This Day in History for 13th February

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 186

1130 - Gregorio de' Papareschi elected as Pope Innocent II
1258 - Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.
1349 - Jews are expelled from Burgsordf Switzerland
1503 - Disfida di Barletta - Famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
1510 - Charles of Gelre conquerors Oldenzaal
1545 - Willem of Nassau becomes prince of Orange
1566 - St Augustine, Florida founded
1575 - Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims.
1578 - Tycho Brahe 1st sketches "Tychonic system" of solar system
1601 - John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London
1633 - Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun
1651 - Flemish missionary Joris van Geel departs to Congo
1668 - Treaty of Lisbon: Spain recognizes Portugal
1689 - British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights
1692 - Massacre of Glencoe : About 78 Macdonalds at Glencoe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
1693 - College of William & Mary opens
1706 - Battle at Fraustadt: Swedish army beats Russia/Saksen
1741 - Andrew Bedford publishes 1st American magazine (American Magazine)
1755 - Rebel leader Mangkubuni signs Treaty of Gianti Java
Astronomer & Physicist Galileo Galilei 1777 - de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress
1782 - French fleet occupies St Christopher
1786 - Abraham Baldwin selected president of University of Georgia
1795 - 1st state university in US opens, University of North Carolina
1799 - 1st US law regulating insurance passed, by Massachusetts
1809 - French take Saragossa, Spain after a long siege
1815 - The Cambridge Union Society is founded.
1816 - -14] Teatro San Carlo in Naples destroyed by fire
1826 - American Temperance Society, forms in Boston
1832 - 1st appearance of cholera at London
1837 - Riot in New York due to a combination of poverty and increase in the cost of flour
1858 - Sir Richard Burton & John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa
1860 - King Basse Kajuara departs Boni South-Celebes
1861 - 1st military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor, AZ
1861 - Abraham Lincoln declared president
US President Abraham Lincoln 1861 - Col Bernard Irwin attacks & defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians
1862 - -Feb 16th) Siege of Ft Donelson TN
1864 - Miridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek & Wyatt, Mississippi
1866 - Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty, Missouri ($15,000)
1867 - Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna
1880 - Work begins on the covering of the Senne, 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.
1886 - Painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversial over use of male nudes in a coed art class
1895 - Moving picture projector patented
1899 - -16°F (-27°C), Minden Louisiana (state record)
1899 - -1°F (-18°C) New Orleans, La
1899 - -2°F (-19°C) Tallahassee, Florida (state record)
1905 - -29°F (-34°C) Pond, Arkansas (state record)
1905 - -40°F (-40°C) Lebanon, Kansas (state record)
1905 - -40°F (-40°C) Warsaw, Missouri (state record)
Outlaw Jesse James 1907 - English suffragettes storm British Parliament & 60 women are arrested
1912 - England regains cricket's Ashes
1914 - American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers-ASCAP forms in NYC
1920 - National Negro Baseball League organizes
1920 - League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland
1920 - Switzerland rejoin League of Nations
1923 - 1st Black pro Basketball team, "Renaissance," organizes
1924 - King Tut's tomb opened
1925 - US Congress makes Surpreme Court appeal more difficult
1927 - Uprising against Portuguese regime of Gen Carmona defeated
1929 - Cruiser Act: OKs construction of 19 new cruisers & an aircraft carrier
1929 - Vladimir Mayakofsky's "Klop," premieres in Moscow
1932 - "Free Eats" introduces George "Spanky" McFarland to "Our Gang"
1934 - Austrian Dollfuss government bans socialistic party
1934 - The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean.
1935 - 1st US surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland
1935 - Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap & murder of Lindbergh's infant
1937 - "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail
1937 - Bradman scores 123 SA v Queensland, 165 mins, 10-4s 1-6 in cricket
1937 - Maribel Vinson wins her 9th US figure skating championship
1937 - NFL Boston Redskins move to Wash DC
1937 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1937 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
1940 - Bradman scores 209* in 161 minutes for South Aust at the WACA
1941 - Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council
1942 - Hitler's Operation Sealion (invasion of England) cancelled
1943 - German assault on Sidi Bou Zid Tunisia, Gen Eisenhower visits front
1943 - Women's Marine Corps created
1945 - Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135,000 die
1945 - Gerbrandy British government refuses Dutch Jewish right to buy
1945 - USSR captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die
1946 - "Duchess Misbehaves" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 5 performances
1948 - Andy Ganteaume scores 112 for W Indies in only Test Cricket innings
1948 - Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Lannoy & Baugniet of BEL
1948 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Richard Button USA
1948 - Wright Flyer, 1st plane to fly, returns to US from England
Heavyweight Champion Boxer Rocky Marciano 1952 - Rocky Marciano defeated Lee Savold for his 39th straight win
1953 - A's change name of Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium
1954 - Frank Selvey scores 100 points for Furman beating Newberry 149-95
1955 - Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls
1955 - KRCG TV channel 13 in Jefferson City, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - Patty Berg wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1956 - KYW-AM in Philadelphia Penn gives calls to WTAM (now WWWE) Cleveland
1957 - Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans
1959 - Barbie doll goes on sale
1959 - Miro Cardon, premier of Cuba, resigns
1960 - "Beg, Borrow or Steal" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 5 perfs
1960 - "Saratoga" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 80 performances
1960 - France performs 1st nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria
1961 - Frank Sinatra launches Reprise label under Warner Bros Records
1961 - Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 242

