1. Wisconsin was admitted to the Union on February 14, 1848. It was the 30th state to join the United States.
2. In 1929, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre occurred, in which seven members of a Chicago gang were gunned down in a garage. One of the suspected killers fled to a resort in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, where he was eventually arrested.
3. On February 14, 1981, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra performed its first concert in its new permanent home, the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts.
4. In 2006, the Wisconsin State Senate voted to abolish the state's minimum markup law, which had required retailers to mark up products by at least 9.18%. The law had been in effect since 1939.
5. The first same-sex marriage licenses were issued in Wisconsin on February 14, 2014, after a federal judge struck down the state's ban on such marriages. However, the decision was later overturned by an appeals court.
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