February 14

Cyril, who with his brother Methodius devised the script that shaped Slavic liturgy and letters, died in Rome.

Alexander Graham Bell's attorney filed his U.S. patent application for the telephone, reportedly hours before a rival inventor lodged a competing claim for a similar device.

From beyond the orbit of Neptune, Voyager 1 turned its camera homeward and photographed Earth as a tiny point of light, the image later known as the Pale Blue Dot.