February 13 holidays in 2024

Historical Events on February 13

• 1914: The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established in New York to protect the copyrighted materials of its members.
• 1920: The Negro National League is established.
• 1945: German and Hungarian forces surrender to the Soviets as the Siege of Budapest during World War II comes to an end.
• 1945: Bombers from the Royal Air Force are sent to Dresden, Germany to bomb the city.
• 1955: Israel gets 4 of the 7 Dead Sea Scrolls.
• 1960: The successful test of Gerboise Bleue makes France the 4^th Nuclear Super Power.
• 1960: Black college students begin a series of lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville, Tennessee.
• 1961: The Coso artifact is discovered. This artifact was supposedly a half million year old rock that contained a spark plug inside it. It was discovered in Olancha, California by Wallace Lane, Virginia Maxey and Mike Mikesell.
• 1967: Leonardo da Vinci’s Madrid Cordices are discovered by American researchers in the National Library of Spain.
• 1981: More than two miles of streets are destroyed in Louisville, Kentucky by a series of sewer explosions.
• 2004: The discovery of the largest known diamond in the universe – white dwarf star BPM 37093 – was announced by the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
• 2010: In the city of Pune in India, a bomb goes off killing seventeen people and kills another 60 people.

Famous Birthdays on February 13

• American 35^th First Lady of the U.S., Bess Truman is born in 1885.
• Welsh author Kate Roberts is born in 1891.
• English-American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, William Shockley is born in 1910.
• American actress Jean Muir is born in 1911.
• American actress Kim Novak is born in 1933.
• American actor George Sega is born in 1934.
• English actor Oliver Reed is born in 1938.
• English singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel is born in 1950.
• American actress Mena Suvari is born in 1979.