What are the important events that happened on February 13? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
February 13: Facts & Myths About This Day
February 13 is the 44th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 321 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 31, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,990,080 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘tetracontatetragon’ day.
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Aquarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 369 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,437 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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February 13 Historical Events
- 1633 –Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
- 1739 –Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
- 1894 –Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.
- 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.
- 1951 –Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the “high-water mark” of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
- 1964 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- 1982 –Río Negro massacre in Guatemala.
- 1984 –Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 2009 –At 23:31:30 UTC the Unix system time (time_t) number reaches 1234567890 seconds.
- 2010 –A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.
Who were born on February 13?
- 1921 –Aung Khin, Burmese painter (d. 1996)
- 1928 –Dorothy McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
- 1945 –Simon Schama, British historian
- 1951 –David Naughton, American actor and singer
- 1960 –Pierluigi Collina, Italian football referee
- 1961 –Cevin Key, Canadian musician (Skinny Puppy, Subconscious Communications)
- 1974 –Jeff Duran, American radio personality
- 1979 –Rafael Márquez, Mexican footballer
- 1980 –Mark Watson, British comedian
- 1981 –Luisão, Brazilian footballer
Who died on February 13?
- 1608 –Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, Lithuanian prince (b. 1526)
- 1787 –Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1717)
- 1787 –Ruđer Josip Bošković, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711)
- 1883 –Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)
- 1934 –József Pusztai, Slovene writer, poet, journalist in Hungary (b. 1864)
- 1958 –Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragette (b. 1880)
- 1974 –Ustad Amir Khan, Indian classical singer (b. 1912)
- 1980 –David Janssen, American actor (b. 1931)
- 1984 –Andre Stander, South African police captain and bank robber (b. 1946)
- 2005 –Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist (b. 1965)
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