📜 This Day in History
February 13
1660The four-year-old Charles XI became King of Sweden upon his father's death.- 1867Work began on the covering of the Senne, burying the polluted main river of Brussels to allow for urban renewal in the centre of the city.
- 1960African-American college students staged the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee, as part of a nonviolent direct-action campaign to end racial segregation in the U.S.
- 1987Federal agents began to issue indictments against county-level supervisors in Mississippi after Operation Pretense exposed massive corruption in the state's local governments.
- 2010A terrorist bombing at a bakery popular among foreigners in Pune, India, killed 17 people and injured 60 others.
- 2017Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was assassinated using VX nerve agent in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
