Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 13
This is a list of selected February 13 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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India Gate, New Delhi -
The Cambridge Union building -
Covering of the Senne
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1542 – Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, was executed for adultery. | refimprove section |
| 1689 – Glorious Revolution: The English Parliament passed the Declaration of Right, proclaiming Mary Stuart and her husband William of Orange as co-rulers of England, Scotland and Ireland. | doubt about the accuracy of this hook; see [1] |
| 1706 – Great Northern War: The Swedish employed the double envelopment military strategy to defeat Saxony–Poland and their Russian allies at the Battle of Fraustadt, near Fraustadt in present-day Wschowa, Poland. | unreferenced section |
| 1739 – During his invasion of the Mughal Empire, the forces of Nader, Shah of Persia, defeated the Mughal army at Karnal within three hours, despite being outnumbered six-to-one. | refimprove section |
| 1815 – The Cambridge Union, one of the oldest debating societies in the world, was founded at the University of Cambridge in England. | refimprove section |
| 1880 – American inventor Thomas Edison observed the Edison effect, which later formed the basis of vacuum tube diodes designed by English electrical engineer John Ambrose Fleming. | contradictory |
| 1881 – Hubertine Auclert, a leading French suffragette in Paris, launched the feminist newspaper La Citoyenne. | refimprove |
| 1913 – The 13th Dalai Lama declared the independence of Tibet from the Republic of China. | tagged with {OR} |
| 1931 – New Delhi was inaugurated as the new capital of British India by Viceroy Lord Irwin. | unreferenced section |
| 1934 – The Soviet steamship SS Chelyuskin, while attempting to travel through the Northern Sea Route from Murmansk to Vladivostok, became trapped in drift ice and sank. The members of the subsequent search and rescue team were the first recipients of the Hero of the Soviet Union award. | refimprove section |
| 1978 – A bomb exploded outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, the site of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, killing three people and injuring eleven others. | primary sources |
| 1984 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeded the late Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. | refimprove section |
| 2008 – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised to Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations. | too specific, refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1660 – The four-year-old Charles XI became King of Sweden upon his father's death.
- 1692 – Members of Clan MacDonald of Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands were massacred, allegedly for failing to pledge allegiance to the new monarchs, William III and Mary II.
- 1867 – Work began on the covering of the Senne (pictured), burying the polluted main river of Brussels to allow for urban renewal in the centre of the city.
- 1945 – World War II: The Allies began a strategic bombing of Dresden, Germany, creating a lethal firestorm that killed tens of thousands of civilians.
- 1960 – African-American college students staged the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee, as part of a nonviolent direct-action campaign to end racial segregation in the U.S.
- 1970 – The English rock band Black Sabbath released their debut album, which is generally accepted as the first heavy metal album.
- 1981 – Explosions caused by the ignition of hexane vapors destroyed more than 13 miles (21 km) of sewer lines in Louisville, Kentucky.
- 1991 – Gulf War: The United States Air Force dropped two laser-guided "smart bombs" on an air-raid shelter in Baghdad, Iraq, which was believed to be a military command site, killing at least 408 civilians.
- 2010 – A terrorist bombing at a bakery popular among foreigners in Pune, India, killed 17 people and injured 60 others.
- 2012 – The first Vega rocket was launched by the European Space Agency from the Guiana Space Centre.
- Born/died: | Béla II of Hungary |d|1141| Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva |d|1591| Rufus Wilmot Griswold |b|1815| George Rogers Clark |d|1818| Sarojini Naidu |b|1879| Provo Wallis |d|1892| Faiz Ahmad Faiz |b|1911| Mami Kawada|b|1980| Waylon Jennings |d|2002| Antonin Scalia |d|2016
Notes
- Greensboro sit-ins appears on February 1 so Nashville sit-ins should not appear in the same year
February 13: Shrove Tuesday (Western Christianity, 2024)
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- 1891 – Frances Coles was killed in the last of eleven unsolved murders of women that took place in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London.
- 1961 – Geode prospectors near Olancha, California, discovered what they claimed to be a 500,000-year-old rock with a 1920s-era spark plug encased within (pictured).
- 2017 – Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was assassinated using VX nerve agent in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- Muhammad ibn Ra'iq (d. 942)
- Isabella d'Este (d. 1539)
- Dorothy Bliss (b. 1916)
- Balu Mahendra (d. 2014)
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