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| February 13th, 2008 | Event | Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and The Stolen Generations. |
| February 13th, 2007 | Event | Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election. |
| February 13th, 2004 | Event | The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the universe s largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. |
| February 13th, 2001 | Event | An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400. |
| February 13th, 2000 | Event | The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies. |
| February 13th, 1997 | Event | The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 7,000 for the first time closing at 7,022.44. |
| February 13th, 1991 | Event | Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy a bunker in Baghdadied in The bunker was being used as a military communications outpost and unknown to allied forces, as a shelter for Iraqi civilians. |
| February 13th, 1990 | Event | German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany. |
| February 13th, 1984 | Event | Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
| February 13th, 1981 | Event | A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky. |
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