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February 21, 2013

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Headlines from February 21, 2013

A Treasure on Every Table

By Guy Trebay

About 50,000 mineral hunters from around the world descend on southern Arizona looking to buy or sell anything from hulking geodes to a gumball-size Tsavorite.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 20, 2013, covering February 21, 2013.

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    Album cover for All That Echoes by Josh Groban

    All That Echoes

    Josh Groban

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    Album cover for Two Lanes Of Freedom by Tim McGraw

    Two Lanes Of Freedom

    Tim McGraw

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    Album cover for NOW 45 by Various Artists

    NOW 45

    Various Artists

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    Album cover for Babel by Mumford & Sons

    Babel

    Mumford & Sons

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    Album cover for Passione by Andrea Bocelli

    Passione

    Andrea Bocelli

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Notable Deaths

Hasse Jeppson

2013Hasse Jeppson, Swedish footballer (born 1925)[†]

Hans Olof "Hasse" Jeppson was a Swedish professional footballer who played as a striker. He was known for his impressive goals to games ratio at several clubs, and represented Kungsbacka IF) Örgryte, Djurgården, Charlton Athletic, Atalanta, Napoli and Torino during a career that spanned between 1946 and 1957. A full international between 1949 and 1950, he won 12 caps and scored nine goals for the Sweden national team and helped them to a third-place finish at the 1950 FIFA World Cup.

Historical Events

2013 Hyderabad blasts

2013At least 17 people are killed and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad.[†]

On 21 February 2013, at around 19:00 IST, two blasts occurred in the city of Hyderabad, India. The bombs exploded in Dilsukhnagar, a crowded shopping area, within 100 metres (330 ft) of each other. The first explosion occurred outside a roadside eatery named A1 Mirchi, next to the Anand Tiffin Centre and opposite the Konark movie hall, followed by the second one two minutes later near the Route 107 bus stand close to the Venkatadri theatre. In December 2016, Yasin Bhatkal - the co-founder of Indian Mujahideen, Pakistani national Zia-ur-Rahman, Asadullah Akhtar, Tahaseen Akhtar, and Ajaz Shaikh were sentenced to death by a National Investigation Agency special court for carrying out the attacks under the Arms Act, Explosive Substances Act and Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act. In 2025, the Telangana High Court also upheld their death sentence.

Historical Context for February 21, 2013

In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]