Notable Historical Events on February 13th
February 13th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1130 |
Gregorio de' Papareschi elected as Pope Innocent II |
1258 |
Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed. |
1349 |
Jews are expelled from Burgsordf, Switzerland |
1503 |
Disfida di Barletta - Famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta. |
1510 |
Charles of Gelre conquerors Oldenzaal |
1545 |
Willem of Nassau becomes prince of Orange |
1566 |
St Augustine, Florida founded |
1575 |
Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims. |
1578 |
Tycho Brahe 1st sketches "Tychonic system" of solar system |
1601 |
John Lancaster leads first East India Company voyage from London |
1633 |
Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun |
1651 |
Flemish missionary Joris van Geel departs to Congo |
1668 |
Treaty of Lisbon: Spain recognizes Portugal |
1689 |
British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights - establishes limits on the crown and rights of parliament |
1692 |
Glencoe Massacre : about 78 MacDonalds are killed early in the morning by rival Campbell clan members, allegedly for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange. |
1693 |
College of William & Mary opens in Virginia |
1706 |
Battle at Fraustadt: Swedish army beats Russia/Saksen |
1741 |
Andrew Bedford publishes 1st American magazine (American Magazine) |
1755 |
Rebel leader Mangkubuni signs Treaty of Gianti Java |
1777 |
Marquis de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress |
1782 |
French fleet occupies St Christopher |
1786 |
Abraham Baldwin selected president of University of Georgia |
1795 |
1st state university in US opens, University of North Carolina |
1799 |
1st US law regulating insurance passed, by Massachusetts |
1809 |
French take Saragossa, Spain after a long siege |
1815 |
The Cambridge Union Society is founded. |
1816 |
-14] Teatro San Carlo in Naples destroyed by fire |
1826 |
American Temperance Society, forms in Boston |
1832 |
1st appearance of cholera in London |
1837 |
Riot in New York due to a combination of poverty and increase in the cost of flour |
1858 |
Sir Richard Burton & John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa |
1860 |
King Basse Kajuara departs Boni South-Celebes |
1861 |
1st military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor, AZ |
1861 |
Abraham Lincoln declared president in Washington DC |
1861 |
Col Bernard Irwin attacks & defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians |
1862 |
-Feb 16th) Siege of Ft Donelson TN |
1864 |
Miridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek & Wyatt, Mississippi |
1866 |
Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty, Missouri ($15,000) |
1867 |
Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna |
1880 |
Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards. |
1881 |
The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert. |
1886 |
Painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversial over use of male nudes in a coed art class |
1895 |
Moving picture projector patented |
1899 |
-16°F (-27°C), Minden Louisiana (state record) |
1899 |
-1°F (-18°C) New Orleans, La |
1899 |
-2°F (-19°C) Tallahassee, Florida (state record) |
1905 |
-29°F (-34°C) Pond, Arkansas (state record) |
1905 |
-40°F (-40°C) Lebanon, Kansas (state record) |
1905 |
-40°F (-40°C) Warsaw, Missouri (state record) |
1907 |
English suffragettes storm British Parliament & 60 women are arrested |
1912 |
England regains the Ashes |
1914 |
American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers-ASCAP forms in NYC |
1915 |
The French try to drive the Germans forces back into the Champagne region |
1920 |
National Negro Baseball League organizes |
1920 |
League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland |
1920 |
Switzerland rejoins the League of Nations |
1923 |
1st Black pro Basketball team, "Renaissance," organizes |
1925 |
US Congress makes Surpreme Court appeal more difficult |
1927 |
Uprising against Portuguese regime of Gen Carmona defeated |
1929 |
Cruiser Act, USA, approves the construction of 19 new cruisers & an aircraft carrier |
1929 |
Vladimir Mayakofsky's "Klop," premieres in Moscow |
1932 |
"Free Eats" introduces George "Spanky" McFarland to "Our Gang" |
1934 |
Austrian Dollfuss government bans socialist party |
1934 |
The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean. |
1935 |
1st US surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland |
1935 |
Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap & murder of Lindbergh infant |
1937 |
"Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail |
