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
- 1503 –Disfida di Barletta – famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
- 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.
- 1692 –Massacre of Glencoe: About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
- 1867 –Work begins on the covering of the Zenne, burying Brussels’s primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
- 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.
- 1955 –Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
- 1960 –Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
- 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.
- 1967 –American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
- 1978 –Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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