📜 This Day in History
February 14
- 1655Arauco War: The Mapuche carried out a series of coordinated attacks against Spanish settlements and forts in colonial Chile, beginning a ten-year period of warfare.
- 1852The Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children, was founded in London.
- 1924The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company was renamed as International Business Machines (IBM), later growing into one of the world's largest companies by market capitalization.
- 1979Adolph Dubs, United States Ambassador to Afghanistan, was kidnapped by unknown agents and killed during a gun battle between Afghan police and the perpetrators.
- 2005The online video platform YouTube was founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim.
2018An lone gunman shot and killed seventeen people and injured seventeen others in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
