What events happened on February 14?

What events happened on February 14?

👉 HOLIDAYS:

🌏 Computer Day.
🌏 International Book Gift Day.
🌏 Birthday of the French language.

🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:

🇧🇬 Bulgaria, 🇲🇰 North Macedonia – “Trifon Zarezan”, Grape and Winegrowers’ Day.
🇩🇪 Germany – Mentally Ill Day.
🇫🇮 Finland – Friends’ Day.
🇮🇶 Iraq – Communist Victims’ Remembrance Day.
🇵🇱 Poland – Epilepsy Day.
🇶🇦 Qatar – Sports Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Day of Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops.

👉 EVENTS:

– 842 – Birthday of the French language: Louis II of Germany and Charles II of France took the Strasbourg Oath in Romance (Old French).
– 1009 – The first mention of the Lithuanian toponym.
– 1718 – Peter I deprives his son Alexei of the rights of the heir to the throne.
– 1834 – A mass uprising of weavers begins in Lyon.
– 1836 – A fire in Leman kills 120 people.
– 1879 – Saltpeter War: Chilean troops invade Bolivia.
– 1892 – D.I. Ivanovsky discovers viruses as the etiological factor of infection, which laid the foundation for virology.
– 1918 – The Gregorian calendar (new style) is introduced in Soviet Russia.
– 1919 – The Charter of the League of Nations is approved.
– 1945 – Bombing of Prague by the United States.
– 1946 – The first truly working electronic computer, ENIAC, is launched in the United States.
-1949 – The first session of the Knesset in Israel.
– 1956 – The Stalin cult is exposed.
– 1961 – Element 103 – lawrencium is discovered.
– 1989 – Salman Rushdie is sentenced to death for his novel The Satanic Verses.
– 1992 – The Air Defense Forces of Uzbekistan are formed.
– 1995 – Borland demonstrates the first prototype of Delphi.
– 2005 – YouTube is created.
– 2006 – The Taliban declare the Islamic State of Waziristan in North Waziristan. Later, the Taliban also captured South Waziristan.
– 2011 – Arab Spring: An uprising begins in Bahrain.