Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 14

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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.
 * 1914 – The animated film Gertie the Dinosaur was released, later greatly influencing future animators such as the Fleischer brothers and Walt Disney.
 * 1919 – The Battle of Bereza Kartuska, the first serious armed conflict of the Polish–Soviet War, took place near present-day Biaroza, Belarus.
 * 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| Annalisa Buffa |b|1973| Franjo Mihalić |d|2015