MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Today is Monday, February 14, the 45th day of 2011. There are 320 days left in the year.

1670 ― Roman Catholic Emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna

1876 ― A. G. Bell and Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents; Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor

1920 ― League of Women Voters forms in Chicago

1924 ― IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson

1929 ― St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, Il., seven gangsters killed

1946 ― Bank of England nationalized

1980 ― ``West Side Story" opens at Minskoff Theater, NYC, for 341 performances

1989 ― Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1 million-$3 million bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, ``Satanic Verses"

1989 ― Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in Dominican Republic

1992 ― Ceasefire in Somalia begins