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Events on the 13th of February in history

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13 Feb 1130 Gregorio de' Papareschi elected as Pope Innocent II
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13 Feb 1322 The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th.
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13 Feb 1349 Jews are expelled from Burgsordf Switzerland
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13 Feb 1462 The Treaty of Westminster is finalised between Edward IV of England and the Scottish Lord of the Isles.
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13 Feb 1503 Challenge of Barletta – tournament between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
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13 Feb 1510 Charles of Gelre conquerors Oldenzaal
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13 Feb 1542 Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
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13 Feb 1545 Willem of Nassau becomes prince of Orange
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13 Feb 1566 St. Augustine, Florida founded
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13 Feb 1572 Elizabeth I of England issues a proclamation which revokes all commissions on account of the frauds which they had fostered.
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13 Feb 1575 Henry III of France is crowned at Reims and marries Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont on the same day.
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13 Feb 1601 John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London
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13 Feb 1633 Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
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13 Feb 1633 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun
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13 Feb 1635 Oldest US public institution, Boston Latin School founded
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13 Feb 1651 Flemish missionary Joris van Geel departs to Congo
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13 Feb 1660 With the death of Swedish King Charles X Gustav, the Swedish government begins to seek peace with Sweden's enemies in the Second Northern War – something that Charles had refused. As his son and successor on the throne, Charles XI, is only four years old, a regency rules Sweden until 1672.
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13 Feb 1668 Treaty of Lisbon Spain recognizes Portugal
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13 Feb 1678 Tycho Brahe 1st sketches "Tychonic system" of solar system
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13 Feb 1689 William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
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13 Feb 1689 British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights
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13 Feb 1692 Massacre of Glencoe: About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
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13 Feb 1692 MacDonald clan murdered on orders of King William III
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13 Feb 1693 College of William & Mary opens
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13 Feb 1706 Battle at Fraustadt Swedish army beats Russia/Saksen
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13 Feb 1739 Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nader Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
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13 Feb 1741 Andrew Bedford publishes 1st American magazine (The American Magazine)
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13 Feb 1755 Rebel leader Mangkubuni signs Treaty of Gianti Java
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13 Feb 1777 Marquis de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress
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13 Feb 1782 French fleet occupies St Christopher
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13 Feb 1786 Abraham Baldwin selected president of University of Georgia
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13 Feb 1795 1st state university in US opens, University of North Carolina
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13 Feb 1799 1st US law regulating insurance passed, by Massachusetts
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13 Feb 1809 French take Saragossa, Spain after a long siege
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13 Feb 1816 Teatro San Carlo in Naples destroyed by fire
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13 Feb 1826 American Temperance Society, forms in Boston
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13 Feb 1832 1st appearance of cholera at London
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13 Feb 1837 Riot in New York over high price of flour
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13 Feb 1849 The delegation headed by Metropolitan bishop Andrei Șaguna hands out to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria the General Petition of Romanian leaders in Transylvania, Banat and Bukovina, which demands that the Romanian nation be recognized.
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13 Feb 1858 Sir Richard Burton & John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa
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13 Feb 1860 King Basse Kajuara departs Boni South-Celebes
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13 Feb 1861 In Gaeta the capitulation of the fortress decreeing the end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies is signed.
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13 Feb 1861 1st military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor, Arizona
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13 Feb 1861 Abraham Lincoln declared President
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13 Feb 1861 Colonel Bernard Irwin attacks & defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians
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13 Feb 1862 Siege of Ft Donelson TN
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13 Feb 1864 Miridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek andWyatt, Mississippi
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13 Feb 1866 Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty, Missouri ($15,000)
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13 Feb 1867 Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
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13 Feb 1867 Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna
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13 Feb 1880 Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
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13 Feb 1881 The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.
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13 Feb 1886 Painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversy over use of male nudes in a coed art class
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13 Feb 1895 Moving picture projector patented
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13 Feb 1899 -1
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13 Feb 1899 -2
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13 Feb 1899 -16
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13 Feb 1905 -29
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13 Feb 1905 -40
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13 Feb 1907 English suffragettes storm British Parliament & 60 women are arrested
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13 Feb 1912 England regains cricket's Ashes
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13 Feb 1913 The 13th Dalai Lama proclaims Tibetan independence following a period of domination by Manchu Qing dynasty and initiated a period of almost four decades of independence.
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13 Feb 1914 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers-ASCAP forms in New York City
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13 Feb 1914 Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
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13 Feb 1920 The Negro National League is formed.
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13 Feb 1920 National Negro Baseball League organized
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13 Feb 1920 League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland
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13 Feb 1920 Switzerland rejoins League of Nations
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13 Feb 1923 1st Black pro Basketball team, "Renaissance, " organizes
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13 Feb 1924 King Tut's tomb opened
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13 Feb 1925 US Congress makes Surpreme Court appeal more difficult
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13 Feb 1927 Uprising against Portuguese regime of General Carmona defeated
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13 Feb 1929 Cruiser Act OKs construction of 19 new cruisers & an aircraft carrier
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13 Feb 1929 Vladimir Mayakofsky's "Klop" premieres in Moscow
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13 Feb 1931 New Delhi becomes the capital of British Raj.
