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4 sourced moments from February 14 in history: Strasbourg burned its Jews on Valentine's Day 1349; Bell files his telephone patent (1876); The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1929), plus 1 more.

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4 things happened on February 14

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1990 Space · Space Exploration

In the Pale Blue Dot photo, Earth is just 0.12 of a pixel

Voyager 1's Valentine's Day 1990 portrait shrank Earth to a fraction of a pixel, and the famous sunbeam around it is a camera artefact.

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1929 Society & Economy · Crime

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

On a frigid Chicago morning, seven men were lined up against a garage wall and machine-gunned in Prohibition's most infamous hit.

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1876 Technology · Inventions

Bell files his telephone patent

Alexander Graham Bell's attorney reached the patent office hours before a rival, securing the telephone for history.

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1349 History · Medieval

Strasbourg burned its Jews on Valentine's Day 1349

About 2,000 Jews were killed on 14 February 1349, months before the plague reached Strasbourg, days after the council that defended them was overthrown.

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