278 – St. Valentine beheaded by Claudius II (Claudius the Cruel) of Rome.
1919 – President Woodrow Wilson presents the draft covenant for the League of Nations.
1929 – The St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago.
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1929 - The wonder drug penicillin is discovered by bacteriologist Sir Alexander Fleming.
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1943 – The battle of the Kasserine Pass is fought in North Africa in World War II. Allied forces are defeated by Gemany's Afrika Korps under Erwin Rommel.
FAMOUS BIRTHS
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1818 – Abolitionist Frederick Douglass is born. Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born a slave in Talbot Country, MD. The exact date of his birth is unknown but he chose February 14 to celebrate it.
FAMOUS DEATHS
1400 – Richard II of England is murdered at age 33 at Pontefract Castle in Yorkshire.
1891 – U.S. Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman dies at 71 (born February 8).
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1950 – Karl G. Janksy, American physicist and radio engineer and discoverer of cosmic radio waves emanating from the Milky Way galaxy, dies at 44.
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