Five Things You Need to Know: Feb. 14

Today is Tuesday, Feb. 14. Here are five things you need to know:

• Mild Day: Temperatures are expected to be in the low 40s most of the day, with some clouds.
• Valentine: Today is Valentine's Day, a holiday originally honoring Christian martyrs named Valentine but which has since become a holiday honoring romance. Check out this video of a as well as a local couple's story of Check out this poll on or Happy Valentine's Day... or as single people refer to it, "Ugh!"
• Election 2012: Local election season has begun.
• Meeting: The will be at 6:45 p.m. at
• This Day in History: In 1778, the United States flag was carried to a foreign port, in France, for the first time, aboard the American ship Ranger. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell filed an application for a patent for the telephone. In 1929, the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" -- in which seven Al Capone rival gangsters were killed -- occurred in Chicago. In 1962, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy gave a tour of the White House on television.

To find more things to do today, check out our event listings.