Today in Weird History: February 13, 2011
February 13: Weird happenings throughout history
What’s weird for February 13 throughout history.
TODAY IN WEIRD HISTORY:FEBRUARY 13, 2011
FEBRUARY 13:
1960 France exploded its first atomic bomb.
WAR!
1942 Hitler’s Operation Sealion (invasion of England) canceled.
1945 Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135,000 die.
1945 USSR captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die.
1968 US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam.
1991 Two laser-guided precision bombs from American bombers hit an air-raid shelter in the middle class district of Amiriya, five miles from the center of the Iraqi capital. 235 bodies were recovered within 12 hours of the attacks.
2007 With Democrats in control, House members debated Iraq in an emotional and historic faceoff over a war that Speaker Nancy Pelosi condemned as a commitment with “no end in sight.”
2003 A U.S. government plane carrying four Americans and a Colombian went down in rebel territory in southern Colombia; the executed bodies of an American and the Colombian were found in the wreckage.
DISASTER
1994 Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200.
DOMESTIC TERRORISTS
1974 The Symbionese Liberation Army demanded $70 of food be given to every needy Californian in exchange for the release of 19-year-old kidnapped heiress Patricia Hearst.
FIRE!
1983 : 74 people lost their lives in a movie theater fire in Turin, Italy. A combination of a stampeding crowd and the rear emergency exits being locked contributed to the deaths.
MAN-EATERS
1970 Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi.
GOVERNMENT PORK
2009 The House of Representatives voted 246 to 183 for a $787.2 billion nebulous package of “stimulus” spending. The bill was known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) or Stimulus or Porkulus.
TOMBS
1924 King Tut’s tomb opened.
DIPLOMACY
2010 President Barack Obama has named Rashad Hussain as a special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (O.I.C.). Hussain played a key role in developing partnerships with the Muslim world.
OUTLAWS
1866 Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty MO ($15,000).
RIOT
1837 Riot in New York over high price of flour.
GOLF
1971 Golfing Vice President Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into the crowd, injuring 2.
TOYS
1959 Barbie doll goes on sale.
IMPRISONED
1777 Marquis de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress.
CORPORATE MAINSTREAM MEDIA (CMM)
1981 Longest sentence published by New York Times-1286 words.
DEMON RUM
1826 The American Temperance Society (later renamed the American Temperance Union) was organized in Boston. It quickly grew into a national crusade, and within a decade over 8,000 similar groups had been formed, boasting a total of 1.5 million members.
RIGGED
2002 The French judge was accused of throwing the pairs skating decision to the Russians at the Olympics.
MUSIC
1982 Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” is on the charts for 402nd week.
EDUCATION
1795 The University of North Carolina became the first U.S. state university to admit students with the arrival of Hinton James, who was the only student on campus for two weeks.
PATENTS
1895 Moving picture projector patented.
POLITICAL POSEURS
2007 Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney officially entered the 2008 presidential race in Michigan, the place of his birth.
FINANCE
1973 US dollar devalues 10%.
1985 Dow Jones closes at 1297.92 (record high) after topping 1300 earlier.
INTRO
1932 “Free Eats” introduces George “Spanky” McFarland to “Our Gang”.
TRIALS
1633 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun.
1935 Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap & murder of Lindbergh’s infant.
2003 Clara Harris, who’d run down her cheating husband with her Mercedes after catching him with his mistress, was convicted by a Houston jury of murder despite her claim that she’d hit him accidentally while in a heartsick daze. (Harris was sentenced to 20 years in prison.)
JEWS
1349 Jews are expelled from Burgsordf Switzerland.
1941 Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council.
1955 Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
SPORTS
1974 James “Cool Papa” Bell is named to baseball’s Hall of Fame.
BEHEADED
1542 Catherine Howard queen of England/5th wife of Henry VIII, is beheaded.
BORN
1766 Thomas Malthus Rookery Surrey UK, economist/demographer/population expert (Law of Malthus). Modern-day father of global warmist
1849 Lord Randolph Churchill England, politician, Winston’s father.
1875 Kanouse quintuplets Watertown WI, 1st quintuplets in US, born to Edna Kanouse.
1919 Tennessee Ernie Ford Bristol TN, country singer/actor (pea picker).
DEATH
1980 David Janssen [Meyer], actor (Fugitive, Harry O), dies at 49.
1982 Zeng Jinlian Hunan China, grew to 8’1″ (tallest woman), dies at 17.
2003 Walt W. Rostow, an adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, died in Austin, Texas, at age 86.
February 13, the 44th day of the year. There are 321 days left in 2010.
compiled by Mondo Frazier
image: The Vintage Playhouse; dbkp file; unbsj
Sources:
* DBKP Today in Weird History: February 13, 2008
* People’s history
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Galileo WAS wrong, the earth revolves around Obama, according to Obama.
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