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What happend on 13. February in History
In our data base we found 385 events happened on 13. February:
• 858: Kenneth I of Scotland [category: Deaths]
• 942: Muhammad ibn Ra'iq, amir al-umara [category: Deaths]
• 1130: Pope Honorius II [category: Deaths]
• 1141: Béla II of Hungary (b. 1110) [category: Deaths]
• 1199: Stefan Nemanja, Serbian Grand Prince (b. 1113) [category: Deaths]
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• 1219: Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1192) [category: Deaths]
• 1322: The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th-13th. [category: Events]
• 1322: The generatio Percal is the first time mentioned in a document. [category: Events]
• 1332: Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1259) [category: Deaths]
• 1457: Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1482) [category: Births]
• 1462: Treaty of Westminster is finalised between Edward IV of England and the Scottish Lord of the Isles. [category: Events]
• 1480: Girolamo Aleandro, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1542) [category: Births]
• 1503: Disfida di Barletta – famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta. [category: Events]
• 1539: Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (b. 1474) [category: Deaths]
• 1542: Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII of England (executed) (b.c. 1521) [category: Deaths]
• 1542: Jane Boleyn, Dowager Viscountess of Rochford, lady-in-waiting of the above (b.c. 1505) [category: Deaths]
• 1542: Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery. [category: Events]
• 1571: Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (b. 1500) [category: Deaths]
• 1572: Elizabeth I of England issues a proclamation which revokes all commissions on account of the frauds which they had fostered. [category: Events]
• 1575: Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims, marrying Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont on the same day. [category: Events]
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• 1585: Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (b. 1515) [category: Deaths]
• 1592: Jacopo Bassano, Italian painter [category: Deaths]
• 1599: Pope Alexander VII (d. 1667) [category: Births]
• 1600: Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (b. 1538) [category: Deaths]
• 1602: Alexander Nowell, English clergyman [category: Deaths]
• 1608: Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, Lithuanian prince (b. 1526) [category: Deaths]
• 1624: Stephen Gosson, English satirist (b. 1554) [category: Deaths]
• 1633: Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition. [category: Events]
• 1657: Miles Sindercombe, attempted assassin of Oliver Cromwell [category: Deaths]
• 1660: King Charles X of Sweden (b. 1622) [category: Deaths]
• 1660: With the death of Swedish King Charles X Gustav, the Swedish government can start to seek peace with Sweden's enemies in the Second Northern War – something that Charles X Gustav had refused. [category: Events]
• 1662: Elizabeth Stuart (b. 1596) [category: Deaths]
• 1668: Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation. [category: Events]
• 1672: Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (d. 1731) [category: Births]
• 1683: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian painter (d. 1754) [category: Births]
• 1689: William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1693: Johann Kaspar Kerll, German composer (b. 1627) [category: Deaths]
• 1719: George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, British naval officer (d. 1792) [category: Births]
• 1721: John Reid, British army general and composer (d. 1807) [category: Births]
• 1727: William Wotton, English scholar (b. 1666) [category: Deaths]
• 1728: John Hunter, Scottish surgeon (d. 1793) [category: Births]
• 1728: Cotton Mather, American Puritan minister (b. 1663) [category: Deaths]
• 1732: Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1640) [category: Deaths]
• 1739: Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah. [category: Events]
• 1741: Johann Joseph Fux, Austrian composer (b. 1660) [category: Deaths]
• 1768: Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (d. 1835) [category: Births]
• 1769: Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (d. 1844) [category: Births]
• 1787: Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1717) [category: Deaths]
• 1787: Ruđer Josip Bošković, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711) [category: Deaths]
• 1804: John Charles Prince, Canadian Roman Catholic Bishop (d. 1860) [category: Births]
• 1805: Peter Gustav Dirichlet, German mathematician (d. 1859) [category: Births]
• 1811: François Achille Bazaine, French marshal (d. 1888) [category: Births]
• 1813: Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (b. 1725) [category: Deaths]
• 1818: George Rogers Clark, American military leader (b. 1752) [category: Deaths]
• 1826: Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (b. 1745) [category: Deaths]
• 1831: John Aaron Rawlins, American soldier, civil servant, and 29th United States Secretary of War (d. 1869) [category: Births]
