What are the important events that happened on February 14? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

February 14: Facts & Myths About This Day

February 14 is the 45^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 320 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 1, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 28,991,520 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘tetracontapentagon’ day.

Aquarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 368 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,438 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

February 14 Historical Events

• 1852 –
  Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital providing in-patient beds specifically for children in the English-speaking world, is founded in London.
• 1899 –
  Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
• 1934 –
  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dog in Chinese astrology.
• 1942 –
  Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
• 1943 –
  World War II: Tunisia Campaign – General Hans-Jurgen von Arnim’s Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
• 1944 –
  World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java.
• 1945 –
  World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans.
• 1966 –
  Australian currency is decimalised.
• 1979 –
  In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
• 2005 –
  Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit the Philippines’ Makati financial district in Metro Manila, Davao City, and General Santos City.

Who were born on February 14?

• 1701 –
  Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (d. 1773)
• 1847 –
  Anna Howard Shaw, American suffragette (d. 1919)
• 1892 –
  Radola Gajda, Czech military commander (d. 1948)
• 1931 –
  Phyllis McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
• 1943 –
  Maceo Parker, American musician (P-Funk)
• 1951 –
  JoJo Starbuck, American ice skater
• 1971 –
  Noriko Sakai, Japanese singer
• 1972 –
  Najwa Nimri, Spanish actress
• 1980 –
  Josh Senter, American screenwriter
• 1988 –
  Katie Boland, Canadian actress

Who died on February 14?

• 1949 –
  Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Iraqi-Assyrian communist leader (b. 1901)
• 1986 –
  Edmund Rubbra, English Composer (b. 1901)
• 1994 –
  Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (executed) (b. 1936)
• 1994 –
  Christopher Lasch, American historian and social critic (b. 1932)
• 1999 –
  Buddy Knox, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
• 2002 –
  Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (b. 1922)
• 2003 –
  Dolly, first cloned mammal (b. 1996)
• 2003 –
  Johnny Longden, English jockey (b. 1907)
• 2004 –
  Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)
• 2006 –
  Darry Cowl, French musician and actor (b. 1925)