On Februa14, around the year A.D. 270, Valentine, a holy
priest in Rome in the days of Emperor Claudius II, is said
to have been beheaded.

Under the rule of Claudius the Cruel, Rome was involved in
many unpopular and bloody campaigns.

Claudius believed that Roman men were unwilling to join the
army because of their strong attachment to their wives and
families.

To get rid of the problem, Claudius banned all marriages and engagements in Rome. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the
decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages
for young lovers in secret.

   
1909

SANDY KOZEL

John Joseph "Jack" Geoghan (left ) (June 4, 1935 – August 23, 2003)
was an American serial child rapist and Catholic priest assigned to parishes in the Archdiocese of Boston in Massachusetts. He was reassigned to several parish posts involving interaction with
children, even after receiving treatment for pedophilia.

Geoghan was convicted of sexual abuse, laicized, and sentenced in
2002 to nine to ten years in Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center,
a maximum security prison.

Less than a year later, he was murdered there by Joseph Druce 
(above right) an inmate serving a life sentence. 

Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Catholic priest, launched the Mexican
War of Independence with the issuing of his Grito de Dolores, or
“Cry of Dolores.” The revolutionary tract, so-named because it
was publicly read by Hidalgo in the town of Dolores, called for the
end of 300 years of Spanish rule in Mexico, redistribution of land
and racial equality. Thousands of Indians and mestizos flocked to Hidalgo’s banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe, and soon the peasant
army was on the march to Mexico City.

Don Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla
y Gallaga Mandarte Villaseñor (8 May 1753 – 30 July 1811)

SANDY KOZEL

Rudolph Valentino 
(nicknamed The Latin Lover)
(May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926)

1922

CAMILLE BOHANNON

Jerry Lee Lewis, often known by his nickname…The Killer
is 84 years old to day. 

Singer-songwriter Jerry Lee Lewis has been described as a pioneer of
rockabilly and ‘’rock & roll’s first great wild man.”         

On February 28, 2019, Lewis suffered a minor stroke in Memphis. He is
expected to fully recover, but had to cancel some appearances.