About February 13
February 13, 2025 is the 44th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 321 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 369 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 13
- 1503 –Disfida di Barletta – famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
- 1575 –Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims, marrying Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont on the same day.
- 1739 –Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
- 1880 –Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
- 1894 –Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.
- 1920 –The Negro National League is formed.
- 1945 –World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
- 1951 –Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the “high-water mark” of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
- 1954 –Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game
- 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.
- 1970 –Black Sabbath, arguably the very first heavy metal album, is released.
- 1971 –Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
- 1978 –Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
- 1990 –German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
- 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.
- 2004 –The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe‘s largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star “Lucy” after The Beatles’song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”.
- 2008 –Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
- 2010 –A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.
- 2029 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rooster in Chinese astrology.
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