• 1831: Edward Berry Royal Navy admiral (b.1768) [category: Deaths]
• 1834: Heinrich Caro, German Chemist (d. 1910) [category: Births]
• 1835: Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (d. 1908) [category: Births]
• 1837: Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809) [category: Deaths]
• 1845: Henrik Steffens, Norwegian-German philosopher (b. 1773) [category: Deaths]
• 1849: Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt German impostor who became famous as The Captain of Köpenick (Der Hauptmann von Köpenick) (d. 1922) [category: Births]
• 1849: Lord Randolph Churchill, British statesman (d. 1895) [category: Births]
• 1855: Paul Deschanel, French President (d. 1922) [category: Births]
• 1860: Nienke van Hichtum, Dutch author (d. 1939) [category: Births]
• 1861: In Gaeta is signed the capitulation of the fortress decreeing the end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies [category: Events]
• 1866: Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher (d. 1938) [category: Births]
• 1867: Harold Mahony, Irish tennis player (d. 1905) [category: Births]
• 1867: Work begins on the covering of the Zenne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards. [category: Events]
• 1870: Leopold Godowsky, Polish-American pianist, composer (d. 1938) [category: Births]
• 1873: Feodor Chaliapin, Russian bass (d. 1938) [category: Births]
• 1876: Fritz Buelow, German-born American baseball player (d. 1933) [category: Births]
• 1879: Sarojini Naidu, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1949) [category: Births]
• 1880: Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect. [category: Events]
• 1881: Eleanor Farjeon, English author (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1881: The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert. [category: Events]
• 1883: Hal Chase, American baseball player (d. 1947) [category: Births]
• 1883: Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Russian-Armenian director (d. 1922) [category: Births]
• 1883: Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813) [category: Deaths]
• 1884: Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American athlete, inventor, and businessman (d. 1961) [category: Births]
• 1885: Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States, wife of President Harry S. Truman (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1887: Géza Csáth, Hungarian writer (d. 1919) [category: Births]
• 1888: Georgios Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1888: Jean Baptiste Lamy, 1st Archbishop of Santa Fe (b. 1814) [category: Deaths]
• 1889: Leontine Sagan, Austrian actress and theater director (d. 1974) [category: Births]
• 1889: João Maurício Wanderley, Brazilian magistrate and politician (b. 1815) [category: Deaths]
• 1891: Grant Wood, American painter (d. 1942) [category: Births]
• 1891: Kate Roberts, Welsh nationalist and writer (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1892: Robert H. Jackson, American jurist, 57th United States Attorney General and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1954) [category: Births]
• 1893: Zénon Bernard, Luxembourgish communist politician (d. 1942) [category: Births]
• 1894: Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector. [category: Events]
• 1897: William S. Bowdern, American Jesuit Roman Catholic priest (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1900: Roy Harrod, English economist (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1901: Paul Lazarsfeld, American Sociologist (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1902: Harold Lasswell, American political scientist (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1903: Georges Simenon, Belgian writer (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1903: Georgy Beriev, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1905: Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (b. 1844) [category: Deaths]
• 1906: Agostinho da Silva, Portuguese philosopher (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1906: Patsy Callighen, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1964) [category: Births]
• 1906: Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (b. 1866) [category: Deaths]
• 1907: Katy de la Cruz, Filipino singer (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1908: David Hesser, American water polo player (b. 1884) [category: Deaths]
• 1909: Herman Nicolaas Ridderbos, Dutch New Testament theologian (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1910: William Shockley, British-American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Laureate (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1911: Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani Urdu poet, Lenin Peace Prize winner (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1911: Jean Muir, American actress (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1913: Khalid bin Abdul-Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1914: Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members. [category: Events]
