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Historical Events

13 Feb 1130
Gregorio de Papareschi elected as Pope Innocent II
13 Feb 1258
Baghdad falls to the Mongols as the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed
13 Feb 1502
Nicols de Ovando y Cceres new Governor of the Indies sets sail for the Indies with fleet of 30 ships largest-ever fleet to the New World
13 Feb 1503
Disfida di Barletta - Famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta Southern Italy
13 Feb 1601
1st British East India Company voyage departs from London lead by John Lancaster
13 Feb 1651
Flemish missionary Joris van Geel departs to Congo
13 Feb 1689
British Parliament adopts the Bill of Rights which establishes the rights of parliament and places limits on the crown
13 Feb 1692
Glencoe Massacre about 38 MacDonalds killed early in the morning by rival Campbell clan members allegedly for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king William of Orange
13 Feb 1693
College of William & Mary opens in Williamsburg Virginia
13 Feb 1706
Battle at Fraustadt Swedish army beats Russia and Saksen
13 Feb 1741
Andrew Bedford publishes 1st American magazine (American Magazine)
13 Feb 1755
Rebel leader Mangkubuni signs Treaty of Gianti Java
13 Feb 1786
Abraham Baldwin selected president of University of Georgia
13 Feb 1795
1st state university in US opens University of North Carolina
13 Feb 1799
1st US law regulating insurance passed by Massachusetts legislature
13 Feb 1809
French take Saragossa Spain after a long siege
13 Feb 1816
-14] Teatro San Carlo in Naples destroyed by fire
13 Feb 1837
Riot in New York due to a combination of poverty and increase in the cost of flour
13 Feb 1861
First military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor Arizona
13 Feb 1861
Colonel Bernard Irwin attacks & defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians
13 Feb 1864
Miridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek & Wyatt Mississippi
13 Feb 1867
Johann Strauss Blue Danube waltz premieres in Vienna
13 Feb 1880
Work begins on the covering of the Senne burying Brusselss primary river and creating the modern central boulevards
13 Feb 1881
The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by activist Hubertine Auclert
13 Feb 1899
-16F (-27C) Minden Louisiana (state record)
13 Feb 1899
-2F (-19C) Tallahassee Florida (state record)
13 Feb 1905
-29F (-34C) Pond Arkansas (state record)
13 Feb 1905
-40F (-40C) Lebanon Kansas (state record)
13 Feb 1905
-40F (-40C) Warsaw Missouri (state record)
13 Feb 1907
English suffragettes storm British Parliament & 60 women are arrested
13 Feb 1914
American Society of Composers Authors & Publishers-ASCAP forms in NYC
13 Feb 1915
The French try to drive the Germans forces back into the Champagne region
13 Feb 1920
League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland allowing Switzerland to rejoin the League
13 Feb 1923
1st Black pro Basketball team Renaissance organizes
13 Feb 1925
US Congress makes Surpreme Court appeal more difficult
13 Feb 1927
Uprising against Portuguese regime of Gen Carmona defeated
13 Feb 1928
Clas Thunberg of Finland wins his 3rd Olympic gold medal when he dead-heats with Norways Bernt Evensen in the 500m speed skating at the St. Moritz Winter Games
13 Feb 1928
Legendary Norwegian speed skater Ivar Ballangrud wins the first of 2 straight 5000m Olympic gold medals when he beats Julius Skutnabb of Finland by 9 seconds in St. Moritz
13 Feb 1929
Cruiser Act USA approves the construction of 19 new cruisers & an aircraft carrier
13 Feb 1929
Vladimir Mayakofskys Klop premieres in Moscow
13 Feb 1932
Free Eats introduces George Spanky McFarland to Our Gang
13 Feb 1932
Australian Championships Womens Tennis Coral McInnes Buttsworth retains title beats Kathrine Le Mesurier 9-7 6-4
13 Feb 1932
Australian Championships Mens Tennis Jack Crawford retains title and repeats previous years win over Harry Hopman 4-6 6-3 3-6 6-3 6-1
13 Feb 1932
A 2-2 final round tie with the US is good enough for Canada to clinch its 4th consecutive Olympic ice hockey gold medal at Lake Placid Canadian center Walter Monson is tournament top scorer with 11 points
13 Feb 1932
Finland goes 1-2 in the 50k cross country event at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics Veli Saarinen wins gold ahead of team mate Vin Liikkanen
13 Feb 1934
Austrian Dollfuss government bans socialist party
13 Feb 1934
The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean.
