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14 February
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1483 Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire and first Emperor of the Mughal dynasty in the Indian subcontinent, was born. He was a descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan.
- 1556 Mughal Emperor Akbar was proclaimed as successor of Humayun at the age of twelve at Kalanaur, Gurudaspur district, Punjab.
- 1628 Coronation of Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal emperor of India who reigned from 1628 to 1658, took place at Agra.
- 1909 Accamma Cherian, independence activist from the erstwhile Travancore, India, was born. She was popularly known as the Jhansi Rani of Travancore. While leading a mass rally she boldly faced the policemen who had orders to shoot the agitators. She was imprisoned twice during the independence struggle.
- 1989 Supreme Court orders Union Carbide Coporation of USA and Union Carbide India Limited to pay $470 millions (about Rs. 710 crores) in full and final settlement of all claims out of the Bhopal gas Disaster Litigation tragedy of 1985.
- 1999 Fifth National Games inaugurated at Imphal.
- 2019 An attack by a suicide bomber took place at Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, in which 40 CRPF personnel lost their lives.
- 2019 Pulwama attack takes place in Lethpora in Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, India, in which 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel and a suicide bomber were killed and 35 were injured.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1876 Alexander Graham Bell applied for a patent for the telephone.
- 1975 P G Wodehouse, English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century, died in Southampton, New York, United States. Bertie Wooster, Jeeves and Psmith are some of the memorable characters he created.
- 1989 Iran's political and religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, calling for the death of Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.
- 2003 Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, was euthanized because of incurable lung cancer.
- 2005 YouTube was launched by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, three former employees of the American e-commerce company PayPal.
- 2010 Dick Francis, British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels are based on horse racing in England, died.
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