• 1915: Aung San, Burmese general and politician (d. 1947) [category: Births]
• 1915: Lyle Bettger, American actor (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1916: John Reed, British actor and singer (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1918: Patty Berg, American golfer (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1919: Eddie Robinson, American football coach (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1919: Tennessee Ernie Ford, American musician (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1920: Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1920: Eileen Farrell, American opera soprano (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1920: The Negro National League is formed. [category: Events]
• 1921: Aung Khin, Burmese painter (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1921: Jeanne Demessieux, French organist, pianist, composer (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1922: Francis Pym, British Foreign Secretary 1982-83 (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1922: Gordon Tullock, American economist [category: Births]
• 1923: Chuck Yeager, American fighter plane test pilot [category: Births]
• 1923: Michael Anthony Bilandic, American politician (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1923: Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese violinist (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1924: Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1928: Dorothy McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters) [category: Births]
• 1928: Gerald Regan, Canadian politician [category: Births]
• 1929: Omar Torrijos, Panamanian ruler (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1930: Ernst Fuchs, Austrian artist [category: Births]
• 1930: Israel Kirzner, American economist [category: Births]
• 1930: Yves Michaud, Canadian journalist and politician [category: Births]
• 1931: New Delhi becomes the capital of India. [category: Events]
• 1932: Susan Oliver, American actress (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1933: Caroline Blakiston, British actress [category: Births]
• 1933: Costa Gavras, Greek-French filmmaker [category: Births]
• 1933: Emanuel Ungaro, French fashion designer [category: Births]
• 1933: Kim Novak, American actress [category: Births]
• 1933: Patrick Godfrey, British actor [category: Births]
• 1933: Paul Biya, Cameroon politician [category: Births]
• 1933: Peter L. Pond, American activist and philanthropist (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1934: George Segal, American actor [category: Births]
• 1934: John Surtees, British seven-times World Motorcycle Champion (1956-1960) & Formula One World Champion (1964) [category: Births]
• 1934: József Pusztai, Slovene writer, poet, journalist in Hungary (b. 1864) [category: Deaths]
• 1934: The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean. [category: Events]
• 1935: Don Panoz, American entrepreneur [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1937: Ali El-Maak, Sudanese writer (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1938: Larry Cunningham, Irish singer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1938: Oliver Reed, English actor (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1939: Beate Klarsfeld, German Nazi hunter [category: Births]
• 1939: R. C. Sproul, American theologian and author [category: Births]
• 1939: Raôul Duguay, Canadian artist, poet, musician, and political activist [category: Births]
• 1940: Arne Sølvberg, Norwegian computer scientist [category: Births]
• 1940: Bram Peper, Dutch politician [category: Births]
• 1941: Andrea Conte, First Lady of Tennessee [category: Births]
• 1941: Bo Svenson, Swedish actor [category: Births]
• 1941: Sigmar Polke, German painter [category: Births]
• 1942: Carol Lynley, American actress [category: Births]
• 1942: Donald E. Williams, American astronaut [category: Births]
• 1942: Peter Tork, American musician and actor (The Monkees) [category: Births]
• 1942: Epitácio Pessoa, Brazilian president (b. 1865) [category: Deaths]
• 1943: Elaine Pagels, American theologian [category: Births]
• 1944: Jerry Springer, American television host [category: Births]
• 1944: Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1944: Rebop Kwaku Baah, Nigerian percussionist (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1944: Stockard Channing, American actress [category: Births]
• 1945: David Tremlett, English artist [category: Births]
• 1945: King Floyd, American musician (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1945: Simon Schama, British historian [category: Births]
• 1945: William Sleator, American science fiction author [category: Births]
• 1945: World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment. [category: Events]
• 1945: World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army. [category: Events]
• 1946: Colin Matthews, British composer [category: Births]
• 1946: Louis Kondos, Greek actor [category: Births]
• 1946: Richard Blumenthal, American Senator [category: Births]
• 1947: Dick Kaysø, Danish actor [category: Births]
