[Rannouch]

February 14th

February 14, 2001 Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft becomes first vehicle to land on an asteroid (433 Eros)
February 14, 1995 Roseanne weds bodyguard Ben Thomas
February 14, 1995 Wellington 2-498d and 4-475 beat Canterbury 496 and 2-476d
February 14, 1994 Alexander Golubev skates Olympic record 500m (36.33)
February 14, 1993 Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79
February 14, 1992 Andre Cason runs world record 6 m indoor (6.41 sec)
February 14, 1991 "Mule Bone" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater New York City for 67 performances
February 14, 1991 NL Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record $3 mil salary arbitration
February 14, 1990 Alan Ayckbourn's "Man of the Moment," premieres in London
February 14, 1989 African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam
February 14, 1989 World's 1st satellite Skyphone opens
February 14, 1988 49th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player
February 14, 1988 Alfredo Stroessner re-elected president of Paraguay
February 14, 1988 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
February 14, 1987 53,745 largest NBA crowd to date-Philadelphia at Detroit
February 14, 1985 Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut
February 14, 1984 Singer Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney Australia
February 14, 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" takes place at New York's Radio City Music Hall
February 14, 1982 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
February 14, 1980 "West Side Story" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 341 performances
February 14, 1980 13th Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, New York
February 14, 1979 "Whoopee!" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 204 performances
February 14, 1978 1st "micro on a chip" patented by Texas Instruments
February 14, 1976 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
February 14, 1975 Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station
February 14, 1972 John and Yoko co-host "Mike Douglas Show" for entire week
February 14, 1971 Movie "Ben Hur" 1st shown on television
February 14, 1970 "Gantry" closes at George Abbott Theater New York City after 1 performance
February 14, 1968 Pennsylvania Railroad/New York City Central merge into Penn Central
February 14, 1967 Aretha Franklin records "Respect"
February 14, 1967 Latin American nuclear free zone proposal drawn up
February 14, 1966 Writers Andrei Sinjavski and Joeij Daniel found guilty
February 14, 1963 U.S. launches communications satellite Syncom 1
February 14, 1962 1st lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV
February 14, 1961 Element 103, Lawrencium, 1st produced in Berkeley California
February 14, 1960 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open
February 14, 1960 Marshal Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan
February 14, 1959 $3.6 million heroin seizure in New York City
February 14, 1958 Arab Federation of Iraq and Jordan forms
February 14, 1957 Georgia Senate unanimously approves Sen Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites
February 14, 1956 20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow
February 14, 1956 Verhoeven/Nauta/De King/Wijnhout win Dutch 11 city skate
February 14, 1955 WFLA (now WXFL) TV channel 8 in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida (NBC) begins
February 14, 1954 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open
February 14, 1952 6th Olympic winter games open at Oslo, Norway
February 14, 1951 Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta and takes middleweight title
February 14, 1950 Moroney scores cricket twin centuries for Australia at Johannesburg
February 14, 1950 U.S.S.R. and China sign peace treaty
February 14, 1949 1st session of Knesset (Jerusalem Israel)
February 14, 1949 Dutch Drees government presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses
February 14, 1946 Bank of England nationalized
February 14, 1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
February 14, 1945 Peru, Paraguay, Chile and Ecuador joins UN
February 14, 1944 Anti-Japanese revolt on Java
February 14, 1943 German offensive through de Faid-pass Tunisia
February 14, 1943 Soviets recapture Rostov
February 14, 1942 Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra
February 14, 1942 Rotterdam's Maas tunnel opens
February 14, 1941 Cebrie Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street
February 14, 1941 German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya
February 14, 1940 British merchant vessel fleet is armed
February 14, 1939 Victor Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of Gone With the Wind
February 14, 1936 National Negro Congress organizes in Chicago
February 14, 1934 NHL Ace Bailey Benefit Game: Toronto beats All-Stars 7-3 in Toronto
February 14, 1932 South Africa all out for 36 in 1st innings vs. Aust (Ironmonger 5-6)
February 14, 1931 Bradman scores 152 Aust vs. WI, 154 minutes, 13 fours 2 fives
February 14, 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, 7 gangsters killed
February 14, 1925 State of emergency crisis in Bayern ends, NSDAP re-allowed
February 14, 1924 IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson
February 14, 1921 Canadian 5 cent nickel coin is authorized
February 14, 1921 Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing "Ulysses," NY
February 14, 1920 League of Women Voters forms in Chicago
February 14, 1919 United Parcel Service forms
February 14, 1918 H Atteridge and S Rombergs musical "Sinbad," premieres in New York City
February 14, 1914 High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands
February 14, 1912 1st U.S. submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton, Connecticut
February 14, 1912 Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state
February 14, 1907 1st U.S. fox hound association forms in New York City
February 14, 1903 U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor forms
February 14, 1900 Date of events in movie "Picnic at Hanging Rock"