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Santo Domingo.- The ephemeris of the 13th of February, are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left their mark on world history.
- World Radio Day. It is one of the commemorations of February 13th since 2012 proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations.
- Singles' Day.
- World Cheater's Day or World Lover's Day. It is one of the commemorations of February 13th since 2015.
- Internet Friends Day. It is one of the commemorations of February 13th for several years, without a specific date.
- International Condom Day. It is one of the commemorations of February 13th since 2012.
- Qatar: National Sports Day.
- Northern Mariana Islands: Presidential Day.
Saint's Day: Saint Gosbert. Saints Maura and Juliana.
National: February 13th Anniversaries
- 1802. The governor of Santo Domingo, Paul Loverture, arranges a meeting to demonstrate that the Creoles are not hostile towards the Haitians, with the purpose of dissuading the military commander, Colonel Jean Phillippe Daut, from putting all Dominicans to the sword.
- 1832. A Haitian law prohibits the meeting of electoral assemblies in parish churches.
- 1846. President Pedro Santana orders the issuance of 300,000 pesos in paper money in denominations of one and two pesos, to circulate throughout the Dominican territory.
- 1867. Those accused of forming a revolutionary movement in Hato Mayor on January 20 are sentenced to death.
- 1868. The new government is installed, made up of generals José Hungría, Manuel Altagracia Cáceres, Francisco Antonio Gómez and José Ramón Luna, which lasts until May 2 of this same year.
- 1914. An airplane piloted by the American Frank Burnside lands for the first time in the national territory, in a seaplane, which arrives in the Ozama River.
- 1936. The official historian of the government, Américo Lugo, sends a letter to President Rafael Trujillo, thanking him for having commissioned him to write "a new History (past and present) of the Island of Santo Domingo".
- 1962. The authorities initiate a process against Major General Pedro Rafael Ramón Rodríguez Echavarría, former secretary of the Armed Forces, accused of being the author of the conspiracy to overthrow the legitimately constituted government of the Republic on January 16 of this year.
- 1963. The remains of Captain Alonso de Ojeda are stolen from the Ruins of San Francisco, without the person responsible appearing.
- 1965. The president and head of the Armed Forces, Donald Reid Cabral, through General Order # 16, of February 13, transfers Colonel PN, José de Jesús Morillo López, to the Center for Teaching of the Armed Forces (CEFA).
- 1970. The Vice President of the Republic, Francisco Augusto Lora, founds his own party, the Democratic Integration Movement (MIDA) to confront the re-election of President Joaquín Balaguer.
- 1973. A Norwegian-registered ship is attacked by a P-51 aircraft of the Dominican Air Force, as a preventive measure against the possible transport of weapons to members of the guerrilla group that arrived in the country at the beginning of the month, led by Colonel Caamaño Deño.
- 1975. Ediciones Vanguardia publishes the work "From Concord to Corruption", written by former President Juan Bosch.
- 2019. The general command of the Dominican Air Force considers that the security of the country is threatened by the actions of drug trafficking and crime, which is why it calls on its officers and enlisted personnel to prepare "to respond to these challenges, guaranteeing the good living and the security of the nation".
- 2020. Senator Félix Vásquez and the director of the Port Authority Marino Collante Gómez, are accused before the Attorney General's Office of the Dominican Republic by the opposition Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) which accuses them of threatening public officials or employees if they do not vote for the official candidates.
- -The Panamanian authorities announce the capture of the Dominican fugitive Gilberto Ventura Ceballos, who escaped from a maximum security prison in that country, where he was serving a 55-year prison sentence, 50 for homicide and kidnapping against five people of Asian origin and five for having escaped on December 28, 2016 from the La Joyita penitentiary center.
- 2021. The Public Ministry interrogates for more than four hours the director of the Shalon Unidos por Cristo church, Rossy Guzmán, in relation to her economic ties with Major General Adams Cáceres, in charge of the security of former President Danilo Medina.
- 2023. The Financial Crimes Unit of the Public Ministry arrests Jairo González, after being charged with incurring in a millionaire fraud, using maneuvers with cryptocurrencies and other mechanisms, in a raid carried out in a villa in the municipality of Jarabacoa, La Vega province.
International: February 13th Anniversaries
- 1352. In present-day Italy, the alliance between Venetians and Catalans prevails over the Genoese in their struggle for the Crown of Aragon.
- 1542. Henry VIII of England orders the execution of his fifth wife, Catherine Howard.
- - Gonzalo Pizarro and Francisco de Orellana discover the Amazon River, after an epic journey.
- 1655. In Peru, a powerful earthquake destroys a large part of Lima and its port, Callao.
- 1668. The so-called "Treaty of Lisbon" is signed, through which Spain recognizes the independence of Portugal.
- 1880. The law abolishing slavery in Cuba is promulgated.
- 1904. The Panamanian Constituent Assembly, chaired by Pablo Arosemena Alba, approves the first Constitution.
- 1928. Aviator Charles Lindberg undertakes an aerial journey through the three Americas.
