About February 13
February 13, 2023 is the 44th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 321 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 362 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1880 –Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
- 1881 –The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.
- 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.
- 1926 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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