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Alexander Graham Bell
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Elisha Gray
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Karađorđe
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The Three Witnesses: Oliver Cowdery, Martin Harris, and David Whitmer
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Great Ormond Street Hospital
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Rafik Hariri
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Signing of Arizona Statehood Bill
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Protests in Bahrain
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Salman Rushdie
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Live at Leeds
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| 1835 – The members of the original Quorum of the Twelve of the Latter Day Saint movement were selected by the Three Witnesses. | refimprove |
| 1876 – Inventor Alexander Graham Bell and electrical engineer Elisha Gray each filed a patent for the telephone, starting a controversy about who invented it first. | original research |
| 1879 – Chilean forces occupied the Bolivian port of Antofagasta, instigating the War of the Pacific. | featured on March 23 |
| 1912 – Arizona became the 48th and last of the contiguous United States to be admitted. | refimprove section |
| 1929 – St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, were murdered in Chicago. | multiple issues |
| 1949 – Asbestos miners around Asbestos, Quebec, Canada, began a labour strike that is considered one of the causes of the Quiet Revolution. | needs more footnotes |
| 1949 – The Knesset, the legislature of Israel, convened for the first time, succeeding the Assembly of Representatives that had functioned as the Jewish community's parliament during the British Mandate Era. | refimprove section |
| 1970 - The Who performed at the University Refectory, University of Leeds, later released as Live at Leeds and cited as one of the best rock live albums of all time. | refimprove section |
| 1989 – The first of at least twenty-four medium Earth orbit satellites in the satellite constellation of the Global Positioning System was launched. | refimprove sections, duplication |
| 2005 – Former Lebanese prime minister Rafic Hariri was assassinated when explosives were detonated as his motorcade drove past a hotel in Beirut, sparking the Cedar Revolution. | Hariri: refimprove; Assassination: unreferenced section; Revolution: refimprove section |
| 2011 – Arab Spring: The Bahraini uprising began with youth-organized protests on the Day of Rage. | Uncited section, orange "single source only" banner |
| Singu Min |d|1782| | Deathdate not cited. |
| James Bond |d|1989| | Deathdate not cited. |
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- 1779 – American Revolutionary War: A militia of Patriots decisively defeated and scattered a Loyalist militia that was on its way to British-controlled Augusta, Georgia.
- 1804 – Serb chieftains elected Đorđe Petrović as their leader and began an uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
- 1852 – The Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children, was founded in London.
- 1895 – Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, once described as the second most quoted English-language play after Hamlet, premiered in London.
- 1914 – The animated film Gertie the Dinosaur was released, later greatly influencing future animators such as the Fleischer brothers and Walt Disney.
- 1916 – World War I: Britain, France and Russia made the declaration of Sainte-Adresse, stating they would refuse to sign any peace tretay with the Central Powers that failed to ensure the political and economic independence of Belgium.
- 1919 – The Battle of Bereza Kartuska, the first serious armed conflict of the Polish–Soviet War, took place near present-day Biaroza, Belarus.
- 1924 – The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company was renamed as International Business Machines (IBM), later growing into one of the world's largest companies by market capitalization.
- 1938 – The Singapore Naval Base, the cornerstone of the Singapore strategy, a British naval defence policy, was opened.
- 1943 – World War II: General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim's 5th Panzer Army launched a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
- 1961 – Lawrencium, the radioactive synthetic element with atomic number 103, was first synthesized at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
- 1979 – Adolph Dubs, United States Ambassador to Afghanistan, was kidnapped by unknown agents and killed during a gun battle between Afghan police and the perpetrators.
- 1981 - 48 people died when a fire broke out during a Valentine's Day dance at a Dublin nightclub.
- 1989 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa calling for the death of Salman Rushdie, the author of The Satanic Verses, a novel considered to be blasphemous by some Muslims.
- 1992 – Sri Temasek (pictured), the official residence of the prime minister of Singapore, was declared a national monument.
- 2005 – The video-sharing web site YouTube was founded by three former PayPal employees.
- 2008 – A gunman opened fire into a crowded lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, killing five people and injuring twenty-one others.
- Born/died this day: | Rǫgnvaldr Guðrøðarson |d|1229| Domenico Ferrabosco |b|1513| John Wilkins |b|1614|William Blackstone |d|1780| Margaret E. Knight |b|1838| Anna Howard Shaw |b|1847| George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. |b|1859| Katherine Stinson |b|1891| Hazel McCallion |b|1921| William E. Holmes |d|1931| Keiji Nishioka|b|1933|Adnan Saidi |d|1942| Pam McConnell |b|1946| Val James |b|1957| John McGovern |d|1968| Annalisa Buffa |b|1973| Salka Mint Sneid |d|2020|
Notes
- Second voyage of James Cook appears on January 17, so Cook himself should not be used in the same year
- Huilliche uprising of 1712 appears on February 10, so Mapuche uprising should not appear in the same year
- Bloody Thursday (2011) appears on February 17, so Bahraini uprising should not be used in the same year.
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- 1655 – Arauco War: The Mapuche carried out a series of coordinated attacks against Spanish settlements and forts in colonial Chile, beginning a ten-year period of warfare.
- 1779 – Native Hawaiians killed the English explorer Captain James Cook as he attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling chief of the island of Hawaii.
- 1990 – The NASA space probe Voyager 1 took Pale Blue Dot (detail pictured), a photograph of Earth from a record distance of 40.5 astronomical units (6.06 billion km; 3.76 billion mi).
- 2005 – The online video platform YouTube was founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim.
- 2007 – The first of several bombings in Zahedan, Iran, killed 18 members of the Revolutionary Guards.