February 14: Valentine's DayDetail from Pale Blue Dot1655 Arauco War: The Mapuche carried out a series of coordinated attacks against Spanish settlements and forts in colonial Chile, beginning a ten-year period of warfare.1779 Native Hawaiians killed the English explorer Captain James Cook after he attempted to kidnap Kalanipuu, the ruling chief of the island of Hawaii.1990 The NASA space probe Voyager1 took Pale Blue Dot (detail pictured), a photograph of Earth from a record distance of 40.5 astronomical units (6.06billionkm; 3.76billionmi).2005 The online video platform YouTube was founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim.2007 The first of several bombings in Zahedan, Iran, killed 18 members of the Revolutionary Guards.Valentin Friedland (b.1490)Eleanora Atherton (b.1782)Nadezhda Krupskaya (b.1869)Vito Genovese (d.1969)More anniversaries: February 13February 14February 15ArchiveBy emailList of days of the yearAbout