February 13 is the 44th day of the year.
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National Tortellini Day
National “Italian Food” Day
The fifth wife of England’s King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard, was executed February 13, 1542.
They married on 28 July 1540 at Oatlands Palace in Surrey, just 19 days after the annulment of his marriage to Anne. He was 49, and she was still a teenager, at about 17 years old.
Catherine was stripped of her title as queen in November 1541. She was beheaded three months later on the grounds of treason for committing adultery with her distant cousin, Thomas Culpeper.
**Henry was married to Catherine of Aragon from 1509 to 1533; Anne Boleyn from 1533-1536; Jane Seymour from 1536-1537; Anne of Cleves for six months in 1540; Catherine Howard from 1540-1542; and Catherine Parr from 1543 until Henry’s death in 1547.** See the Wives of Henry VIII.
1566 St. Augustine, Florida founded. It is now the oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement and port in the continental United States.
Anniversary of the establishment of the Boston Latin School, oldest public school in America with a continuous existence since 1635
Publication of Federalist Paper #55: The Total Number of the House of Representatives written by James Madison in 1788. How many Representatives should there be? Madison argues there is no numeric formula for fixing the ratio of representatives to population because the density of population among the States differs widely. Too few members of the House was inadvisable because of the power granted to that body. Congress has the power to regulate the size of the House of Representatives, and the size of the House has varied through the years due to the admission of new states and reapportionment following a census. The House of Representatives began with sixty-five members and now, consists of 435 members. In 1911, Congress passed The Apportionment Act of 1911, also known as Public Law 62–5, which says that the United States House of Representatives can have no more than 435 members.
Birthday of Elizabeth “Bess” Truman (February 13, 1885), wife of Harry S. Truman; First Lady 1945-1953.
1935 – A jury in Flemington, New Jersey found Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh. On April 3, 1936, Hauptmann was executed in “Old Smokey”, the electric chair at the New Jersey State Prison.
1961 – An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock was discovered near Olancha, California, US. It appeared to anachronistically encase a spark plug. Known as the Coso artifact, Chad Windham, President of the Spark Plug Collectors of America, identified it as a 1920s-era Champion spark plug. Credible evidence for it being 500,000 years old was and is completely lacking.