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Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 14 February.

1. Valentine's Day
2. Oregon admitted as 33rd State
3. Alexander Graham Bell files application for patent on the telephone
4. Arizona becomes 48th state
5. USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar
6. Skeezix of "Gasoline Alley" discovered on Wallet's doorstep
7. St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago - 7 gangsters killed
8. Karl Jansky - discoverer of cosmic radio sources - dies
9. Sen John Kennedy appears on Meet the Press
10. Element 103 - lawrencium - 1st produced in Berkeley California
11. Mrs Kennedy gives TV audience a tour of the White House
12. John & Yoko guest host Mike Douglas Show for the entire week
13. USSR launches Luna 20; unmanned probe soft-lands on moon - returns
14. US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares

These famous people were born on 14 February.

1. 1766 - Thomas Malthus, population expert
2. 1856 - Frank Harris, English journalist & writer (My Life & Loves)
3. 1859 - George Washington Ferris, engineer invented Ferris Wheel
4. 1894 - Benny Kubelski, aka Jack Benny, Oh Rochester!
5. 1912 - Edmund George Love, American teacher & historian & author
6. 1913 - James Pike, bishop
7. 1913 - Jimmy Hoffa, Teamsters leader who disappeared
8. 1913 - Mel Allen, voice of the Yankees
9. 1931 - Phyllis McGuirre, of McGuirre sisters
10. 1934 - Florence Henderson, in Indiana -- keeps Brady Bunch in line
11. 1944 - Carl Bernstein, investigative reporter (Watergate)
12. 1947 - Pham Tuan, 1st Vietnamese space traveler (on board Soyuz 37)
13. 1949 - Ewa Aulin