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    February 13

    This Day in History on February 13th

    History and Headlines contributorsBy History and Headlines contributorsFebruary 13, 2023Updated:February 13, 2023No Comments3 Mins Read
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    February 13th

    A Brief History

    This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on February 13th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event.

    Digging Deeper

    On February 13, 1633, Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome to stand trial before the Catholic Inquisition for heresy.

    On February 13, 1919, American football legend Eddie Robinson was born in Jackson, Louisiana.

    On February 13, 1920, the Negro National League of professional baseball was founded, not the first all African American baseball league, but the first to last more than one season and the foundation for African American professional baseball in the United States.

    On February 13, 1945, bombers from the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the American Air Force (USAAF) struck the eastern German city of Dresden, a city so beautiful it was once known as the “Florence on the Elbe,” incinerating tens of thousands of people.

    On February 13, 1954, Franklin Delano Selvy, shooting guard/small forward for the Furman University (South Carolina) basketball team scored an NCAA Division I record 100 points in a game against Newberry College (South Carolina), a feat never matched in Division I play.

    On February 13, 1961, while 3 Californians were looking for geodes, they picked up a rock believed to be 500,000 years old that was later found to contain a spark plug!

    On February 13, 1981, an incredible 13 miles of sewers and streets in Louisville, Kentucky blew up, the explosion caused by the detonation of hexane gas vapors.

    On February 13, 2004, astronomers discovered that a white dwarf star known as BPM37093 is actually the largest diamond yet discovered in the universe!

    On February 13, 2009, the Internet Safety Act was introduced to the United States House of Representatives by Representative Lamar Smith, a Republican from Texas, and the United States Senate by Senator John Cornyn, also a Republican from Texas.

    FarSight Studios sought to raise $54,364 from a Kickstarter campaign by Saturday, February 13, 2016.  

    Biographical sports comedy-drama film fans, here is your chance to be among the first in Cleveland, Ohio to see Fighting with My Family on Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 7:00 PM at Atlas Cinemas Eastgate 10 in Mayfield Heights, Ohio!

    On February 13, 2022, ironically during Black History Month, the National Football League made a mockery of American society by featuring ill-advised radical and divisive racial aspects to the sport they like to think of as our “National Pastime.”

    Question for students (and subscribers): Which event that occurred on today’s date would you like to learn more about?  Please let us know in the comments section below this article.

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    Historical Evidence

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    Andrews, John and Matt Baker.  Timeline of World History.  Thunder Bay Press, 2020.

    You can also watch video versions of this article on YouTube.

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