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| | 1989
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Today: Today is Valentine's Day, the feast day of St. Valentine, a priest and physician who was martyred about 270 in Rome, and the tradition of exchanging greetings of love on Valentine's Day is based on the legend that Valentine had signed a letter to his jailer's daughter, with whom he had fallen in love, “from your Valentine.” [ Why do we give Valentine's Day cards? ]
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2018: Amid scandals and corruption allegations, South African President Jacob Zuma resigned and was later replaced by Cyril Ramaphosa. [ Take our African leaders quiz .]
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2005: Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim registered YouTube, a
Web site for sharing videos; it would become hugely popular, with more than one billion unique users visiting the site every month. [ Test your knowledge of tech companies .]
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1946: American dancer, choreographer, and actor Gregory Hines, a major figure in the revitalization of tap dancing
in the late 20th century, was born.
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1946: The first general-purpose high-speed electronic digital computer, the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), was demonstrated to the public by its creators, J. Presper Eckert, Jr., and
John W. Mauchly. [ Discover how well you know computers and operating systems .]
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