling evidence for the Lebanese militia’s involvement.

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