We are the 45th day of the year, we celebrate Valentine's Day. Today the patron saint of lovers, he is a 3rd century bishop and martyr.
The sun rises two minutes earlier at 8:03 a.m. and sets a minute later at 6:07 p.m. The saying: "Clear skies on Valentine's Day, fullness of goods is announced"
Some February 14
1933: inauguration of the world's first talking clock at the Paris Observatory
1956: opening of the XX Congress of the PC of the USSR (destalinization). Khrushchev report February 24
1989: the writer Salman Rushdie is the target of a fatwa, launched by Ayatollah Khomeiny, sentencing him to death
2003: famous speech by Dominique de Villepin before the UN Security Council, against the use of force in Iraq
2004: death by cocaine overdose of Marco Pantani, great figure in Italian cycling
2005: assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri
2015: two shootings against a Jewish cultural center and a synagogue in Copenhagen kills two
It's their birthday
Michael Bloomberg, American businessman and ex-mayor of New York, born in 1942
Roland Giraud, actor born in 1942
