Important Events From This day in History – 13th February

Today in History

• 2008 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologizes to Indigenous Australians for the “stolen generations”

  Until the 1960s, between 10% and 30% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were removed from their families.

• 2004 The universe’s largest known diamond is discovered

  BPM 37093 is a white dwarf star about 50 light-years from Earth and was nicknamed “Lucy” after The Beatles’ song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”.

• 2000 The last “Peanuts” comic strip is published

  The 17,897th and final installment were published in newspapers around the world on the day after its creator, Charles M. Schulz, died.

• 1991 Two “smart bombs” kill at least 408 civilians in Baghdad

  During “Operation Desert Storm,” the Amiriyah shelter bombing was one of the worst cases of civilian casualties.

• 1945 The German city of Dresden is destroyed by a bombing raid

  According to estimates, up to 25,000 people were killed in the raids that lasted 3 days.