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| February 14th, 2008 | Event | Northern Illinois University shooting: a gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois university resulting in 24 casualties; 6 fatalities (including gunman) and 18 injured. |
| February 14th, 2005 | Event | Lebanon s former Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri, is assassinated, prompting the country to fall into chaos. |
| February 14th, 2005 | Event | Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected Al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit the Philippines Makati financial district in Metro Manila, Davao City, and General Santos City. |
| February 14th, 2004 | Event | In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others. |
| February 14th, 2002 | Event | The Tullaghmurray Lass sinks off the coast of Kilkeel, County Down, Northern Ireland killing three members of the same family on board. |
| February 14th, 2000 | Event | The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid. |
| February 14th, 1998 | Event | Authorities in the United States announce that Eric Robert Rudolph is a suspect in an Alabama abortion clinic bombing. |
| February 14th, 1996 | Event | China launches a Long March 3 rocket, carrying the Intelsat 708 satellite. The rocket flies off course 3 seconds after liftoff and crashes into a rural village. |
| February 14th, 1994 | Event | Andrei Chikatilo, a Russian serial killer is executed by shooting. |
| February 14th, 1990 | Event | 92 people are killed aboard Indian Airlines Flight 605 at Bangalore, India. |
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