14 February
Notable Births
Jaxon Smith-Njigba
b. 2002
American football player (born 2002)
Tyler Adams
b. 1999
American soccer player (born 1999)
Jaehyun
b. 1997
South Korean singer (born 1997)
Breel Embolo
b. 1997
Swiss Footballer (born 1997)
Nikolaj Ehlers
b. 1996
Danish ice hockey player (born 1996)
Poasa Faamausili
b. 1996
New Zealand rugby league footballer
Lucas Hernandez
b. 1996
French footballer (born 1996)
Jadeveon Clowney
b. 1993
American football player (born 1993)
Christian Eriksen
b. 1992
Danish footballer (born 1992)
Freddie Highmore
b. 1992
English actor (born 1992)
Petr Mrázek
b. 1992
Czech ice hockey player (born 1992)
Karol G
b. 1991
Colombian singer-songwriter (born 1991)
Chris Babb
b. 1990
American basketball player (born 1990)
Brett Dier
b. 1990
Canadian actor (born 1990)
Bogdan Kiselevich
b. 1990
Russian ice hockey player (born 1990)
Sefa Yılmaz
b. 1990
Turkish footballer
Néstor Calderón
b. 1989
Mexican footballer (born 1989)
Adam Matuszczyk
b. 1989
Polish footballer (born 1989)
Emma Miskew
b. 1989
Canadian curler (born 1989)
Byron Mullens
b. 1989
British-American basketball player (born 1989)
Notable Deaths
Tom Noonan
d. 2026
American actor and director (1951–2026)
Carlos Menem
d. 2021
President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999
Ruud Lubbers
d. 2018
Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1982 to 1994
Morgan Tsvangirai
d. 2018
Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, 2009 to 2013
Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury
d. 2016
English politician (1928–2016)
Steven Stucky
d. 2016
American composer (1949–2016)
Louis Jourdan
d. 2015
French actor (1921–2015)
Philip Levine (poet)
d. 2015
American poet (1928–2015)
Tom Finney
d. 2014
English international footballer (1922–2014)
Mike Stepovich
d. 2014
American politician (1919–2014)
Glenn Boyer
d. 2013
American writer (1924–2013)
Ronald Dworkin
d. 2013
American legal philosopher (1931–2013)
Tonmi Lillman
d. 2012
Musical artist
Dory Previn
d. 2012
American singer-songwriter (1925–2012)
George Shearing
d. 2011
British jazz pianist (1919–2011)
Doug Fieger
d. 2010
American singer-songwriter
Dick Francis
d. 2010
English jockey and crime writer (1920–2010)
Linnart Mäll
d. 2010
Estonian historian, orientalist and politician
Louie Bellson
d. 2009
American jazz drummer (1924–2009)
William Blackstone
d. 1780
English jurist, judge, and politician (1723–1780)
On This Day in History
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2020
At least 22 people are killed in an attack on a village in Northwest Region, Cameroon.
Ngarbuh massacre
2019
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 Pulwama attack
2018
Jacob Zuma resigns as President of South Africa.
Jacob Zuma
2018
A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida is one of the deadliest school massacres with 17 fatalities and 17 injuries.
Parkland high school shooting
2011
As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising begins with a 'Day of Rage'.
Arab Spring
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.
2008 Northern Illinois University shooting
2005
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.
Beirut
2005
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.
Al-Qaeda
2005
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.
YouTube
2004
In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 28 people, and wounding 193 others.
Moscow
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.
Iraq disarmament crisis
2000
The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
NEAR Shoemaker
1998
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.
Rail freight transport
1990
Ninety-two people are killed when Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes in Bangalore, India.
Indian Airlines Flight 605
1990
The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later becomes famous as Pale Blue Dot.
Voyager 1
1989
Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.
Union Carbide
1989
Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.
Iran
1983
United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud.
Knoxville, Tennessee
1979
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.
Kabul
1961
Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
Timeline of chemical element discoveries