What historical events have happened on February 13th?
(STL.News) There have been multiple historical events that have taken place on February 13th. They are as follows:
- 1258 Baghdad, then a city of 1 million, falls to the Mongols as the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed, tens of thousands slaughtered, ending the Islamic Golden Age.
- 1601 Fleet of five British East India Company vessels departs on their 1st voyage from London, led by Sir James John Lancaster commanding the “Red Dragon”; the journey takes nearly 16 months.
- 1689 Parliament of England adopts the Bill of Rights, which establishes the rights of parliament and places limits on the crown.
- 1942 Operation Sealion, Nazi Germany’s invasion of England, is canceled by Adolf Hitler.
- 1945 Allied planes begin bombing the German city of Dresden, resulting in a devastating firestorm that destroys the city and kills over 22,000 people.
- 1945 Soviet forces capture Budapest after a 49-day battle with Nazi Germany that killed 159,000 people
- 1960 France becomes the 4th nuclear nation by exploding the 70 kilo-ton “Gerboise Bleue” atomic bomb in the French Algerian Sahara desert.
SOURCE: OnThisDay
