On this day in History - Feb. 13

• 1130 - Pope Honorius II dies.
• 1130 - Innocent II is voted Pope.
• 1480 - Girolamo Aleandro, so called Hieronymus Aleander, Italian humanist and diplomat, scholar, and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, was born in Treviso.
• 1542 - Catherine Howard, dies executed, fifth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1525) .
• 1542 - Brasil: los conquistadores españoles Gonzalo Pizarro y Francisco de Orellana descubren el río Amazonas.
• 1571 - Muere Benvenuto Cellini, escritor y escultor italiano.
• 1599 - Pope Alexander VII was born (d. 1667) .
• 1633 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
• 1635 - Boston Latin School, the oldest public school in the United States, was founded.
• 1655 - Perú: un gran terremoto destruye gran parte de Lima y su puerto, Callao.
• 1657 - Miles Sindercombe, dies, attempted assassin of Oliver Cromwell .
• 1660 - King Charles X of Sweden dies (b. 1622).
• 1668 - Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.
• 1682 - Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, was born painter (d. 1754) .
• 1689 - William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
• 1692 - Massacre of Glencoe : About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland were killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
• 1728- Cotton Mather, dies, Puritan minister, author (b. 1663) .
• 1743 - Joseph Banks, was born botanist and naturalist (d. 1820).
• 1787 - Ruđer Bošković, dies, scientist and diplomat (b. 1711) .
• 1812 - Aparece en Santiago "La Aurora", el primer periódico chileno, dirigido por Camilo Henríquez.
• 1837 - Mariano José de Larra, fallecimiento de, escritor español .
• 1852 -Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer was born (d. 14 Sep 1926). Danish astronomer who compiled the New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars, (NGC) in 1888.
• 1883 - Richard Wagner, dies, German composer (b. 1813) .
• 1866 - The gang that included Jesse James and Cole Younger committed their first bank robbery in Liberty, Mo.
• 1873 - Feodor Chaliapin, was born operatic bass (d. 1938).
• 1880 - Thomas Edison observed the Edison Effect.
• 1881- The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne was first published in Paris by activist Hubertine Auclert.
• 1883 - É fundada a Voz do Operário.
• 1884 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, was born, gold medal winner at 1908 Summer Olympics, inventor of Erector Set (d. 1961) .
• 1885 - Bess Truman, was born, First Lady, wife of President Harry S. Truman (d. 1982).
• 1891 - Grant Wood, was born, painter (d. 1942) .
• 1894 - Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.
• 1902 - Born this day, Karl Menger, US mathematician (theory of dimension).
• 1903 - Georges Simenon, was born (d.1989), thriller writer - Maigret novels.
• 1904 - Se aprueba en Panamá la primera Constitución de la República.
• 1910 - William Bradford Shockley, was born (d. 12 Aug 1989) English-American engineer physicist, social commentator, cowinner (with John Bardeen and Walter H. Brattain) of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956 for their development of the transistor.
• 1913 - George Barker, was born, British poet (d. 1991) .
• 1914 -Alphonse Bertillon dies (b. 23 Apr 1853). Chief of criminal identification for the Paris police (from 1880) who developed an identification system known as anthropometry, or the Bertillon system, that came into wide use in France and other countries.
• 1914 - Copyright: In New York City the ASCAP (for American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
• 1917 - Francia: detención de Mata Hari por el servicio de espionaje francés, en un hotel de París.
• 1919 - A "Monarquia do Norte," a Junta Governativa do Reino, presidida por Paiva Couceiro, é derrotada com a entrada dos republicanos no Porto. A monarquia tinha sido proclamada em Lisboa e no Porto em 19 de Janeiro.
• 1919 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, was born, musician (d. 1991) .
• 1920 - The Negro National League is formed.
• 1923 - Michael Bilandic, was born, mayor of Chicago, IL (d. 2002)
• 1923 - Chuck Yeager, was born, pilot of first supersonic flight .
• 1930 - Ernst Fuchs, was born, painter and graphic artist .
• 1933 - Kim Novak, was born, actress .
• 1933 - Paul Biya, was born president of Cameroon .
• 1933 - Nasce Constantin Costa-Gavras, diretor francês de cinema.
• 1934 - George Segal,was born, actor .
• 1934 - The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sank 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.