711 BC - Jimmu, Japanese emperor (d. 585 DC)
1440 - Hartmann Schedel, German physician/humanist/historian
1457 - Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1482)
1480 - Girolamo Aleandro, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1542)
1599 - Alexander VII, [Fabio Chigi], Siena Italy, pope (1655-67)
1610 - Jean de la Badie, French divine, founder of Lagardists
1622 - Adam Pijnacker, landscape painter/etcher, baptized
1658 - Jan B Wellekens, Dutch poet/painter
1660 - Johann Sigismund Kusser, composer
1672 - Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (d. 1731)
1682 - Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Venice, painter (Fortune Teller)
1713 - Domingo Miguel Bernaube Terradellas, composer
1721 - John Reid, composer
1728 - John Hunter, Scottish surgeon (d. 1793)
1743 - Joseph Banks, English botanist and naturalist (d. 1820)
1754 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French politician (d. 1838)
1755 - Francois Alexander Sallantin, composer
1756 - Joannes van der Linden, lawyer/judge (Ware Pleiter)
1757 - John C Hespe, Dutch journalist/politician
1764 - Talleyrand, France/Napolean's foreign minster
1768 - Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (d. 1835)
1769 - Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (d. 1844)
1778 - Fernando Sor, composer
1787 - James P Carrell, composer
1805 - David Dudley Field, lawyer/law codifier
1805 - Peter G L Dirichlet, Germany, number theorist/analysist
1807 - Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder (Liefdezusters)
1813 - Charles Pierre Schimpf, governor of Suriname (1855-59)
1820 - Bela Albrecht Pal Keler, composer
1822 - Lev A Mej, Russian nobleman/poet
1829 - Gerard Keller, writer (Netherlands Spectator)
1831 - John Aaron Rawlins, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1869
1833 - William Whedbee Kirkland, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1915
1835 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (d. 1908)
1837 - Valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea, composer
1840 - Georg Jacobi, composer
1849 - Lord Randolph Churchill, England, politician, Winston's father
1852 - Johan L E Dreyer, Danish astronomer (New gen catalogue of nebulae)
1855 - Paul Deschanel, French President (d. 1922)
1859 - Frank van de Goes, Dutch writer/marxist theorist
1859 - William Strang, Scottish painter/engraver
1861 - Uchimura Kanzo, Tokyo, religious writer (How I Became a Christian)
1862 - Karel Weis, composer
1870 - Leopold Godowsky, Lithuania, virtuoso pianist/composer
1874 - Hendrik Spiekman, Dutch politician (social-democratic)
1876 - Fritz Buelow, German-born American baseball player (d. 1933)
1877 - Jazeps Medins, composer
1879 - Sarojini Naidu, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1949)
1881 - Eleanor Farjeon, English writer (Martin Pippin)
1883 - Bainbridge Crist, composer
1883 - Harold "Hal" Chase, baseball player/manager
1884 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American athlete, inventor, and businessman (d. 1961)
US First Lady Elizabeth Truman (1885) 1885 - Elizabeth Virginia [Bess] Truman, US 1st lady (1945-52)
1887 - Alvin York, famed US soldier with 25 kills in WW I
1888 - Georgios Papandreou, Greek prefect of Lesbos/minister/premier
1888 - Heintje Davids, [Hendrika], Dutch revue star
1891 - Kate Roberts, Welsh nationalist and writer (d. 1985)
1892 - Grant Wood, US, painter (American Gothic)
1892 - Robert Houghwout Jackson, 84th Supreme Court justice (1941-54)
1893 - Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romania, communist/foreign minister (1945-52)
1895 - Fred Essler, Austria, actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown, Saratoga Trunk)
1898 - Neville Pearson, English publisher
1902 - Blair Moody, New Haven Ct, (Sen-Mich)
1902 - Karl Menger, Austria/US mathematician (theory of dimension)
1903 - Georges Simenon, Belgium, mystery writer (Snow Was Black)
1906 - Agostinho da Silva, Portuguese philosopher (d. 1994)
1907 - Katy de la Cruz, Filipino singer (d. 2004)
1908 - Gerald Strang, Claresholm Canada, composer
1908 - Pauline Frederick, journalist/correspondent (UN, NBC TV)
1908 - Sulo Nurmela, Finland, 4 X 100K relay skier (Olympic-gold-1936)
1910 - William B Shockley, London, US physicist (Nobel 1956), racist
1911 - Jean Muir Fullarton, actress
1912 - French J Van den Brande, Flemish actor
1912 - Jose de Capriles, US, fencer (Olympic-1936, 48, 52)
1912 - Margaretta Scott, actress (Crescendo, Where's Charley, Counterblast)
1913 - Arthur Carleton Hetherington, public servant
1913 - Guiseppe Dossetti, politician/priest
1914 - Earl Cadogan, British large landowner (Military Cross)
1914 - George Kleinsinger, San Bernardino CA, composer (Tubby the Tuba)
1915 - Lyle Betther, Phila, actor (Harry-Grand Jury, Lone Ranger)
1915 - Aung San, Burmese general and politician (d. 1947)
1916 - James Griffith, LA California, actor (Sheriff of Cochise)
1917 - Polly Rose, actress (Myrtle-Love That Jill)
1918 - Patty Berg, Minneapolis MN, LPGA golfer (1938 US Amateur)
1919 - Eddie Robinson, winningest college football coach (Grambling)
1919 - Joan Edwards, NYC, vocalist (Joan Edwards Show)
1919 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, Bristol Tn, country vocalist/actor (pea picker)
1920 - Bryant Boudleaux, Shellman Ga, rock writer (Bye Bye Love)
1920 - Eileen Farrell, Willimantic Conn, opera soprano (Interrupted Melody)
1921 - Henk van Galen Last, Dutch journalist
1921 - Zao-Wou-Ki, Chinese/French painter/graphic artist
1922 - Lord Pym of Sandy, British minister of foreign affairs
1922 - Gordon Tullock, American economist
1922 - Tristram Coffin, San Marino, California, folklorist (The Book of Christmas Folklore, The Old Ball Game), (d. 2012)
1923 - Chuck Yeagar, US test pilot (1st man to break sound barrier)
1923 - Michael Anthony Bilandic, American politician (d. 2002)
1923 - Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese violinist (d. 2003)
1924 - Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French economist/politician
1925 - Gene Ames, singer
1925 - Jan Arends, Dutch poet/author

