Lt King took 15 convicts and seven free men with him on the voyage. They arrived on Norfolk Island on March 6 and set about preparing the island for more settlement and commercial development. 

Seven people were killed in the St Valentine's Day massacre in prohibition-era Chicago.

Six members and a mechanic of Bugs Moran's North Side gang were massacred by members of Al Capone's South Side gang, as the two leaders wrestled for control over the city's organised crime. The seven men were lined up inside a garage, located in the Lincoln Park district of Chicago, and executed. More than 150 bullets were fired. Two of Capone's men were disguised as police officers, leading the massacre victims to believe it was a police raid. A film about the deadly feud was released in 1967.

The German battleship Bismarck, an 823-foot star of Adolf Hitler's navy, was launched in 1939.

Hitler hoped the Bismarck would herald the rebirth of his navy, and indeed once it headed into the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean in 1941 it wreaked havoc on the Allied convoys. Virtually untraceable, the Bismarck was eventually engaged by several British ships, including one battle with the cruiser Hood and battleship Prince of Wales. All but three people aboard the Hood died when it exploded and sunk, killing more than 1400 men. Over the next three days, more Allied naval forces took to the Bismarck, which was eventually destroyed on May 27, 1941. More than 2000 Germans died in the battle.

The decimal currency is introduced in Australia in 1966.

Gone are the days of pounds, shillings and pence. One of Sir Robert Menzies' election promises leading up to the 1958 election was to investigate the possibilities of a decimal currency.

Australia's DJ Havana Brown was born in Melbourne in 1985.

Matchbox Twenty frontman and solo artist Rob Thomas was born in an army hospital in Landstuhl, West Germany, to his American parents in 1972.

Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz actor Simon Pegg was born in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, England in 1970.

Champion cyclist Cadel Evans was born in the Katherine Hospital in the Northern Territory in 1977.

Australian actor and television presenter Luke Jacobz was born in Sydney in 1981.

Elton John married Renata Blauel in Sydney in 1984. They divorced in 1988.

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin married Lois Driggs Cannon in 1988. They divorced in 2011.

Liam Gallagher married Atomic Kitten's Nicole Appleton in 2008, seven years after their son Gene was born. Liam and Nicole's divorce was finalised in 2014. 

Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid wed in 1991. Nine years later, they divorced.

TIP: Seems to me like Valentine's Day is an unlucky day to get married.

These guys are still going all right though. Salma Hayek and Francois-Henri Pinault married in Paris on Valentine's Day in 2009.

Albert Einstein ended his marriage to Mileva Maric in 1919. They were married 16 years.

In 1989, Robin Givens is granted divorce from Mike Tyson.

Captain James Cook, who was killed in a stoush with Hawaiian natives in 1779. He was 50.

Australian Test cricketer Graeme Hole passed away in 1990.

Dolly the Sheep, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell. A progressive lung disease killed Dolly, aged 6.