February 13th Events |
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| February 13th, 2008 (February 13 2008) | Event | Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and The Stolen Generations. | |
| February 13th, 2007 (February 13 2007) | Event | Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election. | |
| February 13th, 2004 (February 13 2004) | Event | The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the universe s largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. | |
| February 13th, 2001 (February 13 2001) | Event | An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400. | |
| February 13th, 2000 (February 13 2000) | Event | The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies. | Charles M. Schulz Quotes |
| February 13th, 1997 (February 13 1997) | Event | The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 7,000 for the first time closing at 7,022.44. | |
| February 13th, 1991 (February 13 1991) | Event | Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy a bunker in Baghdadied in The bunker was being used as a military communications outpost and unknown to allied forces, as a shelter for Iraqi civilians. | |
| February 13th, 1990 (February 13 1990) | Event | German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany. | |
| February 13th, 1984 (February 13 1984) | Event | Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. | Konstantin Chernenko Quotes |
| February 13th, 1981 (February 13 1981) | Event | A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky. | |
| February 13th, 1979 (February 13 1979) | Event | An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge. | |
| February 13th, 1978 (February 13 1978) | Event | Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman. | |
| February 13th, 1975 (February 13 1975) | Event | A fire erupts in the World Trade Center in New York City, New York. | |
| February 13th, 1974 (February 13 1974) | Event | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union. | |
| February 13th, 1971 (February 13 1971) | Event | Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos. | |
| February 13th, 1960 (February 13 1960) | Event | Nuclear testing: France tests its first atomic bomb. | |
| February 13th, 1955 (February 13 1955) | Event | Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls. | |
| February 13th, 1945 (February 13 1945) | Event | World War II: Red Army forces take Budapest, Hungary from Wehrmacht forces. | |
| February 13th, 1945 (February 13 1945) | Event | World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment (see Bombing of Dresden in World War II). | |
| February 13th, 1935 (February 13 1935) | Event | 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. | |
| February 13th, 1934 (February 13 1934) | Event | The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean. | |
| February 13th, 1920 (February 13 1920) | Event | The Negro National League is formed. | |
| February 13th, 1914 (February 13 1914) | Event | 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. | |
| February 13th, 1899 (February 13 1899) | Event | Tallahassee, Florida records its all time coldest temperature of -2 degrees Fahrenheit. | |
| February 13th, 1894 (February 13 1894) | Event | Auguste and Louis Lumiere patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector. | |
| February 13th, 1881 (February 13 1881) | Event | The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert. | |
| February 13th, 1880 (February 13 1880) | Event | Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels s primary river and creating the modern central boulevards. | |
| February 13th, 1880 (February 13 1880) | Event | Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect. | |
| February 13th, 1866 (February 13 1866) | Event | Jesse James and his gang commit the first armed bank robbery in United States history during peacetime in Liberty, Missouri. | |
| February 13th, 1815 (February 13 1815) | Event | The Cambridge Union Society is founded. | |
| February 13th, 1692 (February 13 1692) | Event | 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. | William King Quotes |
| February 13th, 1689 (February 13 1689) | Event | William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England. | |
| February 13th, 1668 (February 13 1668) | Event | Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation. | |
| February 13th, 1635 (February 13 1635) | Event | The first public school in the U.S., Boston Latin School, is founded. | |
| February 13th, 1633 (February 13 1633) | Event | Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition. | Galileo Galilei Quotes |
| February 13th, 1575 (February 13 1575) | Event | Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims. | |
| February 13th, 1575 (February 13 1575) | Event | Henry III of France marries Louise de Lorraine-Vaudemont. | |
| February 13th, 1542 (February 13 1542) | Event | Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery. | Henry VIII of England Quotes |
| February 13th, 1503 (February 13 1503) | Event | Disfida di BarlettaFamous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta. | |
| February 13th, 1258 (February 13 1258) | Event | Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed. | |
