February 1, 2013, Release of Stand Up Guys
February 1, 2013, Release of Warm Bodies
February 1, 2013,
February 1, 2013, Release of Warm Bodies
February 1, 2013, Release of Bullet to the Head
February 1, 2013, Release of The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia
February 1, 2013, Release of Sound City
February 1, 2013,
February 1, 2013, 2013 United States embassy bombing in Ankara: A suicide bombing outside the U.S. embassy in the Turkish capital, Ankara, kills at least two people. (BBC)
February 1, 2013, The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 14,000 points for the first time since 2007 as investors welcomed strong economic data from the United States. (CNN)
February 2, 2013, Former United States Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and another man are killed at a shooting range near Glen Rose, Somervell County, Texas. (The New York Times)
February 3, 2013, In American football, the Baltimore Ravens defeat the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII 34–31 after a delay in the game's second half caused by a power outage. (BBC)
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February 4, 2013,
February 4, 2013, Exhumation of Richard III of England: The University of Leicester holds a media conference to announce that a skeleton found in Leicester last year during an archaelogical dig is that of former King Richard III of England. (BBC)
February 4, 2013, The President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces his desire of becoming the first Iranian astronaut after the successful launching and returning of a monkey sent by its national scientific space program. (Al Jazeera)
February 4, 2013,
February 4, 2013,
February 5, 2013, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad travels to Egypt. It is the first time since 1979 revolution that an Iranian head of state visits that country. (The Guardian)
February 5, 2013,
February 5, 2013,
February 5, 2013,
February 5, 2013,
February 5, 2013,
February 5, 2013,
February 5, 2013,
February 6, 2013,
February 6, 2013,
February 6, 2013,
February 6, 2013, A tsunami warning is issued for a wide range of islands in the South Pacific after an 8.0 magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of the Solomon Islands. (AFP via News Limited)
February 6, 2013, Liberty Global acquires Virgin Media for $23 billion. (Reuters)
February 6, 2013, The United States Postal Service announces that it will no longer deliver first-class mail on Saturdays as of August 5. (CNN)
February 6, 2013, Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom fine The Royal Bank of Scotland more than $US610 million for its role in manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate or Libor. (AAP via News Limited)
February 6, 2013, U.S. President Barack Obama nominates CEO of REI Sally Jewell to be the next Secretary of the Interior. (CNN)
February 7, 2013,
February 7, 2013, Christopher Jordan Dorner, an ex-police officer, is named a suspect wanted in connection with shootings that occurred throughout Southern California in the past week. In those shootings, three people died, including a police officer and an assistant women's basketball coach at California State University, Fullerton, and several others were wounded. (Los Angeles Times)
February 7, 2013, Eugène Delacroix's famous painting Liberty Leading the People is vandalized while on display at the new Louvre-Lens museum in France. (Le Nouvel Observateur)
February 8, 2013, Release of Side Effects
February 8, 2013, Release of Identity Theft
February 8, 2013, Release of A Glimpse Into the Mind of Charles Sawn III
February 8, 2013,
February 8, 2013, A massive blizzard is forecast to hit the northeastern United States with almost 3,000 flights cancelled. (CNN)
February 8, 2013,
February 8, 2013, The entitled TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard film documentary about the trial for Internet piracy of the popular torrent website The Pirate Bay is released online. (TheVerge)
February 9, 2013, The death toll from a massive blizzard across the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada rises to at least 15, with 40 inches of snow reported from Hamden, Connecticut. More than 900,000 customers lost power at the height of the storm, while airports in the region cancelled over 5,300 flights. (Reuters)
February 9, 2013,
February 9, 2013, UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Owen Paterson holds a summit with British retailers and the Food Standards Agency to ask how "beef" products containing horse meat were sold in supermarkets. (BBC)
February 10, 2013, Authorities say that there will be a reward for providing information that will lead to the capture of Christopher Dorner. (Los Angeles Times)
February 10, 2013, A lifeboat falls off of a cruise ship while it was docked at port on the Canary Islands killing 5. (CBS)
February 10, 2013,
February 10, 2013, The 2013 Grammy Awards are held in the American city of Los Angeles. (Sydney Morning Hearld)
-Mumford & Sons win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for Babel. (Sydney Morning Herald)
February 10, 2013, A large parade in London celebrates the Chinese New Year. (BBC)
February 10, 2013, The 66th British Academy Film Awards are held in London with Argo winning best film, Ben Affleck winning best director and Daniel Day-Lewis and Emmanuelle Riva winning best actor and actress. (Sky News Australia)
