What are the important events that happened on February 13? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
February 13: Facts & Myths About This Day
February 13 is the 44th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 322 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 31, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 474,384 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘tetracontatetragon’ day.
Aquarius is the zodiac 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 351 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,071 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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February 13 Historical Events
- 1542 –Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
- 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.
- 1931 –New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
- 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.
- 1945 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- 1954 –Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game
- 1960 –With the success of a nuclear test codenamed “Gerboise Bleue”, France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
- 1970 –Black Sabbath, arguably the very first heavy metal album, is released.
- 1990 –German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
- 2011 –For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, were able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.
Who were born on February 13?
- 1457 –Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1482)
- 1855 –Paul Deschanel, French President (d. 1922)
- 1876 –Fritz Buelow, German-born American baseball player (d. 1933)
- 1910 –William Shockley, British-American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Laureate (d. 1989)
- 1933 –Emanuel Ungaro, French fashion designer
- 1946 –Richard Blumenthal, American Senator
- 1964 –Yamantaka Eye, Japanese musician (Boredoms)
- 1970 –Karoline Krüger, Norwegian singer
- 1983 –Mike Nickeas, American baseball player
- 1986 –Stephen Colletti, American TV star
Who died on February 13?
- 1539 –Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (b. 1474)
- 1571 –Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (b. 1500)
- 1837 –Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809)
- 1889 –João Maurício Wanderley, Brazilian magistrate and politician (b. 1815)
- 1906 –Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (b. 1866)
- 1958 –Georges Rouault, French painter (b. 1871)
- 1980 –David Janssen, American actor (b. 1931)
- 1991 –Arno Breker, German sculptor (b. 1900)
- 2005 –Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (b. 1917)
- 2009 –Edward Upward, British novelist and short-story writer (b. 1903)
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