On this day in History - Feb. 13
- 0858 - Kenneth I of Scotland dies.
- 1130 - Pope Honorius II dies.
- 1130 - Innocent II is voted Pope.
- 1219 - Minamoto no Sanetomo dies (b. 1192). Japanese shogun.
- 1332 - 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.
- 1503 - Disfida di Barletta - Famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
- 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 Rheims
- 1575 - Henry III of France marries Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont.
- 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.
- 1721 - John Reid was born (d. 1807). British army general and composer.
- 1727 - William Wotton dies (b. 1666). English scholar.
- 1728 - John Hunter was born (d. 1793). Scottish surgeon.
- 1728 - Cotton Mather dies (b. 1663). American Puritan minister and author.
- 1732 - Charles-René d'Hozier dies (b. 1640). French historian.
- 1743 - Joseph Banks was born (d. 1820). English botanist and naturalist.
- 1766 - Thomas Robert Malthus was born (d. 1834). Demographer and political economist.
- 1768 - Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier was born (d. 1835). French marshal.
- 1769 - Ivan Krylov was born (d. 1844). Russian fabulist.
- 1787 - Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes dies (b. 1717). French statesman and diplomat.
- 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.
- 1813 - Samuel Ashe dies (b. 1725). Governor of North Carolina.
- 1815 - The Cambridge Union Society founded.
- 1818 - George Rogers Clark dies (b. 1752). American military leader.
- 1826 - Petr Alekseevich Pahlen dies (b. 1745). Russian general.
- 1835 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was born (d. 1908). Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
- 1837 - Mariano José de Larra dies (b. 1809). Spanish writer.
- 1845 - Henrik Steffens dies (b. 1773). Norwegian-German philosopher.
- 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.
- 1855 - Paul Deschanel was born (d. 1922). French President.
- 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.
- 1876 - Fritz Buelow was born (d. 1933). German-born American baseball player.
- 1879 - Sarojini Naidu was born (d. 1949). Indian freedom fighter.
- 1880 - Thomas Edison observed the Edison Effect.
- 1880 - Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
- 1881 - The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne was first published in Paris by activist Hubertine Auclert.
- 1881 - Eleanor Farjeon was born (d. 1965). English author.
- 1883 - In Lisbon, Portugal 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.
- 1891 - Kate Roberts was born (d. 1985). Welsh nationalist and writer,
- 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 Porto (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)
- 1928 - Catarina Eufémia was born (d. 1954). Portuguese worker who was killed by Police after a strike, during the fascist political regimen in Portugal.
- 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.
- 1931 - José Lino Grünewald was born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 26 Jul 2000). Brazilian journalist and poet.
- 1932 - Susan Oliver was born (d. 1990). American actress.
- 1933 - Costa Gavras was born. Greek-French filmmaker.
- 1933 - Caroline Blakiston was born. British actress.
- 1933 - Kim Novak was born. American actress .
- 1933 - Constâncio Alves dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. in São Salvador, Bahia, on 16 Jul 1862). Brazilian journalist, essayst and writer.
- 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 - Andrea Conte was born. First Lady of Tennessee 2003 - present.
- 1941 - Sigmar Polke was born. German painter .
- 1942 - Carol Lynley was born. American actress
- 1942 - Peter Tork was born. American musician and actor (The Monkees)
- 1942 - Epitácio Pessoa dies. 13 th President of Brazil (28 Jul1919 - 15 Nov 1922).
- 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.
- 1944 - Rebop Kwaku Baah was born (d. 1983). Nigerian percussionist.
- 1944 - Oduvil Unnikrishnan was born (d. 2006). Indian actor.
- 1945 - World War II: The Royal Air Force bombs Dresden, Germany (see Bombing of Dresden in World War II).
- 1945 - King Floyd was born (d. 2006). American musician.
- 1946 - Louis Kondos was born. Greek actor.
- 1946 - Colin Matthews was born. British composer.
- 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.
- 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 - 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.
- 1953 - Rico J. Puno was born. Filipino pop singer
- 1954 - Donnie Moore was born (d. 1989). American baseball player.
- 1955 - Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
- 1955 - Alexis Kinney was born. Pharmecutical entrepreneur founder of Kinney Drugs
- 1956 - Princess Alia bint Al Hussein was born. Jordanian Royal Family member
- 1956 - Liam Brady was born. Irish footballer.
- 1957 - Denise Austin was born. American fitness expert.
- 1958 - Tip Tipping was born (d. 1993). British actor and stuntman.
- 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 - Ylva Johansson was born. Swedish politician.
- 1964 - Gerald Gardner dies (b. 1884). British writer.
- 1964 - Werner Heyde dies (b. 1902). German psyhiatrist.
- 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.
- 1967 - Stanimir Stoilov was born. Bulgarian soccer player and coach
- 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 - El presidente chileno, Salvador Allende, decide aceptar la reforma constitucional que establece el dominio del Estado sobre todos los recursos mineros y combustibles.
- 1971 - Sonia was born. British singer.
- 1971 - Mats Sundin was born. Swedish ice hockey player
- 1971 - Todd Williams was born. American baseball player
- 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 - Dave Padden was born. Canadian musician (Annihilator).
- 1976 - Murtala Mohammed dies (b. 1938). Nigerian military leader.
- 1976 - Lily Pons dies (b. 1904). French-born soprano.
- 1977 - Toma posse a Comissão Instaladora da Condição Feminina.
- 1977 - Randy Moss was born. American football player.
- 1977 - Ben Collins, British racing driver
- 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
- 1978 - Hamish Glencross was born. Scottish heavy metal guitarist My Dying Bride.
- 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 - A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
- 1981 - Luisão was born. Brazilian footballer (Benfica).
- 1981 - Liam Miller was born. Irish footballer.
- 1981 - Luke Ridnour was born. American basketball player.
- 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 - Ricardo de la Espriella President of Panama since Jul 31, 1982, resigned on this day
- 1984 - Andre Stander dies (b. 1946). South African police captain and bank robber.
- 1985 - Kwak Ji-min was born. South Korean actress.
- 1985 - Alexandros Tziolis was born. Greek footballer.
- 1986 - Luke Moore was born. English footballer.
- 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). American 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 - 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.
- 2005 - Dick Weber dies (b. 1929). American professional bowler.
- 2005 - Emilios T. Harlaftis dies (b. 1965). Greek astrophysicist.
- 2006 - Andreas Katsulas dies (b. 1946). American actor.
- 2006 - Wang Xuan dies. Chinese scientist, the "Father of Chinese Language Laser Typesetting".
- 2007 - Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
- 2007 - Elizabeth Jolley dies (b. 1923). Australian writer.
- 2007 - Johanna Sällström dies (b. 1974). Swedish actress.
- 2007 - Richard Gordon Wakeford dies (b. 1922). Air Marshal, Royal Air Force.
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