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A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
February 13
167 | Polycarp, a disciple of St. John and bishop of Smyrna, is martyred on the west coast of Asia Minor. | |
1542 | Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII, is beheaded for adultery. | |
1689 | British Parliament adopts the Bill of Rights. | |
1692 | In the Glen Coe highlands of Scotland, thirty-eight members of the MacDonald clan are murdered by soldiers of the neighboring Campbell clan for not pledging allegiance to William of Orange. Ironically the pledge had been made but not communicated to the clans. The event is remembered as the Massacre of Glencoe. | |
1862 | The four day Battle of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, begins. | |
1865 | The Confederacy approves the recruitment of slaves as soldiers, as long as the approval of their owners is gained. | |
1866 | Jesse James holds up his first bank. | |
1914 | The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is founded. | |
1936 | First social security checks are put in the mail. | |
1945 | The Royal Air Force Bomber Command devastates the German city of Dresden with night raids by 873 heavy bombers. The attacks are joined by 521 American heavy bombers flying daylight raids. | |
1949 | A mob burns a radio station in Ecuador after the broadcast of H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds.” | |
1951 | At the Battle of Chipyong-ni, in Korea, U.N. troops contain the Chinese forces’ offensive in a two-day battle. | |
1953 | The Pope asks the United States to grant clemency to convicted spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. | |
1968 | The United States sends 10,500 more combat troops to Vietnam. | |
1970 | General Motors is reportedly redesigning automobiles to run on unleaded fuel. | |
1972 | Enemy attacks in Vietnam decline for the third day as the United States continues its intensive bombing strategy. | |
1984 | Konstantin Chernenko is selected to succeed Yuri Andropov as Party General Secretary in the Soviet Union. | |
Born on February 13 | ||
1599 | Alexander VII, Roman Catholic Pope. | |
1682 | Giovanni Piazzetta, painter (Fortune Teller). | |
1764 | Charles de Talleyrand, Napoleon’s foreign minister. | |
1849 | Lord Randolph Churchill, English politician, Winston Churchill’s father and member of Parliament. | |
1873 | Feodor Chaliapin, opera singer. | |
1892 | Grant Wood, painter (American Gothic). | |
1902 | Georges Simenon, novelist. | |
1910 | William B. Shockley, physicist, co-inventor of the transistor. | |
1919 | Tennessee Ernie Ford, country and gospel singer. | |
1922 | Harold “Hal” Moore Jr., US Army lieutenant general, author; led 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment at 1965 Battle of Ia Drang Valley; his best-known book, co-authored with combat journalist Joe Galloway, is “We Were Soldiers Once . . . And Young,” an account of that battle. | |
1923 | Charles “Chuck” Yeager, American test pilot, the first man to break the sound barrier. | |
1933 | Kim Novak, actress. |
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Naturalist Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, born on February 12, 1809, was the English naturalist whose theory of evolution rocked Victorian religion and science. Shortly after his graduation from Cambridge, Darwin sailed as a naturalist with the surveying ship HMS Beagle. During the five-year voyage, Darwin’s observations of wildlife led to the writing of his 1859 book The Origin of the Species, in which he proposed the theory of natural selection. All life, he said, is a struggle for existence and some species are better able to adapt to the environment and survive to pass along their characteristics. In 1871, Darwin wrote Descent of Man, which demonstrated that man and ape could have had a common ancestor. Darwin’s theories were highly controversial and unsettling to those who believed in creationism. Many Victorians condemned Darwin as blasphemous, but many important scientists of the day agreed with his theories.
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St. Catherine was born in Florence in 1522. Her baptismal name was Alexandrina, but she took the name of Catherine upon entering religion. From her earliest infancy she manifested a great love of … continue reading
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This was an ancient Roman festival held in honor of the manes, or souls of the dead—in particular, deceased relatives. It began a season for remembering the dead, which ended with the Feralia on February 21. This week was a quiet, serious occasion, without the rowdiness that characterized other Roman festivals. Everything, including the temples, closed down, and people decorated graves with flowers and left food—sometimes elaborate banquets—in the cemeteries in the belief that it would be eaten by the spirits of the deceased. More… Discuss
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When Neil Armstrong returned from his famous moon walk in 1969, he brought back some souvenirs of the trip—and apparently kept them in a closet in his home until his death in 2012. That’s where his wife discovered the camera that recorded the landing and two waist tethers, objects that Armstrong called “just a bunch of trash” in the Apollo 11 mission transcripts. This “trash,” which was supposed to stay in space, is now on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. More… Discuss
Definition: | (noun) Grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing. |
Synonyms: | claptrap, fustian |
Usage: | He found that he could look back upon the brass and bombast of his earlier gospels and see them truly. Discuss. |
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