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What happened in history on this day: February 13?
Since 1995, I have been collecting information on a variety of topics,
creating several timelines of history.
Here you will find specific events from those databases
for this day, on the topics of personal computers, video games, the Walt Disney Company,
Chevrolet Corvettes, A&W Root Beer, Sweden, and Canadian coins.
On February 13 in ...
- 1995 - IBM and Motorola announce that test samples have been made of the PowerPC 603e (100 MHz) and PowerPC 602 (66 MHz) microprocessors.
- 1952 - The True-Live Adventure film The Olympic Elk is released to theaters.
- 1957 - The ABC TV network airs the Disneyland TV show, entitled The Tricks of Our Trade.
- 1959 - The ABC TV network airs the Walt Disney Presents TV show, entitled Duck Flies Coop, with Donald Duck.
- 1965 - Disney releases the Goofy film Freewayphobia No. 1 to theaters.
- 1966 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, featuring The Legend of Young Dick Turpin, part one.
- 1972 - The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, featuring Justin Morgan Had a Horse, part two.
- 1982 - The CBS TV network airs the Walt Disney show, entitled A Disney Valentine.
- 1985 - Mickey Mouse, accompanied by Disneyland's Ambassador, Melissa Taylor, begins a 30-day flight around the world, celebrating Disneyland's 30th anniversary.
- 1987 - NBC airs the TV special Disney's DTV Doggone Valentine.
- 1988 - The Expo Robotics robot demonstration opens in Communicore West in EPCOT Center.
- 1991 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates Julia Roberts for her role in the film Pretty Woman for an Oscar Award in the category Actress.
- 1991 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Green Card for an Oscar Award in the category Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.
- 1991 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates Al Pacino for his role in the film Dick Tracy for an Oscar Award in the category Supporting Actor.
- 1991 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Dick Tracy for an Oscar Award in the category Cinematography.
- 1991 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Dick Tracy for an Oscar Award in the category Art Direction - Set Decoration.
- 1991 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Dick Tracy for an Oscar Award in the category Sound.
- 1991 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the song "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)" from the film Dick Tracy for an Oscar Award in the category Music, Original Song.
- 1991 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Dick Tracy for an Oscar Award in the category Costume Design.
- 1991 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Dick Tracy for an Oscar Award in the category Make-up.
- 1992 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show. A character in a bath tub slips happily beneath the suds, like in a scene from Pretty Woman.
- 1993 - Gurgi's Munchies and Crunchies fast-food facility in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World closes.
- 1993 - Lumiere's Kitchen restaurant opens in Fantasyland in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World.
- 1996 - The GM Preview Center opens in Future World at Epcot at Walt Disney World.
- 1996 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Crimson Tide for an Oscar Award in the category Achievement in Film Editing.
- 1996 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Crimson Tide for an Oscar Award in the category Achievement in Sound.
- 1996 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Crimson Tide for an Oscar Award in the category Achievement in Sound Effects Editing.
- 1996 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Unstrung Heroes for an Oscar Award in the category Achievement in Music (Original Musical or Comedy Score).
- 1996 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates Richard Dreyfuss for his role in the film Mr. Holland's Opus for an Oscar Award in the category Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role.
- 1996 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Nixon for an Oscar Award in the category Achievement in Music (Original Dramatic Score).
- 1996 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates Anthony Hopkins for his role in the film Nixon for an Oscar Award in the category Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role.
- 1996 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates Joan Allen for her role in the film Nixon for an Oscar Award in the category Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role.
- 1996 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Nixon for an Oscar Award in the category Achievement in Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen).
- 1996 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Roommates for an Oscar Award in the category Achievement in Makeup.
- 1996 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Pocahontas for an Oscar Award in the category Achievement in Music (Original Musical or Comedy Score).
- 1996 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the song "Colors of the Wind" from the film Pocahontas for an Oscar Award in the category Achievement in Music (Original Song).
- 1996 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Toy Story for an Oscar Award in the category Achievement in Music (Original Musical or Comedy Score).
- 1996 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Toy Story for an Oscar Award in the category Achievement in Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen).
- 1996 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the song "You've Got a Friend" from the film Toy Story for an Oscar Award in the category Achievement in Music (Original Song).
- 1996 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Runaway Brain for an Oscar Award in the category Best Short Film (Animated).
