Historical Events and Current Affairs on February 13

1130: Gregorio de' Papareschi elected as Pope Innocent II
1349: Jews are expelled from Burgsordf Switzerland
1510: Charles of Gelre conquerors Oldenzaal
1545: Willem of Nassau becomes prince of Orange
1566: St Augustine, Florida founded
1601: John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London
1633: Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun
1633: Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before
1635: Oldest US public institution, Boston Latin School founded
1651: Flemish missionary Joris van Geel departs to Congo
1668: Treaty of Lisbon: Spain recognizes Portugal
1678: Tycho Brahe 1st sketches "Tychonic system" of solar system
1689: British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights
1692: MacDonald clan murdered on orders of King William III
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
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
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 NY over high price 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
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
1886: controversial over use of male nudes in a coed art class
1886: Painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after
1895: Moving picture projector patented
1899: -16øF (-27øC), Minden Louisiana (state record)
1899: -1øF (-18øC) New Orleans, La
1899: -2øF (-19øC) Tallahassee, Florida (state record)
1901: Max Wolf discovers asteroids #473 Nolli & #474 Prudentia
1905: -29øF (-34øC) Pond, Arkansas (state record)
1905: -40øF (-40øC) Lebanon, Kansas (state record)
1905: -40øF (-40øC) Warsaw, Missouri (state record)
1907: English suffragettes storm British Parliament & 60 women are arrested
1914: American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers-ASCAP forms in NYC
1920: League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland
1920: National Negro Baseball League organizes
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 govt bans socialistic party
1935: 1st US surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland
1935: Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap & murder of Lindbergh's infant
1935: H Van Gent discovers asteroids #1342 Brabantia, #1353 Maartje & #2378
1937: "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail
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 Seel”we (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 govt 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: 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
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
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
1965: Peggy Fleming, 16, wins ladies senior figure skating title
1965: US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1965: US male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti
1966: USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968: US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam
1969: Mary Hopkin's Postcard album on Apple is released
1969: Suriname govt of Pengel resigns
1970: Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi
1970: NL offices begins move from Cin to SF (completed Feb 23)
1971: 12,000 South Vietnamese troops cross into Laos
1972: "1776" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 1,217 performances
1972: "Grease" opens on Broadway
1972: 11th Winter Olympic games close at Sapporo, Japan
1973: Musical "El Grande de Coca-Cola," premieres in NYC
1973: US dollar devalues 10%
1974: "Rainbow Jones" opens & closes at Music Box Theater NYC
1974: Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR
1974: James "Cool Papa" Bell is named to baseball's Hall of Fame
1975: Cyprus premier Denktash procliams Turkish-Cypriot Federation
1976: Dorothy Hamill wins Olympic figure-skating gold, Innsbruck, Austria
1976: Peter Casserly of NZ hand-sheers record 353 lambs in 9 holes
1977: "Guys & Dolls" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 239 performances
1977: "Ipi Tombi" closes at Harkness Theater NYC after 39 performances
1977: "Robber Bridegroom" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 145 perfs
1977: Eric Heiden is 1st American to win world speed skating championship
1978: US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979: 2nd Emmy Sports Award presentation
1979: Washington State's Hood Canal Bridge breaks up in windstorm
1980: Apollo Computer Inc incorporated
1980: Harvard College discovers asteroids #2482 Perkin & #2658 Gingerich
1981: Longest sentence published by NY Times-1286 words
1982: Dark Side of the Moon, is on charts for 402nd week
1982: Islander's Bryan Trottier scores 5 goals against Flyers
1983: "Merlin" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 199 performances
1983: 33rd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 132-123 at LA
1983: Australia beats NZ 2-0 to win World Series Cup
1983: E Bernstein, Levinson & Link's musical "Merlin" premieres in NYC
1983: World Boxing Council becomes 1st to cut boxing from 15 to 12 rounds
1984: 6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart & liver transplant
1984: Konstantin Chernenko succeeds Yuri Andropov as USSR leader
1985: Dow Jones closes at 1297.92 (record high) after topping 1300 earlier
1985: Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders
1987: Tigers' Jack Morris awarded $1.85 million salary by arbitrator
1988: #5115 Frimout, #5956 d'Alembert, #6036 Weinberg, #6956 Holbach
1988: 15th Winter Olympic games open at Calgary, Canada
1988: Christine Wachtel runs world record 800m indoor (1:56:40)
1988: European Community plans removal of inner boundaries on Jan 1, 1992
1988: Heike Dreschler long jumps world record indoor (7.37m)
1988: Ronald Weigel runs unofficial world record speed walking (18:11.41)
1989: Kidnapped Belgian Premier Vanden Boeynants freed
1989: Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged
1989: Salvadoran army attacks Encuentros hospital, rapes, kills patients
1989: with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison
1990: 50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal, South Africa
1990: Larry Bird (Celtics) ends NBA free throw streak of 71 games
1990: US, England, France & England give Germany OK to reunify
1991: Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel
1991: US bombs Iraqi air raid shelter, killing 334
1992: "Most Happy Fella" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 229 performances
1992: Jose Canseco repeatedly rams his Porsche into wife Esther's BMW
1992: West beats East 14 to 9 in Major Soccer League all star game
1993: Ljubow Kremljowa runs world record 1000m indoor (2:34:84)
1993: Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (21.87 sec)
1993: Sergei Bubka pole vaults indoor record (6.14 m)
1994: 44th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 127-118 at Minneapolis
1994: Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.9m
1994: Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5000m 6:34,96
1994: Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200
1995: Howard Stern radio show premieres in San Diego CA on KIOZ 105.3 FM
1995: West Indies beat NZ by innings & 332, Courtney Walsh 13-55
1996: Howard Stern announces he will be making the film "Private Parts"
1996: Rock musical "Rent," by Jonathan Larson, opens off-Broadway
1997: "Three Sisters," opens at Criterion Theater NYC
1997: Discovery captures Hubble Space Telescope
2000: US female Figure Skating championship
2000: US male Figure Skating championship

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