SomeFacts | February 13

On this day - February 13

962 — Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the Diploma ...

1258 — Siege of Baghdad: Hulegu Khan, a prince of the Mongol Empire, ...

1322 — The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of ...

1352 — War of the Straits: The Battle of the Bosporus is fought in a ...

1462 — The Treaty of Westminster is finalised between Edward IV of ...

1503 — Challenge of Barletta: Tournament between 13 Italian and 13 ...

1542 — Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is ...

1633 — Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the ...

1642 — The Clergy Act becomes law, excluding bishops of the Church of ...

1660 — With the accession of young Charles XI of Sweden, his regents ...

1689 — William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.

1692 — Massacre of Glencoe: Almost 80 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, ...

1726 — Parliament of Negrete between Mapuche and Spanish authorities ...

1755 — Treaty of Giyanti signed by VOC, Pakubuwono III and Prince ...

1849 — The delegation headed by Metropolitan bishop Andrei Șaguna ...

1861 — Italian unification: The Siege of Gaeta ends with the ...

1867 — Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying ...

1880 — Thomas Edison observes thermionic emission.

1913 — The 13th Dalai Lama proclaims Tibetan independence following a ...

1914 — Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, ...

1920 — The Negro National League is formed.

1931 — The British Raj completes its transfer from Calcutta to New ...

1935 — A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty ...

1945 — World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to ...

1945 — World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the ...

1951 — Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the ...

1954 — Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ...

1955 — Twenty-nine people are killed when Sabena Flight 503 crashes ...

1955 — Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.

1960 — Black college students stage the first of the Nashville ...

1960 — With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise ...

1961 — An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, ...

1967 — American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo ...

1975 — Fire at One World Trade Center (North Tower) of the World ...

1978 — Hilton bombing: A bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the ...

1979 — An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a ...

1981 — A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of ...

1983 — A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people.

1984 — Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as ...

1991 — Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the ...

1996 — The Nepalese Civil War is initiated in the Kingdom of Nepal by ...

2001 — A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits El Salvador, killing at least ...

2004 — The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the ...

2007 — Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman ...

2008 — Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology ...

2010 — A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, ...

2011 — For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an ...

2012 — The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of ...

2017 — Kim Jong-nam, brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, is ...

2021 — A major winter storm causes blackouts and kills at least 82 ...

2021 — Former U.S. President Donald Trump is acquitted in his second ...