February 14

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[edit] Events

• 842 - Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages.
• 1349 - Approximately 2,000 Jews were burned to death by mobs or forcibly removed from the city of Strasbourg.
• 1779 - James Cook was killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
• 1912 - Arizona is admitted to the Union.
• 1918 - The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (1 February according to the Julian calendar).
• 1929 - St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.
• 1945 - On the second day of the Bombing of Dresden in World War II the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.

[edit] Births

• 1468 - Johann Werner, German mathematician (d. 1522)
• 1914 - Margarete Mewes, Overseer at Ravensbruck labour camp.

[edit] Deaths

• 1400 - King Richard II of England (murdered) (b. 1367)