Daily Calendar for Thursday, February 13, 2025
Born
- Bess Truman (U.S. First Lady) β
- Chuck Yeager (American test pilot
) β
- George Segal (actor) β
- Peter Tork (musician, member of The Monkees) β
- Peter Gabriel (musician) β
- Robbie Williams (singer) β
- Kristy Powell (Olympic gymnast) β
Died
- Lily Pons (soprano) β
- Pauline Trigere (fashion designer) β
- Waylon Jennings (singer) β
- Ralph Waite (actor; best known as John Walton on The Waltons) β
Events
- Astronomer Tycho Brahe outlined his solar system structureβ
- Jesse James robbed his first bankβ
- Strauss’s Blue Danube premiered in Viennaβ
- First well-documented occurrence of U.S. quintuplets born, Watertown, Wisconsinβ
- Novocain (procaine) patentedβ
- The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) establishedβ
- The first Barbie dolls went on saleβ
- First women Royal Canadian Air Force pilots (Captains Nora Bottomley, Dee Brasseur, and Leah Mosher) graduatedβ
- Winter Olympics began, Calgary, Albertaβ
- Second tune-up for the Hubble Space Telescope beganβ
- The last original Peanuts comic strip ran in newspapersβ
- Former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth IIβ
Weather
- Ice floes formed in the Gulf of Mexicoβ
- -2 degrees F, Tallahassee, Floridaβ
- A snowstorm that began late in the day eventually dropped 15 inches of snow on Boise, Idahoβ
- -72 degrees F at Shepherd Bay, Nunavutβ
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