What happened on 14 February?

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

1. 1946 First general-purpose 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 found YouTube.
3. 44 BCE Caesar appointed dictator perpetuo Caesar made dictator for life shortly before his assassination.
4. 1896 Herzl's The Jewish State Shaken by the antisemitism of the Dreyfus affair, the Viennese journalist argues that only a Jewish state can solve the 'Jewish question' — the founding manifesto of political Zion
5. 1989 Rushdie fatwa Ayatollah Khomeini issues a death fatwa against Salman Rushdie over The Satanic Verses; deep international rift over free speech and Islam.
6. 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.
7. 1779 Death of Captain Cook On his third voyage, searching for the Northwest Passage, Cook is killed in a clash with Hawaiians at Kealakekua Bay after trying to take their chief hostage.
8. 1963 8 1/2 released Federico Fellini's self-reflexive film about a director's creative block.
9. 1895 Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest Society comedy of mistaken identity and aphoristic wit.
10. 1981 Funky 4 + 1 perform on Saturday Night Live With Debbie Harry as host, the first hip-hop performance on national US television.
11. 2003 France opposes the Iraq War Chirac and his foreign minister Villepin lead the UN opposition to the American invasion of Iraq, provoking 'freedom fries' in the US Congress.
12. 1797 Battle of Cape St Vincent (1797) Disobeying the line of battle, Commodore Nelson swings his ship out to cut off the fleeing Spanish fleet and boards two ships in succession — 'Nelson's patent bridge for boarding f