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