14th February in History

Every year people celebrate today for the same reasons - feelings of love, hurt feelings, They buy the same red roses, red hearts and sweets wrapped in red tin-foil.
This year, since I am single although really happier than ever, I am not going to write boring stories about unfulfilled eternal love, cruel loneliness etc... I am going to educate you what else could you understand about today and smile wide because of the small silly things you know!

Ingenuous Wikipedia will help me greatly in the trip through history.

Today, but in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray each filed a patent for the telephone. Which of them was more successful we know already, but thanks to both you can -now- pick up your phone and call somebody really really far away and tell him/her something nice. If you pick up your mobile phone, then let me tell you a small story about Jozef Murgaš, a Slovak inventor who contributed to wireless telegraphy and thus helped to "develop mobile communications and wireless transmission of information and human voice." Don't worry, this was the only boring sentence part.

This guy, who was originally a Roman catholic priest, was born in a small village Tajov in Slovakia, right next to the city I live. It was already in 1905 when he achieved a radio transmission over 30 kilometers in Pennsylvania. Imagine that the American president Theodore Roosevelt visited his lab in Wilkes-Barre, PA and T.A.Edison paid great attention to his experiments. What a honor it must have been!

Jozef Murgaš was also a painter and you can still see his painting in the church in Wilkes-Barre and also in Tajov, Slovakia. I think this is a very great way how to leave a small mark of your existence in history and ensure immortality. When anyone is looking at those paintings, he must be certainly thinking about the remarkable life this man lived 100 years ago!

Another Wikipedia entry says that today in 1989 the first of 24 Global Positioning Satellites (GPS) was launched into orbit. Valentine's effects? You will never get lost anymore while on a trip with your partner and you can also use this topic for romantic babel on stars up in the sky.

More:
Today but in 1989 a fatwa was issued on Salman Rushdie for his book Satanic Verses. - Does Islam recognize Valentine or not?

Today but in 1924 IBM has been founded. Probably the founders were single geeks and had nothing to do and no date. But they made a lot of cash and now they can buy any girl for a wife. Different approach to getting things, I would say.

Today but in 1779 James Cook, my favorite explorer and a noble man, was killed by the natives on Hawaiian Sandwich Islands. - Since then the Hawaiians became peaceful so they give you flowers and condoms when you land on their land.

The final and funniest article is about Ballantine's Day. In Norway, single persons buy a bottle of Ballantine's whiskey and drink it with other singles while discussing how ridiculous Valentine's Day is.

Happy today! :]