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13 Feb 1932 "Free Eats" introduces George "Spanky" McFarland to "Our Gang"
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13 Feb 1932 "Free Eats" introduces George "Spanky" McFarland to "Our Gang"
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13 Feb 1934 The Soviet steamship Chelyuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean.
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13 Feb 1934 Austrian Dollfuss government bans socialistic party
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13 Feb 1935 A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
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13 Feb 1935 1st US surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland OH
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13 Feb 1935 Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap & murder of Lindbergh's infant
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13 Feb 1937 "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail
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13 Feb 1937 Maribel Vinson wins her 9th US figure skating championship
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13 Feb 1937 NFL Boston Redskins move to Washington DC
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13 Feb 1937 Bradman scores 123 South Africa vs Queensland, 165 minutes, 10-4 1-6 in cricket
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13 Feb 1937 US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
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13 Feb 1940 Bradman scores 209 in 161 minutes for South Australia at the WACA
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13 Feb 1941 Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council
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13 Feb 1942 Hitler's Operation Seel
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13 Feb 1943 German assault on Sidi Bou Zid Tunisia, General Eisenhower visits front
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13 Feb 1943 Women's Marine Corps created
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13 Feb 1945 Gerbrandy British government refuses Dutch Jewish right to buy
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13 Feb 1945 World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
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13 Feb 1945 World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
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13 Feb 1945 Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135,000 die
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13 Feb 1945 USSR captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die
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13 Feb 1946 "Duchess Misbehaves" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 5 performances
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13 Feb 1948 Wright Flyer, 1st plane to fly, returns to US from England
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13 Feb 1948 Andy Ganteaume scores 112 for W Indies in only Test Cricket innings
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13 Feb 1948 Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Lannoy & Baugniet of Belgium
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13 Feb 1948 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Richard Button USA
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13 Feb 1951 Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
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13 Feb 1952 Rocky Marciano defeated Lee Savold for his 39th straight win
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13 Feb 1953 A's change name of Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium
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13 Feb 1954 Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
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13 Feb 1954 Furman basketball star Frank Selvy scores 100 points in a game vs Newberry
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13 Feb 1954 Frank Selvey scores 100 points for Furman beating Newberry 149-95
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13 Feb 1955 Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
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13 Feb 1955 Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls
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13 Feb 1955 KRCG TV channel 13 in Jefferson City MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
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13 Feb 1955 Patty Berg wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
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13 Feb 1956 KYW-AM in Philadelphia PA gives calls to WTAM (now WWWE) Cleveland
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13 Feb 1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans
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13 Feb 1959 Barbie doll goes on sale
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13 Feb 1959 Miro Cardon, premier of Cuba, resigns
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13 Feb 1960 "Beg, Borrow or Steal" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 5 performances
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13 Feb 1960 "Saratoga" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 80 performances
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13 Feb 1960 Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
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13 Feb 1960 With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
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13 Feb 1960 France performs 1st nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria
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13 Feb 1961 An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
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13 Feb 1961 Frank Sinatra launches Reprise label under Warner Brothers Records
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13 Feb 1961 Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus
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13 Feb 1965 Peggy Fleming, 16, wins ladies senior figure skating title
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13 Feb 1965 US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
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13 Feb 1966 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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13 Feb 1967 American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
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13 Feb 1968 US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam
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13 Feb 1969 Mary Hopkin's Postcard album on Apple is released
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13 Feb 1969 Suriname government of Pengel resigns
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13 Feb 1970 NL offices begins move from Cin to SF (completed February 23)
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13 Feb 1970 Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi
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13 Feb 1970 NL offices begins move from Cincinnati to San Francisco (completed Feb 23)
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13 Feb 1971 Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
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13 Feb 1971 Golfing Vice President Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into the crowd, injuring 2
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13 Feb 1971 12,000 South Vietnamese troops cross into Laos
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13 Feb 1972 "1776" closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 1,217 performances
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13 Feb 1972 "Grease" opens on Broadway
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13 Feb 1972 "Grease" opens on Broadway
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13 Feb 1972 11th Winter Olympics games close at Sapporo, Japan
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13 Feb 1973 Musical "El Grande de Coca-Cola, " premieres in New York City
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13 Feb 1973 US dollar devalues 10%
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13 Feb 1974 "Rainbow Jones" opens and closes at Music Box Theater, New York City
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13 Feb 1974 Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR
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13 Feb 1974 "Rainbow Jones" opens & closes at Music Box Theater NYC
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13 Feb 1974 James "Cool Papa" Bell is named to baseball's Hall of Fame
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13 Feb 1975 Cyprus premier Denktash proclaims Turkish-Cypriot Federation
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13 Feb 1976 Dorothy Hamill wins Olympics figure-skating gold, Innsbruck, Austria
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13 Feb 1976 Peter Casserly of New Zealand hand-sheers record 353 lambs in 9 holes
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13 Feb 1977 "Guys & Dolls" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 239 performances
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13 Feb 1977 "Ipi Tombi" closes at Harkness Theater NYC after 39 performances
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13 Feb 1977 "Robber Bridegroom" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 145 performances
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13 Feb 1977 Eric Heiden is 1st American to win world speed skating championship
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13 Feb 1977 Pam Higgins wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic
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13 Feb 1978 Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
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13 Feb 1978 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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13 Feb 1979 An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
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13 Feb 1979 Washington State's Hood Canal Bridge breaks up in windstorm
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13 Feb 1979 2nd Emmy Sports Award presentation
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13 Feb 1980 Apollo Computer Inc incorporated
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13 Feb 1980 New Zealand beats West Indies by one wicket in cricket at Dunedin
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13 Feb 1981 A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
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13 Feb 1981 Longest sentence published by New York Times-1286 words
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13 Feb 1982 The Río Negro Massacre takes place in Guatemala.