13 Feb 1935
1st US surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris Cleveland
13 Feb 1935
Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap & murder of Lindbergh infant. He proclaimed his innocence to the end.
13 Feb 1936
Ivar Ballangrud of Norway narrowly misses winning all 4 speed skating events at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Olympics finishes 2nd in 1500m just 1.0s behind team mate Charles Mathiesen
13 Feb 1937
Prince Valiant comic strip appears known for historical detail
13 Feb 1937
Maribel Vinson wins her 9th US figure skating championship
13 Feb 1937
Boston Redskins receive approval from NFL to move to Washington D.C to share baseballs Griffith Stadium with first Washington Senators of the American League
13 Feb 1945
Allied planes begin bombing Dresden Germany a firestorm results and over 22000 die
13 Feb 1945
Gerbrandy Dutch government refuses Dutch Jewish right to buy
13 Feb 1945
USSR captures Budapest after a 49-day battle with Germany 159000 die
13 Feb 1946
The Duchess Misbehaves opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 5 performances
13 Feb 1948
West Indian batsman Andy Ganteaume scores 112 for W Indies in his only Test Cricket innings
13 Feb 1948
Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Lannoy & Baugniet of BEL
13 Feb 1948
Mens Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Richard Button USA
13 Feb 1948
Wright Flyer 1st plane to fly returns to US from England
13 Feb 1953
As change name of Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium
13 Feb 1954
Frank Selvey scores 100 points for Furman beating Newberry 149-95
13 Feb 1955
KRCG TV channel 13 in Jefferson City MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
13 Feb 1956
KYW-AM in Philadelphia Penn gives calls to WTAM (now WWWE) Cleveland
13 Feb 1957
Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans
13 Feb 1960
Beg Borrow or Steal opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 5 performances
13 Feb 1960
Saratoga closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 80 performances
13 Feb 1960
France performs 1st nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria
13 Feb 1961
Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus
13 Feb 1968
US sends 10500 additional soldiers to Vietnam
13 Feb 1968
Swedish 10k cross country champion Toini Gustafsson wins her 2nd gold medal at the Grenoble Winter Olympics in the 5k event ahead of Soviet pair Galina Kulakova and Alvetina Kolchina
13 Feb 1968
After winning giant slalom in Innsbruck (1964) French skier Marielle Goitschel takes out the slalom gold medal at the Grenoble Winter Olympics
13 Feb 1969
Mary Hopkins Postcard album on Apple is released
13 Feb 1970
Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48 80 km from New Delhi
13 Feb 1970
NL offices begins move from Cincinnati to San Francisco (completed Feb 23)
13 Feb 1970
16th National Film Awards (India) Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne wins the Golden Lotus
13 Feb 1971
12000 South Vietnamese troops cross into Laos
13 Feb 1972
1776 closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 1217 performances
13 Feb 1972
XI Winter Olympic Games close at Sapporo Japan
13 Feb 1973
Musical El Grande de Coca-Cola premieres in NYC
13 Feb 1974
Rainbow Jones opens & closes at Music Box Theater NYC
13 Feb 1974
Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR
13 Feb 1975
Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash procliams Turkish-Cypriot Federation
13 Feb 1976
American Dorothy Hamill wins Olympic figure-skating gold in Innsbruck Austria
13 Feb 1976
Peter Casserly of NZ hand-sheers record 353 lambs in 9 hours
13 Feb 1976
Major-General Olusegun Obasanjo becomes military ruler of Nigeria
13 Feb 1977
Guys & Dolls closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 239 performances
13 Feb 1977
Ipi Tombi closes at Harkness Theater NYC after 39 performances
13 Feb 1977
Robber Bridegroom closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 145 performances
13 Feb 1977
Eric Heiden is 1st American to win world speed skating championship
13 Feb 1979
Washington States Hood Canal Bridge breaks up in windstorm
13 Feb 1979
Formation of Guardian Angels crime fighters in New York City
13 Feb 1980
NZ beats West Indies by one wicket in cricket at Dunedin
13 Feb 1980
XIII Winter Olympic Games open in Lake Placid New York
13 Feb 1981
Longest sentence published by The New York Times - 1286 words
13 Feb 1981
A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville Kentucky.