• 1938 - Oliver Reed,was born actor (d. 1999) .
• 1941 - Sigmar Polke, was born, painter .
• 1942 - Epitácio Pessoa, morte de, 13° presidente do Brasil (28/07/1919 - 15/11/1922).
• 1942 - Peter Tork, was born, musician and actor (The Monkees) .
• 1944 - La ciudad de Rostov, en Rusia, es libertada de la ocupación alemán en la Segunda Guerra Mundial .
• 1944 - Jerry Springer, was born, television host .
• 1945 - World War II: Soviet Union forces capture Budapest, Hungary from the Nazis.
• 1945 - World War II: The Royal Air Force bombs Dresden, Germany (see Bombing of Dresden in World War II).
• 1947 - Mike Krzyzewski, was born, Duke University basketball coach, Basketball Hall of Famer .
• 1950 - Peter Gabriel, was born, musician .
• 1950 - Rafael Sabatini, dies, author (b. 1875) .
• 1951- Lloyd C. Douglas, deis, author (b. 1877) .
• 1952 - Josephine Tey, dies, mystery novel author (b. 1896) .
• 1953 - A Assembléia Nacional iugoslava aprova uma nova Constituição.
• 1955 - Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
• 1956 - Peter Hook, was born, bass player for Joy Division and New Order, bass player and lead vocals for Revenge and Monaco .
• 1958 - Pernilla August, was born, actress .
• 1959 - El presidente electo de Venezuela, Rómulo Betancourt, toma posesión de su cargo.
• 1960 - Pierluigi Collina, was born, Italian football referee .
• 1960 - Nuclear testing: France tests its first atomic bomb.
• 1961- Henry Rollins, was born, musician .
• 1963 - Born this day, Penelope Ann Miller, actress (Awakenings, Chaplin, Freshman).
• 1964 - Randy Alan Wood, was born, USA California Gardena Senior Transportation Surveyor.
• 1965 - Humberto Delgado é assassinado perto de Badajoz.
• 1967 - España: se descubre en la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid un volumen de casi 700 páginas con anotaciones manuscritas y dibujos a mano de Leonardo da Vinci.
• 1968 - El ex presidente de Ecuador, Galo Plaza, es nombrado secretario general de la OEA.
• 1971- Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
• 1971- Sonia, was born, British singer.
• 1971 - El presidente chileno, Salvador Allende, decide aceptar la reforma constitucional que establece el dominio del Estado sobre todos los recursos mineros y combustibles.
• 1972 - Japón: el esquiador español Francisco Fernández Ochoa gana el eslálom especial y la medalla de oro en los Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno celebrados en Sapporo (Japón).
• 1974 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, was exiled from the Soviet Union his book The Gulag Archipelago.
• 1974 - Robbie Williams, was born, Pop singer .
• 1975 - Portugal e Vaticano assinam protocolo do direito ao divórcio para os católicos.
• 1976 - Lily Pons, dies, opera singer .
• 1977 - Randy Moss, was born, NFL star .
• 1977 - Toma posse a Comissão Instaladora da Condição Feminina.
• 1978 - Hilton bombing: a bomb exploded in a garbage truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two garbagemen and a policeman.
• 1979 - The intense February 13, 1979 Windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge .
• 1980 - David Janssen, dies, actor (b. 1930).
• 1984 - Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Comunist Party of the Soviet Union.
• 1984 - Dimite el presidente de Panamá, Ricardo de la Espriella.
• 1988 - 1988 Winter Olympic Games open in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
• 1989 - Desastre ecológico do rio Mondego .
• 1990 - German reunification: An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
• 1991- Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy an underground bunker in Baghdad killing hundreds of Iraqis civilians.
• 1995 - Morre Bruno Visentini, político italiano, lutador contra o fascismo.
• 1996 - The Nepalese People's War began.
• 1997 - Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope is started by astronauts from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
• 2000 - The last original Peanuts comic strip appears in newspapers a day after Charles M. Schulz died.
• 2001- An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
• 2002 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom gives former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani an honorary knighthood.
• 2002 - The French judge was accused of throwing the pairs skating decision to the Russians at the Olympics.
• 2002 - Waylon Jennings, dies, country musician (b. 1937) .
• 2003 - Kid Gavilan, dies, world boxing champion and hall of famer .
• 2004 - Travis Metcalfe from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093.