• 1947: Kevin Bloody Wilson, Australian Comic Singer [category: Births]
• 1947: Mike Krzyzewski, American basketball player and coach [category: Births]
• 1947: Stephen Hadley, U.S. National Security Adviser [category: Births]
• 1949: Judy Dyble, British singer/songwriter (Fairport Convention) [category: Births]
• 1950: Bob Daisley, Australian musician, bassist (Rainbow, Ozzy Osbourne) [category: Births]
• 1950: Chuck Neubauer, Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist [category: Births]
• 1950: Donna Hanover, American journalist, radio and television personality [category: Births]
• 1950: Ewa Aulin, Swedish actress [category: Births]
• 1950: Peter Gabriel, English musician (Genesis), composer and humanitarian [category: Births]
• 1950: Rafael Sabatini, Italian author (b. 1875) [category: Deaths]
• 1951: David Naughton, American actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1951: Ellen Bry, American actress [category: Births]
• 1951: Greg Fulginiti, American mastering engineer [category: Births]
• 1951: Lloyd C. Douglas, American author (b. 1877) [category: Deaths]
• 1951: Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences. [category: Events]
• 1952: Ed Gagliardi, American musician (Foreigner) [category: Births]
• 1952: Freddy Maertens, Belgian cyclist [category: Births]
• 1952: Josephine Tey, English author (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1953: Rico J. Puno, Filipino pop singer [category: Births]
• 1954: Donnie Moore, American baseball player (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1954: Agnes Macphail, First Canadian female MP (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1954: Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game [category: Events]
• 1955: Joe Birkett, American lawyer [category: Births]
• 1955: Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls. [category: Events]
• 1956: Liam Brady, Irish footballer [category: Births]
• 1956: Peter Hook, English bassist (Joy Division and New Order) [category: Births]
• 1956: Princess Alia bint Al Hussein, Jordanian Royal Family member [category: Births]
• 1956: Richard Eden, American actor [category: Births]
• 1956: Yiannis Kouros, Greek-Australian marathon runner [category: Births]
• 1956: Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish mathematician (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Denise Austin, American fitness expert [category: Births]
• 1958: Derek Riggs, British artist [category: Births]
• 1958: Marc Emery, Canadian cannabis activist [category: Births]
• 1958: Pernilla August, Swedish actress [category: Births]
• 1958: Tip Tipping, British actor and stuntman (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1958: Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragette (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1958: Georges Rouault, French painter (b. 1871) [category: Deaths]
• 1959: Gaston Gingras, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1959: Gord Hampson, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1960: Artur Yusupov, Russian-German chess player [category: Births]
• 1960: Gary Patterson, American football coach [category: Births]
• 1960: Matt Salinger, American actor [category: Births]
• 1960: Pierluigi Collina, Italian football referee [category: Births]
• 1960: Roelof Klein, Dutch rower (b. 1877) [category: Deaths]
• 1960: Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee. [category: Events]
• 1960: With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons. [category: Events]
• 1961: Cevin Key, Canadian musician (Skinny Puppy, Subconscious Communications) [category: Births]
• 1961: Henry Rollins, American musician, comedian, and actor (Black Flag) [category: Births]
• 1961: Kyi Hla Han, Burmese golfer [category: Births]
• 1961: Marc Crawford, Canadian ice hockey player and coach [category: Births]
• 1961: Richard Tyson, American actor [category: Births]
• 1961: A 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug. [category: Events]
• 1962: Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, American politician and 8th Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico [category: Births]
• 1962: Hugh Dennis, English actor and comedian [category: Births]
• 1962: May Sweet, Burmese singer [category: Births]
• 1963: Thomas Miller, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1964: Stephen G. Bowen, American astronaut [category: Births]
• 1964: Yamantaka Eye, Japanese musician (Boredoms) [category: Births]
• 1964: Ylva Johansson, Swedish politician [category: Births]
• 1964: Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1966: Jeff Waters, Canadian musician (Annihilator) [category: Births]
• 1967: Stanimir Stoilov, Bulgarian footballer and coach [category: Births]
• 1967: American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain. [category: Events]
• 1968: Kelly Hu, American actress [category: Births]
• 1968: Niamh Kavanagh, Irish singer [category: Births]
• 1968: Mae Marsh, American actress (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1969: Ahlam, Bahraini singer [category: Births]
• 1969: Andrew Bryniarski, American film actor [category: Births]
