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 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, 483,168 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.
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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.
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February 13 Historical Events
- 1503 –Disfida di Barletta – famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
- 1880 –Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
- 1931 –New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
- 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.
- 1971 –Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
- 1979 –An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
- 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”.
- 2008 –Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
- 2029 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rooster in Chinese astrology.
Who were born on February 13?
- 1891 –Kate Roberts, Welsh nationalist and writer (d. 1985)
- 1892 –Robert H. Jackson, American jurist, 57th United States Attorney General and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1954)
- 1916 –John Reed, British actor and singer (d. 2010)
- 1940 –Arne Sølvberg, Norwegian computer scientist
- 1954 –Donnie Moore, American baseball player (d. 1989)
- 1958 –Pernilla August, Swedish actress
- 1959 –Richard Eden, American actor
- 1961 –Henry Rollins, American musician, comedian, and actor (Black Flag)
- 1980 –Mark Watson, British comedian
- 1982 –Lanisha Cole, American model
Who died on February 13?
- 1332 –Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1259)
- 1592 –Jacopo Bassano, Italian painter
- 1602 –Alexander Nowell, English clergyman
- 1728 –Cotton Mather, American Puritan minister (b. 1663)
- 1976 –Lily Pons, French-born soprano (b. 1904)
- 1991 –Ron Pickering, athletics coach and BBC sports commentator and presenter (b. 1930)
- 2000 –Anders Aalborg, Canadian politician (b. 1914)
- 2005 –Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist (b. 1965)
- 2005 –Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (b. 1917)
- 2006 –Peter Frederick Strawson, British philosopher (b. 1919)
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