- 2004 - Disney shares rise 16 percent, Comcast shares drop 12 percent, dropping the proposed value of the deal to US$48 billion.
- 2009 - Buena Vista releases the Touchstone Pictures / Jerry Bruckheimer Films movie Confessions of a Shopaholic to theaters in the USA.
- 2009 - The Aaron Stone TV show debuts on Disney XD.
- 2015 - The Disney Channel Original Movie Bad Hair Day airs.
- 1956 - Chevrolet issues a price list to dealers for the 1956 Corvette. The dual carburetor option is mandatory, as the single carburetor 210-hp engine is not yet available.
- 1940 - German General Alfred Jodl records in his diary that due to the loss of plans, Adolf Hitler changed the main invasion point farther south, in the direction of Sedan, to capture a large group of Allies in Belgium.
- 1942 - (dawn) German battle cruiser Scharnhorst arrives at Kiel, Germany. Scharnhorst is out of action for 12 months.
- 1942 - German Admiral Erich Raeder proposes to Adolf Hitler that Germany's primary military tasks be the capture of Egypt and drive through to the Middle East, and for the army in Russia to capture Murmansk and seize oil wells in the Caucasus. War production should shift to submarines and planes to reduce the American flow of supplies to England.
- 1943 - (evening) 466 British Bombers attack German submarine bases at Lorient. In nine attacks since January 14, 2000 sorties have been flown against this one target.
- 1945 - (early morning) The US 8th Air Force in England cancels a scheduled assault on Dresden, Germany.
- 1945 - Soviet forces capture Budapest, Hungary. 110,000 prisoners are taken to Russia.
- 1945 - (about 2200 hours) 368 British bombers attack an oil plant at Böhlen, near Leipzig, Germany. This raid is intended to occupy Germany night-fighters from the main air assault on Dresden.
- 1945 - (about 2205 hours) The first wave of British bombers attack Dresden, Germany, dropping target markers (white flares and green target indicators) and incendiaries. This is the start of Operation Thunderclap, a directive of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, to destroy German cities.
- 1945 - (about 2210 hours) Nine British Mosquito bombers mark the stadium near the centre of Dresden with red target indicators.
- 1945 - (2215-2230 hours) The main British bombing force of 244 Lancasters arrive over Dresden, bombing the centre of the town with 881 tons of incendiaries and high explosives, starting a firestorm.
- 1995 - Marshall Islands issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Dresden, Germany.
- 1992 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show. A character refers to a yo-yo as "not much competition for a video game".
- 2000 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A home video game system is played, with game "Billy Graham's Bible Blaster".
- 2002 - Immersion files a lawsuit against Microsoft and Sony for patent infringement of joystick force-feedback technology in the Xbox and PlayStation 2 controllers.
- 2003 - Sega announces plans to merge with Sammy in Japan.
- 2003 - Capcom releases the Marvel vs. Capcom 2 video game for the Xbox in the US. Price is US$39.99.
- 2006 - At a White House ceremony in Washington D.C., US President George W. Bush awards Ralph Baer a National Medal of Technology for "groundbreaking and pioneering creation, development, and commercialisation of interactive videogames".
- 2008 - Microsoft Game Studios releases the Lost Odyssey video game for the Xbox 360 in the USA.
- 1631 - Demmin surrenders to the Swedish force.
- 1660 - King Karl X Gustav dies of a stroke in Göteborg.
- 1980 - (to February 24) The 13th Olympic Winter Games are held in Lake Placid, New York, USA. Sweden wins 3 gold and 1 bronze medals.
- 1988 - (to February 28) The 15th Olympic Winter Games are held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Sweden wins 4 gold and 2 bronze medals.
- 1807 - The US Senate passes the bill proposing coinage of 2-cent and 20-cent pieces.
- 1922 - The Philadelphia begins striking 200,000 Peace dollars using new low relief dies.
- 2008 - The US Mint launches the 2008 James Monroe Presidential dollar in Charlottesville, Virginia.
- 1912 - England regains cricket's Ashes.
- 1920 - US National Negro Baseball League is organized.
- 1937 - Donald Bradman scores 123 South Africa versus Queensland, 165 minutes, 10-4 1-6 in cricket.
- 1937 - Maribel Vinson wins her 9th US figure skating championship.
- 1937 - NFL Boston Redskins move to Washington DC.
