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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2009

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  • Published Feb 13, 2009 5:29 pm KST
  • Updated Feb 13, 2009 5:29 pm KST

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