1633 – Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
1914 – Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
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1945 – The German city of Dresden is destroyed by a bombing raid by hundreds of allied planes. According to estimates, up to 25,000 people were killed in the raids that lasted 3 days destroying one of the world’s most beautiful cities.
1951 – Gov. Sir Charles Arden-Clarke invites Kwame Nkrumah to form a government in Ghana.
1955 – Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls, a set of ancient Jewish manuscripts from the Second Temple period (586 BC-AD 70).
1960 – France explodes its first nuclear weapon, with Africa as the test site. The Saharan military Experiments Centre at Reganne Oasis in the Sahara desert in Algeria is used to explode four devices. This was followed by international protests.
1960 – Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
1961 – Patrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, is shot and killed.
1976 – General Murtala Muhammed was killed in the infamous Lagos traffic near the Federal Secretariat, Ikoyi in Lagos by a group of soldiers led by Lt. Colonel Bukar Dimka in an abortive coup d’etat.
1990 – German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
1991 – Two “smart bombs” kill at least 408 civilians in Baghdad. The Amiriyah shelter bombing was one of the worst cases of civilian killings during “Operation Desert Storm”.
2000 – The last Peanuts comic strip was published in newspapers, just hours after the death of creator Charles Schulz.
2000 – The 22nd edition of the African Cup of Nations is the first to be hosted by two countries: Nigeria and Tunisia. Cameroun wins its third Cup championship.
2004 – The universe’s largest known diamond is discovered. BPM 37093 is a white dwarf star about 50 light-years from Earth and was nicknamed “Lucy” after The Beatles’ song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”.
2008 – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologizes to Indigenous Australians for the “stolen generations”. Between 10 and 30 percent of Aboriginal and Torres Islander children were removed from their families until the 1960s.
Birthdays
Marilyn Pauline, 91 years
“Kim” Novak is an American born on 13 February 1933 in Chicago, A retired film / television actress and painter. Her contributions to cinema have been honored with two Golden Globe Awards, an Honorary Golden Bear, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She is 91 today.
Robert Peter Williams, 50 years
Robert Peter Williams is an English singer and songwriter born in 1974. He found fame as a member of the pop group Take That from 1990 to 1995, launching a solo career in 1996. His debut studio album, Life thru a Lens, was released in 1997, and included his signature song “Angels”. He is 50 today.
Grant DeVolson Wood (13 February 1891- 12 February 1942)
Grant DeVolson Wood was an American painter and representative of Regionalism, best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest. He is particularly well known for American Gothic, which has become an iconic example of early 20th-century American art. He died at the age of 50.
William B. Shockley (born Feb. 13, 1910, London, Eng.—died Aug. 12, 1989)
He is an American engineer and teacher, cowinner (with John Bardeen and Walter H. Brattain) of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956 for their development of the transistor, a device that largely replaced the bulkier and less-efficient vacuum tube and ushered in the age of microminiature electronics.
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