- 1937 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee.
- 1940 - Donald Bradman scores 209 in 161 minutes for South Australia at the WACA.
- 1948 - Andy Ganteaume scores 112 for West Indies in only Test Cricket innings.
- 1948 - Ice Pairs Championship at Davos, Switzerland, won by Lannoy and Baugniet of Belgium.
- 1948 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos, Switzerland, won by Richard Button of USA.
- 1952 - Rocky Marciano defeats Lee Savold for his 39th straight win.
- 1953 - Philadelphia Athletics change name of Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium.
- 1954 - Frank Selvey scores 100 points (basketball) for Furman beating Newberry 149-95.
- 1955 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Saint Petersburg Golf Open.
- 1965 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming.
- 1965 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti.
- 1970 - National League offices begin move from Cincinnati to San Francisco (completed February 23).
- 1971 - Golfing US Vice President Spiro Agnew hits two tee shots into the crowd, injuring two.
- 1972 - XI Olympic Winter Games close at Sapporo, Japan.
- 1974 - James "Cool Papa" Bell is named to baseball's Hall of Fame.
- 1976 - Dorothy Hamill wins Olympics figure-skating gold, Innsbruck, Austria.
- 1977 - Eric Heiden is first American to win world speed skating championship.
- 1977 - Pam Higgins wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic.
- 1980 - New Zealand beats West Indies by one wicket in cricket at Dunedin.
- 1980 - (to February 24) The XIII Olympic Winter Games are held in Lake Placid, New York, USA.
- 1982 - New York Islanders' Bryan Trottier scores five goals against the Philadelphia Flyers.
- 1983 - Donna White wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic.
- 1983 - World Boxing Council becomes first to cut boxing from 15 to 12 rounds.
- 1983 - 33rd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 132-123 at Los Angeles, California.
- 1983 - Australia beats New Zealand 2-0 to win World Series Cup.
- 1987 - Detroit Tigers' pitcher Jack Morris awarded US$1.85 million salary by arbitrator, the highest arbitration award to date.
- 1988 - (to February 28) The XV Olympic Winter Games are held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
- 1988 - Christine Wachtel runs world record 800 metre indoor (1 minute 56.40 seconds).
- 1988 - Heike Dreschler long jumps world record indoor (7.37 metres).
- 1988 - Ronald Weigel runs unofficial world record speed walking (18 minutes 11.41 seconds).
- 1989 - Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to two years in prison.
- 1990 - Larry Bird (Boston Celtics) ends NBA free throw streak of 71 games.
- 1992 - West beats East 14 to 9 in Major Soccer League all star game.
- 1993 - Ljubow Kremljowa runs world record 1000 metre indoor (2:34.84).
- 1993 - Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 metre indoor (21.87 seconds).
- 1993 - Sergei Bubka pole vaults indoor record (6.14 metres).
- 1994 - 44th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 127-118 at Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- 1994 - Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.9m.
- 1994 - Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5000 metre 6 34,96.
- 1995 - West Indies beats New Zealand by innings and 332, Courtney Walsh 13-55.
- 2006 - Adam Dunn and the Cincinnati Reds agreed to a US$18.5 million two-year deal.
- 2022 - At American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, USA, NHL regular season game: Colorado Avalanche beats Dallas Stars by score 4-0.
- 2022 - At Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, USA, NHL regular season game: Pittsburgh Penguins beats New Jersey Devils by score 4-2.
- 2022 - At Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., USA, NHL regular season game: Ottawa Senators beats Washington Capitals by score 4-1.
- 2022 - At Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, NHL regular season game: Buffalo Sabres beats Montreal Canadiens by score 5-3.
- 1633 - Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun.
- 1678 - Tycho Brahe first sketches "Tychonic system" of solar system.
- 1997 - Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope is started by astronauts from Space Shuttle Discovery.
- 2004 - The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093.
- 2020 - NASA publishes a detailed study of Arrokoth, the most distant body ever explored by a spacecraft.
- 1979 - Intense windstorm strikes western Washington State and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
- 2004 - Athens, Greece, is hit by a major blizzard which blankets the entire city for days, causing widespread havoc.
- 1795 - First state university in US opens, University of North Carolina.
- 1799 - First US law regulating insurance passed, by Massachusetts.
- 1826 - American Temperance Society forms in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1837 - Riot in New York over high price of flour.
