February 14: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?
(Page last edited 10/12/2017)
- 1778 - The United States Flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte renders a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
- 1859 - Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.
- 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
- 1899 - Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
- 1903 - The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
- 1912 - Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
- 1924 - The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
- 1945 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations.
- 1961 - Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
- 2000 - The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
- Famous Birthdays: Georg Friedrich Kauffmann (German composer and organist), Frederick Douglass (American author and activist), Christopher Latham Sholes (American inventor, invented the typewriter), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate), Herbert A. Hauptman (American mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate)
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