Memory of the day: Saint Valentine dies by beheading in 273

CAIRO – 14 February 2022: In the following lines, ET sheds light on the most important world events that took place on February 14.

273 - Saint Valentine dies by beheading.

1859 - Oregon becomes the 33rd state of the United States of America.

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.

1878 - The Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II dissolves Parliament less than a year after its establishment. Parliamentary life did not return until thirty years later, after the coup d'état of 1908.

1879 - The Pacific War begins when Chilean forces occupy the Bolivian city of Antofagasta.

1908 - Mohamed Farid is elected leader of the Egyptian National Party, succeeding Mustafa Kamel.

1912 - Arizona becomes the 48th state of the United States of America.

1943 – The Battle of Kasserine Pass takes place when the German Africa Corps under Erwin Rommel attacks the Allied defenses in Tunisia.

1989 - Religious authority Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini issues a fatwa in which the writer Salman Rushdie should be murdered because of his novel "The Satanic Verses".

Other occasions:

Valentine’s Day.