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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

This was 44th day of the year and 321 days remained in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 3 Adar 5773
Chinese calendar — the 4th day of the 1st month of 4711 (Kui Si)
Islamic calendar — (note)

February 13 Birthdays

Chuck Yeager
1923–, American Aviator.

Sir Joseph Banks
naturalist (1743)

Elizabeth "Bess" Truman
First Lady (1885)

Grant Wood
painter (1891)

Georges Simenon
mystery writer (1903)

William Shockley
physicist (1910)

Kim Novak
actress (1933)

Stockard Channing
actress (1944)

February 2013

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3	4	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28

February 13 in History

1866

The gang that included Jesse James and Cole Younger committed their first bank robbery in Liberty, Mo.

1867

Johann Strauss's Blue Danube waltz premiered in Vienna.

1935

Bruno Hauptmann was found guilty of murder in the Lindbergh kidnapping case.

1960

France exploded its first atomic bomb.

1974

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who won the 1970 Nobel Prize for literature, was deported from the Soviet Union.

2002

The French judge was accused of throwing the pairs skating decision to the Russians at the Olympics.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.