This day in History (14th February): Events: 1014 - Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry II Roman German Emperor. 1670 - Roman Catholic emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna. 1794 - 1st textile machinery patent granted. 1849 - First photograph of an US President is taken (that of James Knox Polk). 1859 - Oregon admitted as 33rd state of the US. 1876 - A G Bell & Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents, US Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor 1879 - Chile occupies Antofagasta. 1899 - US Congress begins using voting machines. 1900 - Russia responds to international pressure to free Finland. 1912 - Arizona was admitted as the 48th state of US. 1918 - USSR adopts Gregorian calendar. 1919 - War begins between Poland and Soviet Union. 1924 - IBM Corporation founded. 1945 - Peru, Paraguay, Chile & Ecuador joins UN 1946 - Bank of England nationalized 1950 - USSR & China sign peace treaty 1956 - Indonesia withdraws from Neth Indonesian Union 1958 - Arab Federation of Iraq & Jordan forms 1963 - US launches communications satellite Syncom 1. 1971 - President Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House. 1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test 1978 - 1st micro on a chip patented by Texas Instruments 1979 - American ambassador to Afghanistan Adolph Dubs is kidnapped who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police. 1989 - Khomeini orders Muslims to murder Satanic Verses novelist Rushdie. 1989 - Union Carbide agrees to pay $470m damages for Bhopol disaster 1989 - The first of 24 satellites of the Global Positioning System are placed into orbit. 1989 - The first of 24 satellites of the Global Positioning System are placed into orbit. 2000 - The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, becomes the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid. 2013 - The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the worlds largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, switched off for two years for upgrading. Birth: 1933 - Madhubala, Indian actress.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 04:46:20 +0000
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