• 1970: Diane Youdale, British television personality [category: Births]
• 1970: Ian McKeever, Irish mountaineer (d. 2013) [category: Births]
• 1970: Karoline Krüger, Norwegian singer [category: Births]
• 1970: Black Sabbath, arguably the very first heavy metal album, is released. [category: Events]
• 1971: Galen Gering, American actor [category: Births]
• 1971: Mats Sundin, Swedish ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1971: Matt Berninger, American singer [category: Births]
• 1971: Sonia, British singer [category: Births]
• 1971: Todd Williams, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1971: Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos. [category: Events]
• 1972: Charlie Garner, American football player [category: Births]
• 1973: Marinus Jan Granpré Molière, Dutch architect (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: Fonzworth Bentley, American hip-hop artist [category: Births]
• 1974: Gus Hansen, Danish professional poker player [category: Births]
• 1974: Robbie Williams, English singer [category: Births]
• 1974: Ustad Amir Khan, Indian classical singer (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1975: Ben Collins, British racing driver [category: Births]
• 1975: Iván González, Puerto Rican writer and musician [category: Births]
• 1975: Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler, German politician [category: Births]
• 1975: Tony Dalton, American born - Mexican actor and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1975: André Beaufre, French General (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1975: Arthur Laing, Canadian politician (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Chantal de Bruijn, Dutch field hockey player [category: Births]
• 1976: Dave Padden, Canadian musician (Annihilator) [category: Births]
• 1976: Feist, Canadian singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1976: Jörg Bergmeister German race car driver [category: Births]
• 1976: Martín Sastre, Uruguayan artist [category: Births]
• 1976: Lily Pons, French-born soprano (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian military leader (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Petra Gáspár, Hungarian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1977: Randy Moss, American football player [category: Births]
• 1978: Hamish Glencross, Scottish guitarist (My Dying Bride) [category: Births]
• 1978: Niklas Bäckström, Finnish ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1978: Philippe Jaroussky, French sopranist countertenor [category: Births]
• 1978: Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman. [category: Events]
• 1979: Anders Behring Breivik, Norwegian mass murderer, terrorist and the confessed perpetrator of the 2011 Norway Attacks. [category: Births]
• 1979: Lucy Brown, British actress [category: Births]
• 1979: Mena Suvari, American actress [category: Births]
• 1979: Rafael Márquez, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1979: An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge. [category: Events]
• 1980: Mark Watson, British comedian [category: Births]
• 1980: Sebastian Kehl, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: David Janssen, American actor (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Liam Miller, Irish footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Luisão, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Luke Ridnour, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1981: Matías Agüero, Argentine-born Italian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1981: Sam Burley, American middle-distance track athlete [category: Births]
• 1981: A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky. [category: Events]
• 1982: Brady Bryant, American soccer player [category: Births]
• 1982: Lanisha Cole, American model [category: Births]
• 1982: Michael Turner (American football), NFL running back for the Atlanta Falcons [category: Births]
• 1982: Zeng Jinlian, tallest woman ever, at 8 ft. 1.75 in. (b. 1964) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Río Negro massacre in Guatemala. [category: Events]
• 1983: Mike Nickeas, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1984: Hinkelien Schreuder, Dutch swimmer [category: Births]
• 1984: Andre Stander, South African police captain and bank robber (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. [category: Events]
• 1985: Alexandros Tziolis, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Hedwiges Maduro, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Kwak Ji-min, South Korean actress [category: Births]
• 1985: Matthieu Franke, French-born German rugby player [category: Births]
• 1986: Jamie Murray, Scottish tennis player [category: Births]
• 1986: Luke Moore, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Zach Condon, American singer [category: Births]
• 1987: Eljero Elia, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Aston Merrygold, English singer (JLS) [category: Births]
• 1988: Fuat Kalkan, Turkish footballer [category: Births]
• 1989: Carly McKillip, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1989: Rhys Palmer, Australian rules footballer [category: Births]
