February 14 in History

• 1779

  February 14, 1779:

  British explorer Captain James Cook is stabbed to death by native Hawaiians during a dispute over a cutter.

• 1876

  February 14, 1876:

  Alexander Graham Bell puts in an application for a patent for the telephone.

• 1920

  February 14, 1920:

  The League of Women Voters is established by Carrie Chapman Catt in Chicago, United States.

• 1929

  February 14, 1929:

  Notorious crime boss Al Capone’s gang members shoot seven members of George Moran’s gang dead on a day that would become known as the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre.

• 1931

  February 14, 1931:

  The first and original “Dracula” film is released throughout the United States after its premiere in New York two days prior.

• 1946

  February 14, 1946:

  John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert Jr. publicly demonstrate their creation, the ENIAC, the world’s first general-purpose high-speed electronic digital computer.

• 1985

  February 14, 1985:

  Singer Whitney Houston’s self-titled debut album, “Whitney Houston” is released.

• 1991

  February 14, 1991:

  The film, “The Silence of the Lambs”, starring Jodie Foster, is released in theatres in the United States.

• 2005

  February 14, 2005:

  YouTube is registered by Jawed Karim, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, its creators.

• 2018

  February 14, 2018:

  Jacob Zuma, the President of South Africa, steps down in the midst of corruption allegations.