February 13 in History

Historical Events on February 13

1880 Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.

1931 The British Raj completes its transfer from Calcutta to New Delhi.

1945 World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.

1945 World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.

1951 Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.

1955 Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.

1991 Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.

2007 Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.

2008 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.

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Famous Birthdays on February 13

1946 Richard Blumenthal

1950 Peter Gabriel

1979 Anders Behring Breivik

1987 Eljero Elia

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Famous Deaths on February 13

1728 Cotton Mather

1883 Richard Wagner

2003 Walt Whitman Rostow

2016 Antonin Scalia

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