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Feb 14 - when you remember your loved ones
On this day in 1958 Iraq and Jordan merged.
Today is Monday, February 14, the forty fifth day of 2005.
There are 320 days left in the year.
Highlights in history on this date:
1922 - The Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi began the first regular radio broadcast from England.
1929 - Al Capone's henchmen killed sen Iraq and Jordan merged. ven of the Bugs Moran gang in the "St Valentine's Day Massacre" in a Chicago garage.
1946 - A machine at the University of Pennsylvania took seconds to do calculations that normally took hours.
1956 - The 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party opened, during which its leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced the policies of his late predecessor Josef Stalin.
1958 - King Faisal of Iraq and King Hussein of Jordan proclaimed the merger of their kingdoms in the Arab Federation.
1979 - The US ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph "Spike" Dubs, was killed during an attempt to free him from kidnappers.
1989 - Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa (edict) ordering the death of the British author Salman Rushdie after the publication of his novel "The Satanic Verses".
2001 - Afghanistan's Taliban government told the United Nations to close its political office in Kabul in response to a U.S. order closing the Taliban office in New York.
2002 - The Afghan interim minister for air transport and tourism, Abdul Rahman, was beaten to death at Kabul airport.
2002 - Guenter Wand, the German conductor known for his demanding working style and recordings of Bruckner, Beethoven and Mozart, died aged 90.
2003 - The world's first cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep, was given a lethal injection after developing signs of progressive lung disease. She was six.
2004 - Saadoun Hammadi, a long-time ally of Saddam Hussein who served as Iraq's prime minister after the 1991 Gulf War, was freed by U.S. forces after nine months in custody.