• 1989: Rodrigo Possebon, Brazilian Footballer [category: Births]
• 1989: Dave Tarras, klezmer clarinetist (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Wayne Hays, American politician (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Gyaincain Norbu, 11th Panchen Lama [category: Births]
• 1990: Kevin Strootman, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Marco Romizi, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Olivia Allison, British synchronized swimmer [category: Births]
• 1990: German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany. [category: Events]
• 1991: Declan Gallagher, Scottish footballer [category: Births]
• 1991: Arno Breker, German sculptor (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Ron Pickering, athletics coach and BBC sports commentator and presenter (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed. [category: Events]
• 1992: Raby George, Swedish footballer [category: Births]
• 1992: Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Sophie Evans, Welsh musician [category: Births]
• 1994: Patryk Dobek, Polish sprinter [category: Births]
• 1995: Ayame Koike, Japanese actress [category: Births]
• 1996: Martin Balsam, American actor (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Robert Klark Graham, American businessman and eugenecist (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Anders Aalborg, Canadian politician (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: James Cooke Brown, American author and inventor (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: John Leake, British recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal (b. 1950) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies. [category: Events]
• 2001: An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400. [category: Events]
• 2002: Waylon Jennings, American musician (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Axel Jensen, Norwegian author (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Dennis McDermott, Canadian trade unionist (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Walt Rostow, U.S. government official (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: François Tavenas, Canadian engineer and academic (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Chechen leader (b. 1952) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". [category: Events]
• 2005: Dick Weber, American professional bowler (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist (b. 1965) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Lúcia Santos, Carmelite nun and Fatima visionary (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Nelson Briles, baseball player (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Andreas Katsulas, Greek-American actor (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Peter Frederick Strawson, British philosopher (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Charlie Norwood, American politician (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress (b. 1974) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Richard Gordon Wakeford, Air Marshal, Royal Air Force (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: 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 [category: Events]
• 2008: Henri Salvador, French singer and musician (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Roger Voisin, Trumpet player, Boston Symphony (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations. [category: Events]
• 2009: Edward Upward, British novelist and short-story writer (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: At 23:31:30 UTC the Unix system time (time t) number reaches 1234567890 seconds. [category: Events]
• 2010: Cy Grant, Guyanese actor, singer, writer and poet (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Dale Hawkins, American singer and songwriter (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: John Reed, British singer of Gilbert & Sullivan (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Lucille Clifton, American poet (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more. [category: Events]
• 2011: For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855. [category: Events]
• 2012: Freddie Solomon, American wide receiver (b. 1953) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. [category: Events]
• 711_bc: Jimmu, Japanese emperor (d. 585 BC) [category: Births]
• _: Beatrice of Ornacieux [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Castor of Karden (Roman Catholic church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Ermenilda of Ely [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: February 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Fulcran [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Polyeuctus (Roman Catholic church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: The Festival of Parentalia (Roman Empire) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: The first day of Lupercalia (Roman Empire) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: World Radio Day [category: Holidays and observances]