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
- 1542 –Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
- 1575 –Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims, marrying Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont on the same day.
- 1633 –Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
- 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.
- 1881 –The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.
- 1907 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1979 –An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
- 2001 –An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
- 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.
- 2009 –At 23:31:30 UTC the Unix system time (time_t) number reaches 1234567890 seconds.
- 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.
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