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.
