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Events
532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.
1055 – Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire.
1158 – Vladislav II becomes King of Bohemia.
1569 – First recorded lottery in England.
1571 – Austrian nobility is granted freedom of religion.
1693 – A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta.
1759 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
1779 – Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
1785 – The Continental Congress convenes in New York City.
1787 – William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
1805 – The Michigan Territory is created.
1838 – Inventor Samuel Morse holds the first public demonstration of telegraph messages in Morristown, New Jersey.
1861 – Alabama secedes from the United States.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post: Union General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture Arkansas Post, a Confederate stronghold on the Arkansas River. The victory secured central Arkansas for the Union and lifted Northern morale just three weeks after the disastrous Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia.
1863 – American Civil War: CSS Alabama encounters and sinks the USS Hatteras off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas.
1866 – SS London, an English steamship, sinks in the Bay of Biscay. Only 19 survivors are able to escape the foundering ship by lifeboat, leaving a death toll of 220.
1879 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
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| 1910s - Grand Canyon National Park. |
1912 – Immigrant textile works in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
1917 – The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
1919 – Romania reincorporates Transylvania.
1922 – First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
1923 – Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments when the Weimar Republic defaulted.
1927 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
1935 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
1942 – World War II: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
1943 – World War II: The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
1943 – Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City.
1945 – Greek Civil War: Last day of the Dekemvriana clashes in Athens, Greece.
1946 – Enver Hoxha, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Albania, declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as head of state.
1949 – The first "networked" television broadcasts take place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
1949 – A three-day snowfall begins in Los Angeles, California. Accumulations range from a trace near the coast to almost a foot in the San Fernando Valley.
1957 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar, Senegal.
1960 – Henry Lee Lucas, once listed as America's most prolific serial killer, commits his first known murder.
1962 – Cold War: While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment.
1962 – An avalanche on Huascarán in Peru causes 4,000 deaths.
1964 – Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., issues the first government report regarding the dangers of cigarette smoking. Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States said that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.
1972 – East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
1973 – Major League Baseball owners vote in approval of the American League adopting the designated hitter position.
1986 – The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane in Queensland, Australia is officially opened.
1986 – First winter ascent of Kangchenjunga by Krzysztof Wielicki and Jerzy Kukuczka from Poland.
1994 – The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.
1996 – Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
1998 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria.
2003 – Calling the death penalty process "arbitrary and capricious, and therefore immoral," Illinois Gov. George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 condemned inmates on Illinois' death row based on the Jon Burge scandal, clearing his state's death row two days before leaving office.
2013 – One French soldier and 17 militants are killed in a failed attempt to free a French hostage in Bulo Marer, Somalia.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Within the Octave of the Epiphany.
Commemoration of St. Hyginus, Pope of Rome, Martyr.
Contemporary Western
Leucius of Brindisi
Paulinus II of Aquileia
Theodosius the Cenobiarch
Thomas of Cori
Vitalis of Gaza
Paulinus II of Aquileia
Theodosius the Cenobiarch
Thomas of Cori
Vitalis of Gaza
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Mary Slessor (Church of England)
Eastern Orthodox
Earliest day on which Triodion can fall, while February 14 is the latest;
celebrated 70 days before Easter
Feasts
Saints
Martyr Mairus (Mairos)
Martyrs Peter, Severius and Leucius, at Alexandria
Venerable Theodosius of Antioch, ascetic of Rhosus and Antioch, Wonderworker (412)
Venerable Theodosius the Cenobiarch (Theodosius the Great) (529)
Venerable Theodorus, and Venerable Archimandrite Agapius of Apamea in Syria
Venerable Vitalis of Gaza (Vitalios), of the monastery of Abba Seridus at Gaza (c. 609 - 620)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Hieromartyr Hyginus, Pope of Rome (142)
Saint Leucius of Brindisi, venerated as the first Bishop of Brindisi,
where he had come as a missionary from Alexandria (180)
Hieromartyr Alexander of Fermo, Bishop, martyred under Decius (c. 250)
Saints Ethenia and Fidelmia, Princesses, daughters of King Laoghaire in Ireland,
veiled as nuns by St Patrick (433)
Martyr Salvius, in North Africa, eulogized by St Augustine
Saint Brandan, Abbot, opponent of Pelagianism (5th c.)
