On This Day in History February 13, 2023

Historical Events 1258  Baghdad, then a city of 1 million, falls to the Mongols as the AbbasidCaliphate is destroyed, tens of thousands slaughtered, ending the Islamic Golden Age 1601  1st British East India Company voyage departs from London, lead by John Lancaster 1689  Parliament of England adopts the Bill of Rights which establishes the rights of parliament and places limits on the crown 1942  Hitler's Operation Sealion, the invasion of England, is cancelled 1945  Allied planes begin bombing Dresden, Germany; a firestorm results and over 22,000 die 1945  USSR captures Budapest, after a 49-day battle with Nazi Germany in which 159,000 die 1960  France becomes the 4th nuclear nation by exploding the 70 kilo-ton "Gerboise Bleue" atomic bomb in the French Algerian Sahara desert

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Cotton Mather 1663 - 1728 Richard Wagner 1813 - 1883

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February 13: Ancient Dresden Reduced to Rubble

The blanket bombing of Dresden in East Germany which began on this day, cost thousands of lives and remains highly controversial.

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