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