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 44^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 321 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 31, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,739,404,800 seconds 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 369 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 4,437 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

February 13 Historical Events

• 1503 –
  Disfida di Barletta – famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
• 1867 –
  Work begins on the covering of the Zenne, burying Brussels’s primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
• 1920 –
  The Negro National League is formed.
• 1934 –
  The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean.
• 1955 –
  Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
• 1960 –
  With the success of a nuclear test codenamed “Gerboise Bleue”, France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
• 1983 –
  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Pig in Chinese astrology.
• 2000 –
  The last original “Peanuts” comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
• 2004 –
  The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe‘s largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star “Lucy” after The Beatles’song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”.
• 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.

Who were born on February 13?

• 1719 –
  George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, British naval officer (d. 1792)
• 1915 –
  Aung San, Burmese general and politician (d. 1947)
• 1942 –
  Carol Lynley, American actress
• 1945 –
  King Floyd, American musician (d. 2006)
• 1956 –
  Liam Brady, Irish footballer
• 1961 –
  Kyi Hla Han, Burmese golfer
• 1971 –
  Todd Williams, American baseball player
• 1973 –
  Jorg Bergmeister German race car driver
• 1979 –
  Lucy Brown, British actress
• 1985 –
  Alexandros Tziolis, Greek footballer

Who died on February 13?

• 858 –
  Kenneth I of Scotland
• 1539 –
  Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (b. 1474)
• 1542 –
  Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII of England (executed) (b.c. 1521)
• 1600 –
  Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (b. 1538)
• 1888 –
  Jean Baptiste Lamy, 1st Archbishop of Santa Fe (b. 1814)
• 1905 –
  Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (b. 1844)
• 1934 –
  József Pusztai, Slovene writer, poet, journalist in Hungary (b. 1864)
• 1958 –
  Georges Rouault, French painter (b. 1871)
• 1964 –
  Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (b. 1902)
• 1984 –
  Andre Stander, South African police captain and bank robber (b. 1946)