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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 Year s.
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 .
- 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 .
- 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 .
- forces capture Budapest , Hungary from the Nazis .
- 1945 - bombers were dispatched to Dresden , Germany (see Bombing Of Dresden In World War II ).
- 1955 - Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea Scrolls .
- tests its first Atomic Bomb .
- air and artillery support, South Vietnam ese troops invade Laos .
- 1974 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , winner of the Nobel Prize In Literature in 1970 , is exiled from the Soviet Union .
- 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 .
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- s" destroy a bunker in Baghdad . The bunker was being used as a military communications outpost and unknown to allied forces, as a shelter for Iraq i civilians.
- 1996 - The Nepalese People's War began.
- 1997 - Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope is started by Astronaut s 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 Newspaper s one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
- 2001 - An Earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador , killing at least 400.
- 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 )
- 1881 - Eleanor Farjeon , English author (d. 1965 )
- 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 , Belgian writer (d. 1989 )
- 1906 - Agostinho Da Silva , Portuguese philosopher (d. 1994 )
- 1910 - William Shockley , American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989 )
- 1911 - Faiz Ahmed Faiz , noted Urdu poet and first Asian Lenin Peace Prize winner, born in Sialkot Pakistan . (d. 1984 )
- 1913 - George Barker , British poet (d. 1991 )
- 1915 - Aung San , Burmese general and politician (d. 1945 )
- 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 )
- 1922 - Francis Pym , British Foreign Secretary 1982-83
- 1923 - Michael Bilandic , Mayor of Chicago (d. 2002 )
- 1923 - Yfrah Neaman , Lebanese-born violinist (d. 2003 )
- 1923 - Chuck Yeager , American pilot and NASA official
- 1929 - Omar Torrijos , Panamanian ruler (d. 1981 )
- 1930 - Ernst Fuchs , Austrian artist
- 1933 - Paul Biya , President Of Cameroon
- 1933 - Kim Novak , American actress
- 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/Nazi hunter
- 1941 - Sigmar Polke , German painter
- 1942 - Carol Lynley , American actress
- 1942 - Peter Tork , American musician and actor ( The Monkees )
- 1943 - Geoff Edwards , American game show host
- 1944 - Stockard Channing , American actress
- 1944 - Jerry Springer , American television host
- 1944 - Bo Svenson , Swedish-born actor
- 1946 - Colin Matthews , British composer
- 1947 - Mike Krzyzewski , American basketball player and coach
- 1950 - Peter Gabriel , English musician ( Genesis )
- 1951 - Greg Fulginiti , American Mastering engineer
- 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
- 1960 - Artur Yusupov , Russian/German chess player
- 1961 - CEvin Key , musician
- 1961 - Henry Rollins , American musician
- 1962 - Aníbal Acevedo Vilá , American politician
- 1964 - Mark Patton , American actor
- 1968 - Kelly Hu , American actress
- 1970 - Karoline Krüger , Norwegian singer
- 1971 - Sonia , British singer
- 1971 - Mats Sundin , Swedish hockey player
- 1974 - Gus Hansen , Danish professional poker player
- 1974 - Robbie Williams , English singer
- 1975 - Iván González , Puerto Rican disc jockey and musician
- 1977 - Randy Moss , American football player
Deaths
- 1130 - Pope Honorius II
- 1141 - Béla II Of Hungary (b. 1110 )
- 1219 - Minamoto No Sanetomo , Japanese shogun (b. 1192 )
- 1322 - Andronicus II Palaeologus , Byzantine Emperor (b. 1260 )
- 1539 - Isabella D'Este , Marquise of Mantua (b. 1474 )
- 1542 - Catherine Howard , fifth wife 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 )
- 1787 - Charles Gravier, Comte De Vergennes , French statesman and diplomat (b. 1717 )
- 1813 - Samuel Ashe , Governor of North Carolina (b. 1725 )
- 1845 - Henrik Steffens , Norwegian-German philosopher (b. 1773 )
- 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 - Murtala Mohammed , Nigerian military leader (b. 1938 )
- 1976 - Lily Pons , French-born soprano (b. 1904 )
- 1989 - Wayne Hays , American politician (b. 1911 )
- 1980 - David Janssen , American actor (b. 1931 )
- 1996 - Martin Balsam , American actor (b. 1919 )
- 2000 - James Cooke Brown , American author and inventor (b. 1921 )
- 2002 - Waylon Jennings , American musician (b. 1937 )
- 2003 - Kid Gavilan , Cuban boxer (b. 1926 )
- 2003 - Axel Jensen , Norwegian author (b. 1932 )
- 2003 - Walt Rostow , U.S. government official (b. 1916 )
- 2004 - Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev , Chechen leader (b. 1952 )
- 2005 - Nelson Briles , baseball player (b. 1943 )
- 2005 - Lúcia Santos , Carmelite nun (b. 1907 )
- 2005 - Maurice Trintignant , French race car driver (b. 1917 )
- 2006 - Andreas Katsulas , American actor (b. 1946 )
- 2006 - Wang Xuan , Chinese scientist, the "Father of Chinese Language Laser Typesetting"
Liturgical feasts
External links
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