This Day In History

February 14
1743
Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister.
1899
Voting machines are approved by the US Congress for use in federal elections.
1919
The Polish-Soviet War begins.
1945
President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia abroad the USS Quincy, officially starting the US-Saudi diplomatic relationship.
1989
Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill the author of The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie.
Birth
1483
Babur, Moghul emperor of India.
1869
Charles Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Laureate.
Death
270
St. Valentine, marking Valentine's Day.