Editing February 14 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1903]] &ndash; The [[United States Department of Commerce and Labor]] is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the [[United States Department of Labor|Department of Labor]]).
*[[1912]] &ndash; [[Arizona]] is admitted as the 48th and the last [[Contiguous United States|contiguous]] [[U.S. state]].
*  1912   &ndash; The [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] commissions its [[United States E-class submarine|first class]] of [[Diesel submarine|diesel-powered submarines]].
*[[1918]] &ndash; Russia adopts the [[Gregorian calendar]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=История календаря в России и в СССР |url=http://grigam.narod.ru/kalend/kalen19.htm |access-date=2022-04-18 |website=grigam.narod.ru |language=ru}}</ref>
*[[1919]] &ndash; The [[Polish–Soviet War]] begins.
*[[1920]] &ndash; The [[League of Women Voters]] is founded in [[Chicago]].
*[[1924]] &ndash; The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to [[IBM|International Business Machines]] Corporation (IBM).
*[[1929]] &ndash; [[Saint Valentine's Day Massacre]]: Seven people, six of them [[gangster]] rivals of [[Al Capone]]'s gang, are murdered in [[Chicago]].
*[[1939]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[German battleship Bismarck]] is launched.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Gaack |first1=Malte |title=Schlachtschiff Bismarck – Das wahre Gesicht eines Schiffes – Teil 3 |last2=Carr |first2=Ward |publisher=BoD – Books on Demand GmbH |year=2011 |isbn=978-3-8448-0179-8 |location=Norderstedt |page=10 |language=de |trans-title=Battleship Bismarck - The True Face of a Ship - Part 3}}</ref>
*[[1942]] &ndash; World War II: [[Battle of Pasir Panjang]] contributes to the fall of [[Singapore]].
*[[1943]] &ndash; World War II: [[Rostov-on-Don]], Russia is liberated.
*  1943   &ndash; World War II: [[Tunisia Campaign]]: General [[Hans-Jürgen von Arnim]]'s [[5th Panzer Army|Fifth Panzer Army]] launches a [[Battle of Sidi Bou Zid|counter-attack]] against [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] positions in [[Tunisia]].
*[[1944]] &ndash; World War II: In the [[action of 14 February 1944]], a [[Royal Navy]] submarine sinks a German-controlled Italian [[Regia Marina]] submarine in the [[Strait of Malacca]].
*[[1945]] &ndash; World War II: On the first day of the [[Bombing of Dresden in World War II|bombing of Dresden]], the British [[Royal Air Force]] and the [[United States Army Air Forces]] begin [[fire-bombing]] [[Dresden]].
*  1945   &ndash; World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken [[Bombing of Prague in World War II|bombing of Prague]], [[Czechoslovakia]] by a [[United States Army Air Forces]] squadron of [[Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress|B-17s]] assisting in the Soviet [[Red Army]]'s [[Vistula–Oder Offensive]].
*  1945   &ndash; World War II: [[Mostar]] is liberated by [[Yugoslavs|Yugoslav]] [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|partisans]] 
*  1945   &ndash; President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] meets King [[Ibn Saud]] of [[Saudi Arabia]] aboard the {{USS|Quincy|CA-71|6}}, officially beginning [[Saudi Arabia–United States relations|U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations]].
*[[1946]] &ndash; The [[Bank of England]] is nationalized.
*[[1947]] &ndash; The [[Statute IV of 1947 regarding the abolition of certain titles and ranks|act abolishing]] all [[Hungarian nobility|noble]] ranks and related [[Style (form of address)|styles]] comes into force in [[Second Hungarian Republic|Hungary]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Gudenus |first1=János |title=Összetört címerek: a magyar arisztokrácia sorsa és az 1945 utáni megpróbáltatások |last2=Szentirmay |first2=László |publisher=Mozaik |year=1989 |isbn=963-02-6114-6 |pages=27–28 |language=hu |trans-title=Broken Coats-of-Arms: The Hungarian Aristocrats' Fate and the Scourge after 1945}}</ref>
*[[1949]] &ndash; The [[Knesset]] (parliament of [[Israel]]) convenes for the first time.
*  1949   &ndash; The [[Asbestos Strike]] begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the [[Quiet Revolution]] in [[Quebec]].
*[[1954]] &ndash; [[First Indochina war]] - small French garrison at [[Siege of Đắk Đoa|Đắk Đoa is overrun]] by the [[Viet Minh]] after a week's siege.<ref>{{Cite web |date=6 August 2011 |title=Vietnam Vignette: The French Groupement Mobile 100 |url=https://parallelnarratives.com/vietnam-notebook-groupement-mobile-100-bataillon-de-coree/ |access-date=22 August 2023 |website=Parallel Narratives |language=fr}}</ref>
*[[1961]] &ndash; [[Timeline of chemical element discoveries|Discovery of the chemical elements]]: Element 103, [[Lawrencium]], is first synthesized at the [[University of California, Berkeley|University of California]].
