Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 13
- 1689 - Glorious Revolution: Instead of James Francis Edward Stuart the Prince of Wales acceding to the throne, his sister Mary and her husband William were proclaimed co-rulers of England.
- 1880 - Thomas Edison observed the Edison Effect, which later formed the basis of John Ambrose Fleming's vacuum tube diodes.
- 1881 - Hubertine Auclert, a leading French suffragette in Paris, launched the feminist newspaper La Citoyenne.
- 1984 - Konstantin Chernenko succeeded the late Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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