On this day in History - Feb. 13

• 1130 - Pope Honorius II dies.
• 1130 - Innocent II is voted Pope.
• 1219 - Minamoto no Sanetomo dies (b. 1192). Japanese shogun.
• 1322 - Andronicus II dies (b. 1260). Byzantine Emperor.
• 1457 - Mary of Burgundy was born (d. 1482). Daughter of Charles the Bold and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
• 1480 - Girolamo Aleandro, so called Hieronymus Aleander, was born in Treviso (d. 1542). Italian humanist and diplomat, scholar, and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
• 1539 - Isabella d'Este dies (b. 1474). Marquise of Mantua.
• 1542 - Catherine Howard dies executed (b. 1525). Fifth wife of Henry VIII of England.
• 1542 - Brasil: los conquistadores españoles Gonzalo Pizarro y Francisco de Orellana descubren el río Amazonas.
• 1571 - Benvenuto Cellini dies (b. 1500). Italian writer and sculptor.
• 1575 - Henry III of France is crowned at Reims
• 1585 - Alfonso Salmeron dies (b. 1515). Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar.
• 1592 - Jacopo Bassano dies. Italian painter.
• 1599 - Pope Alexander VII was born (d. 1667) .
• 1600 - Gian Paolo Lomazzo dies (b. 1538). Italian painter.
• 1602 - Alexander Nowell dies. English clergyman.
• 1608 - Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski dies (b. 1526). Lithuanian prince.
• 1624 - Stephen Gosson dies (b. 1554). English satirist.
• 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).
• 1662 - Elizabeth of Bohemia dies (b. 1596).
• 1668 - Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.
• 1672 - Étienne François Geoffroy was born (d. 1731). French chemist.
• 1682 - Giovanni Battista Piazzetta was born (d. 1754). Painter.
• 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.
• 1727 - William Wotton dies (b. 1666). English scholar.
• 1728 - Cotton Mather dies (b. 1663). American Puritan minister and author.
• 1743 - Joseph Banks was born (d. 1820). English botanist and naturalist.
• 1768 - Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier was born (d. 1835). French marshal.
• 1769 - Ivan Krylov was born (d. 1844). Russian fabulist.
• 1787 - Ruđer Bošković dies (b. 1711). Scientist and diplomat.
• 1805 - Peter Gustav Dirichlet was born (d. 1859). German mathematician.
• 1812 - Aparece en Santiago "La Aurora", el primer periódico chileno, dirigido por Camilo Henríquez.
• 1815 - The Cambridge Union Society founded.
• 1837 - Mariano José de Larra dies. Spanish writer.
• 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.
• 1866 - The gang that included Jesse James and Cole Younger committed their first bank robbery in Liberty, Mo.
• 1873 - Feodor Chaliapin was born (d. 1938). Operatic bass.
• 1880 - Thomas Edison observed the Edison Effect.
• 1881 - The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne was first published in Paris by activist Hubertine Auclert.
• 1883 - In Lisbon A Voz do Operário is founded.
• 1883 - Richard Wagner dies (b. 1813). German composer.
• 1884 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert was born (d. 1961).American athlet, gold medal winner at 1908 Summer Olympics and inventor of Erector Set.
• 1885 - Bess Truman was born (d. 1982). First Lady, wife of President Harry S. Truman.
• 1891 - Grant Wood was born (d. 1942). American painter.
• 1894 - Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.
• 1902 - Karl Menger was born. American 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.
• 1906 - Agostinho da Silva was born (d. 1996). Portuguese singer, philosopher and essayst.
• 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.
• 1911 - Faiz Ahmed Faiz was born in Sialkot Pakistan (d. 1984). Noted Urdu poet and first Asian Lenin Peace Prize winner.
• 1913 - George Barker was born (d. 1991). British poet.
• 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.
• 1915 - Aung San was born (d. 1945). Burmese Nationalist.
• 1917 - Francia: detención de Mata Hari por el servicio de espionaje francés, en un hotel de París.
• 1918 - Patty Berg was born. American golfer.
• 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 (d. 1991). American musician.
• 1919 - Eddie Robinson was born. American football coach.
• 1920 - The Negro National League is formed.
• 1920 - Eileen Farrell was born (d. 2002). American opera soprano.
• 1923 - Michael Bilandic was born (d. 2002). Mayor of Chicago, IL.
• 1923 - Chuck Yeager was born. Pilot of first supersonic flight .