*[[1966]] &ndash; [[Australian dollar|Australian currency]] is [[decimalisation|decimalized]].
*[[1979]] &ndash; 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]] &ndash; United American Bank of [[Knoxville, Tennessee]] collapses. Its president, [[Jake Butcher]], is later convicted of [[fraud]].
*[[1989]] &ndash; [[Union Carbide]] agrees to pay $470 million to the [[Government of India|Indian government]] for damages it caused in the [[1984]] [[Bhopal disaster]].
*  1989   &ndash; [[Iran]]ian leader [[Ruhollah Khomeini]] issues a [[fatwa]] encouraging [[Muslims]] to kill [[Salman Rushdie]], author of ''[[The Satanic Verses]]''.
*[[1990]] &ndash; Ninety-two people are killed when [[Indian Airlines Flight 605]] crashes in [[Bangalore]], India.
*  1990   &ndash; The ''[[Voyager 1]]'' spacecraft takes the photograph of planet [[Earth]] that later becomes famous as ''[[Pale Blue Dot]]''.
*[[1998]] &ndash; An oil tanker train collides with a [[Rail freight transport|freight train]] in [[Yaoundé]], Cameroon, spilling [[fuel oil]]. One person scavenging the oil created [[Yaoundé train explosion|a massive explosion]] which killed 120.
*[[2000]] &ndash; The spacecraft ''[[NEAR Shoemaker]]'' enters orbit around asteroid [[433 Eros]], the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
*[[2003]] &ndash; [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: [[United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission|UNMOVIC]] Executive Chairman [[Hans Blix]] reports to the [[United Nations Security Council]] that disarmament inspectors have found no [[Iraq and weapons of mass destruction|weapons of mass destruction]] in [[Ba'athist Iraq]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 October 2013 |title=Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn Fast Facts |url=https://www.cnn.com/2013/10/30/world/meast/operation-iraqi-freedom-and-operation-new-dawn-fast-facts/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220111210443/https://www.cnn.com/2013/10/30/world/meast/operation-iraqi-freedom-and-operation-new-dawn-fast-facts/index.html |archive-date=2022-01-11 |access-date=2022-01-11 |website=Research |publisher=CNN Editorial}}</ref> 
*[[2004]] &ndash; In a suburb of [[Moscow]], Russia, the roof of the [[Transvaal Park|Transvaal water park]] collapses, killing more than 28 people, and wounding 193 others.
*[[2005]] &ndash; In [[Beirut]], 23 people, including former [[Prime Minister of Lebanon|Prime Minister]] [[Rafic Hariri]], are killed when the equivalent of around 1,000&nbsp;kg of [[Trinitrotoluene|TNT]] is detonated while Hariri's [[motorcade]] drives through the city.<ref>{{Cite web |date=14 February 2005 |title=Former PM killed in Beirut blast |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/feb/14/lebanon |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190415074103/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/feb/14/lebanon |archive-date=15 April 2019 |access-date=17 March 2019 |website=The Guardian}}</ref>
*  2005   &ndash; Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected [[al-Qaeda]]-linked militants that hit [[Makati]], [[Davao City]], and [[General Santos]], all in the Philippines.
*  2005   &ndash; [[YouTube]] is launched by a group of [[college students]], eventually becoming the largest [[video sharing]] website in the world and a main source for [[viral video]]s.
*[[2008]] &ndash; [[Northern Illinois University shooting]]: A gunman opens fire in a [[lecture hall]] of [[Northern Illinois University]] in [[DeKalb County, Illinois]], resulting in six fatalities (including the gunman) and 21 injuries.
*[[2011]] &ndash; As a part of [[Arab Spring]], the [[2011 Bahraini uprising|Bahraini uprising]] begins with a [[Day of Rage (Bahrain)|'Day of Rage']].
*[[2018]] &ndash; [[Jacob Zuma]] resigns as [[President of South Africa]].
*  2018   &ndash; [[Parkland high school shooting|A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School]] in [[Parkland, Florida]] is one of the [[List of school massacres by death toll|deadliest school massacres]] with 17 fatalities and 17 injuries.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=To Stop A Shooter |first1=Jamie |last1=Thompson |magazine=The Atlantic |date=29 January 2024 |access-date=24 March 2024 |volume=333|issue=2|url-access=subscription |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/parkland-shooter-scot-peterson-coward-broward/677170/ |page=22 |issn=1072-7825}}</ref>
*[[2019]] &ndash; [[2019 Pulwama attack|Pulwama attack]] takes place in [[Lethpora]] in [[Pulwama district]], [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]], India in which 40 [[Central Reserve Police Force]] personnel and a suicide bomber were killed and 35 were injured.
*[[2020]] - At least 22 people are killed in an [[Ngarbuh massacre|attack]] on a village in [[Northwest Region (Cameroon)|Northwest Region]], [[Cameroon]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2020-02-17 |title=Children among 22 killed in attack on Cameroon village |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-51526358 |access-date=2025-02-14 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref>