February 14<\/p>\n
269 \u2013 Refusing Emperor Claudius II Gothicus command to renounce his faith, Sebastien Valentinus is martyred in Rome.<\/p>\n
1778 \u2013 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 renders a 9 gun salute to USS Ranger,<\/em> commanded by John Paul Jones.<\/p>\n 1779 \u2013 Captain James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.<\/p>\n 1849 \u2013 In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.<\/p>\n 1855 \u2013 With the completion of the line between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas, the state is linked by telegraph to the rest of the U.S.<\/p>\n 1859 \u2013 Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.<\/p>\n 1876 \u2013 Both Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray separately apply for a patent for the telephone.<\/p>\n 1899 \u2013 Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.<\/p>\n 1903 \u2013 The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established, later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor. (more departments, more Cabinet Secretaries and bureaucraps)<\/p>\n 1912 \u2013 Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state. 1920 \u2013 The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.<\/p>\n 1924 \u2013 The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).<\/p>\n 1929 \u2013 In Chicago, 7 members of George “Bugs” Moran’s North Side Gang are murdered by members of rival Al Capone’s Chicago Outfit gang in what is quickly called The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n 1949 \u2013 The Knesset, the parliament of Israel, convenes for the first time.<\/p>\n 1979 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n 1989 \u2013 Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses<\/u>.<\/em><\/p>\n 1990 \u2013 The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later becomes famous as the Pale Blue Dot.<\/em><\/p>\n 2005 \u2013 YouTube is launched by a group of college students<\/p>\n 2008 \u2013A mentally ill man off his medications, opens fire in a lecture hall of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb County, Illinois, killing 5 in attendance and wounding 21 more before committing suicide.<\/p>\n 2018 \u2013 A former student stages an attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 students and faculty and wounding 17 more before fleeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 14 269 \u2013 Refusing Emperor Claudius II Gothicus command to renounce his faith, Sebastien Valentinus is martyred in Rome. 1778 \u2013 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 renders a 9 gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64794"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90020,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64794\/revisions\/90020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe U.S. Navy commissions its first diesel powered submarine, the “E” class USS Skipjack, <\/em>under the command of Lt. Chester W. Nimitz.<\/p>\n