Reuters historical calendar - February 14

London, Feb 13 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on February 14 since 1900: 1922 - Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi began the first regular radio broadcasting transmission from England.

1929 - Al Capone's henchmen killed seven 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. It was called ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer.

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.

1979 - The US ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph ''Spike'' Dubs, was killed during an attempt to free him from kidnappers.

1988 - Austrian composer and songwriter Frederick ''Fritz'' Loewe died. His stage successes included ''My Fair Lady'', ''Gigi'' and ''Brigadoon''.

1989 - Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa (edict) ordering the death of British author Salman Rushdie after the publication of his novel ''Satanic Verses''.

2002 - The Afghan interim minister for air transport and tourism was beaten to death at Kabul airport.

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 US forces after nine months in custody.

2005 - Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri was killed in a bomb blast, the biggest in the country since the end of the civil war.

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