WHAT HAPPENED ON 13. FEBRUARY
Want to find out what all happened on 13. February

The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean. (13. February 1934)

A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh. (13. February 1935)

World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army. (13. February 1945)

World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment. (13. February 1945)

Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences. (13. February 1951)

Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game. (13. February 1954)

Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea scrolls. (13. February 1955)

With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons. (13. February 1960)

Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee. (13. February 1960)

An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug. (13. February 1961)

American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain. (13. February 1967)

Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos. (13. February 1971)

Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman. (13. February 1978)

An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge. (13. February 1979)

A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky. (13. February 1981)

The Río Negro massacre takes place in Guatemala. (13. February 1982)

A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people. (13. February 1983)

Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. (13. February 1984)

German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany. (13. February 1990)

Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed. (13. February 1991)