As history shows, Valentine's Day significant for more than just love.Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard Regardless of what you do Monday, whether it's going out to dinner with your sweetheart, exchanging valentine's in your second-grade class or - you single person, you - just sitting home alone and inhaling massive quantities of chocolate while watching another episode of "The Bachelorette," you'll most likely remember the day for one thing: The fact that it is, indeed, St. Valentine's Day St. Valentine’s Day (February 14) day of celebration of love. [Western Folklore: Leach, 1153] See : Love . It's a day of forced commercial love that many of us would just as soon chew up and regurgitate re·gur·gi·tate v. 1. To rush or surge back. 2. To cause to pour back, especially to cast up partially digested food. re·gur rather than celebrate. But Feb. 14 is, locally and elsewhere, also the anniversary of other significant events, some good and some really, really bad. Stuff happens. Every day. And Valentine's Day Valentine's Day: see Saint Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day Lovers' holiday celebrated on February 14, the feast day of St. Valentine, one of two 3rd-century Roman martyrs of the same name. St. seems to be when a lot of stuff happens, including statehoods, famous births and infamous murders. Sorry to rain on anyone's special day, but some of us in the media just tell it like it is, you know. So enjoy these tidbits TidBITS is an award-winning electronic newsletter and web site dealing primarily with Apple Computer and Macintosh-related topics. Internet publication TidBITS has been published weekly since April 16, 1990, which makes it one of the longest running Internet publications. of history and remember, those boys in Chicago 76 years ago might not have been hit with Cupid's bows and arrows, but they got hit all right. And not with love. 1349: 2,000 Jews burned at the stake in Strasbourg, France. 1400: Richard II Richard II, 1367–1400, king of England (1377–99), son of Edward the Black Prince. Early Life After his father's death (1376) he was created prince of Wales and succeeded his grandfather, Edward III, to the throne. , British king from 1377 to 1399, murdered at age 33. 1778: American flag arrives on foreign soil for first time when American ship "Ranger" docks in France. 1779: Capt. James Cook, British explorer, murdered by natives in Hawaii. 1817: Abolitionist Frederick Douglass born. 1848: James Polk became first U.S. president photographed in office when Matthew Brady This article is about the Australian bushranger. For other people with similar names, see Matthew Brady (disambiguation). Matthew Brady born from two imigrants from Ireland (1799 – May 4, 1826) was a notorious bushranger in Van Diemen's Land (now known as Tasmania) in takes his picture. 1859: Oregon becomes a state. 1889: First trainload of oranges leaves Los Angeles for the East. 1891: Civil War Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, who led Union's capture of Atlanta, dies at age 71. 1894: Comedian Jack Benny - "Oh, Rochester!" - born Benjamin Kubelski in Waukegan, Ill; Alton F. Baker, publisher of The Register-Guard from 1927 to 1961, born in Willoughby, Ohio. 1895: Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" opens in London. 1899: United States Congress begins using voting machines. 1912: Arizona becomes a state. 1913: Jimmy Hoffa and Mel Allen, future voice of the Yankees, born. 1919: United Parcel Service United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS), commonly referred to as UPS, is the world's largest package delivery company, delivering more than 15 million packages[1] a day to 6.1 million customers in over 200 countries and territories around the world. forms. 1920: League of Women Voters League of Women Voters, voluntary public service organization of U.S. citizens. Organized in 1920 in Chicago as an outgrowth of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, it had as its original nucleus the leaders of the latter organization. founded in Chicago. 1921: Hugh Downs of `20/20' fame born. 1929: Seven rivals of Al Capone's gang gunned down in Chicago in what becomes known as the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre St. Valentine’s Day Massacre murder of seven members of a gang of bootleggers in Chicago (1929). [Am. Hist.: EB, VII: 797] See : Massacre ." 1934: Florence Henderson of "Brady Bunch" fame born. 1944: Journalist Carl Bernstein of "Watergate" fame born. 1945: Late actor and dancer Gregory Hines born. 1951: Sugar Ray Robinson Noun 1. Sugar Ray Robinson - United States prizefighter who won the world middleweight championship five times and the world welterweight championship once (1921-1989) Ray Robinson, Walker Smith, Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta and takes middleweight boxing title. 1952: Sixth Winter Olympics games open in Oslo, Norway. 1962: First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on television. 1966: Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= career scoring record at 20,884 points. 1967: Aretha Franklin records "Respect." 1971: President Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House. 1972: John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin co-hosting "Mike Douglas Show" for entire week. 1980: 13th Winter Olympics games open in Lake Placid, N.Y. 1989: Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini calls on Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Verses;" actress Robin Givens is granted a divorce from boxer Mike Tyson in Dominican Republic. 1991: Air raid shelter at Baghdad bombed, killing 300. 1994: Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia weds Deborah Koons. 2004: And for all you romantics out there, 32 couples in Lane County celebrated Valentine's Day by getting married. Sources: The Associated Press, www.scopesys.com/anyday, Lane County Deeds and Records. |
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