Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 14

February 14: Valentine's Day

• 1804 - Karađorđe Petrović became the leader of the First Serbian Uprising.

• 1876 - Elisha Gray (pictured) and Alexander Graham Bell each filed a patent for the telephone.

• 1989 - A fatwa was issued for the execution of Salman Rushdie, the author of The Satanic Verses, a novel considered blasphemous against Islam.

• 1989 - The first satellite in the satellite constellation of the Global Positioning System was placed into orbit.

• 2005 - Former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafik Hariri was assassinated, sparking the Cedar Revolution.

Recent days: February 13 – February 12 – February 11

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• January 31
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