I'm Peter Serefine and this is the Liberty Minute for Monday, day 701 of 15 days to flatten the curve.

Happy Valentine's Day. Don't forget about your sweetheart today.

Rather than covering politics today, here are a few other things that February 14th should be remembered for.

Today in 1912 Arizona became the 48th state in the union.  Another state wouldn't be added until Alaska in 1959.

In 1920 the League of Women Voters was founded in Chicago during the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association

Completely by accident, in 1929, Sir Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin after leaving a plate of staphylococcus bacteria uncovered, he noticed that a mold that had fallen on the culture had killed many of the bacteria.

And in 1948, NASCAR held its first race for modified stock cars on a 3.2 mile-course at Daytona Beach.

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Until tomorrow, Si vis pacem, para bellum.