- 1945. A massive aerial bombardment of the Allies against the German city of Dresden and Soviet Troops take Budapest after 49 days of combat in which 50,000 Germans died.
- 1959. Rómulo Betancourt assumes the presidency of the Republic of Venezuela, in the presence of the president of the National Congress, Raúl Leoni.
- 1960. France detonates its first atomic test bomb in the Algerian Sahara.
- 1961. In the Congo, the government of the secessionist province of Katanga falsely reports the death of former President Patrice Lumumba in an alleged attempt to escape from Elisabethville prison on February 10, triggering protest demonstrations around the world.
- 1971. In Chile, President Salvador Allende nationalizes the country's mining resources.
- 1974. Alexander Solzhenitsyn is expelled from the USSR.
- 1975. The 11th floor of the north tower of The World Trade Center suffers a fire caused by a guard who turned out to be a pyromaniac, whose flames spread to limited parts of six other floors.
- 1985. Israeli occupation troops of Lebanon begin the withdrawal from the Sidon area.
- 1976. Nigeria holds presidential elections, which put an end to 15 years of military governments. The triumph goes to Olusegun Obasanjo.
- 2000. The armies of Chile and Argentina recreate the extreme crossing of the Andes for nine days, redoing the harsh mountain crossing that O'Higgins and San Martín made in 1817 to achieve Independence.
- 2006. The Argentine justice decrees preventive prison for former General Jorge Rafael Videla and twelve high-ranking members of the military dictatorship.
- 2007. North Korea agrees to end its nuclear program in exchange for economic aid and fuel.
- 2008. In Australia, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd presents a formal apology to the descendants of the country's Aboriginal people, due to the systematic kidnapping of Aboriginal children carried out by the Australian Government between 1869 and 1976.
- 2013. Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reach an agreement in Tehran to resolve outstanding issues on the Iranian nuclear program.
- - The historic member of the Basque armed separatist organization ETA Antonio Troitiño is arrested in London, in response to a European arrest warrant issued by the Spanish authorities.
- 2014. Venezuelan intelligence is ordered to arrest opposition leader Leopoldo López, after President Nicolás Maduro described the incidents that left three dead during student protests as a "coup d'état".
- 2015. The Vatican receives for the first time in its bilateral relations with Iran a delegation composed only of women, headed by Vice President Shahindokht Molaverdi.
- 2013. A judge sends former Guatemalan President Álvaro Colom and seven former ministers of his Cabinet to preventive prison, including the president of Oxfam International, Juan Alberto Fuentes Knight, while two others, also arrested, were sent to health centers.
- 2018. The president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, takes the final step of his career after his party, the historic African National Congress (ANC), in the Government since the end of apartheid, has demanded his resignation through official channels.
- 2019. The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs warns that Iran will avenge the attack carried out hours earlier against the Revolutionary Guard, causing 27 deaths and 20 injuries, accusing "countries in the region" of supporting the terrorist group that perpetrated it.
- 2020. The US Senate approves a bill that prevents US President Donald Trump from taking any military action against Iran without first requesting permission from Congress.
- -The White House informs the US Congress of President Donald Trump's decision to divert $3.8 billion from the Pentagon for the construction of the border wall with Mexico.
- 2021. Although 57 senators (50 Democrats and 7 Republicans) vote in favor of condemning former President Donald Trump, he is acquitted for the second time of being subjected to an impeachment trial, as 10 votes are missing to reach the two-thirds required for the events of January 6 in the Capitol.
- -The US network CNN reports that the WHO mission that visited China believes that in December 2019, the coronavirus was more widespread than was thought in the province of Wuhan, where the pandemic began.
Births: February 13th Anniversaries
- 1457: Mary of Burgundy, Holy Roman Empress.
- 1812: Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American anthologist, editor, poet, and literary critic.
- 1855: Paul Deschanel, French politician, President of France.
- 1903: Alicia Balaguer Ricardo, third sister of former President Joaquín Balaguer Ricardo.
- 1910: William Bradford Shockley, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956.
- 1913: Khalid bin Abdulaziz, Saudi aristocrat, King of Saudi Arabia between 1975 and 1982.
- 1937: Rupiah Banda, Zambian politician, President of Zambia between 2008 and 2011.
- 1961: Henry Rollins, vocalist, musician, actor, DJ, comedian, American activist, from the bands Black Flag and Rollins Band.
- 1962: Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Puerto Rican politician, Governor of Puerto Rico between 2005 and 2009.
Deaths: February 13th Anniversaries
- 1591: Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva, Portuguese explorer and colonizer.
- 1820: Ángel Hubac, French mercenary who participated in the Argentine civil wars.
- 1939: Marcelo Adrián Obregón, Spanish military man and one of the Últimos de Filipinas.
- 1964: Virgilio Rodríguez Macal, Guatemalan journalist, novelist, and diplomat.
- 2000: Tomás Zarraonaindia, Spanish goalkeeper, brother of Telmo Zarra.
- 2003: Walter Whitman Rostow, American economist and politician.
- 2021: Franz Jalics, Hungarian-German priest, theologian, and writer.
