Tukuk-OS📅 February 13
12 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on February 13? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 2017 — Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was assassinated using VX nerve agent in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- 2012 — The first Vega rocket was launched by the European Space Agency from the Guiana Space Centre.
- 2010 — A terrorist bombing at a bakery popular among foreigners in Pune, India, killed 17 people and injured 60 others.
- 1991 — Gulf War: The United States Air Force dropped two laser-guided "smart bombs" on an air-raid shelter in Baghdad, Iraq, which was believed to be a military command site, killing at least 408 civilians.
- 1987 — Federal agents began to issue indictments against county-level supervisors in Mississippi after Operation Pretense exposed massive corruption in the state's local governments.
- 1981 — Explosions caused by the ignition of hexane vapors destroyed more than 13 miles (21 km) of sewer lines in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.
- 1961 — Geode prospectors near Olancha, California, discovered what they claimed to be a 500,000-year-old rock with a 1920s-era spark plug encased within (pictured).
- 1960 — African-American college students staged the first of the Nashville sit-ins (sign at protest pictured) at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee, as part of a nonviolent direct-action campaign to end racial segregation in the U.S.
- 1891 — Frances Coles was killed in the last of eleven unsolved murders of women that took place in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London.
- 1867 — Work began on the covering of the Senne (pictured), burying the polluted main river of Brussels to allow for urban renewal in the centre of the city.
- 1692 — Members of Clan MacDonald of Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands were massacred, allegedly for failing to pledge allegiance to the new monarchs, William III and Mary II.
Clan MacDonald of GlencoeScottish HighlandsMassacre of Glencoe
- 1660 — The four-year-old Charles XI became King of Sweden upon his father's death.
Births
- 2005 — Sergio Mestre, Spanish footballer
- 2003 — Raúl Asencio, Spanish footballer
- 2002 — Jaden Ivey, American basketball player
- 2002 — Sophia Lillis, American actress
- 2001 — Kaapo Kakko, Finnish ice hockey player
- 2000 — Vitinha, Portuguese footballer
- 1995 — Kendall Fuller, American football player
- 1995 — Georges-Kévin Nkoudou, French-Cameroonian footballer
- 1994 — Memphis Depay, Dutch footballer
- 1992 — Keith Appling, American basketball player
- 1991 — Eliaquim Mangala, French footballer
- 1991 — Vianney, French singer
Deaths
- 2025 — Jim Guy Tucker, American lawyer and politician, 43rd Governor of Arkansas (born 1943)
- 2021 — Kadir Topbaş, Turkish politician (born 1945)
- 2019 — Callistus Ndlovu, Zimbabwean academic and politician (born 1936)
- 2018 — Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, French-born Danish royal (born 1934)
- 2017 — Ricardo Arias Calderón, Panamanian politician (born 1933)
- 2017 — Aileen Hernandez, American union organizer and activist (born 1926)
- 2017 — Seijun Suzuki, Japanese filmmaker (born 1923)
- 2017 — Kim Jong-nam, North Korean politician (born 1971)
- 2017 — E-Dubble, American rapper (born 1982)
- 2016 — O. N. V. Kurup, Indian poet and academic (born 1931)
- 2016 — Antonin Scalia, American lawyer and judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (born 1936)
Antonin ScaliaAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- 2015 — Faith Bandler, Australian activist and author (born 1918)
Observances & holidays
- Black Love Day (United States)
- Children's Day (Myanmar)
- Christian feast day: Absalom Jones (Episcopal Church (USA))
- Christian feast day: Blessed Agostina Camozzi
- Christian feast day: Benignus of Todi
- Christian feast day: Agabus (for catholics)
- Christian feast day: Castor of Karden
- Christian feast day: Dyfnog
- Christian feast day: Ermenilda of Ely
- Christian feast day: Fulcran
- Christian feast day: Jordan of Saxony
- Christian feast day: Paul Liu Hanzuo
- Christian feast day: February 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- World Radio Day
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