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.
- 1635 - Boston Latin School, the first public school the United States, was founded.
- 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).
- 1672 - Étienne François Geoffroy was born (d. 1731). French chemist.
- 1682 - Giovanni Battista Piazzetta was born (d. 1754). Painter.
- 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.
- 1888 - Jean Baptiste Lamy dies (b. 1814). 1st Archbishop of Santa Fe.
- 1891 - Grant Wood was born (d. 1942). American painter.
- 1894 - Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.
- 1899 - Tallahassee, Florida records its all time coldest temperature of -2 degrees Fahrenheit.
- 1901 - May be the day after a truncated January 19, 2038 on Unix and Unix-like computer systems still suffering from the year 2038 problem
- 1903 - Georges Simenon was born (d.1989). Thriller writer - Maigret novels.
- 1904 - Se aprueba en Panamá la primera Constitución de la República.
- 1905 - Konstantin Savitsky dies (b. 1844). Russian painter.
- 1906 - Agostinho da Silva was born in Oporto (d. 1996). Portuguese 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 - 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.
- 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.
- 1915 - Aung San was born (d. 1945). Burmese Nationalist.
- 1915 - Lyle Bettger was born (d. 2003). American actor.
- 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.
- 1922 - Francis Pym was born. British Foreign Secretary 1982-83
- 1922 - Gordon Tullock was born. American economist
- 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.
- 1924 - Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber was born (d. 2006). French journalist.
- 1925 - Boudleaux Bryant was born (d. 1987). American songwriter.
- 1928 - Dorothy McGuire was born. American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
- 1929 - José Veiga Simão was 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.
- 1932 - Susan Oliver was born (d. 1990). American actress.
- 1933 - Paul Biya was born. President of Cameroon
- 1933 - Kim Novak was born. American actress .
- 1933 - Constantin Costa-Gavras was born. French film director.
- 1934 - George Segal was born. American actor .
- 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.
- 1937 - Ali El-Maak was born (d. 1992). Sudanese writer and academic.
- 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 dies. 13 th President of Brazil (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: 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.
- 1950 - Peter Gabriel was born. English musician (Genesis) .
- 1950 - Rafael Sabatini dies (b. 1875). Italian author.
- 1951 - Greg Fulginiti was born. American mastering engineer
- 1951 - David Naughton was born. American actor and singer
- 1951 - Lloyd C. Douglas dies (b. 1877). American author.
- 1952 - Freddy Maertens was born. Belgian cyclist
- 1952 - Ed Gagliardi was born. American bass guitarist and vocalist (Foreigner)
- 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.
- 1955 - Alexis Kinney was born. Pharmecutical entrepreneur founder of Kinney Drugs
- 1958 - Derek Riggs was born. British artist.
- 1958 - Pernilla August was born. Swedish actress.
- 1958 - Georges Rouault dies (b. 1871). French painter.
- 1959 - Rómulo Betancourt sworns as President of Venezuela.
- 1959 - José Nobre Guimarães was borm. Brazilian politician.
- 1959 - Gord Hampson was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
- 1959 - Gaston Gingras was born. National Hockey League defenceman.
- 1960 - Gary Patterson was born. American football coach.
- 1960 - Pierluigi Collina was born. Italian football referee.
- 1960 - Matt Salinger was born. American actor.
- 1960 - Artur Yusupov was born. Russian/German chess player.
- 1961 - Henry Rollins was born. American musician .
- 1961 - Marc Crawford was born. Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1961 - cEvin Key was born. Musician.
- 1962 - Aníbal Acevedo Vilá was born. American politician
- 1964 - Mark Patton was born. American actor.
- 1964 - Gerald Gardner dies (b. 1884). British writer.
- 1965 - Humberto Delgado dies assassinated near Badajoz (b. 1906). Portuguese general and politician.
- 1966 - Jeff Waters was born. Canadian musician (Annihilator)
- 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.
- 1968 - Mae Marsh dies (b. 1895). 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).
- 1972 - Charlie Garner was born. American football player
- 1973 - Eric Johnson was born. American artist
- 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
- 1974 - Jeff Duran was born. American radio personality, comedian
- 1975 - Portugal e Vaticano assinam protocolo do direito ao divórcio para os católicos.
- 1975 - Iván González was born. Puerto Rican disc jockey and musician.
- 1975 - André Beaufre dies (b. 1902). French General.
- 1976 - Martin Sastre was born. Uruguayan artist
- 1976 - Feist was born. Canadian singer and songwriter
- 1976 - Murtala Mohammed dies (b. 1938). Nigerian military leader.
- 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.
- 1978 - Mini Anden was born. Swedish model and actress
- 1979 - D-Roc was born. American rapper (Ying Yang Twins)
- 1979 - Rafael Márquez was born. Mexican footballer
- 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 - Sebastian Kehl was born. German footballer
- 1980 - David Janssen dies (b. 1930). American actor.
- 1981 - Luisão was born. Brazilian footballer
- 1982 - Lanisha Cole was born. American model.
- 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.
- 1985 - Kwak Ji-min was born. South Korean actress
- 1987 - Ryan Buchter was born. American baseball player
- 1988 - 1988 Winter Olympic Games open in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
- 1989 - Portugal: Desastre ecológico do rio Mondego .
- 1989 - Carly McKillip was born. Canadian actress
- 1989 - Wayne Hays dies (b. 1911). American politician.
- 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.
- 1991 - Arno Breker dies (b. 1900). German Sculptor.
- 1992 - Nikolay Bogolyubov dies (b. 1909). Russian mathematician.
- 1995 - Bruno Visentini dies. Italian politician who struggled against the fascism.
- 1996 - The Nepalese People's War began.
- 1996 - Martin Balsam dies (b. 1919). American actor.
- 1997 - Space Shuttle program: STS-82 Mission - Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope started by astronauts from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
- 1997 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 7,000 for the first time closing at 7,022.44.
- 1997 - Mark Krasnosel'skii dies (b. 1920). Russian-Ukrainian mathematician.
- 2000 - The last original Peanuts comic strip appears in newspapers a day after Charles M. Schulz died.
- 2000 - James Cooke Brown dies (b. 1921). American author and inventor.
- 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 (b. 1937). Country musician.
- 2003 - Kid Gavilan dies (b. 1926). Cuban boxer.
- 2003 - Axel Jensen dies (b. 1932). Norwegian author.
- 2003 - Walt Rostow dies (b. 1916). U.S. government official.
- 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.
- 2006 - Andreas Katsulas dies (b. 1946). American actor.
- 2006 - Wang Xuan dies. Chinese scientist, the "Father of Chinese Language Laser Typesetting".
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