13 Feb 1981
31st Berlin International Film Festival Hurry Hurry wins the Golden Bear
13 Feb 1983
Merlin opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 199 performances
13 Feb 1983
Opener Steve Smith with 117 and Geoff Lawson 3-11 guide Australia to 149 run win over New Zealand in crickets World Series Cup 2nd Final in Melbourne win series 2-0
13 Feb 1983
E Bernstein Levinson & Links musical Merlin premieres in NYC
13 Feb 1983
33rd NBA All-Star Game The Forum Inglewood CA East beats West 132-123 MVP Julius Erving Philadelphia 76ers F
13 Feb 1984
6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart & liver transplant
13 Feb 1984
Swedish cross country skier Gunde Svan wins 15k event the first of 2 gold medals at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics also wins 4 x 10k relay gold
13 Feb 1984
Karin Enke of East Germany wins her 2nd gold medal of the Sarajevo Winter Games winning the womens 1000m in Olympic record 121.61 also wins 1500m gold
13 Feb 1985
Dow Jones closes at 1297.92 (record high) after topping 1300 earlier
13 Feb 1987
Tigers Jack Morris awarded 1.85 million salary by arbitrator
13 Feb 1988
XV Winter Olympic Games open in Calgary Canada
13 Feb 1988
Christine Wachtel runs world record 800m indoor (15640)
13 Feb 1988
European Community plans removal of internal boundaries on Jan 1 1992
13 Feb 1988
Heike Dreschler long jumps world record indoor (7.37m)
13 Feb 1988
Ronald Weigel runs unofficial world record speed walking (1811.41)
13 Feb 1989
Kidnapped Belgian Premier Vanden Boeynants freed
13 Feb 1989
Salvadoran army attacks Encuentros hospital rapes kills patients
13 Feb 1989
Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison
13 Feb 1990
50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal South Africa
13 Feb 1990
US Britain & France give Germany OK to reunify
13 Feb 1991
Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel
13 Feb 1991
US air raid on the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad kills more than 408 civilians
13 Feb 1992
Most Happy Fella opens at Booth Theater NYC for 229 performances
13 Feb 1992
Jose Canseco repeatedly rams his Porsche into wife Esthers BMW
13 Feb 1992
West beats East 14 to 9 in Major Soccer League all star game
13 Feb 1992
42nd Berlin International Film Festival Grand Canyon wins the Golden Bear
13 Feb 1993
Ljubow Kremljowa runs world record 1000m indoor (23484)
13 Feb 1993
Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (21.87 sec)
13 Feb 1993
Sergei Bubka pole vaults indoor record (6.14 m)
13 Feb 1994
44th NBA All-Star Game Target Centre Minneapolis MN East beats West 127-118 MVP Scottie Pippen Chicago Bulls F
13 Feb 1994
Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5000m 63496
13 Feb 1995
Howard Stern radio show premieres in San Diego CA on XTRA-FM
13 Feb 1995
West Indies beat NZ by innings & 332 Courtney Walsh 13-55
13 Feb 1996
Howard Stern announces he will be making the film Private Parts
13 Feb 1996
Rock musical Rent by Jonathan Larson opens off-Broadway
13 Feb 1996
The Score 2nd studio album by Fugees is released (Billboard no. 1 year end Top R&BHip Hop Albums )
13 Feb 1997
Three Sisters opens at Criterion Theater NYC
13 Feb 2001
An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador killing at least 400.
