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Information about February 13


February 13 is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are


319 days remaining, 320 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


   * 1866 - Jesse James robs his first bank


   * 1880 - Thomas Edison becomes the first person to observe the Edison


     Effect.


   * 1894 - Auguste and Louis Lumi¸re 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 National Negro Baseball League is formed.


   * 1924 - King Tut's tomb is opened


   * 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 British Air Force bombs Dresden, Germany.


   * 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.


   * 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. Iraqi officials claim


     that the bunker was a bomb shelter but United States military


     intelligence identified it as a military facility.


   * 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.


Births


   * 1682 - Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, painter (+ 1754)


   * 1873 - Feodor Chaliapin, operatic bass (+ 1938)


   * 1885 - Bess Truman, First Lady, wife of President Harry S Truman


   * 1892 - Grant Wood, painter (+ 1942)


   * 1903 - Georges Simenon, thriller writer (+ 1989)


   * 1910 - William Bradford Shockley, physicist, social commentator


   * 1919 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, musician (+ 1991)


   * 1923 - Chuck Yeager, pilot


   * 1930 - Ernst Fuchs, painter and graphic artist


   * 1933 - Kim Novak, actress


   * 1934 - George Segal, actor


   * 1938 - Oliver Reed, actor (+ 1999)


   * 1941 - Sigmar Polke, painter


   * 1942 - Peter Tork, musician and actor


   * 1944 - Jerry Springer, television host


   * 1950 - Peter Gabriel, musician


   * 1958 - Pernilla August, actress


   * 1961 - Henry Rollins, musician


   * 1974 - Robbie Williams, Pop singer


Deaths


   * 1130 - Pope Honorius II


   * 1542 - Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII of England


   * 1883 - Richard Wagner, German composer


   * 1951 - Lloyd C. Douglas, author


   * 1976 - Lily Pons, opera singer


   * 1980 - David Janssen, actor


   * 2002 - Waylon Jennings, country musician


Holidays and observances


   * 1991, 2002, 2013 Ash Wednesday

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