13 February
February 13 is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar. There are 321 days remaining, 322 in leap years.
Events
- 1130 - Innocent II is
voted Pope.
- 1542 - Catherine Howard,
the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for
adultery.
- 1633 - Galileo Galilei
arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
- 1668 - Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.
- 1689 - William and Mary are proclaimed
co-rulers of England.
- 1692 - Massacre of
Glencoe occurs.
- 1866 - Jesse James robs
his first bank.
- 1880 - Thomas Edison becomes
the first person to observe the Edison Effect.
- 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.
- 1924 - King Tutankhamun's tomb is
opened.
- 1933 - Giuseppe Zangara
kills Chicago mayor Anton
Cermak during an assassination attempt on Franklin
Roosevelt in Miami, Florida.
- 1935 - A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby boy.
- 1945 - World War II: Soviet Union forces capture Budapest,
Hungary from the Nazis.
- 1945 - World War II: The Royal Air Force bombs 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.
- 1978 - Hilton bombing: three
members of the Ananda Marga sect detonate a bomb outside the HIlton
Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing
two garbagemen, a policeman and several others.
- 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.
- 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
- 1599 - Pope Alexander
VII (d. 1667)
- 1682 - Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, painter (d. 1754)
- 1743 - Joseph Banks, botanist and
naturalist (d. 1820)
- 1873 - Feodor Chaliapin,
operatic bass (d. 1938)
- 1884 - Alfred
Carlton Gilbert, gold medal winner at 1908 Summer
Olympics, inventor of Erector Set (d. 1961)
- 1885 - Bess Truman, First Lady, wife of President Harry S. Truman (d. 1982)
- 1892 - Grant Wood, painter (d.
1942)
- 1903 - Georges Simenon,
thriller writer (d. 1989)
- 1910 - William Bradford Shockley, physicist, social commentator (d. 1989)
- 1913 - George
Barker, British poet (d.
1991)
- 1919 - Tennessee
Ernie Ford, musician (d. 1991)
- 1923 - Michael Bilandic, mayor of Chicago, IL (d.
2002)
- 1923 - Chuck Yeager, pilot of first supersonic flight
- 1930 - Ernst Fuchs, painter and
graphic artist
- 1933 - Kim Novak, actress
- 1934 - George Segal, actor
- 1938 - Oliver Reed, actor (d.
1999)
- 1941 - Sigmar Polke, painter
- 1942 - Peter Tork, musician and actor
(The Monkees)
- 1944 - Jerry Springer,
television host
- 1947 - Mike Krzyzewski,
Duke University basketball coach, Basketball Hall of
Famer
- 1950 - Peter Gabriel,
musician
- 1956 - Peter Hook, bass player for
Joy Division and New Order, bass player and
lead vocals for Revenge and Monaco
- 1958 - Pernilla August, actress
- 1960 - Pierluigi
Collina, football referee
- 1961 - Henry Rollins,
musician
- 1964 - Randy Alan Wood, USA California GardenaSenior Transportation Surveyor Surveyor.
- 1971 - Sonia, British singer
- 1974 - Robbie Williams, Pop
singer
- 1977 - Randy Moss, NFL star
Deaths
- 1130 - Pope Honorius
II
- 1542 - Catherine Howard,
fifth wife of Henry VIII of England (executed) (b.
1525)
- 1657 - Miles
Sindercombe, attempted assassin of Oliver Cromwell
- 1660 - King Charles X
of Sweden (b. 1622)
- 1728 - Cotton Mather, Puritan minister, author (b. 1663)
- 1787 - Ruđer
Bošković, scientist and diplomat (b. 1711)
- 1883 - Richard Wagner,
German composer (b. 1813)
- 1950 - Rafael Sabatini,
author (b. 1875)
- 1951 - Lloyd C. Douglas,
author (b. 1877)
- 1952 - Josephine Tey, mystery novel author (b. 1896)
- 1976 - Lily Pons, opera singer
- 1980 - David Janssen, actor (b.
1930)
- 2002 - Waylon Jennings,
country musician (b. 1937)
- 2003 - Kid Gavilan, world boxing
champion and hall of famer
- 2003 - Walt Rostow, US government official
Holidays and observances
February 12 - February
14 - January 13 - March 13 --
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