February 14 is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
Love is the expression of one’s values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
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National Cream-Filled Chocolates Day
Feast Day of Saint Valentine, patron saint of lovers; invoked against epilepsy, plague, and fainting diseases
Many flowers express love in some way or other. They are popular for Valentine’s Day, but may be better for your budget than a dozen roses. Here is a partial list:
Roses: The red rose is the universal symbol of romantic love.
Forget-Me-Not – These perennial flowers are a song of love or friendship. Pretty blue flowers are irresistible.
Love-In-A-Mist – When you are in love, you’re on Cloud Nine.
Cyclamen – This popular Valentine’s Day gift has heart-shaped leaves. The most popular are varieties are those with red flowers.
February 14, 1779 – James Cook was killed by local people in the Hawaiian Islands.
1849 – In New York City, James Knox Polk became the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
Oregon Statehood Day, on February 14, 1859 Oregon became the thirty-third state
- Capital: Salem
- Nickname: Beaver State
- Bird: Western Meadowlark
- Flower: Oregon Grape
- Tree: Douglas Fir
- Motto: The Union
See our page on Oregon for more interesting facts and trivia about Oregon
On this day in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell applied for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
Admission Day in Arizona , the forty-eighth state; admitted in 1912
- Capital: Phoenix
- Nickname: Grand Canyon State
- Bird: Cactus Wren
- Flower: Saguaro cactus blossom
- Tree: Paloverde
- Motto: God Enriches
See our page on the state of Arizona for more interesting facts and trivia about Arizona.
In 1924 the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre of 1929: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone’s gang, were murdered in Chicago, Illinois.
The fifth wife of England’s King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard, was executed February 13, 1542.
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Henry VIII of England was recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.
Birthday of Thomas Alva Edison (1847), American inventor. Edison is the fifth most prolific inventor in history, holding 1,084 US patents in his name including the phonograph, the electric light bulb, and the motion picture camera. (The top four prolific inventors are Kia Silverbrook of Australia (4669 utility patents); Shunpei Yamazaki of Japan (3516 utility patents); Paul Lapstun of Australia (1268 utility patents); and Gurtej Sandhu of India (1093 utility patents).
Burt Reynolds, American actor, one of the most charismatic actors to rule the silver screen. The star of movies like The Longest Yard, Boogie Nights and Best Friends was a massive box-office attraction from 1978 to 1982, with Smokey and the Bandit I and II being his biggest hits. In 1982, Reynolds was voted the most popular star in the US for the fifth year in a row. He died September 6, 2018 of a heart attack.
Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the best-selling “Little House” series of children’s novels based on her childhood on the American frontier, died at age 90 in Mansfield, Missouri. She wrote “Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.”
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After no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elected 
Birthday of Jules Verne (February 8, 1828), French novelist, poet, and playwright. Wrote such classics as “Around the World in Eighty Days”, “Journey to the Center of the Earth”, and “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea“. He is often known as the “Father of Science Fiction”. Verne is the second most translated writer of all time (behind Agatha Christie). Per 
Charles Dickens, author of Oliver Twist, Tale of Two Cities, Christmas Carol.
Frederick Douglass, first black citizen to hold high rank in the U. S. government as a consultant to President Lincoln and U. S. Minister to Haiti.
Alfred Adler, Austrian psychiatrist, major proponent of the “inferiority complex”.
The second full length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premiered in 1940. It was based on the book The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) by Italian writer Carlo Collodi. The movie introduced the character of Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio’s conscience, who sings “When You Wish Upon a Star”.
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Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom became Queen upon the death of her father, King George VI, (Albert Frederick Arthur George) Per BBC.co.uk:
The King had suffered a coronary thrombosis – a fatal blood clot to the heart – soon after falling asleep. He was also revealed to have been suffering from lung cancer.
Birthday of Sir Robert Peel (February 5, 1788), English prime minister. The British police became known as “bobbies” as a result of Peel’s interest in public safety.
The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opened to the public on February 5, 1852.
Astronauts landed on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission in 1971. Commander Alan Shepard and Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell landed on the surface of the moon while Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa remained in lunar orbit aboard the Command/Service Module Kitty Hawk.