FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Today is Friday, February 14, the 45th day of 2014. There are 320 days left in the year.

1349 ― 2,000 Jews burned at the stake in Strasbourg France

1711 ― Handel’s opera Rinaldo, premieres

1894 ― Venus is both a morning star and evening star

1924 ― IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson

1950 ― USSR and China sign peace treaty

1956 ― Khrushchev denounces Stalin at USSR Communist Party Conference

1966 ― Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points

1988 ― Bobby Allison at 50 becomes oldest driver to win Daytona 500

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

1990 ― Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system