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
- 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.
- 1689 –William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
- 1867 –Work begins on the covering of the Zenne, burying Brussels’s primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
- 1894 –Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.
- 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 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1978 –Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
- 1981 –A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
- 1984 –Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1990 –German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
- 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.
- 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.
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