| 17461 | February 14 | Event | 1966 – Australian currency is decimalised. |
| 17462 | February 14 | Event | 1970 – The iconic live album Live at Leeds by The Who is recorded. |
| 17463 | February 14 | Event | 1979 – In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police. |
| 17464 | February 14 | Event | 1981 – Stardust fire: A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people |
| 17465 | February 14 | Event | 1983 – United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud. |
| 17466 | February 14 | Event | 1989 – Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster. |
| 17467 | February 14 | Event | 1989 – Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses. |
| 17468 | February 14 | Event | 1990 – Ninety-two people are killed when Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes in Bangalore, India. |
| 17469 | February 14 | Event | 1990 – The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth later become famous as Pale Blue Dot. |
| 17470 | February 14 | Event | 1998 – An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created a massive explosion which kills 120. |
| 17471 | February 14 | Event | 2000 – The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid. |
| 17472 | February 14 | Event | 2004 – 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. |
| 17473 | February 14 | Event | 2005 – Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon Rafic Hariri is killed, along with 21 others, when explosives, equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT, are detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel in Beirut. |
| 17474 | February 14 | Event | 2005 – 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. |
| 17475 | February 14 | Event | 2005 – YouTube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos. |
| 17476 | February 14 | Event | 2008 – Northern Illinois University shooting: A gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois university resulting in six fatalities (including gunman) and 21 injuries. |
| 17477 | February 14 | Event | 2011 – As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising, a series of demonstrations, amounting to a sustained campaign of civil resistance, in the Persian Gulf country of Bahrain begins with a 'Day of Rage'. |
| 17478 | February 14 | Event | 2013 – Steam for Linux is released, beginning the expansion of Valve's game service onto the free and open-source platform. |
| 17479 | February 14 | Event | 2015 – Two people are killed in shootings at a free-speech seminar and at a synagogue service in Copenhagen. |
| 17480 | February 14 | Birth | 1468 – Johannes Werner, German priest and mathematician (d. 1522) |
| 17481 | February 14 | Birth | 1483 – Babur, Moghul emperor (d. 1530) |
| 17482 | February 14 | Birth | 1545 – Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara (d. 1561) |
| 17483 | February 14 | Birth | 1602 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (d. 1676) |
| 17484 | February 14 | Birth | 1640 – Countess Palatine Anna Magdalena of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (d. 1693) |
| 17485 | February 14 | Birth | 1679 – Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, German organist and composer (d. 1735) |
| 17486 | February 14 | Birth | 1680 – John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (d. 1737) |
| 17487 | February 14 | Birth | 1692 – Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French author and playwright (d. 1754) |
| 17488 | February 14 | Birth | 1701 – Enrique Flórez, Spanish historian and author (d. 1773) |
| 17489 | February 14 | Birth | 1763 – Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (d. 1813) |
| 17490 | February 14 | Birth | 1793 – Karl Christian Ulmann, Latvian-German pastor and theologian (d. 1871) |