Galilei Arrives for Trial
1633 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for trial before the Inquisition for professing the belief that Earth revolves around the Sun
Jesse James's First Bank Robbery
1866 Jesse James robs his first bank, stealing $15,000 from the Clay County Savings Association in Liberty, Missouri
- 1895 Moving picture projector patented
Mara Hari Arrested
1917 Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari is arrested in Paris on suspicion that she is a German spy
Music History
1996 British boy band Take That officially announce that they are disbanding, prompting UK government to set up counselling phone lines
- 1996 Rock musical "Rent" by Jonathan Larson opens off-Broadway
- 1997 Space shuttle Discovery captures the Hubble Space Telescope in its cargo bay
Event of Interest
2000 The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies
- 2004 The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093
- 2009 Unix time passes 1,234,567,890 seconds at exactly 23:31:30 (UTC) on February 13, 2009
- 2020 Scientists overturn current thought about how planets form, suggesting they form not by violent collision but through gentle clumping, based on a study of Arrokoth in the Kuiper Belt, published in "Science"
- 2021 Archaeologists announce the discovery of the oldest known beer factory in Abydos, Egypt, from the early Dynastic period, 3150 B.C. to 2613 B.C.
- 2025 A humpback whale is filmed briefly swallowing a man on a kayak off Chilean Patagonia, before releasing him unharmed [1]