13 Feb 2004
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the universes largest known diamond white dwarf star BPM 37093.
13 Feb 2005
47th Grammy Awards Here We Go Again Maroon 5 wins
13 Feb 1258
Baghdad then a city of 1 million falls to the Mongols as the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed tens of thousands slaughtered ending the Islamic Golden Age
13 Feb 1945
USSR captures Budapest after a 49-day battle with Nazi Germany in which 159000 die
13 Feb 1976
American Dorothy Hamill wins the free skate to clinch the womens figure-skating gold medal at the Innsbruck Winter Olympics
13 Feb 2007
Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement when mayor of Taipei Ma also announces his candidacy for 2008 presidential election.
13 Feb 1914
American Society of Composers Authors & Publishers (ASCAP) founded at Hotel Claridge in NYC
13 Feb 1925
US Congress makes Supreme Court appeals more difficult
13 Feb 1932
Finland goes 1-2 in the 50k cross country event at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics Veli Saarinen wins gold ahead of teammate Vin Liikkanen
13 Feb 1936
Ivar Ballangrud of Norway narrowly misses winning all 4 speed skating events at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Olympics finishes 2nd in 1500m just 1.0s behind teammate Charles Mathiesen
13 Feb 1975
Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash proclaims Turkish-Cypriot Federation
13 Feb 1983
Bernstein Levinson & Links musical Merlin opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 199 performances
13 Feb 2008
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes an historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
13 Feb 2008
The LZR Racer Suit is unveiled in NYC line of competition swimsuits made by Speedo using high-tech fabric of woven elastane-nylon & polyurethane times went down dramatically rules changed 2010
13 Feb 1689
Parliament of England adopts the Bill of Rights which establishes the rights of parliament and places limits on the crown
13 Feb 1706
Battle at Fraustadt Swedish army beats Russia and Saxon forces one of Swedishs Greatest victories in the Great Northern War
13 Feb 1928
Clas Thunberg of Finland wins his 4th Olympic gold medal when he dead-heats with Norways Bernt Evensen in the 500m speed skating at the St. Moritz Winter Games
13 Feb 1960
France becomes the 4th nuclear nation by exploding the 70 kilo-ton Gerboise Bleue atomic bomb in the French Algerian Sahara desert [1]
13 Feb 1996
The Score second studio album by Fugees is released (Billboard no. 1 year end Top R&BHip Hop Albums )
13 Feb 2008
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes an historic apology to Indigenous Australians especially to the Stolen Generations who suffered forced child removal and assimilation [1]
13 Feb 1912
Olympic boxing gold medallist Johnny Douglas takes 546 as England cricket team regains Ashes with an innings and 225 run 4th Test win over Australia in Melbourne
13 Feb 1920
Baseball Hall of Famer Rube Foster and 7 other team owners create the first Negro National League (NNL) at a meeting in a Kansas City YMCA
13 Feb 1977
Revival of Frank Loessers musical Guys & Dolls closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 239 performances
13 Feb 1983
Bernstein Levinson & Links musical Merlin opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC runs for 199 performances
13 Feb 1992
Revival of Frank Loessers 1956 musical The Most Happy Fella opens at Booth Theater NYC runs for 229 performances
13 Feb 2005
47th Grammy Awards Here We Go Again and Maroon 5 win
13 Feb 1349
Jews are expelled from Burgdorf Switzerland accused of spreading the Bubonic Plague
13 Feb 1601
Fleet of five British East India Company vessels departs on their 1st voyage from London led by Sir James John Lancaster commanding the Red Dragon journey takes nearly 16 months
13 Feb 1953
Philadelphia As change name of Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium
13 Feb 1954
American college basketball player Frank Selvey scores a record 100 points for Furman beating Newberry 149-95
13 Feb 1967
Capitol Records releases the Beatles double A side single Penny Lane & Strawberry Fields in the US
13 Feb 1972
