February 14th facts
While investigating facts about February 14th, I found out little known, but curios details like:
In the film Ghostbusters II (1989) a woman appearing with Bill Murray on the World of the Psychic says the world will end February 14th, 2016
February 14th is both Valentine's Day and Oregon's state birthday.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 13 of the best facts about February 14th I managed to collect.
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Teddy Roosevelt's wife and mother died on the same day - February 14th, 1884. Alice, Teddy's wife, died of Bright's disease less than two days after giving birth to their daughter Alice Lee Roosevelt. Martha, Teddy's mother, died the same day, from Typhoid fever.
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Arizona is also known as the Valentine State because it became a state on February 14th.
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Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran's spiritual leader at the time, broadcast on Radio Tehran on February 14th, 1989 calling The Satanic Verses "blasphemous against Islam", and he called for Salman Rushdie's execution.
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In 1537, King Henry the Eighth declared that February 14th was a holiday. King Henry the Eighth had most of his wives executed because they did not give birth to a son.
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Penicillin was introduced on February 14th in 1929.
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February 14th is also St Trifun day, the patron saint of wine and gardening.
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Every year on February 14th, the nation of Iran sends Salman Rushdie a reminder of their promise to kill him for writing The Satanic Verses.
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Al Capone had committed many crimes over the years, including murder, but the St. Valentine's Day Massacre on February 14th, 1929 brought Capone to the attention of the federal government.
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In 1918 Russia, the day after January 31st was February 14th, not February 1st - that's the day Russia transitioned from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.
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Blade Runner's Pris, a "basic pleasure model," was incepted on February 14th, 2016
What is true about february 14th?
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We celebrate Valentine's Day on the 14th of February because that was the date Saint Valentine was executed for illegaly allowing Roman soldiers to get married in his church.
