February 13
February 13 is the 44th day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar. There are 319 days remaining, 320 in
leap years.
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Events
\n* 1130 - Innocent II is voted Pope.\n* 1542 - Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.\n* 1633 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.\n* 1668 - Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.\n* 1689 - William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.\n* 1692 - Massacre of Glencoe occurs.\n* 1866 - Jesse James robs his first bank.\n* 1880 - Thomas Edison becomes the first person to observe the Edison Effect.\n* 1894 - Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.\n* 1914 - Copyright: In New York City the ASCAP (for American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members. \n* 1920 - The Negro National League is formed.\n* 1924 - King Tutankhamun's tomb is opened.\n* 1933 - Giuseppe Zangara kills Chicago mayor Anton Cermak during an assassination attempt on Franklin Roosevelt in Miami, Florida.\n* 1935 - A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby boy.\n* 1945 - World War II: Soviet Union forces capture Budapest, Hungary from the Nazis. \n* 1945 - World War II: The British Air Force bombs Dresden, Germany (see Bombing of Dresden in World War II) \n* 1955 - Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.\n* 1960 - Nuclear testing: France tests its first atomic bomb. \n* 1971 - Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos. \n* 1984 - Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.\n* 1988 - 1988 Winter Olympic Games open in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.\n* 1990 - German reunification: An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite Germany. \n* 1991 - Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy an underground bunker in Baghdad killing hundreds of Iraqis. \n* 1997 - Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope is started by astronauts from the Space Shuttle Discovery. \n* 2000 - The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers a day after Charles M. Schulz died. \n* 2001 - An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400. \n* 2002 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom gives former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani an honorary knighthood.\n* 2004 - Travis Metcalfe from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093.
Births
\n* 1599 - Pope Alexander VII (d. 1667)\n* 1682 - Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, painter (d. 1754)\n* 1873 - Feodor Chaliapin, operatic bass (d. 1938)\n* 1884 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, gold medal winner at 1908 Summer Olympics, inventor of Erector Set (d. 1961)\n* 1885 - Bess Truman, First Lady, wife of President Harry S. Truman (d. 1982)\n* 1892 - Grant Wood, painter (d. 1942)\n* 1903 - Georges Simenon, thriller writer (d. 1989)\n* 1910 - William Bradford Shockley, physicist, social commentator (d. 1989)\n* 1913 - George Barker, British poet (d. 1991)\n* 1919 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, musician (d. 1991)\n* 1923 - Chuck Yeager, pilot of first supersonic flight\n* 1930 - Ernst Fuchs, painter and graphic artist\n* 1933 - Kim Novak, actress\n* 1934 - George Segal, actor\n* 1938 - Oliver Reed, actor (d. 1999)\n* 1941 - Sigmar Polke, painter\n* 1942 - Peter Tork, musician and actor (The Monkees)\n* 1944 - Jerry Springer, television host\n* 1947 - Mike Krzyzewski, Duke University basketball coach, Basketball Hall of Famer\n* 1950 - Peter Gabriel, musician\n* 1958 - Pernilla August, actress\n* 1960 - Pierluigi Collina, football referee\n* 1961 - Henry Rollins, musician\n* 1974 - Robbie Williams, Pop singer\n* 1977 - Randy Moss, NFL star\n* 1983 - Amy Mizzi, actress\n* 1983 - Gabriel Vivo, (Future) Rock singer
Deaths
\n* 1130 - Pope Honorius II\n* 1542 - Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII of England (executed) (b. 1525)\n* 1660 - King Charles X of Sweden (b. 1622)\n* 1728 - Cotton Mather, Puritan minister, author (b. 1663)\n* 1787 - Ruđer Bošković, scientist and diplomat (b. 1711)\n* 1883 - Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)\n* 1950 - Rafael Sabatini, author (b. 1875)\n* 1951 - Lloyd C. Douglas, author (b. 1877)\n* 1952 - Josephine Tey, mystery novel author (b. 1896)\n* 1976 - Lily Pons, opera singer\n* 1980 - David Janssen, actor (b. 1930)\n* 2002 - Waylon Jennings, country musician (b. 1937)\n* 2003 - Walt Rostow, US government official
Holidays and observances
\n* 1991, 2002, 2013 Ash Wednesday
February 12 -
February 14 -
January 13 -
March 13 --
listing of all days
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