What happened on February 13?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 World Radio Day.
🌏 Self-Love Day.
🌏 Birthday of the Movie Camera.
🌏 Internet Friends Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇦🇲 Armenia – Terendez Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Tortellini Day
🇵🇭 Philippines – Paranaque Day.
🇲🇲 Myanmar – Children’s Day.
🇶🇦 Qatar – National Sports Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1241 – Mongols invade Poland.
– 1633 – Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for the Inquisition.
– 1689 – Glorious Revolution in England.
– 1739 – Iranian Shah Nadir Shah invades India.
-1784 – Crimea was formed as part of Russia.
– 1842 – Nicholas I signed a decree on the construction of the St. Petersburg – Moscow railway.
– 1858 – English explorers discovered Lake Tanganyika.
– 1859 – The first women’s gymnasium was opened in Moscow.
– 1895 – The Lumiere brothers received a patent for a motion picture camera.
– 1902 – The earthquake in Shamakhi claimed the lives of more than three thousand people.
– 1925 – The First All-Uzbek Congress of Soviets opened in the specially built People’s House in Bukhara. It adopted the “Declaration on the Establishment of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic”.
– 1937 – The legendary spy Mata Hari was arrested in Paris.
– 1931 – The Revolutionary Council of the USSR decided to produce a thousand Tokarev pistols (TT).
– 1945 – The city of Dresden was bombed.
– 1946 – The American military announced that they had created the first digital computer.
– 1975 – The Turkish Federated State of Northern Cyprus was declared.
– 1980 – The XIII Winter Olympic Games opened in Lake Placid (USA).
– 1988 – The XV Winter Olympic Games opened in Calgary (Canada).
– 1996 – The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists) launched a “people’s war” against the royal authorities in Nepal.
– 1997 – Diplomatic relations were established between Uzbekistan and Mali.
– 2001 – The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Population was established.
– 2004 – Zelimkhan Yandarbyev, the acting President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, died as a result of an assassination attempt in Doha (Qatar).
