February 13: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1633 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
2. 1668 - Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.
3. 1880 - Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
4. 1914 - Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
5. 1955 - Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
6. 1960 - Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
7. 1967 - American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
8. 1990 - German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
9. 2000 - The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
10. 2012 - The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
11. Famous Birthdays: étienne François Geoffroy (French chemist), John Hunter (Scottish surgeon), Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (German mathematician), Grant Wood (American painter), William Shockley (English-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)

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