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This is a list of selected February 14 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only 5–6 events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is not generally posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled February 14, 2014 featured article or the February 14, 2014 featured picture.

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Alexander Graham Bell.jpg

Alexander Graham Bell
Portrait elisha gray.jpg

Elisha Gray
Karađorđe Petrović, by Vladimir Borovikovsky, 1816.jpg

Karađorđe
Salman Rushdie.jpg

Salman Rushdie
Salman-Rushdie-1.jpg

Salman Rushdie
Hariri.jpg

Rafik Hariri
President Taft signing Arizona Statehood Billl.jpg

Signing of Arizona Statehood Bill
Hundreds of thousands of Bahrainis taking part in march of loyalty to martyrs.jpg

Protests in Bahrain

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1804 – Karađorđe Petrović became the leader of the First Serbian Uprising.	Needs a bit more references
1879 – Chilean forces occupied the Bolivian port of Antofagasta, instigating the War of the Pacific.	featured on March 23
1912 – Arizona became the 48th and last of the contiguous United States to be admitted.	self-contradictory
1929 – St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, were murdered in Chicago, Illinois.	refimprove
1949 – Asbestos miners began a labour strike around Asbestos, Quebec, Canada, considered one of the causes of the Quiet Revolution.	more footnotes
1961 – Lawrencium, the metallic radioactive synthetic element with atomic number 103, was first made at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.	Tagged with {{refimprove}}
1989 – The first of at least twenty-four Medium Earth Orbit satellites in the satellite constellation of the Global Positioning System was launched into orbit.	refimprove section, neutrality issues
1989 – A fatwa was issued for the execution of Salman Rushdie for authoring The Satanic Verses, a novel Islamic fundamentalists considered blasphemous.	refimprove section
2005 – Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri was assassinated when explosives were detonated as his motorcade drove past the St. George Hotel in Beirut, sparking the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon.	refimprove, Cedar Revolution tagged with {{unreferenced}},{{POV}}

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1779 – American Revolutionary War: A militia force of Patriots decisively defeated and scattered a Loyalist militia force that was on its way to British-controlled Augusta, Georgia.

1779 – English explorer James Cook was killed during a fight against Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.

1876 – Inventor Alexander Graham Bell and electrical engineer Elisha Gray each filed a patent for the telephone, starting a controversy about who invented it first.

1949 – The Knesset, the legislature of Israel, convened for the first time, succeeding the Assembly of Representatives that had functioned as the Jewish community's parliament during the British Mandate Era.

1991 – Upon the death of Carrie C. White, Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment became the world's oldest living person, and she would go on to have the longest confirmed human life span in history, dying in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days.

2007 – The first of several bombings in Zahedan, Iran, claimed the lives of 18 members of the Revolutionary Guards.

2008 – Steven Kazmierczak opened fire into a crowded lecture hall on the campus of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, killing 6 and injuring 21.

Notes

Bloody Thursday (2011) appears on February 17, so Bahraini uprising should not be used in the same year.

February 14: Valentine's Day; Feast of St. Brigit of Kildare (Eastern Christianity)

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1835 – The members of the original Quorum of the Twelve of the Latter Day Saint movement were selected by the Three Witnesses (pictured).

1919 – The first serious armed conflict of the Polish–Soviet War took place near present-day Biaroza, Belarus.

1924 – The Computing Tabulating Recording Company renamed itself to International Business Machines, one of the world's largest companies by market capitalization.

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

2011 – A "Day of Rage" marked the beginning of the ongoing Bahraini uprising, part of the Arab Spring. </ul> </ul> More anniversaries: February 13 – February 14 – February 15

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