February 13 is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 321 days remaining until the end of the year (322 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).
SAFER INTERNET DAY
1503 ― Disfida di Barletta: Famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
1566 ― St. Augustine, FL, is founded. In 1566, Martín de Argüelles was born in Saint Augustine, the first birth of a child of European ancestry recorded in what is now the continental United States.
1578 ― Danish nobleman Tycho Brahe first sketches the "Tychonic system" of the solar system.
1633 ― Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun.
1689 ― Following Britain’s bloodless Glorious Revolution, Mary, the daughter of the deposed king, and William of Orange, her husband, are proclaimed joint sovereigns of Great Britain under Britain’s new Bill of Rights.
1692 ― The Glencoe Massacre: about 78 MacDonalds are killed early in the morning by rival Campbell clan members, allegedly for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
1777 ― Donatien Alphonse François, the Marquis de Sade, is arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress.
1899 ― Low temperature of -16°F (-27°C) is reached at Minden, LA (state record).
1899 ― Low temperature of -1°F (-18°C) is reached at New Orleans, LA.
1899 ― Low temperature of -2°F (-19°C) is reached at Tallahassee, FL (state record).
1905 ― Low temperature of -29°F (-34°C) is reached at Pond, AK (state record).
1905 ― Low temperature of -40°F (-40°C) is reached at Lebanon, KS (state record).
1905 ― Low temperature of -40°F (-40°C) is reached at Warsaw, MO (state record).
1942 ― Hitler's Operation Sealion (invasion of England) is cancelled.
1945 ― Allied planes begin bombing Dresden, Germany; a firestorm results and over 22,000 die.
1945 ― The Soviets capture Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die.
1957 ― The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) organizes in New Orleans.
SAFER INTERNET DAY
1503 ― Disfida di Barletta: Famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
1566 ― St. Augustine, FL, is founded. In 1566, Martín de Argüelles was born in Saint Augustine, the first birth of a child of European ancestry recorded in what is now the continental United States.
1578 ― Danish nobleman Tycho Brahe first sketches the "Tychonic system" of the solar system.
1633 ― Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun.
1689 ― Following Britain’s bloodless Glorious Revolution, Mary, the daughter of the deposed king, and William of Orange, her husband, are proclaimed joint sovereigns of Great Britain under Britain’s new Bill of Rights.
1692 ― The Glencoe Massacre: about 78 MacDonalds are killed early in the morning by rival Campbell clan members, allegedly for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
1777 ― Donatien Alphonse François, the Marquis de Sade, is arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress.
1899 ― Low temperature of -16°F (-27°C) is reached at Minden, LA (state record).
1899 ― Low temperature of -1°F (-18°C) is reached at New Orleans, LA.
1899 ― Low temperature of -2°F (-19°C) is reached at Tallahassee, FL (state record).
1905 ― Low temperature of -29°F (-34°C) is reached at Pond, AK (state record).
1905 ― Low temperature of -40°F (-40°C) is reached at Lebanon, KS (state record).
1905 ― Low temperature of -40°F (-40°C) is reached at Warsaw, MO (state record).
1942 ― Hitler's Operation Sealion (invasion of England) is cancelled.
1945 ― Allied planes begin bombing Dresden, Germany; a firestorm results and over 22,000 die.
1945 ― The Soviets capture Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die.
1957 ― The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) organizes in New Orleans.
1974 ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and historian, is deported from the Soviet Union to Frankfurt, West Germany and stripped of his Soviet citizenship.
1981 ― A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
1981 ― A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
1982 ― A 21-year-old woman named Mary accepts a ride from a man in the ski town of Breckenridge, Colorado, and is raped and severely beaten with a claw hammer. The attacker, Tom Luther, was traced through his truck and apprehended.
1997 ― Discovery captures the Hubble Space Telescope.
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.
2011 – For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, a Native American tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1815 – Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American anthologist, editor, poet and critic (d. 1857)
1849 – Lord Randolph Churchill, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, father of Wnston Churchill (d. 1895)
1885 – Bess Truman, American wife of Harry S. Truman, 35th First Lady of the United States (d. 1982)
1891 – Grant Wood, American painter and academic (d. 1942)
1947 – Mike Krzyzewski, American basketball player and coach
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
2011 – For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, a Native American tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.
1815 – Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American anthologist, editor, poet and critic (d. 1857)
1885 – Bess Truman, American wife of Harry S. Truman, 35th First Lady of the United States (d. 1982)
1891 – Grant Wood, American painter and academic (d. 1942)
1947 – Mike Krzyzewski, American basketball player and coach
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
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