Daily Calendar for Thursday, February 13, 2025

Astronomer Tycho Brahe outlined his solar system structure– 1588
Jesse James robbed his first bank– 1866
Strauss’s Blue Danube premiered in Vienna– 1867
First well-documented occurrence of U.S. quintuplets born, Watertown, Wisconsin– 1875
Novocain (procaine) patented– 1906
The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) established– 1914
The first Barbie dolls went on sale– 1959
First women Royal Canadian Air Force pilots (Captains Nora Bottomley, Dee Brasseur, and Leah Mosher) graduated– 1981
Winter Olympics began, Calgary, Alberta– 1988
Second tune-up for the Hubble Space Telescope began– 1997
The last original Peanuts comic strip ran in newspapers– 2000
Former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II– 2002

Ice floes formed in the Gulf of Mexico– 1784
-2 degrees F, Tallahassee, Florida– 1899
A snowstorm that began late in the day eventually dropped 15 inches of snow on Boise, Idaho– 1949
-72 degrees F at Shepherd Bay, Nunavut– 1973