Today is Saturday, February 14, the 45th day of 2009. There are 320 days left in the year.
1076 _ Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV
1349 _ 2,000 Jews burned at the stake in Strasbourg France
1894 _ Venus is both a morning star and evening star
1924 _ IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson
1929 _ St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago IL, seven gangsters killed
1945 _ 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
1946 _ Bank of England nationalized
1956 _ Khrushchev denounces Stalin at USSR Communist Party Conference
1967 _ Aretha Franklin records ``Respect"
1971 _ Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House