On This Very Day
February 13th
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- 1258
Fall of Baghdad to the Mongols, destruction of Abbasid Caliphate, end of Islamic Golden Age.
- 1861
Abraham Lincoln declared President of the United States in Washington, D.C.
- 1970
Man-eating tiger kills 48 near New Delhi. View Post →
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- 2019
NASA's Mars Opportunity rover mission ends after 15 years due to a damaging sandstorm.
- 2021
Archaeologists find the oldest known beer factory in Abydos, Egypt, from early Dynastic period.
- 2000
Final 'Peanuts' comic strip published posthumously following Charles M. Schulz's death.
- 1633
Galileo arrives in Rome to face heresy charges.
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