About February 13
February 13, 2024 is the 44th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 322 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 351 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 13
- 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.
- 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. As his son and successor on the throne, Charles XI, is only four years old, a regency takes over the ruling of Sweden until 1672.
- 1668 –Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.
- 1907 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- 1931 –New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
- 1934 –The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean.
- 1945 –World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
- 1945 –World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
- 1951 –Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the “high-water mark” of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
- 1955 –Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
- 1960 –Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
- 1960 –With the success of a nuclear test codenamed “Gerboise Bleue”, France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
- 1961 –A 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
- 1970 –Black Sabbath, arguably the very first heavy metal album, is released.
- 1984 –Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 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.
- 2001 –An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
- 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.
- 2010 –A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.
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