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

• 1778 –
  The United States Flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte rendered a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
• 1804 –
  Karadjordje leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
• 1900 –
  Second Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.
• 1949 –
  The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
• 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.
• 1983 –
  United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud.
• 1998 –
  An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil drops a lit cigarette, creating a massive explosion which kills 120.
• 2004 –
  In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others.
• 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.
• 2010 –
  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Tiger in Chinese astrology.

Who were born on February 14?

• 1916 –
  Edward Platt, American actor (d. 1974)
• 1916 –
  Masaki Kobayashi, Japanese director (d. 1996)
• 1917 –
  Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 2011)
• 1922 –
  Murray the K, American impresario and disk jockey (d. 1982)
• 1953 –
  Odds Bodkin, American storyteller
• 1955 –
  James Eckhouse, American actor
• 1955 –
  Ronald Desruelles, Belgian athlete
• 1957 –
  Alan Hunter, American TV personality
• 1985 –
  John Prats, Filipino Actor and Dancer
• 1985 –
  Tyler Clippard, American baseball player

Who died on February 14?

• 1229 –
  Raghnall mac Gofraidh, King of the Isles.
• 1400 –
  King Richard II of England (murdered) (b. 1367)
• 1780 –
  William Blackstone, English jurist (b. 1723)
• 1808 –
  John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (b. 1732)
• 1949 –
  Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Iraqi-Assyrian communist leader (b. 1901)
• 1974 –
  Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1903)
• 1980 –
  Luitkonwar Rudra Baruah, Assamese composer and actor (b. 1926)
• 1995 –
  U Nu, Burmese politician (b. 1907)
• 2003 –
  Dolly, first cloned mammal (b. 1996)
• 2011 –
  Sir George Shearing, Anglo-American jazz pianist (b. 1919)