Sherman Edwards historical musical 1776 starring William Daniels and Ken Howard closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1217 performances and 3 Tony Award wins
13 Feb 1974
Jill Williams musical Rainbow Jones opens & closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 1 performance [1]
13 Feb 1983
Richard Levinson William Link Elmer Bernstein. and Don Blacks musical Merlin starring magician Doug Henning and Chita Rivera opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC runs for 199 performances
13 Feb 1984
6-year-old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart and liver transplant
13 Feb 1510
Charles of Gelre conquers the Dutch city of Oldenzaal
13 Feb 1651
Flemish missionary Joris van Geel departs for the Congo
13 Feb 1755
Treaty of Giyanti Gianti Java dividing the once powerful Javanese Sultanate of Mataram signed by the Dutch and Javanese princes Mangkubumi and Pakubuwono
13 Feb 1861
First military action to result in Medal of Honor as Bernard J.D. Irwin volunteers to lead rescue of 60 soldiers from Chiricahua Indians at Apache Pass Arizona
13 Feb 1945
Soviet forces capture Budapest after a 49-day battle with Nazi Germany that killed 159000 people
13 Feb 1948
Ice Pairs Championship at Davos Switzerland won by Belgians Micheline Lannoy and Pierre Baugniet
13 Feb 1960
France becomes the 4th nuclear nation by exploding their 1st device a 70 kilo-ton Gerboise Bleue atomic bomb in the French Algerian Sahara desert [1]
13 Feb 1985
Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 1297.92 (record high) after topping 1300 earlier in the trading day
13 Feb 1995
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in San Diego California on XTRA-FM
13 Feb 1996
Howard Stern announces he will be making the film Private Parts based on his first book
13 Feb 1997
The Great Lego Spill a rogue wave hits cargo ship Tokio Express off the coast of Cornwall England tipping 62 containers into the sea carrying 4.8m pieces of Lego [1]
13 Feb 2004
The WB Network announces that Angel would not be brought back for a sixth season
13 Feb 2009
The Dutch Statistics agency confirms the Netherlands are in recession
13 Feb 2009
Unix time passed 1234567890 seconds February 13 at exactly 233130 (UTC).
13 Feb 2010
A bombing at the German Bakery in Pune India kills 10 and injures 60 more
13 Feb 2013
10 civilians including 3 children are killed by a NATO airstrike in the Kunar Province Afghanistan
13 Feb 2013
16 Muslim insurgents are killed in an attack on a Narathiwat military base Thailand
13 Feb 2013
Sir Mervyn King Governor of the Bank of England says he believes a recovery is in sight after fears raised about a triple dip recession
13 Feb 2014
French biathlete Martin Fourcade wins his 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics in the individual competition also claims the pursuit title
13 Feb 2014
Polish cross country skier Justyna Kowalczyk follows her Vancouver (2010) Olympic womens 30k classical title with a gold medal in the 10k classical in Sochi
13 Feb 2014
Slopestyle freestyle skiing event makes Olympic debut at Sochi Winter Games American Joss Christensen is inaugural mens gold medallist
13 Feb 2014
Womens luge singles champion Natalie Geisenberger and mens doubles winners Tobias Wendl & Tobias Arlt earn their 2nd Olympic gold medals in Sochi in team relay event Germany sweeps 4 events
13 Feb 2016
Ninth Republican presidential candidates debate held in Greenville South Carolina
13 Feb 2018
After winning Olympic gold in the womens curling in Sochi (2014) Canadian Kaitlyn Lawes wins the mixed doubles with dual gold medallist John Morris in Pyeongchang
13 Feb 2018
Austrian alpine skier Marcel Hirscher wins the mens combined gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics goes on to also win giant slalom gold
13 Feb 2018
Dutch speed skater Kjeld Nuis wins the mens 1500m gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics also takes 1000m gold
13 Feb 2018
South Africa declares a three-year drought a National Disaster though pushes Cap Towns Day Zero to June 4
13 Feb 2019
Flinders River swells to 37 miles wide (60km) creating its own weather system after intense flooding in Queensland Australia
13 Feb 2019
