1477: The earliest recorded Valentine's care was sent, in Norfolk.
1852: Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital in London admitted its first patient.
1895: Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest was staged for the first time in London.
1929: The St Valentine's Day Massacre took place in Chicago.
1945: Dresden was reduced to rubble by Allied bombing.
1946: The Bank of England was nationalised.
1963: Harold Wilson took over the leadership of the Labour Party after the death of Hugh Gaitskell.
1972: The original stage production of Grease opened in New York.
1978: The Brotherhood of Man's Figaro was number one in Britain.
1981: Benny Anderson and Frida Lyngstad of Abba announced their divorce.
1989: Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa on Salmon Rushdie.
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