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13 February, 2008
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and The Stolen Generations.
13 February, 2007
Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
13 February, 2004
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the universes largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093.
13 February, 2001
An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
13 February, 2000
The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
13 February, 1997
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 7,000 for the first time closing at 7,022.44.
13 February, 1991
Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy a bunker in Baghdad. The bunker was being used as a military communications outpost and unknown to allied forces, as a shelter for Iraqi civilians.
13 February, 1990
German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
13 February, 1984
Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
13 February, 1981
A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
13 February, 1979
An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
13 February, 1978
Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
13 February, 1975
A fire erupts in the World Trade Center in New York City, New York.
13 February, 1974
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
13 February, 1971
Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
13 February, 1960
Nuclear testing: France tests its first atomic bomb.
13 February, 1955
Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
13 February, 1945
World War II: Red Army forces take Budapest, Hungary from Wehrmacht forces.
13 February, 1945
World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment (see Bombing of Dresden in World War II).
13 February, 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.
13 February, 1934
The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean.
13 February, 1921
An estimated 100,000 people turned out for the funeral of Peter Kropotkin.[1]
13 February, 1920
The Negro National League is formed.
13 February, 1914
Copyright: In New York City the ASCAP (for American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
13 February, 1899
Tallahassee, Florida records its all time coldest temperature of -2 degrees Fahrenheit.
13 February, 1894
Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.
13 February, 1881
The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.
13 February, 1880
Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brusselss primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
13 February, 1880
Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
13 February, 1866
Jesse James and his gang commit the first armed bank robbery in United States history during peacetime in Liberty, Missouri.
13 February, 1815
The Cambridge Union Society is founded.
13 February, 1692
Massacre of Glencoe : About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
13 February, 1689
William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
13 February, 1668
Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.
13 February, 1635
The first public school in the U.S., Boston Latin School, is founded.
13 February, 1633
Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
13 February, 1575
Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims.
13 February, 1575
Henry III of France marries Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont.
13 February, 1542
Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
13 February, 1503
Disfida di Barletta - Famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
13 February, 1258
Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.

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