1014 – Pope Benedict VIII crowned Henry of Bavaria, King of Germany and of Italy, as ______________.
1076 – Pope ________ excommunicated Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
1349 – Several hundred Jews were burned to death by mobs while the remaining Jews are forcibly removed from __________.
1400 – Richard II of England died, most probably from _________, in Pontefract Castle, on the orders of Henry Bolingbroke.
1556 – Thomas Cranmer was declared a ______
1779 – American _____________ War: The Battle of Kettle Creek was fought in Georgia.
1804 – Karađorđe led the First Serbian Uprising against the _______ Empire.
Ras Marye of Yejju, Ethiopia, marched into Tigray and defeats and killed Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of ____.
1835 – The original Quorum of the ____________, in the Latter Day Saint movement, was formed in Kirtland, Ohio.
1849 – In ____________, James Knox Polk became the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
1852 – Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children, was founded in ______.
1859 – ______ was admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.
1900 – British forces began the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of ________.
1903 – The US Department of Commerce and _____ was established.
1912 – _______ was admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
1918 – The Soviet Union adopted the ________ calendar (on 1 February according to the Julian calendar).
1919 – The Polish–_____ War began.
1920 – The League of _____ Voters was founded in Chicago.
1929 – Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of ________'s gang, were murdered in Chicago.
1934 – Florence ________, American actress and singer, was born.
1937 – Magic ___, American singer and guitarist, was born (d. 1969).
1942 – Michael __________, American businessman and politician, 108th Mayor of New York City, was born.
1944 – World War II: In the Action of 14 February 1944, a British submarine sunk a German-controlled Italian submarine in the Strait of _______.
1945 – World War II: Navigational error led to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by an American squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet's __________ Offensive.
1945 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS ______, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations.
1946 – The Bank of ________ was nationalized.
1949 – The ________ (Israeli parliament) convened for the first time.
1981 – Stardust fire: A fire in a ______ nightclub killed 48 people.
2004 – In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the ____ water park collapsed, killing more than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others.
1990 – Ninety-two people were killed when Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes in ________, India.
2002 – Uggie, American acting dog who starred in Water for __________ and The Artist, was born (d. 2015).
2005 – _____ was launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos.
2008 – Northern Illinois University shooting: A gunman opened fire in a ___ of the DeKalb County, Illinois university resulting in six fatalities and 21 injured.
As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising of civil resistance began in Bahrain with a 'Day of ____.'
2015 – Two people were killed in shootings at a free-speech seminar and at a ________ service in Copenhagen.
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