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