4 historical events that have taken place on February 14:
1876: Alexander Graham Bell applied for a patent for the telephone, which was granted on March 7, 1876.
1929: The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre took place in Chicago, Illinois. Seven members of the North Side Gang were killed by members of Al Capone's South Side Gang.
1989: The Iranian Revolution's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for the death of Salman Rushdie, a British author, for his allegedly blasphemy book "The Satanic Verses".
2011: Protesters in Egypt gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square to demand the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, marking the beginning of the Egyptian Revolution.
