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Events

• 962 (1064 years ago) Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor and Pope John XII co-sign the Diploma Ottonianum, recognising John as ruler of Rome.
• 1633 (393 years ago) Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
• 1820 (206 years ago) The Assassination of the Duke of Berry takes place in Paris. The Duke of Berry, nephew of Louis XVIII, is stabbed to death while attending the Paris Opera.
• 1955 (71 years ago) Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
• 1975 (51 years ago) Fire at One World Trade Center (North Tower) of the World Trade Center in New York.
• 2007 (19 years ago) Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
• 2021 (5 years ago) A major winter storm causes blackouts and kills at least 82 people in Texas and northern Mexico.
• 2021 (5 years ago) Former U.S. President Donald Trump is acquitted in his second impeachment trial.

Births

• 1599 (427 years ago) Pope Alexander VII,
• 1766 (260 years ago) Thomas Robert Malthus, English economist and scholar (died 1834)
• 1769 (257 years ago) Ivan Krylov, Russian author, poet, and playwright (died 1844)
• 1903 (123 years ago) Georges Simenon, Belgian-Swiss author (died 1989)
• 1910 (116 years ago) William Shockley, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989)
• 1933 (93 years ago) Paul Biya, Cameroon politician, 2nd President of Cameroon
• 1974 (52 years ago) Robbie Williams, English singer-songwriter
• 1979 (47 years ago) Anders Behring Breivik, Norwegian mass murderer

Deaths

• 858 (1168 years ago) Kenneth MacAlpin, Scottish king (probable; b. 810)
• 1130 (896 years ago) Honorius II, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1060)
• 1542 (484 years ago) Catherine Howard, Queen Consort of England and English wife of King Henry VIII (executed; b. 1521)
• 1571 (455 years ago) Benvenuto Cellini, Italian painter and sculptor (born 1500)
• 1660 (366 years ago) Charles X Gustav, king of Sweden (born 1622)
• 1787 (239 years ago) Roger Joseph Boscovich, Croatian physicist, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (born 1711)
• 1883 (143 years ago) Richard Wagner, German composer (born 1813)
• 2017 (9 years ago) Kim Jong-nam, North Korean politician (born 1971)

All 367 events, births and deaths of February 13