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14 February| 14 February 1014 | Holy Roman Empire, Italy [political events] | King Henry II of Germany and Italy is crowned emperor by Pope Benedict VIII in Rome, to the accompaniment of anti-German rioting. | | 14 February 1193 | Austria, England, Holy Roman Empire [political events] | Leopold V, Duke of Austria, surrenders King Richard I the Lionheart of England to the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI for ransom; he uses the money to build towns and fortresses and establish the Wiener pfennig. | | 14 February 1279 | Germany, Holy Roman Empire, Italy [political events] | King Rudolf I of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor, recognizes the superior authority of the papacy and cedes all claims to sovereignty over the Papal States and southern Italy. | | 14 February 1879 | Chile, Peru, Bolivia [wars] | Chile begins a war with Peru and Bolivia over the control of nitrate-producing regions. | | 14 February 1929 | USA [law and government] | In the ‘St Valentine's Day Massacre’ in Chicago, Illinois, gangsters dressed as policemen, working for Al ‘Scarface’ Capone, gun down seven members of the gang led by George ‘Bugsy’ Moran. | | 14 February 1965 | UK [motor vehicles] | The British Motor Corporation manufactures the millionth Mini. Since its launch in 1959, the small car has become a significant status symbol for young people. | | 14 February 1975 | England [births and deaths] | P G Wodehouse, English novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and lyricist, creator of Jeeves, the archetypal gentleman's gentleman, dies in Southampton, Long Island, New York (93). | | 14 February 1989 | Iran [political events] | Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issues a fatwa against the British author Salman Rushdie, calling for his death for blasphemy against Islam in his book The Satanic Verses. Rushdie goes into hiding. | | 14 February 2003 | England [theatre and dance] | At the Laurence Olivier awards for theatre in London, England, English director Sam Mendes becomes the first person ever to win three prizes. He takes the best director and best revival awards (for Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya) and a special award in honour of his ten-year artistic directorship of London's Donmar Warehouse theatre. | | 14 February 2006 | USA [photography] | Pond-Moonlight by Edward Steichen, taken on Long Island in the USA in 1904, breaks the world record price for a photograph as it sells for $2.9 million at auction in New York. |
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