THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Today is Thursday, February 14, the 45th day of 2013. There are 320 days left in the year.

1076 ― Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV

1689 ― English parliament places Mary Stuart/Prince Willem III on the throne

1711 ― Handel’s opera Rinaldo, premieres

1894 ― Venus is both a morning star and evening star

1924 ― IBM Corporation renamed by Thomas Watson

1944 ― Anti-Japanese revolt on Java

1946 ― Bank of England nationalized

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

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

1989 ― World's first satellite Skyphone opens