1778<\/strong> – The Stars and Stripes were carried to a foreign port, in France, for the first time. It was aboard the American ship\u00a0Ranger<\/i>.<\/p>\n 1803<\/strong> – Moses Coates received a patent for the apple parer.<\/p>\n 1849<\/strong> – The first photograph of a\u00a0U.S.\u00a0President, while in office, was taken by Matthew Brady in New York City.\u00a0President James Polk\u00a0was the subject of the picture.<\/p>\n 1859<\/strong> –\u00a0Oregon\u00a0became the 33rd member of the Union.<\/p>\n 1876<\/strong> – Alexander Graham Bell filed an application for a patent for the telephone. It was officially issued on March 7, 1876.<\/p>\n 1889<\/strong> – In Los Angeles,\u00a0CA, oranges began their first trip to the east.<\/p>\n 1895<\/strong> – Oscar Wilde’s final play, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” opened at the St. James’ Theatre in London.<\/p>\n 1899<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Congress approved voting machines for use in federal elections.<\/p>\n 1900<\/strong> – Russia imposed tighter imperial control over Finland in response to an international petition for Finland’s freedom.<\/p>\n 1900<\/strong> – In South Africa, British Gen. Roberts invaded Orange Free State with 20,000 troops.<\/p>\n 1903<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Department of Commerce and Labor was established.<\/p>\n 1912<\/strong> – The first diesel engine submarine was commissioned in Groton,\u00a0CT.<\/p>\n 1912<\/strong> –\u00a0Arizona\u00a0was admitted as the 48th\u00a0U.S.\u00a0state.<\/p>\n 1920<\/strong> – The League of Women Voters was founded in Chicago. The first president of the organization was Maude Wood Park.<\/p>\n 1929<\/strong> – The “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” took place in Chicago,\u00a0IL. Seven gangsters who were rivals of Al Capone were killed.<\/p>\n 1932<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0won the first bobsled competition at the Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid,\u00a0NY.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – The first porpoise born in captivity arrived at Marineland in\u00a0Florida.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – Peru, Paraguay, Chile, and Ecuador joined the United Nations.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong> – ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was unveiled. The device, built at the University of Pennsylvania, was the world’s first general-purpose electronic computer.<\/p>\n 1954<\/strong> – The TV show “Letter to Loretta” changed its name to “The Loretta Young Show.” The show premiered on September 20, 1953.<\/p>\n 1957<\/strong> – Lionel Hampton\u2019s only major musical work, “King David,” made its debut at New York\u2019s Town Hall.<\/p>\n 1961<\/strong> – Lawrencium, element 103, was first produced in Berkely,\u00a0CA.<\/p>\n 1962<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy gave a tour of the White House on television.<\/p>\n 1966<\/strong> – Rick Mount of Lebanon,\u00a0IN, became the first high school, male athlete to be pictured on the cover of “Sports Illustrated”.<\/p>\n 1966<\/strong> – Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers set a\u00a0National Basketball Association (NBA)\u00a0record as he reached a career high of 20,884 points after seven seasons.<\/p>\n 1968<\/strong> – The fourth Madison Square Gardens opened.<\/p>\n 1979<\/strong> – Twenty-year-old rookie, Don Maloney, of the New York Rangers, scored his first goal in the National Hockey League. It came on his first\u00a0NHL\u00a0shot.<\/p>\n 1979<\/strong> – Adolph Dubs, the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0ambassador to Afghanistan, was kidnapped in Kabul by Muslim extremists. He was killed in a shootout between his abductors and police.<\/p>\n 1980<\/strong> – Walter Cronkite announced his retirement from the “CBS Evening News.”<\/p>\n 1983<\/strong> – A 6-year-old boy became the first person to receive a heart and liver transplants in the same operation.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – Cable News Network (CNN) reporter Jeremy Levin was freed. He had been being held in Lebanon by extremists.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini called on Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie because of his novel “The Satanic Verses.”<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – The first satellite of the Global Positioning System was placed into orbit around Earth.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – Union Carbide agreed to pay $470 million to the government of India. The court-ordered settlement was a result of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – Astronauts on the space shuttle\u00a0Discovery<\/i>\u00a0began a series of spacewalks that were required to overhaul the Hubble Space Telescope.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0authorities officially announced that Eric Rudolph was a suspect in a bombing of an abortion clinic in\u00a0Alabama.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0House of Representatives passed the Shays-Meehan bill. The bill, if passed by the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Senate, would ban millions of unregulated money that goes to the national political parties.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – Sylvester Stallone filed a lawsuit against Kenneth Starr. The suit alleged that Starr had given bad advice about selling Planet Hollywood stock.<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong> – In Madrid, Spain, a ceramic plate with a bullfighting motif painted by Pablo Picasso in 1949 was stolen from an art show. The plate was on sale for $12,400.<\/p>\n 2005<\/strong> – The video-sharing website\u00a0YouTube\u00a0was activated.<\/p>\n History of 14 February 1778 – The Stars and Stripes were carried to a foreign port, in France, for the first time. 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