February 13
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February 13 is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 321 days remaining after February 13 until the end of the year (322 in leap years).
[change] Events
- 1542 – Catherine Howard, fifth wife of King Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
- 1633 – Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the inquisition.
- 1692 – At least thirty members of the MacDonald Clan are massacred in Glencoe, Scotland.
- 1931 – New Delhi becomes the capital city of India.
- 1945 – The Royal Air Force bombs the German city of Dresden in World War II.
- 1955 – Israel gains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
- 1984 – Konstantin Chernenko becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1988 – The Winter Olympic Games opens in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
- 1991 – US bombers hit Baghdad in the Gulf War.
- 2000 – The last Peanuts comic strip is printed in newspapers, a day after the death of Charles Schulz.
- 2001 – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits El Salvador, killing at least 400 people.
- 2008 – Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
- 2011 – After the removal of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the army suspends the constitution, and announces that it will remain in power until elections later in the year.
[change] Births
- 1682 – Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian painter (d. 1754)
- 1805 – Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician (d. 1859)
- 1849 – Lord Randolph Churchill, British politician, father of Winston Churchill (d. 1895)
- 1855 – Paul Deschanel, President of France (d. 1922)
- 1885 – Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States (d. 1982)
- 1888 – Georgios Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1968)
- 1891 – Grant Wood, American painter (d. 1942)
- 1903 – Georges Simenon, Belgian writer (d. 1989)
- 1910 – William Shockley, British-American physicist (d. 1989)
- 1915 – Aung San, Burmese revolutionary, nationalist, general, and politician (d. 1947)
- 1916 – John Reed, British singer of Gilbert and Sullivan (d. 2010)
- 1923 – Chuck Yeager, American pilot
- 1929 – Omar Torrijos, President of Panama (d. 1981)
- 1933 – Paul Biya, President of Cameroon
- 1933 – Kim Novak, American actress
- 1938 – Oliver Reed, English actor (d. 1999)
- 1941 – Sigmar Polke, German painter (d. 2010)
- 1942 – Peter Tork, American musician (Member of The Monkees)
- 1944 – Jerry Springer, American television host
- 1944 – Stockard Channing, American actress
- 1946 – Artur Jorge, Portuguese football coach
- 1947 – Mike Krzyzewski, American basketball coach
- 1950 – Peter Gabriel, English musician
- 1960 – Pierluigi Collina, Italian football referee
- 1968 – Niamh Kavanagh, Irish singer
- 1971 – Mats Sundin, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1974 – Robbie Williams, English singer
- 1975 – Ben Collins, English racing driver
- 1979 – Rafael Marquez, Mexican footballer
- 1979 – Mena Suvari, American actress
- 1980 – Sebastian Kehl, German footballer
- 1985 – Alexandros Tziolis, Greek footballer
- 1986 – Jamie Murray, Scottish tennis player
- 1987 – Eljero Elia, Dutch footballer
[change] Deaths
- 858 – Kenneth I of Scotland
- 1542 – Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1521)
- 1571 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (b. 1500)
- 1660 – Charles X, King of Sweden (b. 1622)
- 1662 – Elizabeth of Bohemia (b. 1596)
- 1883 – Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)
- 1958 – Dame Christabel Pankhurst, British suffragette (b. 1880)
- 1964 – Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (b. 1902)
- 1980 – Marian Rejewski, Polish mathematician (b. 1905)
- 1992 – Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
- 2002 – Waylon Jennings, American musician (b. 1937)
- 2005 – Maurice Trintignant, French racing driver (b. 1917)
- 2006 – Peter Frederick Strawson, British philosopher (b. 1919)
- 2008 – Kon Ichikawa, Japanese film director and producer (b. 1915)
- 2008 – Henri Salvador, French singer and guitarist (b. 1917)
- 2010 – John Reed, British singer of Gilbert and Sullivan (b. 1916)
- 2011 – Inese Jaunzeme, Latvian javelin thrower (b. 1932)
