Today in History
13 February
Willem of Nassau
Richard Wagner
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| 1130 Gregorio de' Papareschi elected as Pope Innocent II | ||
| 1349 Jews are expelled from Burgsordf Switzerland | ||
| 1510 Charles of Gelre conquerors Oldenzaal |
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| 1542 Catherine Howard, fifth wife of King Henry VIII of England, was executed for adultery. | ||
| 1545 Willem of Nassau becomes prince of Orange | ||
| 1566 St Augustine, Florida founded | ||
| 1571 Benvenuto Cellini, Italian sculptor and writer, died; noted for his famous bronze "Perseus with the Head of Medusa." | ||
| 1599 Alexander VII, [Fabio Chigi], Siena Italy, pope (1655-67) was born | ||
| 1601 John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London | ||
| 1610 Jean de la Badie, French divine, founder of Lagardists was born | ||
| 1633 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun | ||
| 1651 Flemish missionary Joris van Geel departs to Congo | Willem of Nassau |
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| 1668 Under the Treaty of Lisbon, Spain recognized the independence of Portugal. | ||
| 1678 Tycho Brahe 1st sketches "Tychonic system" of solar system | ||
| 1682 Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Venice, painter (Fortune Teller) was born | ||
| 1689 William of Orange and his wife Mary, daughter of the deposed James II, were declared joint sovereigns of Great Britain and Ireland. | ||
| 1689 British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights | ||
| 1692 John Campbell, at the head of an English force, led the Glencoe massacre against the Macdonalds in Scotland. | ||
| 1706 Battle at Fraustadt: Swedish army beats Russia/Saksen | ||
| 1728 Cotton Mather, champion of Puritanism and member of the Mather family prominent in 17th century New England, died. | ||
| 1741 The first magazine to be published in the United States went on sale. "The American Magazine, or a Monthly View of the Political State of the British Colonies" beat a rival by Benjamin Franklin by three days. | ||
| 1755 Rebel leader Mangkubuni signs Treaty of Gianti Java |
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| 1768 Edouard Mortier, French general, duke, prime minister (1834-35) was born | ||
| 1782 French fleet occupies St Christopher | ||
| 1786 Abraham Baldwin selected president of University of Georgia | ||
| 1788 In Britain, the trial of Warren Hastings began. Governor-general of India, he was charged with high crimes and misdemeanors in the case which took seven years to complete. | ||
| 1793 Britain, Prussia, Austria, Holland, Spain and Sardinia formed an alliance against France. | ||
| 1795 1st state university in US opens, University of North Carolina | ||
| 1809 French take Saragossa, Spain after a long siege | ||
| 1813 Charles Pierre Schimpf, governor of Suriname (1855-59) was born | ||
| 1816 -14] Teatro San Carlo in Naples destroyed by fire | ||
| 1826 American Temperance Society, forms in Boston | ||
| 1832 1st appearance of cholera at London | ||
| 1837 Riot in NY over high price of flour | ||
| 1849 Lord Randolph Churchill, British Conservative politician and father of future prime minister Winston, born. | ||
| 1858 Sir Richard Burton and Captain John Speke became the first Europeans to discover Lake Tanganyika in East Africa. | ||
| 1860 King Basse Kajuara departs Boni South-Celebes | ||
| 1861 Abraham Lincoln declared president | ||
| 1861 Col Bernard Irwin attacks & defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians | ||
| 1866 Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty, Missouri ($15,000) | ||
| 1867 Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna | ||
| 1883 Richard Wagner, German composer, died. His most famous works include the operatic cycle "Der Ring des Nibelungen" (The Ring of the Nibelung), "Tristan und Isolde" and "Parsifal." | ||
| 1886 Painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversial over use of male nudes in a coed art class | ||
| 1895 The Lumiere brothers were granted a patent in France for their machine "to film and view chronophotographic proofs" -- one of the earliest projectors. | ||
| 1895 Moving picture projector patented |
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| 1907 English suffragettes storm British Parliament & 60 women are arrested | ||
| 1912 England regains cricket's Ashes | ||
| 1914 American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers-ASCAP forms in NYC | ||
| 1920 League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland | ||
| 1920 Switzerland rejoin League of Nations | ||
| 1924 King Tut's tomb opened | ||
| 1927 Uprising against Portuguese regime of Gen Carmona defeated | ||
| 1929 Cruiser Act: OKs construction of 19 new cruisers & an aircraft carrier | ||
| 1935 1st US surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland | ||
| 1935 Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap & murder of Lindbergh's infant | ||
| 1941 Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council | ||
| 1942 Hitler's Operation Seel”we (invasion of England) cancelled | Richard Wagner |
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| 1943 German assault on Sidi Bou Zid Tunisia, Gen Eisenhower visits front | ||
| 1945 Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135,000 die | ||
| 1945 Gerbrandy British govt refuses Dutch Jewish right to buy | ||
| 1945 Budapest fell to the Russians after a 50-day siege in which 50,000 Germans were killed. | ||
| 1948 Wright Flyer, 1st plane to fly, returns to US from England | ||
| 1952 Rocky Marciano defeated Lee Savold for his 39th straight win | ||
| 1958 Georges Rouault, French expressionist painter, died. He had been apprenticed to a stained-glass designer and his subsequent work manifested glowing colors, outlined with black. | ||
| 1959 Barbie doll goes on sale | ||
| 1959 Miro Cardon, premier of Cuba, resigns | ||
| 1961 Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus | ||
| 1968 US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam | ||
| 1969 Suriname governament of Pengel resigns | ||
| 1971 12,000 South Vietnamese troops cross into Laos | ||
| 1973 US dollar devalues 10% | ||
| 1974 Author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, was deported from the Soviet Union and deprived of Soviet citizenship. | ||
| 1975 Seven months after their invasion of Cyprus, the Turks proclaimed the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus in the part of the island they occupied. | ||
| 1976 French-born U.S. coloratura soprano Lily Pons died. | ||
| 1979 Jean Renoir, French filmmaker, died; his firms included "Nana," "La Grande Illusion," "La Bete Humaine," and "Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe." | ||
| 1983 A fire in a cinema in Turin, Italy, killed 64 people. | ||
| 1984 6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart & liver transplant | ||
| 1984 Konstantin Chernenko succeeds Yuri Andropov as USSR leader | ||
| 1985 Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders | ||
| 1988 15th Winter Olympic games open at Calgary, Canada | ||
| 1990 Roaring crowds gave Nelson Mandela a hero's welcome when he returned to the black township of Soweto with a pledge to end "the dark hell of apartheid." | ||
| 1990 50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal, South Africa | ||
| 1991 Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel | ||
| 1991 Up to 400 civilians, mainly women and children, were feared dead after U.S. bombs or missiles smashed into a packed Baghdad air raid shelter. | ||
| 1992 Ford Motor Co. reported its biggest ever loss, $2.3 billion. | ||
| 1994 Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200 | ||
| 1994 Up to 150 illegal Burmese workers, many of them women and children, were feared dead after a ferry boat taking them home capsized off Thailand. | ||
| 1994 The ruling Malawi Congress Party elected former detainee Gwanda Chakuamba as President Kamuzu Banda's virtual successor, naming him deputy to the Malawi's supreme ruler of 30 years. | ||
C.H. OSTFELD