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Events

• 1530 (496 years ago) Spanish conquistadores, led by Nuño de Guzmán, overthrow and execute Tangaxuan II, the last independent monarch of the Tarascan state in present-day central Mexico.
• 1852 (174 years ago) Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children, is founded in London.
• 1945 (81 years ago) President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations.
• 1949 (77 years ago) The Knesset (parliament of Israel) convenes for the first time.
• 1979 (47 years ago) In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
• 1989 (37 years ago) Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.
• 1990 (36 years ago) The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later becomes famous as Pale Blue Dot.
• 2004 (22 years ago) In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 28 people, and wounding 193 others.

Births

• 1404 (622 years ago) Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter, poet, and philosopher (died 1472)
• 1483 (543 years ago) Babur, Mughal emperor (died 1530)
• 1869 (157 years ago) Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1959)
• 1942 (84 years ago) Michael Bloomberg, American businessman and politician, 108th Mayor of New York City
• 1967 (59 years ago) Mark Rutte, Dutch businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
• 1970 (56 years ago) Simon Pegg, English actor, director, and producer
• 1987 (39 years ago) Edinson Cavani, Uruguayan footballer
• 1988 (38 years ago) Ángel Di María, Argentinian footballer

Deaths

• 269 (1757 years ago) Saint Valentine, Roman saint
• 1400 (626 years ago) Richard II, king of England (born 1367)
• 1779 (247 years ago) James Cook, English captain, cartographer, and explorer (born 1728)
• 1891 (135 years ago) William Tecumseh Sherman, American general (born 1820)
• 1943 (83 years ago) David Hilbert, Russian-German mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (born 1862)
• 1975 (51 years ago) P. G. Wodehouse, English novelist and playwright (born 1881)
• 2005 (21 years ago) Rafic Hariri, Lebanese businessman and politician, 60th Prime Minister of Lebanon (born 1944; assassinated)
• 2021 (5 years ago) Carlos Menem, Argentine former president, lawyer, and statesman (born 1930)

All 410 events, births and deaths of February 14