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Notable anniversaries in history for today: February 13
- 150th: 1874 - Birth of Hendrik Spiekman; Dutch politician (social-democratic).
- 100th: 1924 - King Tut's tomb is opened.
- 90th: 1934 - Austrian Engelbert Dollfuss government bans socialistic party.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of George Segal; actor/banjo player (Carbon Copy, Fun with Dick and Jane).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Jerry Springer in London, England; talk show host (Jerry Springer Show).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Sal Bando; baseball player (Oakland Athletics).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Stockard Channing in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Grease, The Big Bus, Without a Trace).
- 70th: 1954 - Frank Selvey scores 100 points (basketball) for Furman beating Newberry 149-95.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Evi Strasser in Bavaria, Germany; equestrian (Olympics-1996).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Anthony Mortas; hockey forward (Team France 1998).
- 50th: 1974 - Dissident Nobel Prize writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR.
- 50th: 1974 - James "Cool Papa" Bell is named to baseball's Hall of Fame.
- 40th: 1984 - Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 40th: 1984 - Six-year-old Texan Stormie Jones gets first heart and liver transplant.
- 40th: 1984 - Naomi Uemura, Japanese mountain climber, dies on Mount McKinley.
- 30th: 1994 - 44th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 127-118 at Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- 30th: 1994 - Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.9m.
- 30th: 1994 - Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5000 metre 6 34,96.
- 30th: 1994 - Ship disaster near Ranong, Thailand, kills 200.
- 20th: 2004 - Athens, Greece, is hit by a major blizzard which blankets the entire city for days, causing widespread havoc.
- 20th: 2004 - Scientists in South Korea announce the cloning of 30 human embryos.
- 20th: 2004 - The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093.
- 15th: 2009 - The U.S. House of Representatives approves (246-183) a US$787 billion package of spending (64 percent) and tax cuts (36 percent).
- 15th: 2009 - The U.S. House of Congress approves (60-38) the US$787 billion government spending package.
- 10th: 2014 - Belgium becomes the first country in the world to legalise euthanasia for terminally ill patients of any age.
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