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
- 1633 –Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
- 1689 –William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
- 1739 –Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
- 1867 –Work begins on the covering of the Zenne, burying Brussels’s primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
- 1880 –Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
- 1914 –Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
- 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.
- 1951 –Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the “high-water mark” of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
- 1960 –Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
- 1961 –A 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
- 1971 –Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
- 1981 –A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
- 1982 –Río Negro massacre in Guatemala.
- 1983 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Pig in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- 2000 –The last original “Peanuts” comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
- 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 a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
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