THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Today is Thursday, February 14, the 45th day of 2008. There are 321 days left in the year.

1076 _ Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV

1349 _ Two thousand Jews burned at the stake in Strasbourg France

1920 _ League of Women Voters forms in Chicago

1929 _ St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago IL, seven gangsters killed

1936 _ National Negro Congress organizes in Chicago

1946 _ Bank of England nationalized

1950 _ USSR and China sign peace treaty

1978 _ First "micro on a chip" patented by Texas Instruments

1989 _ Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million damages for Bhopal disaster

1989 _ World's first satellite Skyphone opens