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Events

1503 - Disfida di Barletta – famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
1542 - Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
1575 - Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims.
1575 - Henry III of France marries Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont.
1633 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
1668 - Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.
1689 - William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
1692 - Massacre of Glencoe: About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
1815 - The Cambridge Union Society is founded.
1880 - 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.
1881 - The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.
1894 - Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.
1899 - Tallahassee, Florida records its coldest temperature of -2 degrees Fahrenheit.
1914 - Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
1920 - The Negro National League is formed.
1934 - The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean.
1935 - A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
1945 - World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
1945 - World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
1955 - Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
1960 - Nuclear weapons testing: France tests its first atomic bomb.
1970 - Black Sabbath, arguably the very first heavy metal album, is released.
1971 - Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
1974 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
1975 - A fire breaks out in the World Trade Center in New York City, New York.
1978 - Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
1979 - An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
1981 - A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
1982 - Río Negro massacres in Guatemala
1984 - Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1990 - German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
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.
2000 - The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
2001 - An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
2004 - The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
2007 - Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
2008 - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
2009 - Unix time passed 1,234,567,890 seconds February 13, 2009 at exactly 23:31:30 (UTC).

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2026

1 JanuaryDay of the Establishment of the Slovak Republic (Deň vzniku Slovenskej republiky)
6 JanuaryEpiphany (Święto Trzech Króli oraz Święto Bożego Narodzenia chrześcijan prawosławnych)
3 AprilGood Friday (Veľkonočný piatok)
6 AprilEaster Monday (Veľkonočný pondelok)
1 MayLabour Day (Sviatok práce)
8 MayVictory Day (Deň víťazstva nad fašizmom)
5 JulySaints Cyril and Methodius Day (Sviatok svätého Cyrila a Metoda)
29 AugustSlovak National Uprising anniversary (Výročie Slovenského národného povstania)
1 SeptemberConstitution Day (Deň Ústavy Slovenskej republiky)
15 SeptemberOur Lady of Sorrows (Sviatok Panny Márie Sedembolestnej, patrónky Slovenska)
1 NovemberAll Saints (Sviatok všetkých svätých)
17 NovemberStruggle for Freedom and Democracy Day (Deň boja za slobodu a demokraciu)
24 DecemberChristmas Eve (Štedrý deň)
25 DecemberChristmas (Prvý sviatok vianočný)
26 DecemberBoxing Day (Druhý sviatok vianočný)
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Official languages: Slovak
Government: Parliamentary republic
Currency: Euro (EUR)
Population: 5 455 000
Area: 49 035 km²
Religion: Catholicism (68,9 %), Lutheranism (6,93%), Orthodox Church (5,2%), Calvinism (1,9 %)
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