February 14 Events

2011 Palestinian Authority cabinet members resign and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will select new ministers at the request of President Mahmoud Abbas
2011 China reports its trade surplus for January is $6.5 billion; the figure is less than expected
2010 Viktor Yanukovych is declared the official winner of Ukraine's presidential election
2001 Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft becomes first vehicle to land on an asteroid (433 Eros)
1995 Roseanne weds bodyguard Ben Thomas
1995 Wellington 2-498d and 4-475 beat Canterbury 496 and 2-476d
1994 Alexander Golubev skates Olympic record 500m (36.33)
1994 Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (51) weds Deborah Koons
1993 Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79
1992 Andre Cason runs world record 6 m indoor (6.41 sec)
1992 Cease fire in Somalia begins
1992 Kieren John Perkins swims world record 800m freestyle (7:46.60)
1992 Merlene Ottey runs world record 60m indoor (6.96 sec)
1991 "Mule Bone" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater New York City for 67 performances
1991 NL Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record $3 mil salary arbitration
1990 Alan Ayckbourn's "Man of the Moment," premieres in London
1990 Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some
1990 Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system
1989 African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam
1989 Boxer Mike Tyson divorces actress Robin Givens
1989 Khomeini orders Moslems to murder "Satanic Verses" novelist Rushdie
1989 Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in Dom Rep
1989 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopol disaster
1989 World's 1st satellite Skyphone opens
1988 49th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player
1988 Alfredo Stroessner re-elected president of Paraguay
1988 Bobby Allison at 50 becomes oldest driver to win Daytona 500
1988 General hospital star Jackie Zeman marries Glenn Gorden
1988 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
1987 53,745 largest NBA crowd to date-Philadelphia at Detroit
1985 Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut
1984 Singer Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney, Australia
1982 "Night of 100 Stars" takes place at New York's Radio City Music Hall
1982 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1980 "West Side Story" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 341 performances