Ngarbuh massacre
2020
At least 22 people are killed in an attack on a village in Northwest Region, Cameroon..
February-14
Historical Events on February 14
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2019 Pulwama attack
Pulwama attack takes place in Lethpora in Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, India in which 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel and a suicide bomber were killed and 35 were injured.
2019
Jacob Zuma
Jacob Zuma resigns as President of South Africa.
2018
Parkland high school shooting
A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida is one of the deadliest school massacres with 17 fatalities and 17 injuries.
2018
Arab Spring
As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising begins with a 'Day of Rage'.
2011
2008 Northern Illinois University shooting
2008
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..
Beirut
In Beirut, 23 people, including former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, are killed when the equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT is detonated while Hariri's motorcade drives through the city.
2005
Al-Qaeda
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
YouTube
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 videos.
2005
Moscow
In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 28 people, and wounding 193 others.
2004
Iraq disarmament crisis
2003
Iraq disarmament crisis: UNMOVIC Executive Chairman Hans Blix reports to the United Nations Security Council that disarmament inspectors have found no weapons of mass destruction in Ba'athist Iraq..
NEAR Shoemaker
The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
2000
Rail freight transport
An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created a massive explosion which killed 120.
1998
Indian Airlines Flight 605
Ninety-two people are killed when Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes in Bangalore, India.
1990
Voyager 1
The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later becomes famous as Pale Blue Dot.
1990
Union Carbide
1989
Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster..
Iran
Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.
1989
Knoxville, Tennessee
United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud.
1983
Kabul
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.
1979
Timeline of chemical element discoveries
Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
1961
First Indochina War
1954
First Indochina War - small French garrison at Đắk Đoa is overrun by the Viet Minh after a week's siege..
Knesset
The Knesset (parliament of Israel) convenes for the first time.
1949
Asbestos strike
The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
1949
Statute IV of 1947 regarding the abolition of certain titles and ranks
The act abolishing all noble ranks and related styles comes into force in Hungary.
1947
Bank of England
The Bank of England is nationalized.
1946
Bombing of Dresden
1945
World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden..
Bombing of Prague
World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by a United States Army Air Forces squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet Red Army's Vistula–Oder Offensive.
1945
Mostar
World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans
1945
Franklin D. Roosevelt
President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations.
1945
Action of 14 February 1944
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.
1944
Rostov-on-Don
1943
World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated..
Tunisian campaign
World War II: Tunisia Campaign: General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launches a counter-attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
1943
Battle of Pasir Panjang
World War II: Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
1942
World War II
World War II: German battleship Bismarck is launched.
1939
Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago.
1929
IBM
1924
The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)..
League of Women Voters
The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
1920
Polish–Soviet War
The Polish–Soviet War begins.
1919
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Soviet Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar.
1918
Arizona
Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state.
1912
United States Navy
1912
The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines..
United States Department of Commerce and Labor
The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
1903
British Army
The British Army begins the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
1900
Voting machine
Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
1899
War of the Pacific
The War of the Pacific breaks out when the Chilean Army occupies the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
1879
Alexander Graham Bell
1876
Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray..
Oregon
Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.
1859
Texas
Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.
1855
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children, is founded in London.
1852
James K. Polk
In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
1849
Quorum of the Twelve
1835
The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, in the Latter Day Saint movement, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio..
Marye of Yejju
Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.
1831
Karađorđe
Karađorđe leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
1804
French Revolutionary Wars
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent: John Jervis, (later 1st Earl of St Vincent) and Horatio Nelson (later 1st Viscount Nelson) lead the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar.
1797
American Revolutionary War
American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia.
1779
Death of James Cook
1779
James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii..
Flag of the United States
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 nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
1778
Mapuche
The Mapuches launch coordinated attacks against the Spanish in Chile beginning the Mapuche uprising of 1655.
1655
Wedding of Frederick V of the Palatinate and Princess Elizabeth
Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V of the Palatinate at Whitehall Palace, London.
1613
Heresy
Having been declared a heretic and laicized by Pope Paul IV on 4 December 1555, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is publicly defrocked at Christ Church Cathedral.
1556
Akbar
1556
Coronation of Akbar as ruler of the Mughal Empire..
Conquistador
Spanish conquistadores, led by Nuño de Guzmán, overthrow and execute Tangaxuan II, the last independent monarch of the Tarascan state in present-day central Mexico.
1530
Strasbourg massacre
Strasbourg massacre: Several thousand Jews are burned to death by mobs while the remaining Jews are forcibly removed from Strasbourg after being accused of causing the Black Death.
1349
1130 papal election
The troubled 1130 papal election exposes a rift within the College of Cardinals.
1130
Pope Benedict VIII
Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry of Bavaria, King of Germany and of Italy, as Holy Roman Emperor.
1014
Charles the Bald
842
Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages..
Abbasid revolution
Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt.
748