February 13<\/p>\n
1633 \u2013 Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.<\/p>\n
1689 \u2013 The Convention Parliament passes The Declaration of Right, declaring that the flight to France the previous year by James II constitutes his abdication from the throne, and that William and Mary are co-rulers,\u00a0 king and queen regnant, of England.<\/p>\n
1880 \u2013 Thomas Edison observes Thermionic Emission, the liberation of electrons from an electrode by being heated.<\/p>\n
1913 \u2013\u00a0 Thubten Gyatso, the 13th Dalai Lama proclaims Tibetan independence from the Chinese Manchu Qing dynasty<\/p>\n
1914 \u2013 In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers – ASCAP<\/em> – is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.<\/p>\n 1935 \u2013 A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the baby, Charles Lindbergh Jr. and\u00a0 sentences him to death in the electric chair.<\/p>\n 1960 \u2013 France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons, successfully detonating a 70 kiloton weapon in the Tanezrouft region of the Sahara desert.<\/p>\n 1979 \u2013 An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a \u200bhalf mile long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013 A series of sewer explosions destroys more than 2 miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 Allied forces bomb and destroy a bunker mistaken for a military communications outpost, but actually being used by over 400 Iraqi civilians for shelter, killing them.<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale hits along the southern coast of El Salvador, killing over 900 people.<\/p>\n 2004 \u2013 The Harvard\u2013Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces that white dwarf star BPM 37093, in the constellation Centaurus, with a calculated mass in excess of 500 Septillion<\/em> – 1024\u00a0 – <\/sup>Tons<\/em>\u00a0is almost totally composed\u00a0 of cubic crystal carbon, also known as diamond<\/em>.<\/p>\n 2011 \u2013 Under terms of an 1855 treaty, the Umatilla tribe are allowed to restart their traditional bison hunt on lands just outside Yellowstone National Park.<\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 Former U.S. President Donald Trump is acquitted in his second impeachment trial, 22 days after already having left office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 13 1633 \u2013 Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition. 1689 \u2013 The Convention Parliament passes The Declaration of Right, declaring that the flight to France the previous year by James II constitutes his abdication from the throne, and that William and Mary are co-rulers,\u00a0 king and queen regnant, of … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64768"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90004,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64768\/revisions\/90004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}