War · February 13, 1942

Channel Dash

Name: Channel Dash
Start: 1942-02-13
Location: English Channel

84 years ago · English Channel

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The Channel Dash (German: Unternehmen Zerberus, Operation Cerberus) was a German naval operation during the Second World War.

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1766–1834

Thomas Robert Malthus

Thomas Robert Malthus (13/14 February 1766 – 29 December 1834) was an English economist, Christian priest, and scholar influential in the fields of political economy and demography.

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1871–1913

Lesya Ukrainka

Lesya Ukrainka (Ukrainian: Леся Українка, romanized: Lesia Ukrainka, pronounced; born Larysa Petrivna Kosach, Ukrainian: Лариса Петрівна Косач; 25 February 1871 – 1 August 1913) was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays.

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LiteratureDied aged 42

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b. 1974

Robbie Williams

Robert Peter Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer and songwriter. He found fame as a member of the pop group Take That from 1990 to 1995, launching a solo career in 1996.

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1910–1989

William Shockley

William Bradford Shockley (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American physicist. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain.

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1925

Sheikh Said rebellion

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1945

Bombing of Dresden

In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 772 heavy bombers of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the German city of Dresden.

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1988

1988 Winter Olympics

The 1988 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XV Olympic Winter Games (French: XVes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Calgary 1988 were a multi-sport event held from February 13 to 28, 1988, with Calgary, Canada, as the main host city.

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1996

Nepalese Civil War

The Nepalese Civil War (1996–2006) was a protracted and countrywide armed conflict in the then Kingdom of Nepal between the Kingdom's rulers and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), with the latter making significant use of guerrilla warfare.

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