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The B-52’s play their first gig

Valentine’s Day Massacre takes place

Penicillin discovered

Captain Cook killed in Hawaii

St. Valentine beheaded

Edzard I Cirksena the Great earl of East-Friesia (1494-1528)
Johann Werner German mathematician born in Nuremberg Germany (d. 1522)
Henry II of Bavaria Bishop of Utrecht (1524-29) Worms (1523-52) and Freising (1541-52) born in Heidelberg Germany (d. 1552)
Domenico Maria Ferrabosco Italian composer and singer of the Renaissance born in Bologna (d. 1574)
Frederick III the Pious Elector Palatine of the Rhine born in Simmern Germany (d. 1576)
Christianus Adrichomius Dutch Catholic priest and writer (Vita Jesu Christi) born in Delft Netherlands (d. 1585)
Johann Pistorius German theologist and historian born in Nidda Germany (d. 1608)
Hans Christoph Haiden German composer organist and poet
Pier Francesco Cavalli Italian opera composer born in Crema Lombardy Italy (d. 1676)
Sybilla Schwarz German baroque poet born in Greifswald Germany (d. 1638)
Georg Gabriel Schutz German composer born in Nuremberg Germany (d. 1716)
Georg Friedrich Kauffmann German composer born in Ostramondra Thuringia Germany (d. 1735)
John Sidney 6th Earl of Leicester English privy councillor born in Penshurst Place Kent (d. 1737)
Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chausse French writer (Lcole des Mres) born in Paris (d. 1754)
Enrique Florez Spanish historian born in Valladolid Spain (d. 1773)
Richard Allen 1st African American ordained by Methodist-Episcopal church born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania (d. 1831)
Jean Victor Marie Moreau French general born in Morlaix Brittany France (d. 1813)
Fernando Sor Spanish composer baptized in Barcelona Spain (d. 1839)
Emory Washburn 22nd Governor of Massachusetts (1854-55) born in Leicester Massachusetts (d. 1877)
Lajos Count Batthyany 1st Prime Minister of Hungary born in Pozsony Kingdom of Hungary Austrian Empire (d. 1849)
Alfred Thomas Agate American artist born in Sparta New York (d. 1846)
Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky Russian composer born in Troitsko village Tula Russia (d. 1869)
John McNeil American Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Halifax Nova Scotia Canada (d. 1891)
James Green Martin Brigadier General (Confederate Army) born in Elizabeth City North Carolina (d. 1878)
Christopher Latham Sholes American newspaper man politician and inventor of the typewriter born in Mooresburg Pennsylvania (d. 1890)
Winfield Scott Hancock American politician and Major General (Union Army) born in Montgomeryville Pennsylvania (d. 1886)
Edmond Franois Valentin About French writer (Le Roi des montagnes) born in Dieuze Lorraine (d. 1885)
Alfred Iverson Jr. Brigadier General (Confederate Army) born in Clinton Georgia (d. 1911)
Francois Haverschmidt Dutch writer (Snikken en grimlachjes) born in Leeuwarden Netherlands (d. 1894)
Margaret E. Knight American inventor (flat-bottomed paper bag) described as a female Thomas Edison born in York Maine (d. 1914)
Cecil De Vere 1st official British chess champion (1866) born in London (d. 1875)
Julian Scott American artist and Civil War Medal of Honor recipient born in Johnson Vermont (d. 1901)
Anna Howard Shaw American suffragette born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne England (d. 1919)
Feb 14 1014 Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry II Roman German Emperor
Feb 14 1130 Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II
Feb 14 1556 English Archbishop Thomas Cranmer declared a heretic