On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
Portrait 1080 × 1920 PNG · created on your device
A $4 billion federal program is extending high-speed Internet access to rural areas. But it is not always going where it is most needed.
Relationship Science is compiling a new computer database for the heavy hitters of business that lists a person’s associates, their political affiliations, their charity work and more.
It will be four years on Tuesday since the last fatal crash in the United States, a record unmatched since propeller planes gave way to the jet.
The plot of the Japanese television series “Made in Japan” underscores the hopes the country has pinned on technologies like lithium-ion batteries.
The company’s ambitious oil exploration program in the Arctic has been hindered by delays for the last seven years.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 6, 2013, covering February 12, 2013.
Gary Allan
The Lumineers
Soundtrack
Various Artists
Kidz Bop Kids
2013Sattam bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (born 1941)[†]
Sattam bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was a Saudi royal and politician who served as the governor of Riyadh Province from November 2011 until his death in February 2013. Before that he was the deputy governor of the province.
2013Reginald Turnill, English journalist and author (born 1915)[†]
Reginald George Turnill was the BBC's aviation correspondent for twenty years during the beginnings of crewed space exploration and the early jet age in aviation, including the breakthrough in supersonic passenger flight represented by Concorde. He covered NASA's space missions and all the Apollo program Moon missions for the BBC. Turnill's connection with the BBC, as a freelance, continued for some years after his official retirement.
2013Hennadiy Udovenko, Ukrainian politician and diplomat, 2nd Minister of Foreign Affairs for Ukraine (born 1931)[†]
Hennadiy Yosypovych Udovenko was a Ukrainian politician and diplomat. He served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, was the 52nd President of the United Nations General Assembly (1997–1998) and a People's Deputy of Ukraine (1998–2007). He was from Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. He studied international relations at Kyiv University, having graduated in 1954. He also did graduate studies in agricultural economics at the Ukrainian Research and the Development Institute for Agricultural Economy and Organization from 1956 to 1959.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]