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.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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- 1689 – Glorious Revolution: Mary Stuart and her husband William III of Orange were proclaimed co-rulers of England and Ireland.
- 1931 – New Delhi became the new capital of British India.
- 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 (pictured). The members of the subsequent search and rescue team were the first recipients of the Hero of the Soviet Union award.
- 1991 – Gulf War: The United States Air Force dropped two laser-guided "smart bombs" on an air raid shelter in Baghdad, Iraq, that was believed to be a military command site, killing at least 408 civilians.
- 2008 – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised to Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.