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.
- 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.
- 1668 –Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.
- 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.
- 1934 –The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean.
- 1935 –A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
- 1945 –World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
- 1955 –Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
- 1961 –A 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
- 1967 –American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
- 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.
- 1982 –Río Negro massacre in Guatemala.
- 1990 –German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
- 2009 –At 23:31:30 UTC the Unix system time (time_t) number reaches 1234567890 seconds.
- 2010 –A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.
- 2011 –For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, were able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.
- 2029 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rooster in Chinese astrology.
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