• 1923 - Yfrah Neaman was born (d. 2003). Lebanese-born violinist.
• 1929 - José Veiga Simãowas born in Guarda. Portuguese teacher and politician.
• 1929 - Omar Torrijos was born (d. 1981). Panamanian ruler.
• 1930 - Ernst Fuchs was born. Austrian painter and graphic artist .
• 1933 - Kim Novak was born. American actress .
• 1933 - Paul Biya was born. President of Cameroon .
• 1933 - Constantin Costa-Gavras was born. French film director.
• 1934 - George Segal was born. American 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.
• 1937 - Susan Oliver was born (d. 1990). American actress.
• 1938 - Oliver Reed was born (d. 1999). English actor.
• 1939 - Beate Klarsfeld was born. German Holocaust investigator/Nazi hunters.
• 1941 - Sigmar Polke was born. German painter .
• 1942 - Epitácio Pessoa, morte de, 13° presidente do Brasil (28 Jul1919 - 15 Nov 1922).
• 1942 - Peter Tork was born. American musician and actor (The Monkees) .
• 1942 - Carol Lynley was born. American actress.
• 1943 - Geoff Edwards was born. American game show host.
• 1944 - La ciudad de Rostov, en Rusia, es libertada de la ocupación alemán en la Segunda Guerra Mundial .
• 1944 - Jerry Springer was born. American television host .
• 1944 - Stockard Channing was born. American actress.
• 1944 - Bo Svenson was born. Swedish-born actor.
• 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).
• 1946 - Artur Jorge was born. Portuguese soccer player and coach. European winner with FC Porto; Actually, is Coach of the national seleccion Team of Cameroon.
• 1946 - Colin Matthews was born. British composer.
• 1947 - Mike Krzyzewski was born. Duke University basketball coach, Basketball Hall of Famer .
• 1950 - Peter Gabriel was born. English musician (Genesis) .
• 1950 - Rafael Sabatini dies (b. 1875). Italian author.
• 1951 - Lloyd C. Douglas dies (b. 1877). American author.
• 1952 - Josephine Tey dies (b. 1896). English mystery novel author.
• 1953 - A Assembléia Nacional jugoslava aprova uma nova Constituição.
• 1954 - Donnie Moore was born (d. 1989). Baseball player.
• 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. Swedish actress.
• 1959 - El presidente electo de Venezuela, Rómulo Betancourt, toma posesión de su cargo.
• 1960 - Pierluigi Collina was born. Italian football referee.
• 1960 - Matt Salinger was born. American actor.
• 1960 - Artur Yusupov was born. Russian/German chess player.
• 1960 - Nuclear testing: France tests its first atomic bomb.
• 1961 - Henry Rollins was born. American musician .
• 1961 - cEvin Key was born. Musician.
• 1962 - Aníbal Acevedo Vilá was born. American politician
• 1963 - Penelope Ann Miller was born. Actress (Awakenings, Chaplin, Freshman).
• 1964 - Randy Alan Wood, was born, USA California Gardena Senior Transportation Surveyor.
• 1964 - Mark Patton was born. American actor.
• 1965 - Stephan Fritzen, German writer
• 1965 - Humberto Delgado dies assassinated near Badajoz (b. 1906). Portuguese general and politician.
• 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.
• 1968 - Kelly Hu was born. American actress.
• 1970 - Karoline Krüger was born. Norwegian singer.
• 1971 - Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
• 1971 - Sonia was born. British singer.
• 1971 - Mats Sundin was born. Swedish hockey player .
• 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. English pop singer.
• 1974 - Gus Hansen was born. Danish professional poker player
• 1975 - Portugal e Vaticano assinam protocolo do direito ao divórcio para os católicos.
• 1976 - Lily Pons dies (b. 1904). French-born soprano.
• 1977 - Randy Moss was born. American football player, 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.
• 1978 - Michael Stone was born. National Football League safety.
• 1979 - Mena Suvari was born. American actress
• 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 (b. 1930). Actor.
• 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 - Bruno Visentini dies. Italian politician who struggled against the fascism.
• 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.
• 2004 - Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev dies (b. 1952). Chechen leader.
• 2005 - Nelson Briles dies (b. 1943). Baseball player.
• 2005 - Lúcia Santos dies (b. 1907). Portuguese Carmelite nun.
• 2005 - Maurice Trintignant dies (b. 1917). French race car driver.