February 13
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February 13 is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 321 days remaining, 322 in leap years.
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Events
- 1130 - Innocent II is voted Pope.
- 1542 - Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
- 1575 - Henry III of France is crowned at Reims
- 1633 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
- 1635 - The first public school in the U.S., Boston Latin Public School, is founded.
- 1668 - Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.
- 1689 - William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
- 1692 - Massacre of Glencoe : About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
- 1815 - The Cambridge Union Society founded.
- 1866 - The first daylight robbery in United States history during peacetime takes place in Liberty, Missouri. This is considered to be the first robbery committed by Jesse James and his gang, although James's role is disputed.
- 1880 - Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
- 1881 - The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by activist Hubertine Auclert.
- 1894 - Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.
- 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.
- 1920 - The Negro National League is formed.
- 1934 - The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean.
- 1935 - A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
- 1945 - World War II: Soviet Union forces capture Budapest, Hungary from the Nazis.
- 1945 - World War II: The Royal Air Force bombers were dispatched to Dresden, Germany (see Bombing of Dresden in World War II).
- 1955 - Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
- 1960 - Nuclear testing: France tests its first atomic bomb.
- 1971 - Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
- 1974 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
- 1978 - Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
- 1979 - The intense February 13, 1979 Windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge
- 1984 - Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1988 - 1988 Winter Olympic Games open in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
- 1990 - German reunification: An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
- 1991 - Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy an underground bunker in Baghdad killing hundreds of Iraqis civilians.
- 1996 - The Nepalese People's War began.
- 1997 - Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope is started by astronauts from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
- 1997 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 7,000 for the first time closing at 7,022.44.
- 2000 - The last original Peanuts comic strip appears in newspapers a day after Charles M. Schulz died.
- 2001 - An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
- 2002 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom gives former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani an honorary knighthood.
- 2004 - Travis Metcalfe from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093.
Births
- 1457 - Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1482)
- 1480 - Girolamo Aleandro, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1542)
- 1599 - Pope Alexander VII (d. 1667)
- 1672 - Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (d. 1731)
- 1743 - Joseph Banks, English botanist and naturalist (d. 1820)
- 1768 - Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (d. 1835)
- 1769 - Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (d. 1844)
- 1805 - Peter Gustav Dirichlet, German mathematician (d. 1859)
- 1873 - Feodor Chaliapin, Russian bass (d. 1938)
- 1884 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American athelete, inventor, and businessman (d. 1961)
- 1885 - Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States (d. 1982)
- 1892 - Grant Wood, American painter (d. 1942)
- 1903 - Georges Simenon, French writer (d. 1989)
- 1910 - William Shockley, American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
- 1913 - Rosa Parks, Civil rights activist
- 1913 - George Barker, British poet (d. 1991)
- 1918 - Patty Berg, American golfer
- 1919 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, American musician (d. 1991)
- 1919 - Eddie Robinson, American football coach
- 1920 - Eileen Farrell, American opera soprano (d. 2002)
- 1923 - Michael Bilandic, Mayor of Chicago (d. 2002)
- 1923 - Chuck Yeager, American pilot and NASA official
- 1923 - Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-born violinist (d. 2003)
- 1929 - Omar Torrijos, Panamanian ruler (d. 1981)
- 1930 - Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter and graphic artist
- 1933 - Kim Novak, American actress
- 1933 - Paul Biya, President of Cameroon
- 1934 - George Segal, American actor
- 1937 - Susan Oliver, American actress (d. 1990)
- 1938 - Oliver Reed, English actor (d. 1999)
- 1939 - Beate Klarsfeld, German Holocaust investigator
- 1941 - Sigmar Polke, German painter
- 1942 - Peter Tork, American musician and actor (The Monkees)
- 1942 - Carol Lynley, American actress
- 1943 - Geoff Edwards, American game show host
- 1944 - Jerry Springer, American television host
- 1944 - Stockard Channing, American actress
- 1944 - Bo Svenson, Swedish-American actor
- 1946 - Colin Matthews, British composer
- 1947 - Mike Krzyzewski, American basketball player and coach
- 1950 - Peter Gabriel, English musician (Genesis)
- 1951 - David Naughton, American actor and singer
- 1954 - Donnie Moore, baseball player (d. 1989)
- 1956 - Peter Hook, English bassist (Joy Division and New Order)
- 1958 - Pernilla August, Swedish actress
- 1960 - Pierluigi Collina, Italian football referee
- 1960 - Matt Salinger, American actor
- 1961 - Henry Rollins, American musician
- 1961 - cEvin Key, musician
- 1962 - Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, American politician
- 1968 - Kelly Hu, American actress
- 1971 - Sonia, British singer
- 1971 - Mats Sundin, Swedish hockey player
- 1974 - Robbie Williams, English singer
- 1975 - Iván González, Puerto Rican disc jockey and musician
- 1977 - Randy Moss, American football player
- 1979 - Mena Suvari, American actress
Deaths
- 1130 - Pope Honorius II
- 1219 - Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1192)
- 1322 - Andronicus II, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1260)
- 1539 - Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (b. 1474)
- 1542 - Catherine Howard, queen of Henry VIII of England (executed) (b. 1525)
- 1571 - Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (b. 1500)
- 1585 - Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (b. 1515)
- 1592 - Jacopo Bassano, Italian painter
- 1600 - Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (b. 1538)
- 1602 - Alexander Nowell, English clergyman
- 1608 - Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, Lithuanian prince (b. 1526)
- 1624 - Stephen Gosson, English satirist (b. 1554)
- 1657 - Miles Sindercombe, attempted assassin of Oliver Cromwell
- 1660 - King Charles X of Sweden (b. 1622)
- 1662 - Elizabeth of Bohemia (b. 1596)
- 1727 - William Wotton, English scholar (b. 1666)
- 1728 - Cotton Mather, American Puritan minister (b. 1663)
- 1732 - Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1640)
- 1787 - Ruđer Bošković, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711)
- 1883 - Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)
- 1950 - Rafael Sabatini, Italian author (b. 1875)
- 1951 - Lloyd C. Douglas, American author (b. 1877)
- 1952 - Josephine Tey, English author (b. 1896)
- 1964 - Gerald Gardner, British writer (b. 1884)
- 1968 - Mae Marsh, American actress (b. 1895)
- 1976 - Lily Pons, French-born soprano (b. 1904)
- 1976 - Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian military leader (b. 1938)
- 1989 - Wayne Hays, American politician (b. 1911)
- 1980 - David Janssen, American actor (b. 1930)
- 1996 - Martin Balsam, American actor (b. 1919)
- 2000 - Charles Schulz, American cartoonist (b. 1922)
- 2000 - James Cooke Brown, American author and Loglan inventor (b. 1921)
- 2002 - Waylon Jennings, American musician (b. 1937)
- 2003 - Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (b. 1926)
- 2003 - Walt Rostow, U.S. government official (b. 1916)
- 2004 - Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Chechen leader (b. 1952)
- 2005 - Lucia dos Santos, Carmelite nun (b. 1907)
- 2005 - Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (b. 1917)
- 2005 - Nelson Briles, baseball player (b. 1943)
Holidays and observances
- 1991, 2002, 2013 Ash Wednesday
- Paul Mazza Day
col hassan yakubu, the Ejeh of ankpa 2 died 2003
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