- 1861 - Abraham Lincoln is declared President of the US.
- 1861 - US Colonel Bernard Irwin attacks and defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians.
- 1861 - First military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor, Arizona.
- 1862 - Siege of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, CSA.
- 1864 - Meridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek and Wyatt, Mississippi.
- 1866 - Jesse James and his gang commit the first armed bank robbery (Liberty Missouri: US$15,000) in United States history during peacetime.
- 1875 - Birth of Kanouse quintuplets in Watertown, Wisconsin, USA; first quintuplets in US, born to Edna Kanouse.
- 1880 - Thomas Edison observes what is later called the Edison effect, leading to the first U.S. patent for an electronic device (U.S. Patent 307,031).
- 1899 - -16 degrees F (-27 degrees C) in Minden, Louisiana (state record).
- 1899 - -2 degrees F (-19 degrees C) in Tallahassee, Florida (state record).
- 1905 - -29 degrees F (-34 degrees C) in Pond, Arkansas (state record low).
- 1905 - -40 degrees F (-40 degrees C) in Lebanon, Kansas (state record low).
- 1905 - -40 degrees F (-40 degrees C) in Warsaw, Missouri (state record low).
- 1914 - American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers-ASCAP forms in New York City, New York.
- 1925 - US Congress makes Surpreme Court appeal more difficult.
- 1929 - US Cruiser Act authorizes construction of 19 new cruisers and an aircraft carrier.
- 1931 - Phil Tobin introduces Assembly Bill 98 in Nevada legislature to allow licensed gambling on a variety of games. Gambling table games would be licensed at $75 per month each, and slot machines a $12.50 per month each. Cheating would be outlawed, and minor forbidden in gambling houses.
- 1932 - Ogden L. Mills becomes US secretary of the Treasury.
- 1935 - First US surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, in Cleveland, Ohio.
- 1935 - Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap and murder of Lindbergh's infant.
- 1943 - US Women's Marine Corps created.
- 1946 - The first general-purpose electronic computer, ENIAC is announced to the public in the USA. The 30-ton computer is eighty feet long, eight feet high, and consists of 18,000 vacuum tubes, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, and 1500 relays, to provide twenty words of memory. It is programmed by 6000 dials and switches. ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. The project was initiated in 1943, to improve calculations of artillery shell trajectories. It was built at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Engineering in Philadelphia. It cost about US$400,000 to build.
- 1957 - Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans, Louisiana.
- 1968 - US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam.
- 1972 - 1776 closes at 46th Steet Theater in New York City after 1,217 performances.
- 1973 - US dollar devalued by 10 percent.
- 1978 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1979 - Intense windstorm strikes western Washington State and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
- 1980 - Apollo Computer is incorporated.
- 1981 - Rupert Murdoch buys The Times and The Sunday Times for £12 million.
- 1983 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims 1983 "The Year of the Bible".
- 1984 - Six-year-old Texan Stormie Jones gets first heart and liver transplant.
- 1990 - Drexel Burnham Lambert investment bank files for bankruptcy.
- 1990 - US, France, and England give consent to German reunification.
- 1997 - The Washington Post reports that U.S. Justice Department investigators found evidence the Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC may have coordinated financial contributions to the Democratic party in violation of U.S. law.
- 1997 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 7,000 for the first time, gaining 60.81 to 7,022.44.
- 2000 - The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Charles Schulz.
- 2003 - A small airplane crashes in southern Colombia. FARC guerillas kill one American and a Colombian army sergeant, and take three Americans hostage. FARC claims they are CIA agents; the US government claims they are defense contractors.
- 2004 - The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093.
- 2008 - US President George Bush signs a law for individual tax rebates and temporary investment incentives worth US$168 billion.
- 2009 - The U.S. House of Representatives approves (246-183) a US$787 billion package of spending (64 percent) and tax cuts (36 percent).
- 2009 - The U.S. House of Congress approves (60-38) the US$787 billion government spending package.
- 2010 - Over 15,000 American, British and Afghan troops launch the biggest offensive in Afghanistan since the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001.
- 2021 - (to February 17) A major winter storm kills at least 136 people and causes over 9.9 million power outages in the U.S.
- 2021 - The US Senate acquits President Donald Trump of inciting an insurrection on January 6.
Other history:
- 2000 - The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Charles Schulz.
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