Saint Valentine dies a martyr, President Polk has his picture snapped, Al Capone sends his foes a violent Valentine's Day message, and Jackie Kennedy invites TV viewers inside the White House, all on this day.
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1944: Journalist Carl Bernstein, who with his fellow Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward did the majority of the most important news reporting on the Watergate scandal, is born in Washington, D.C.