What happened on 14 February?

7 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1946 First electronic computer (ENIAC) ENIAC unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania; first programmable general-purpose electronic computer.
2. 2005 Founding of YouTube PayPal alums Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim launch YouTube.
3. 44 BCE Caesar appointed dictator perpetuo Caesar made dictator for life shortly before his assassination.
4. 1989 Rushdie fatwa Ayatollah Khomeini issues a death fatwa against Salman Rushdie over The Satanic Verses; deep international rift over free speech and Islam.
5. 1804 First Serbian Uprising Karađorđe leads the Serbs against janissary misrule and then the Sultan himself — the opening act of the Balkan nations' century of liberation from Ottoman rule.
6. 1963 8 1/2 released Federico Fellini's self-reflexive film about a director's creative block.
7. 1895 Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest Society comedy of mistaken identity and aphoristic wit.