1989 Salvadoran army attacks Encuentros hospital, rapes, kills patients

1990 50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal, South Africa

1990 Health Minister Perrin Beatty announces $75-100,000 in compensation for each victim of the drug thalidomide born between 1959 and 1961

1991 Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel

1991 US bombs Iraqi air raid shelter, killing 334

1992 West beats East 14 to 9 in Major Soccer League all star game

1992 Jose Canseco repeatedly rams his Porsche into wife Esther's BMW

1994 Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200

1995 A Netherlands tribunal indicts 21 Serbs for atrocities committed at a Bosnian prison camp.

1995 Richard Weber of Chelsea, Quebec and Russian MD Mikhail Mlakhov start 1500 km ski trek from Canada's northernmost point of land to the North Pole

1995 West Indies beat New Zealand by innings &332, Courtney Walsh 13-55

1996 Howard Stern announces he will be making the film "Private Parts"

1996 Rock musical "Rent," by Jonathan Larson, opens off-Broadway

1997 Discovery captures Hubble Space Telescope

1998 In Victoria, BC three girls of ages 14, 15, and 16 found guilty of the murder of 14 year old schoolmate Reena Virk; three others plead guilty to assault charges

1924 King Tut's tomb is opened

1955 Israel acquires four of seven known Dead Sea scrolls

1960 The French test their first atomic bomb in the Sahara

1974 Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn is expelled from the USSR

1892 The birth of Grant Wood, American painter.

1901 The birth of Georges Simenon, Belgian novelist

1933 The birth of Kim Novak, American actress.

1933 The birth of Emanuel Ungaro, French fashion designer.

1934 The birth of George Segal, American actor

1938 The birth of Oliver Reed, British actor

2005 Lúcia Santos, the last surviving of the three shepherd children to whom Our Lady of Fatima appeared in 1917, died.[1]

2007 North Korea agrees to shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon by apr 14 as a first step towards complete denuclearization, receiving in return energy aid equivalent to 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil.[7]

2007 Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.

2009 Unix time passed 1,234,567,890 seconds february 13, 2009 at exactly 23:31:30 (UTC).

2009 Unix time passed 1,234,567,890 seconds february 13, 2009 at exactly 23:31:30 (UTC).

2009 Unix time passed 1,234,567,890 seconds february 13, 2009 at exactly 23:31:30 (UTC).

2009 Unix time passed 1,234,567,890 seconds february 13, 2009 at exactly 23:31:30 (UTC).

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