Iran marks 40th anniversary of the Islamic revolution with huge street marches and protests against the US
13 Feb 2019
Suicide attack on bus carrying Iranian militarys Revolutionary Guard kills 23 in Sistan-Baluchestan province separatist group Jaish al-Adl claim responsibility
13 Feb 2020
Fire in US-run orphanage kills 15 children near Port-au-Prince Haiti
13 Feb 1130
Gregorio Papareschi is elected as Pope Innocent II
13 Feb 1601
A fleet of five British East India Company vessels departs on its first voyage from London led by James Lancaster commanding the Red Dragon the journey lasts nearly 16 months
13 Feb 1651
Flemish missionary Joris van Geel departs for the Congo [1]
13 Feb 1689
Parliament of England adopts the Bill of Rights establishing the rights of Parliament and placing limits on the Crown
13 Feb 1741
Andrew Bedford publishes the first American magazine (American Magazine)
13 Feb 1782
French fleet occupies St Christopher in the Leeward Islands
13 Feb 1799
First US law regulating insurance is passed by the Massachusetts legislature
13 Feb 1920
Baseball Hall of Famer Rube Foster and seven other team owners create the first Negro National League (NNL) at a meeting in a Kansas City YMCA
13 Feb 1934
Soviet steamship SS Chelyuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean after being crushed by ice packs near Kolyuchin Island in the Chukchi Sea
13 Feb 1935
First US surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris is performed in Cleveland
13 Feb 1940
Bradman scores 209 in 161 minutes for South Australia at the WACA
13 Feb 1945
Soviet forces capture Budapest after a 50-day battle with Nazi Germany that kills 159000 people
13 Feb 1960
France becomes the fourth nuclear nation by detonating its first device a 70-kiloton Gerboise Bleue atomic bomb in the Algerian Sahara Desert [1]
13 Feb 1967
Capitol Records releases the Beatles double A side single Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields in the US
13 Feb 1982
Islanders Bryan Trottier scores 5 goals against Flyers
13 Feb 1989
University of Oklahoma football quarterback Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison
13 Feb 1997
Space shuttle Discovery captures the Hubble Space Telescope in its cargo bay
13 Feb 2001
Earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale rocks El Salvador killing at least 400 people
13 Feb 2009
Unix time passes 1234567890 seconds at exactly 233130 (UTC) on February 13
13 Feb 2020
January was the hottest January in recorded history according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
13 Feb 2020
Premier of Tania Lens Stride for the New York Philharmonic at the David Geffen Hall Lincoln Center New York City (2021 Pulitzer Prize for Music) [1]
13 Feb 2020
Scientists overturn current thought about how planets form suggesting they form not by violent collision but through gentle clumping based on a study of Arrokoth in the Kuiper Belt published in Science
13 Feb 2021
Archaeologists announce the discovery of the oldest known beer factory in Abydos Egypt from the early Dynastic period 3150 B.C. to 2613 B.C.
13 Feb 2022
Canadian police arrest truckers who have protested a vaccine mandate for blocking Ambassadors Bridge between Detroit and Windsor for a week at the busiest land border crossing in North America [1]
13 Feb 2022
Marte Olsbu Riseland of Norway wins the womens biathlon pursuit for her third gold medal of the Beijing Winter Olympics (womens sprint & mixed relay)
13 Feb 2022
Quentin Fillon Maillet of France adds the biathlon pursuit to his individual gold medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics
13 Feb 2022
Super Bowl LVI SoFi Stadium Inglewood CA Los Angeles Rams beat Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 MVP Cooper Kupp LA Rams WR
13 Feb 2025
A humpback whale is filmed briefly swallowing a man on a kayak off Chilean Patagonia before releasing him unharmed [1]
13 Feb 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is confirmed as Health and Human Services secretary by the US Senate after concerns over his anti-vaccine views [1]
13 Feb 2025
US National Park Service quietly removes all references to transgender and queer people from Stonewall National Monument website [1]