Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 13
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- 1689 - Glorious Revolution: Instead of James Francis Edward Stuart, the Prince of Wales, acceding to the throne, his daughter Mary (pictured) and her husband William were proclaimed co-rulers of England.
- 1880 - Thomas Edison observed the Edison Effect, which later formed the basis of John Ambrose Fleming's vacuum tube diodes.
- 1945 - The RAF Bomber Command began the strategic bombing of Dresden in Saxony, Germany, resulting in a lethal firestorm which killed tens of thousands of civilians.
- 1984 - Konstantin Chernenko succeeded the late Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 2004 - Researchers at Harvard University discovered white dwarf star BPM 37093, the universe's largest known diamond.
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