•
• Today is Friday, Feb. 14, the 45th day of 2014. There are 320 days left in the year. This is Valentine's Day.
•
• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Feb. 14, 1924, the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. of New York was formally renamed International Business Machines Corp., or IBM.
•
• On this date:
• In 1014, Henry II was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome by Pope Benedict VIII.
• In 1778, the American ship Ranger carried the recently adopted Stars and Stripes to a foreign port for the first time as it arrived in France.
• In 1859, Oregon was admitted to the Union as the 33rd state.
• In 1895, Oscar Wilde's final play, "The Importance of Being Earnest," opened at the St. James's Theatre in London.
• In 1903, the Department of Commerce and Labor was established. (It was divided into separate departments of Commerce and Labor in 1913.)
• In 1912, Arizona became the 48th state of the Union as President William Howard Taft signed a proclamation.
• In 1929, the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" took place in a Chicago garage as seven rivals of Al Capone's gang were gunned down.
• In 1949, Israel's Knesset convened for the first time.
• In 1963, Federico Fellini's art-house classic "8½" was first released in Italy.
• In 1979, Adolph Dubs, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, was kidnapped in Kabul by Muslim extremists and killed in a shootout between his abductors and police.
• In 1984, 6-year-old Stormie Jones became the world's first heart-liver transplant recipient at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (she lived until Nov. 1990). Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean of Britain won the gold medal in ice dancing at the Sarajevo Olympics.

(Continued on page 37)