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.
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The Cambridge Union building
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1542 – Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, was executed for adultery. | refimprove section |
| 1706 – Great Northern War: The Swedish employed the double envelopment military strategy to defeat Saxony–Poland and their Russian allies at the Battle of Fraustadt, near Fraustadt in present-day Wschowa, Poland. | refimprove |
| 1739 – During his invasion of the Mughal Empire, the forces of Nader, Shah of Persia, defeated the Mughal army at Karnal within three hours, despite being outnumbered six-to-one. | refimprove section |
| 1815 – The Cambridge Union, one of the oldest debating societies in the world, was founded at the University of Cambridge in England. | refimprove section |
| 1880 – American inventor Thomas Edison observed the Edison effect, which later formed the basis of vacuum tube diodes designed by English electrical engineer John Ambrose Fleming. | contradictory |
| 1881 – Hubertine Auclert, a leading French suffragette in Paris, launched the feminist newspaper La Citoyenne. | refimprove |
| 1931 – New Delhi (India Gate pictured) was inaugurated as the new capital of British India by Viceroy Lord Irwin. | unreferenced section |
| 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. The members of the subsequent search and rescue team were the first recipients of the Hero of the Soviet Union award. | refimprove section |
| 1970 – The English rock band Black Sabbath released their eponymous debut album, which is widely recognised as the first heavy metal album. | claim not supported in target article or in heavy metal music |
| 1984 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeded the late Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. | refimprove section |
| 1991 – Gulf War: The United States Air Force dropped two laser-guided "smart bombs" on an air-raid shelter in Baghdad, Iraq, which was believed to be a military command site, killing at least 408 civilians. | refimprove section |
| 2008 – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised to Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations. | too specific, refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1689 – Glorious Revolution: Mary Stuart and her husband William III of Orange were proclaimed co-rulers of England and Ireland.
- 1692 – Nearly forty men from the Clan MacDonald of Glen Coe, Scotland, were massacred early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new joint monarchs, William III and Mary II.
- 1945 – World War II: The Allies began their strategic bombing of Dresden, Saxony, Germany, resulting in a lethal firestorm that killed tens of thousands of civilians.
- 1960 – African American college students staged the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee, part of a nonviolent direct action campaign to end racial segregation.
- 1961 – American geode prospectors discovered what they claimed was a 500,000-year-old rock with a spark plug encased inside.
- 1978 – A bomb exploded outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, the site of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, killing three people and injuring eleven others.
- 2010 – A terrorist bombing at a bakery popular among foreigners in Pune, India, killed 17 people and injured 60 more.
- 2012 – The first Vega rocket was launched by the European Space Agency.
- Born/died: Muhammad ibn Ra'iq (d. 942) · George Rogers Clark (d. 1818) · Faiz Ahmad Faiz (b. 1911)
Notes
- Greensboro sit-ins appears on February 1 so Nashville sit-ins should not appear in the same year
- 1660 – Five-year-old Charles XI became King of Sweden.
- 1867 – Work began on the covering of the Senne (pictured), burying the polluted main waterway in Brussels to allow urban renewal in the centre of the city.
- 1913 – Thubten Gyatso, the 13th Dalai Lama, declared the independence of Tibet from the Republic of China.
- 1981 – Sewer explosions caused by the ignition of hexane vapors destroyed more than 13 miles (21 km) of streets in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
- 2017 – Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was assassinated using VX nerve agent in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Isabella d'Este (d. 1539) · Rufus Wilmot Griswold (b. 1815) · Waylon Jennings (d. 2002)