Historical events Februar14

1537: Death of Sultan Bahadur Shah of Gujarat from drowning while escaping from Portuguese.

1556: Coronation of Mughal emperor Akbar took place at Kalanaur in Gurdaspur district of Punjab. At that time, Akbar was only 13 years old.

1628:Shah Jahan became mughal emperor.

1658: Dara Shikoh defeated Shah Shuja in the Battle of Bahadurpur to take over the power of Delhi after Shah Jahan.

1876: Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray applied for a telephone patent on the same day.

1881: Establishment of India’s first homeopathic college at Kolkata.

1899: Voting machines began to be used in American election

1924: Establishment of computer maker IBM Company.

1945: World War II- Royal Air Force planes bombed the city of Dresden, Germany.

1945: Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Peru joined the United Nations.

1946: The first computer was on display at ENIAC University of Pennsylvania.

1989: Union Carbide agreed to pay USD 470,000,000 in compensation to the Government of India for the Bhopal tragedy.

2000,: Abhijit Kunte became the fourth Grandmaster of India.

2005: YouTube, the world-famous video searching website, was launched.

2019: A convoy of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was attacked by a vehicle-borne suicide bomber in the Pulwama district on the Jammu Shrinagar highway.

 

Famous birthdays and birth anniversaries February 14

1483: Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire and first Emperor of the Mughal dynasty in India.

1818: Frederick Douglass, an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.

 1909: Accamma Cherian, an Indian independence activist from the erstwhile Travancore, India.

1933: Madhubala, an Indian film actress.

1952: Sushma Swaraj, an Indian politician, and a Supreme Court lawyer.

Death anniversaries of famous people– February 14.

1779: Captain James Cook, a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy.

1808: John Dickinson, a Founding Father of the United States.

1975: P. G. Wodehouse, an English author.

 

Death anniversaries of famous people– February 14.

1779: Captain James Cook, a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy.

1808: John Dickinson, a Founding Father of the United States.

1975: P. G. Wodehouse, an English author.