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This is a list of selected February 14 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
; Feast of St. Brigid of Kildare (Eastern Christianity) refimprove section
1804Karađorđe Petrović became the leader of the First Serbian Uprising. refimprove section, contradictory
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
1919 – The first serious armed conflict of the Polish–Soviet War took place near present-day Biaroza, Belarus. lots of {{cn}} tags
1929St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, were murdered in Chicago, Illinois. refimprove
1949Asbestos miners began a labour strike around Asbestos, Quebec, Canada, considered one of the causes of the Quiet Revolution. 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
1989 – The first of at least twenty-four Medium Earth Orbit satellites in the satellite constellation of the Global Positioning System was launched into orbit. refimprove sections, duplication
2005 – Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri was assassinated when explosives were detonated as his motorcade drove past the St. George Hotel in Beirut, sparking the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon. unreferenced section
2007 – The first of several bombings in Zahedan, Iran, claimed the lives of 18 members of the Revolutionary Guards. citation style

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February 14: Valentine's Day

Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie
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