Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 14

February 14: Valentine's Day

• 1804 - Karađorđe became the leader of the First Serbian Uprising.
• 1876 - Elisha Gray (pictured) and Alexander Graham Bell each filed a patent for the telephone.
• 1879 - Chilean forces occupied the Bolivian port of Antofagasta, instigating the War of the Pacific.
• 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.

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