February 14 is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 320 days remain until the end of the year (321 in leap years). It is observed in most countries as Valentine's Day. [1]

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2025年3月18日 · Valentine’s Day, holiday (February 14) when lovers express their affection with greetings and gifts. Given their similarities, it has been suggested that the holiday has origins in the Roman festival of Lupercalia , held in mid-February.

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On this day in 1989, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa and offered a bounty for the assassination of author Salman Rushdie, whose novel The Satanic Verses (1988) Khomeini denounced as blasphemous.

February 14 is the 45th day of the Gregorian calendar. The U.S. Congress approved using voting machines in federal elections; Alexander Graham Bell applied for a telephone patent. Al Capone ordered the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre on six mobsters in Chicago.

February 14 is celebrated as Saint Valentine's Day in various Christian denominations; it has, for example, the rank of "commemoration" in the calendar of saints in the Anglican Communion. [14] The feast day of Saint Valentine is given in the calendar of saints of the Lutheran Church. [15]