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1477 The world’s first known Valentine is sent to John Paston from Margery Brews addressed "To my right welbelovyd Voluntyne."
1779 British explorer Captain James Cook is murdered in Hawaii.
1797 The British fleet, under Admirals John Jervis and Horatio Nelson, defeats the Spanish at the battle of St Vincent off Portugal.
1891 Death of William Tecumseh Sherman, Union general in the American Civil War.
1922 Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi begins the first regular radio broadcasting transmission from England.
1933 The first telephone speaking clock comes into operation in the Paris area.
1941 Establishment of the first armed unit of the Indochinese Communist Party comprising 32 fighters at Khuoi Noi Forest, Vu Le Commune, Bac Son District, Lang Son Province. The Bac Son unit is the predecessor of the first platoon of Viet Nam’s National Salvation Army.
1945 Birth of Prince Hans Adam II, ruler of Liechtenstein since 1989.
1946 An electronic brain, or computer, begins working at the University of Pennsylvania taking seconds to do calculations which normally took hours. It is called ENIAC or Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer.
1950 The Soviet Union and China sign a 30-year treaty in Moscow.
1958 King Faisal of Iraq and King Hussein of Jordan proclaim the merger of their kingdoms in the Arab Federation, with King Faisal as head of state and King Hussein his deputy.
1968 During the 1968 Tet Offensive in South Viet Nam, the People’s Revolutionary Committee of Thua Thien – Hue Province is established.
1975 Death of P.G. Wodehouse, English author and creator of the characters of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster.
1988 Death of Austrian composer and songwriter Frederick Fritz Loewe; His stage successes included My Fair Lady, Gigi and Brigadoon.
1989 Ayatollah Khomeini in a fatwa (edict) orders the execution of British author Salman Rushdie after the publication of his novel Satanic Verses.
1989 Union Carbide Corp of the US accepts an Indian Supreme Court ruling that it pay US$470 million in compensation for the 1984 Bhopal poison gas disaster.
1992 The European Community and the seven-nation European Free Trade Association strike a final deal clearing the way for the creation of the world’s biggest single market.
2001 Yugoslavia becomes an official member of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).
2002 Guenter Wand, veteran German conductor known for his demanding working style and recordings of Bruckner, Beethoven and Mozart, died. He was 90.
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