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
- 1668 –Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.
- 1867 –Work begins on the covering of the Zenne, burying Brussels’s primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
- 1881 –The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.
- 1931 –New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
- 1951 –Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the “high-water mark” of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
- 1961 –A 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
- 1979 –An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
- 2008 –Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
- 2009 –At 23:31:30 UTC the Unix system time (time_t) number reaches 1234567890 seconds.
- 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?
- 1885 –Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States, wife of President Harry S. Truman (d. 1982)
- 1906 –Patsy Callighen, Canadian Hockey Player (d. 1964)
- 1928 –Dorothy McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
- 1932 –Susan Oliver, American actress (d. 1990)
- 1933 –Kim Novak, American actress
- 1943 –Elaine Pagels, American theologian
- 1951 –Ellen Bry, American actress
- 1960 –Gary Patterson, American football coach
- 1971 –Mats Sundin, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1974 –Robbie Williams, English singer
Who died on February 13?
- 1141 –Béla II of Hungary (b. 1110)
- 1542 –Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII of England (executed) (b.c. 1521)
- 1727 –William Wotton, English scholar (b. 1666)
- 1845 –Henrik Steffens, Norwegian-German philosopher (b. 1773)
- 1956 –Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish mathematician (b. 1878)
- 1976 –Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian military leader (b. 1938)
- 1984 –Andre Stander, South African police captain and bank robber (b. 1946)
- 2003 –Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (b. 1926)
- 2007 –Charlie Norwood, American politician (b. 1941)
- 2008 –Roger Voisin, Trumpet player, Boston Symphony (b. 1918)
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