February Valentines facts

While investigating facts about February Valentine's Day and February Valentine Week, I found out little known, but curios details like:

Sir Salman Rushdie still receives a "sort of Valentine's card" from Iran each year on 14 February letting him know the country has not forgotten the vow to kill him

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February 14th is both Valentine's Day and Oregon's state birthday.

In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 12 of the best facts about February Valentine Day List and February Valentines Calendar I managed to collect.

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1. Arizona is also known as the Valentine State because it became a state on February 14th.

2. In 1537, King Henry the Eighth declared that February 14th was a holiday. King Henry the Eighth had most of his wives executed because they did not give birth to a son.

3. Penicillin was introduced on February 14th in 1929.

4. Al Capone had committed many crimes over the years, including murder, but the St. Valentine's Day Massacre on February 14th, 1929 brought Capone to the attention of the federal government.

5. Floyd Collins, a Kentucky cave explorer, became trapped inside the Sand Cave in 1925 shortly after he discovered it. After being trapped down there for 14 days, he perished on Friday the 13th of February, a day before Valentine's day. His tombstone reads "The Greatest Cave Explorer Ever Known"

6. St. Valentine's Day is associated with romance becase, during the Middle Ages, it was believed that birds paired couples in mid-February. The holiday is literally for the birds.

7. The Romans had a holiday meant to foster fertility. This holiday, "Lupercalia," took place from February 13th to February 15th, during what is now Valentines day.

8. Valentine's days roots are in the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia, a fertility celebration commemorated annually on February 15. Pope Gelasius I recast this pagan festival as a Christian feast day circa 496, declaring February 14 to be St. Valentine's Day.

9. On February 14, 1929, 7 members of George “Bugs” Moran’s bootlegging gang were lined up against a wall and shot dead inside a garage. The only witness to the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre was a dog named Highball. He was never the same after the Massacre and had to be put down by police.

10. We celebrate Valentine's Day on the 14th of February because that was the date Saint Valentine was executed for illegaly allowing Roman soldiers to get married in his church.