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

1575 - Henry III of France marries Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont.

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 127

858 - Kenneth I of Scotland
1130 - Honorius II, [Lamberto], Pope (1124-30), dies
1141 - Béla II of Hungary (b. 1110)
1199 - Stefanus Nemanja (Symeon), monk, dies
1219 - Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1192)
1237 - Jordanus of Saxon, 2nd general of Dominicans, drowns
1315 - Jean I of Chalon-Arlay, mayor of Neuchôtel, dies
1332 - Andronicus II Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1282-1328)/monk, dies
1539 - Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (b. 1474)
1542 - Catharine Howard, queen of England/5th wife of Henry VIII, beheaded
1585 - Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (b. 1515)
1592 - Jacopo Bassano, Italian painter
1600 - Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (b. 1538)
1602 - Alexander Nowell, English churchman, dean of St Paul's, dies
1608 - Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, Lithuanian prince (b. 1526)
1624 - Stephen Gosson, English satirist (b. 1554)
1629 - Girolamo Giacobbi, composer, dies at 61
1635 - Georg R Weckerlin, German poet, dies at 50
1660 - Charles X Gustaaf, king of Sweden (1654-60), dies at 37
1662 - Elisabeth Stuart, English daughter of James I, dies at 65
1693 - Johann Kaspar von Kerll, German composer, dies at 65
1724 - Francisco Jose Coutinho, composer, dies at 43
1727 - William Wotton, English scholar (b. 1666)
1728 - Cotton Mather, American Puritan minister (b. 1663)
1732 - Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1640)
1741 - Johann Joseph Fux, Austrian composer/music theorist, dies at about 80
1784 - Charles Gravier, French earl of Vergennes/min of For affairs, dies
1787 - Ruđer Bošković, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711)
1787 - Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1717)
1798 - Wilhelm H Wackenroder, German writer (Fantasies of Art), dies at 24
1813 - Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (b. 1725)
1814 - Augustin Holler, composer, dies at 69
1818 - George Rogers Clark, American military leader (b. 1752)
1826 - Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (b. 1745)
1837 - Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809
1841 - Thomas Ainsworth, English/Dutch industrialist, dies at 45
1845 - Henrik Steffens, Norwegian-German philosopher (b. 1773)
1849 - Christian Rummel, composer, dies at 61
1873 - Petrus AS van Limburg Brouwer, [Abraham van Luik], literary, dies
1882 - Henry Highland Garnet, diplomat, dies in Monrovia Liberia at 66
1883 - Pavel Melnikov, [Petsjerski], Russian historian, dies at 64
Composer Richard Wagner (1883) 1883 - Wilhelm Richard Wagner, composer, dies at 69
1888 - Jean Baptiste Lamy, 1st Archbishop of Santa Fe (b. 1814)
1889 - João Maurício Wanderley, Brazilian magistrate and politician (b. 1885)
1891 - David Dixon Porter, US rear admiral (Union), dies at 77
1893 - Ignacio M Altamirano, Mexican author (El Zarco), dies at 58
1894 - Franjo Racki, Croatian historian/politician, dies at 65
1896 - Karl Reinthaler, composer, dies at 73
1905 - Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (b. 1844)
