What Day of the Week

February 13, 2019 was the 44^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 321 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is miércoles.

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Here’s the February calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Aquarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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• 1575

  Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims, marrying Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont on the same day.
• 1633

  Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
• 1867

  Work begins on the covering of the Zenne, burying Brussels’s primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
• 1880

  Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
• 1934

  The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean.
• 1960

  With the success of a nuclear test codenamed “Gerboise Bleue”, France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
• 1964

  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dragon in Chinese astrology.
• 1979

  An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
• 1991

  Gulf War: Two laser-guided “smart bombs” destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.
• 2011

  For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, were able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.

• 1883

  Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Russian-Armenian director (d. 1922)
• 1900

  Roy Harrod, English economist (d. 1978)
• 1939

  Beate Klarsfeld, German Nazi hunter
• 1959

  Gord Hampson, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1963

  Thomas Miller, German footballer
• 1975

  Tony Dalton, Mexican (American born) actor and screenwriter
• 1979

  Mena Suvari, American actress
• 1981

  Liam Miller, Irish footballer
• 1981

  Matías Agüero, Argentine-born Italian rugby player
• 1985

  Matthieu Franke, French-born German rugby player

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