1937 |
Bradman scores 123 SA v Queensland, 165 mins, 10-4s 1-6 in cricket |
1937 |
Maribel Vinson wins her 9th US figure skating championship |
1937 |
NFL Boston Redskins move to Wash DC |
1937 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
1937 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee |
1940 |
Bradman scores 209* in 161 minutes for South Aust at the WACA |
1941 |
Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council |
1942 |
Hitler's Operation Sealion (invasion of England) cancelled |
1943 |
German assault on Sidi Bou Zid Tunisia, Gen Eisenhower visits front |
1943 |
Women's Marine Corps created |
1945 |
Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135,000 die |
1945 |
Gerbrandy Dutch government refuses Dutch Jewish right to buy |
1945 |
USSR captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die |
1946 |
"Duchess Misbehaves" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 5 performances |
1948 |
Andy Ganteaume scores 112 for W Indies in only Test Cricket innings |
1948 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Lannoy & Baugniet of BEL |
1948 |
Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Richard Button USA |
1948 |
Wright Flyer, 1st plane to fly, returns to US from England |
1952 |
Rocky Marciano defeated Lee Savold for his 39th straight win |
1953 |
A's change name of Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium |
1954 |
Frank Selvey scores 100 points for Furman beating Newberry 149-95 |
1955 |
Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls |
1955 |
KRCG TV channel 13 in Jefferson City, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open |
1956 |
KYW-AM in Philadelphia Penn gives calls to WTAM (now WWWE) Cleveland |
1957 |
Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans |
1959 |
Barbie doll goes on sale |
1959 |
Miro Cardon, premier of Cuba, resigns |
1960 |
"Beg, Borrow or Steal" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 5 perfs |
1960 |
"Saratoga" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 80 performances |
1960 |
France performs 1st nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria |
1961 |
Frank Sinatra launches Reprise label under Warner Bros Records |
1961 |
Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus |
1965 |
Peggy Fleming, 16, wins ladies senior figure skating title |
1965 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming |
1965 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti |
1966 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1968 |
US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam |
1969 |
Mary Hopkin's Postcard album on Apple is released |
1969 |
Suriname government of Pengel resigns |
1970 |
Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi |
1970 |
NL offices begins move from Cin to SF (completed Feb 23) |
1971 |
12,000 South Vietnamese troops cross into Laos |
1971 |
Golfing VP Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into crowd, injuring 2 |
1972 |
"1776" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 1,217 performances |
1972 |
"Grease" opens on Broadway |
1972 |
11th Winter Olympic games close at Sapporo, Japan |
1973 |
Musical "El Grande de Coca-Cola," premieres in NYC |
1973 |
US dollar devalues 10% |
1974 |
"Rainbow Jones" opens & closes at Music Box Theater NYC |
1974 |
Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR |
1974 |
James 'cool papa' Bell is named to baseball's Hall of Fame |
1974 |
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and historian, is deported from the Soviet Union to Frankfurt, West Germany and stripped of his Soviet citizenship |
1975 |
Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash procliams Turkish-Cypriot Federation |
1976 |
Dorothy Hamill wins Olympic figure-skating gold, Innsbruck, Austria |
1976 |
Peter Casserly of NZ hand-sheers record 353 lambs in 9 hours |
1977 |
"Guys & Dolls" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 239 performances |
1977 |
"Ipi Tombi" closes at Harkness Theater NYC after 39 performances |
1977 |
"Robber Bridegroom" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 145 perfs |
1977 |
Eric Heiden is 1st American to win world speed skating championship |
1977 |
Pam Higgins wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic |
1978 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1979 |
2nd Emmy Sports Award presentation |
1979 |
Washington State's Hood Canal Bridge breaks up in windstorm |
1980 |
Apollo Computer Inc incorporated |
1980 |
NZ beats West Indies by one wicket in cricket at Dunedin |
1981 |
Longest sentence published by NY Times-1286 words |
1981 |
A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky. |
