Valentine’s Day is a holiday for people worldwide to share their love and affection. But did you ever wonder how the holiday that celebrates love, affection and friendship came to be? The origin of Valentine’s Day Although the origins of the holiday are slightly unclear,

Today, we might celebrate it by making goo-goo eyes at our partners over a bottle of wine, a plate of spaghetti and a bouquet of roses, but ancient Romans celebrated the day with a fertility festival hundreds of years ago with animal sacrifices and drunken merrymaking.

One legend contends that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men.

Valentine’s Day -- the holiday made for a Hallmark movie. At least that’s what it seems like now. But it wasn’t always so closely associated with roses and teddy bears.

But that was all small-time stuff compared to Patey’s coup on Feb. 14, 1968, when he announced he had purchased the wall where the St. Valentine’s Day massacre was held in Chicago. “The St. Valentine’s Day massacre was history’s most famous gangland shooting,” said a Province story on Feb. 15, 1968.

Valentine's cards and gifts have their roots in English traditions — but Americans have long embraced them for romantic partners and other loved ones.

1951: “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre II.” Sugar Ray Robinson won the middleweight championship from “Raging Bull” Jake LaMotta on a 13th-round TKO at Chicago Stadium. LaMotta, who had never been knocked down, preserved that record.

In the 1800s and early 1900s in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Valentine’s Day was not just for lovers, it was also for haters and just for fun. It was popular