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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_14" title="February 14">February 14</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day" title="Valentine's Day">Valentine's Day</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804" title="1804">1804</a> – Serb chieftains elected <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara%C4%91or%C4%91e" title="Karađorđe">Đorđe Petrović</a> as their leader, and began <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Serbian_Uprising" title="First Serbian Uprising">an uprising</a></b> against the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1852" title="1852">1852</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Ormond_Street_Hospital" title="Great Ormond Street Hospital">Hospital for Sick Children</a></b>, the first hospital in England to provide <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient#Outpatients_and_inpatients" title="Patient">in-patient</a> beds specifically for children, was founded in London.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924" title="1924">1924</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing-Tabulating-Recording_Company" title="Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company">Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company</a> was renamed to <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM" title="IBM">International Business Machines</a></b>, which grew into one of the world's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by_market_capitalization" title="List of public corporations by market capitalization">largest companies by market capitalization</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992" title="1992">1992</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Temasek" title="Sri Temasek">Sri Temasek</a></b>, the official residence of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Singapore" title="Prime Minister of Singapore">Prime Minister of Singapore</a>, was declared a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_monuments_of_Singapore" title="National monuments of Singapore">national monument</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Stinson" title="Katherine Stinson">Katherine Stinson</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1891); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiji_Nishioka" title="Keiji Nishioka">Keiji Nishioka</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1933); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annalisa_Buffa" title="Annalisa Buffa">Annalisa Buffa</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1973)</p>
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