Saint Honorata, nun, sister of St. Epiphanius of Pavia, who ransomed her after
she was abducted from the monastery of St. Vincent in Pavia (c. 500)
Saint Anastasius of Castel Sant'Elia, Abbot (c. 570)
Saint Boadin the Irish, hermit in Gaul
Saints Paldo, Taso and Tato, three brothers, Abbots of San Vincenzo
on the Voltorno (8th c.)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Theodosius of Mt. Athos, Metropolitan of Trebizond (1392.)
Venerable Michael of Klopsk, of Klopsk Monastery in Novgorod,
Fool-for-Christ and Wonderworker (1456)
Venerable Job of Manyava, Igumen of Manyava Skete (1621)
New Martyr Nikephoros of Crete, by hanging, for renouncing Islam
and confessing his faith in Christ (1832)
Saint Joseph the New of Cappadocia (c. 1860)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyrs, Priests:(1919)
Nicholas Matsievsky of Perm
Theodore Antipin of Perm
Vladimir Fokin of Krasnoyarsk
New Hiero-Confessor Vladimir (Khirasko), Archpriest, of Minsk (1932)
Martyr Mairus (Mairos)
Martyrs Peter, Severius and Leucius, at Alexandria
Venerable Theodosius of Antioch, ascetic of Rhosus and Antioch, Wonderworker (412)
Venerable Theodosius the Cenobiarch (Theodosius the Great) (529)
Venerable Theodorus, and Venerable Archimandrite Agapius of Apamea in Syria
Venerable Vitalis of Gaza (Vitalios), of the monastery of Abba Seridus at Gaza (c. 609 - 620)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Hieromartyr Hyginus, Pope of Rome (142)
Saint Leucius of Brindisi, venerated as the first Bishop of Brindisi,
where he had come as a missionary from Alexandria (180)
Hieromartyr Alexander of Fermo, Bishop, martyred under Decius (c. 250)
Saints Ethenia and Fidelmia, Princesses, daughters of King Laoghaire in Ireland,
veiled as nuns by St Patrick (433)
Martyr Salvius, in North Africa, eulogized by St Augustine
Saint Brandan, Abbot, opponent of Pelagianism (5th c.)
Saint Honorata, nun, sister of St. Epiphanius of Pavia, who ransomed her after
she was abducted from the monastery of St. Vincent in Pavia (c. 500)
Saint Anastasius of Castel Sant'Elia, Abbot (c. 570)
Saint Boadin the Irish, hermit in Gaul
Saints Paldo, Taso and Tato, three brothers, Abbots of San Vincenzo
on the Voltorno (8th c.)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Theodosius of Mt. Athos, Metropolitan of Trebizond (1392.)
Venerable Michael of Klopsk, of Klopsk Monastery in Novgorod,
Fool-for-Christ and Wonderworker (1456)
Venerable Job of Manyava, Igumen of Manyava Skete (1621)
New Martyr Nikephoros of Crete, by hanging, for renouncing Islam
and confessing his faith in Christ (1832)
Saint Joseph the New of Cappadocia (c. 1860)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyrs, Priests:(1919)
Nicholas Matsievsky of Perm
Theodore Antipin of Perm
Vladimir Fokin of Krasnoyarsk
New Hiero-Confessor Vladimir (Khirasko), Archpriest, of Minsk (1932)
Consecration of the Church of St. Stephen in Placidia Palace, Constantinople
Chernigov-Eletskaya Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1060)
Repose of Blessed Nun Eupraxia of Teliakov village, Kostroma (1823)
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