1349 – Hundreds of Jews in Strasbourg, France, were publicly burnt to death.
Known as the Strasbourg massacre, it happened during and after the Black Death, a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353. One of the most fatal pandemics in human history, as many as 50 million people perished, perhaps 50% of Europe’s 14th century population, and the Jews were blamed for the epidemic.
1949 – The Knesset, the parliament of Israel, convenes for the first time. The term “Knesset” is derived from the Hebrew name of an ancient Great Assembly: Anshei Knesset HaGedolah.
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1933 – Students at Oxford University, obviously bored fighting the local townspeople, declare that they would not fight for “King and Country”.
1929 – The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre took place in Chicago. Seven North Side Gang members were killed – apparently on Al Capone’s order.
1989 – On this day, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa and offered a bounty for the assassination of author Salman Rushdie, whose novel The Satanic Verses (1988) Khomeini denounced as blasphemous.
1989 – Union Carbide finally agrees to pay damages to the Indian government for the Bhopal disaster
The company had a yearly turnover of 9.5 billion USD at the time; up to 25,000 people had died in the tragedy.
2003 – Dolly the sheep is put to death
Dolly, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult, had shown signs of premature aging and contracted various diseases.
2005 – Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim registered YouTube, a website for sharing videos; it would become hugely popular, with more than one billion unique users visiting the site every month.
2018 – Amid scandals and corruption allegations, South African President Jacob Zuma resigned and was later replaced by Cyril Ramaphosa.
2021 – Nigerian Economist and global development expert, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala becomes the first woman and the first African to serve as Director General of the World Trade Organisation.
1899 – Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
1924 – The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
1945 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations.
2000 – The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
Births on this day February 14
1951 – Kevin Keegan, 73 years
Joseph Kevin Keegan OBE is an English former footballer and manager was born on this day in 1951. Regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Keegan was recognised for his dribbling ability as well as his finishing and presence in the air.
Freddie Highmore, 32 years
Alfred Thomas Highmore is an English actor. He is known for his starring roles beginning as a child, in the films Finding Neverland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Arthur and the Invisibles, August Rush, and The Spiderwick Chronicles. He won two consecutive Critics’ Choice Movie Awards for Best Young Performer.
1999 – Harry Holland, 24 years
Harry Holland was born on 14 February 1999 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for Last Call (2022), Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), and Far from Home (2019).
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