Sunday, February 14, 2016

14 February - History and Importance of the Day



Valentine's Day


The day was first associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages. In 18th-century England, it evolved into an occasion in which lovers expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines"). In Europe, Saint Valentine's Keys are given to lovers "as a romantic symbol and an invitation to unlock the giver’s heart", as well as to children, in order to ward off Saint Valentine's Malady.

The Valentines honored on February 14 are Valentine of Rome and Valentine of Terni.

1743 - Henry Pelham becomes Britain's First Lord of Treasury
1794 - 1st US textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Philadelphia
1803 - Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington, Pennsylvania
1849 - Photographer Mathew Brady took the first photograph of a U.S. President in office, James Polk.

1929 - Pencillin was discovered
            http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/penicillin-discovered

2003 Dolly the cloned sheep died - six years old
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2005 - YouTube.com domain was registered.



Birthdays

1859 - George Ferris Junior

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14 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

14 February - History of India

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