1906 - Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (b. 1866)
1907 - Marcel Bertrand, French mine engineer, dies at 59
1917 - Joel Angel, Russian musicologist/composer, dies at 48
1921 - Willem P C Knuttel, Dutch bibliography/librarian, dies at 67
1927 - Brooks Adams, US philosopher (New Empire), dies at 78
1935 - Violet Paget, British author (Gospels of Anarchy), dies at 78
1937 - C A Bernoulli, writer, dies
1942 - Epitácio Pessoa, Brazilian president (b. 1865)
1943 - William Walraven, journalist/writer (Neglected Grouser), dies at 55
1945 - George Studd, cricketer (4 Tests with brother v Aus 1882-83), dies
1950 - Rafael Sabatini, Italian author (b. 1875)
1951 - Lloyd C. Douglas, American author (b. 1877)
1952 - Alfred Einstein, German/US musicologist, dies at 71
1952 - Josephine Tey, English author (b. 1896)
1958 - Georges Rouault, French painter (Christ aux outrages), dies at 86
1958 - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, a leading suffragette (English) "Queen of the mob" (b.1880)
1959 - William L Axt, composer, dies at 70
1960 - Delmar G Roos, designer of jeep, dies at 79
1963 - Harry Steers, bowling hall of famer, dies
1964 - Werner Heyde, German psyhiatrist (b. 1902)
1965 - Jerry Burke, pianist (Lawrence Welk Show), dies
1965 - William H Kilpatrick, US mathematician/philosopher, dies at 93
1966 - Elio Vittorini, writer, dies
1968 - Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, dies at 87
1968 - Mae Marsh, actress (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance), dies at 72
1970 - Herbert Strudwick, cricketer (28 Tests for Engld, ct 60 stp 12), dies
1975 - Dagmar Godowsky, actress (Common Law, Red Lights), dies at 78
1975 - Eric Harding Thiman, composer, dies at 74
1975 - Henry P Van Dusen, US protestant theologist, dies at 77
1976 - General Murtala Mohammed, head of Nigeria, killed during a coup
1976 - Lily Pons, French/US soprano/opera diva (Met Opera), dies at 71
1977 - Jack Gardner, actor (Wild Bill Hickok, 3 Russian Girls), dies at 77
1979 - Jean Renoir, actor/director (Rules of the Game), dies at 84
1980 - David Janssen, [Meyer], actor (Fugitive, Harry O), dies at 49
1982 - Zeng Jinlian, Hunan China, grew to 8'1" (tallest woman), dies at 17
1983 - Marian Nixon, actress (Dr Bull, Sweepstakes), dies of cancer at 78
1984 - Andre Stander, South African police captain and bank robber (b. 1946)
1987 - M L "Curly" Page, cricketer (NZ Test capt 1933), dies
1989 - Wayne Hays, American politician (b. 1911)
1990 - Ken Lynch, actor (Paratroop Command, Legend of Tom Dooley), dies at 79
1991 - Bernard Sauer, Yiddish actor, dies of heart attack at 67
1991 - Eddie Bartell, actor (Every Night at Eight), dies at 83
1992 - Bob den Uyl, Dutch journalist/writer (Restless Travel), dies at 61
1992 - Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
1993 - Agatha Hagtingius-Seger, Dutch author (Sparkles Chain), dies at 91
1994 - Michael Francis Morris Lindsay, orientalist, dies at 84
1994 - Theo Bitter, Dutch painter/set designer, dies at 79
1995 - Abdelhafid Said, Algerian student leader, murdered
1995 - Alberto Burri, Ital's physician/sculptor/painter), dies at 79
1995 - Azeddine Medjoubi, head Algerian nationally theater, murdered at 49
1995 - Joan A C Ramsey nee Hamilton, lady Ramsey of Canterbury, dies at 84