Top Historical Events That Happened on February 13

1958  Georges Rouault, French painter (Christ aux outrages), dies at 86.   

1959  Barbie doll goes on sale.   

1959  Miro Cardon, premier of Cuba, steps down.   

1959  William L Axt, composer, dies at 70.   

1960  France enters the nuclear era when it explodes its inaugural atomic bomb   

1960  France performs 1st nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria.   

1960  The French test their inaugural atomic bomb in the Sahara.   

1960  "Beg, Borrow or Steal" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 5 perfs.   

1960  Delmar G Roos, designer of jeep, dies at 79   

1961  Frank Sinatra launches Reprise label under Warner Brothers Records   

1961  Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus.   

1963  Harry Steers, bowling hall of famer, dies   

1965  Quebec Liquor Board Employees end 70-day strike. How dry they were in the province!!   

1965  US male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti   

1965  Jerry Burke, pianist (Lawrence Welk Show), dies   

1966  Elio Vittorini, writer, dies   

1968  US sends 10500 additional soldiers to Vietnam   

1968  Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, dies at 87   

1969  Mary Hopkin's Postcard album on Apple is released.   

1969  Suriname government of Pengel steps down   

1970  Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi   

1970  Herbert Strudwick, cricketer (28 Tests for Engld, ct 60 stp 12), dies   

1971  12000 South Vietnamese troops cross into Laos   

1971  Golfing Vice President Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into the crowd, injuring 2.   

1972  "Grease" opens on Broadway   

1972  11th Winter Olympics games close at Sapporo, Japan.   

1973  US dollar devalues 10%   

1974  Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR.   

1974  Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn is expelled from the USSR.   

1975  Cyprus premier Denktash proclaims Turkish-Cypriot Federation   

1975  Dagmar Godowsky, actress (Common Law, Red Lights), dies at 78.   

1976  In this year, Dorothy Hamill claims Olympics figure-skating gold, Innsbruck, Austria.   

1976  Peter Casserly of New Zealand hand-sheers record 353 lambs in 9 holes   

1976  General Murtala Mohammed, head of Nigeria, killed during a coup.   

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1440  Hartmann schedel: German physician/humanist/historian   

1457  Mary of burgundy: Daughter of charles the bold and wife of maximilian i, holy roman emperor   

1480  Girolamo aleandro: Italian catholic cardinal   

1599  Alexander vii: [fabio chigi], siena italy, pope (1655-67)   

1610  Jean de la badie: French divine, founder of lagardists   

1622  Adam pijnacker: Landscape painter/etcher, baptized   

1658  Jan b wellekens: Dutch poet/painter   

1660  Johann sigismund kusser: Composer   

0858  Kenneth i of scotland: Kenneth i of scotland   

1130  Death of Honorius ii: [lamberto], pope (1124-30),   

1141  Death of B�la ii of hungary: B�la ii of hungary (b. 1110)   

1199  Death of Stefanus nemanja (symeon): Monk,   

1219  Minamoto no sanetomo: Japanese shogun (b. 1192)   

1237  Jordanus of saxon: 2nd general of dominicans, drowns   

1315  Death of Jean i of chalon-arlay: Mayor of neuchôtel,   

1332  Andronicus ii paleologus: Byzantine emperor (1282-1328)/monk,