1. The first recorded Valentine's Day celebration in Virginia dates back to 1749 in Williamsburg. The Virginia Gazette announced a ball scheduled for February 14th of that year, where "all the ladies who are disposed to be good-natured" were invited to attend.

2. In 1862, during the American Civil War, General Stonewall Jackson's forces captured the Union garrison at Fort Donelson in Tennessee on February 14th. This victory strengthened the Confederacy's position in the western theater of the war.

3. On February 14, 1950, Virginia Woolf's posthumous novel "Between the Acts" was published for the first time in the United States. The novel had been completed just before Woolf's suicide in 1941 and was released in the UK in 1941.

4. February 14, 1966, marked the opening of the Virginia Air and Space Center in Hampton, Virginia. The center features a wide range of exhibits and interactive displays that focus on space exploration and aviation history.

5. On February 14, 2019, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam faced calls for his resignation due to the release of a yearbook photo showing a person in blackface and another person in a Ku Klux Klan robe. The controversy sparked a national conversation about race in America and the appropriate response to past racist behavior.