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13 Feb 1982 Islander's Bryan Trottier scores 5 goals against the Flyers
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13 Feb 1982 Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" is on the charts for 402nd week
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13 Feb 1983 "Merlin" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 199 performances
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13 Feb 1983 A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people.
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13 Feb 1983 World Boxing Council becomes 1st to cut boxing from 15 to 12 rounds
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13 Feb 1983 33rd NBA All-Star Game East beats West 132-123 at Los Angeles CA
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13 Feb 1983 Australia beats New Zealand 2-0 to win World Series Cup
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13 Feb 1983 Donna White wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
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13 Feb 1983 E Bernstein, Levinson & Link's musical "Merlin" premieres in New York NY
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13 Feb 1984 Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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13 Feb 1984 Konstantin Chernenko succeeds Yuri Andropov as USSR leader
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13 Feb 1984 6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart & liver transplant
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13 Feb 1985 Dow Jones closes at 1297.92 (record high) after topping 1300 earlier
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13 Feb 1985 Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders
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13 Feb 1987 Tigers' Jack Morris awarded $1.85 million salary by arbitrator
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13 Feb 1988 Christine Wachtel runs world record 800m indoor (1:56:40)
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13 Feb 1988 15th Winter Olympics games open at Calgary, Canada
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13 Feb 1988 Christine Wachtel runs world record 800 meter indoor (1 minute 56.40 seconds)
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13 Feb 1988 European Community plans removal of inner boundaries on Jan 1, 1992
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13 Feb 1988 Heike Dreschler long jumps world record indoor (7.37 meters)
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13 Feb 1988 Ronald Weigel runs unofficial world record speed walking (18 minutes 11.41 seconds)
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13 Feb 1989 Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison
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13 Feb 1989 Salvadoran army attacks Encuentros hospital, rapes, kills patients
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13 Feb 1989 Kidnapped Belgian Premier Vanden Boeynants freed
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13 Feb 1990 German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
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13 Feb 1990 Larry Bird (Celtics) ends NBA free throw streak of 71 games
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13 Feb 1990 US, England, France & England give Germany the OK to re-unify
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13 Feb 1990 50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal, South Africa
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13 Feb 1991 Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.
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13 Feb 1991 Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel
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13 Feb 1991 US bombs Iraqi air raid shelter, killing 334
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13 Feb 1992 "Most Happy Fella" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 229 performances
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13 Feb 1992 West beats East 14 to 9 in Major Soccer League all star game
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13 Feb 1992 Jose Canseco repeatedly rams his Porsche into wife Esther's BMW
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13 Feb 1993 Ljubow Kremljowa runs world record 1000m indoor (2:34:84)
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13 Feb 1993 Ljubow Kremljowa runs world record 1000 meter indoor (2 minutes 34.84 seconds)
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13 Feb 1993 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 meter indoor (21.87 seconds)
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13 Feb 1993 Sergei Bubka pole vaults indoor record (6.14 meters)
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13 Feb 1994 44th NBA All-Star Game East beats West 127-118 at Minneapolis MN
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13 Feb 1994 Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.9m
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13 Feb 1994 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5000 meter 6 34,96
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13 Feb 1994 Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200
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13 Feb 1995 Howard Stern radio show premieres in San Diego CA on KIOZ 105.3 FM
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13 Feb 1995 West Indies beat New Zealand by innings & 332, Courtney Walsh 13-55
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13 Feb 1996 Howard Stern announces he will be making the film "Private Parts"
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13 Feb 1996 Rock musical "Rent, " by Jonathan Larson, opens off-Broadway
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13 Feb 1997 "Three Sisters, " opens at Criterion Theater, New York City
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13 Feb 1997 "Three Sisters" opens at Criterion Theater NYC
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13 Feb 1997 Discovery captures Hubble Space Telescope
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13 Feb 2000 The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
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13 Feb 2000 US female Figure Skating championship
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13 Feb 2001 An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
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13 Feb 2004 The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
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13 Feb 2007 Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
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13 Feb 2008 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
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13 Feb 2010 A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.
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13 Feb 2011 For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian 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.
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13 Feb 2012 The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
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13 Feb 2013 A plane crash kills five people and injures nine others in Donetsk, Ukraine.
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