1982 |
Dark Side of the Moon is in charts for 402nd week |
1982 |
Islander's Bryan Trottier scores 5 goals against Flyers |
1983 |
"Merlin" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 199 performances |
1983 |
33rd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 132-123 at LA |
1983 |
Australia beats NZ 2-0 to win World Series Cup |
1983 |
Donna White wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
1983 |
E Bernstein, Levinson & Link's musical "Merlin" premieres in NYC |
1983 |
World Boxing Council becomes 1st to cut boxing from 15 to 12 rounds |
1984 |
6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart & liver transplant |
1984 |
Konstantin Chernenko succeeds Yuri Andropov as USSR leader |
1985 |
Dow Jones closes at 1297.92 (record high) after topping 1300 earlier |
1985 |
Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders |
1987 |
Tigers' Jack Morris awarded $1.85 million salary by arbitrator |
1988 |
15th Winter Olympic games opens at Calgary, Canada |
1988 |
Christine Wachtel runs world record 800m indoor (1:56:40) |
1988 |
European Community plans removal of internal boundaries on Jan 1, 1992 |
1988 |
Heike Dreschler long jumps world record indoor (7.37m) |
1988 |
Ronald Weigel runs unofficial world record speed walking (18:11.41) |
1989 |
Kidnapped Belgian Premier Vanden Boeynants freed |
1989 |
Salvadoran army attacks Encuentros hospital, rapes, kills patients |
1989 |
Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison |
1990 |
50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal, South Africa |
1990 |
Larry Bird (Celtics) ends NBA free throw streak of 71 games |
1990 |
US, Britain & France give Germany OK to reunify |
1991 |
Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel |
1991 |
US bombs Iraqi air raid shelter, killing 334 |
1991 |
US air raid on the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad kills more than 408 civilians |
1992 |
"Most Happy Fella" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 229 performances |
1992 |
Jose Canseco repeatedly rams his Porsche into wife Esther's BMW |
1992 |
West beats East 14 to 9 in Major Soccer League all star game |
1993 |
Ljubow Kremljowa runs world record 1000m indoor (2:34:84) |
1993 |
Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (21.87 sec) |
1993 |
Sergei Bubka pole vaults indoor record (6.14 m) |
1994 |
44th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 127-118 at Minneapolis |
1994 |
Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.9m |
1994 |
Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5000m 6:34,96 |
1994 |
Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200 |
1995 |
Howard Stern radio show premieres in San Diego CA on KIOZ 105.3 FM |
1995 |
West Indies beat NZ by innings & 332, Courtney Walsh 13-55 |
1995 |
3rd ESPY Awards: Steve Young, Bonnie Blair win |
1996 |
Howard Stern announces he will be making the film "Private Parts" |
1996 |
Rock musical "Rent," by Jonathan Larson, opens off-Broadway |
1996 |
Rapper Tupac Shakur releases his 4th studio album 'All Eyez on Me' |
1997 |
"Three Sisters," opens at Criterion Theater NYC |
1997 |
Discovery captures Hubble Space Telescope |
2000 |
The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies. |
2001 |
An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400. |
2004 |
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. |
2005 |
47th Grammy Awards: Here We Go Again, Maroon 5 wins |
2005 |
NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 38-27 |
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; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election. |
2008 |
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes an historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations. |
2009 |
Unix time passed 1,234,567,890 seconds February 13, 2009 at exactly 23:31:30 (UTC). |
2009 |
The Dutch Statistics agency confirms the Netherlands are in recession |
2010 |
A bombing at the German Bakery in Pune, India, kills 10 and injures 60 more. |
2011 |
53rd Grammy Awards: Need You Now, Esperanza Spalding wins |
2013 |
16 Muslim insurgents are killed in an attack on a Narathiwat military base, Thailand |
2013 |
10 civilians, including 3 children, are killed by a NATO airstrike in the Kunar Province, Afghanistan |
2013 |
Sir Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, says he believes "a recovery is in sight" after fears raised about a triple dip recession |
2016 |
Boko Haram attacks kill at least 30, locals say |
2017 |
Thousands in California Told to Evacuate Amid Fears of Flooding at Lake Oroville |
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