About February 13
February 13, 2021 is the 44th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 321 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 353 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 13
- 1575 –Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims, marrying Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont on the same day.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1920 –The Negro National League is formed.
- 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
- 1955 –Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
- 1960 –With the success of a nuclear test codenamed “Gerboise Bleue”, France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
- 1961 –A 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
- 1964 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- 1970 –Black Sabbath, arguably the very first heavy metal album, is released.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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