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, 28,463,040 minutes 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.
- 1668 –Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.
- 1692 –Massacre of Glencoe: About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
- 1960 –Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
- 1960 –With the success of a nuclear test codenamed “Gerboise Bleue”, France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
- 1964 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- 1970 –Black Sabbath, arguably the very first heavy metal album, is released.
- 1971 –Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
- 1990 –German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
- 2008 –Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
Who were born on February 13?
- 1721 –John Reid, British army general and composer (d. 1807)
- 1769 –Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (d. 1844)
- 1876 –Fritz Buelow, German-born American baseball player (d. 1933)
- 1891 –Grant Wood, American painter (d. 1942)
- 1906 –Patsy Callighen, Canadian Hockey Player (d. 1964)
- 1945 –David Tremlett, English artist
- 1950 –Ewa Aulin, Swedish actress
- 1961 –Kyi Hla Han, Burmese golfer
- 1970 –Karoline Krüger, Norwegian singer
- 1986 –Jamie Murray, Scottish tennis player
Who died on February 13?
- 858 –Kenneth I of Scotland
- 1539 –Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (b. 1474)
- 1600 –Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (b. 1538)
- 1660 –King Charles X of Sweden (b. 1622)
- 1787 –Ruđer Josip Bošković, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711)
- 1826 –Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (b. 1745)
- 2000 –Anders Aalborg, Canadian politician (b. 1914)
- 2004 –Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Chechen leader (b. 1952)
- 2005 –Nelson Briles, baseball player (b. 1943)
- 2007 –Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress (b. 1974)
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