February 10, 2013, A tornado causes significant damage to the American town of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. (AP via Fox News)
February 11, 2013, Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation, effective from 20:00 on 27
February 2013. He will become the first pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1416. (BBC News)
February 11, 2013, A gunman kills two women and injures two police officers in a New Castle County, Delaware, United States courthouse shooting. He is later found dead at the scene. (USA Today)
February 12, 2013, 2013 North Korean nuclear test: The South Korean Yonhap news agency reports that an "artificial earthquake" has occurred in North Korea suggesting that a nuclear test has occurred. (The Australian)
-North Korea confirms that it has successfully tested a miniaturized nuclear device. (AP via Miami Herald)
February 12, 2013, An assailant believed to be Christopher Jordan Dorner kills a sheriff's deputy and injures another in the Big Bear Lake, California area. He then barricades himself in a cabin, which catches on fire during a police assault. The suspect was believed to have died in the fire, however, the next day, LAPD officials in a news conference state that until conclusive tests on the remains are complete, they will not comment officially on his identity, though a driver's license believed to be his has been found nearby. (AOL- Huffington Post)
February 12, 2013,
February 12, 2013,
February 12, 2013,
February 12, 2013,
February 12, 2013,
February 12, 2013,
February 12, 2013, Two people are dead, including the perpetrator and one of his two victims, in a murder-suicide, in a home in College Park, Maryland, United States. The three were student roommates at the University of Maryland at College Park. (Chicago Tribune)
February 12, 2013, IOC drops Wrestling from 2020 Summer Olympics. (BBC)
February 13, 2013,
February 13, 2013,
February 13, 2013,
February 13, 2013,
February 13, 2013, Apple Inc. is denied their request to sell their phones under the name "iPhone" in Brazil after regulators voted in favor of IGB Electronica who won the rights to use the name in 2008. (Bloomberg)
February 13, 2013,The International Atomic Energy Agency begins a new round of talks with Iran over their nuclear program. (New York Times)
February 13, 2013, The European Union urges member states to conduct random tests to tackle the horse meat contamination scandal. Simon Coveney, Ireland's Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, says that the scandal is a "Europe-wide issue that needs a Europe-wide solution." (BBC)
February 13, 2013, International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge is meeting with the head of wrestling's governing body in an attempt to revive the sport for the 2020 Summer Olympics. (AP via ABC)
February 14, 2013, Release of A Good Day to Die Hard
February 14, 2013, Release of Beautiful Creatures
February 14, 2013, Release of Safe Haven
February 14, 2013, Release of Murder 3
February 14, 2013,
February 14, 2013, US Airways and the bankrupt American Airlines announce a merger to form the world's largest air carrier trading as American Airlines. (The Washington Post)
February 14, 2013, 2013 meat adulteration scandal:German authorities find horse meat in lasagne sold in Germany, as in Italy further tests will be conducted soon. (BBC)
February 14, 2013, Oscar Pistorius, a South African sprint runner who competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics, is charged with the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, who was shot dead at Pistorius's home in Pretoria. (BBC)
February 14, 2013, The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will switch off for two years, giving time for engineers and scientists to install upgrades to the machine. (BBC)
February 15, 2013, Release of Escape From Planet Earth
February 15, 2013,
February 15, 2013,
February 15, 2013, 2013 Russian meteor event: A meteor broke up in the vicinity of the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia, more than 1,200 people are injured, 2 of them seriously, from the shattering of windows caused by the shockwaves and the debris. (BBC)
February 15, 2013, Near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 with an estimated diameter of about 50 meters (160 ft) comes within 27,700 km from the Earth's surface. This distance is a record close approach for a known object of such size. (Huffington Post)
February 15, 2013, 2013 North Korean nuclear test: In reaction to North Korea's latest nuclear test the European Union will tighten sanctions against the country in the form of blocking the trade of gold and diamonds, as well as cracking down on financial ties between them. (NDTV)
February 15, 2013,The British catering firm Compass Group, and hotel chain Whitbread both identify horse meat in products sold as beef. (BBC)
February 16, 2013,
February 16, 2013,
February 16, 2013, Two firefighters are killed and two others are injured extinguishing an inferno at a Knights of Columbus fraternal lodge in Bryan, Texas, United States. (Los Angeles Times)
February 17, 2013, In motorsport, Danica Patrick becomes the first woman to win pole position at the Daytona 500 and the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. (AP via ESPN)
February 17, 2013, American country music singer Mindy McCready dies as the result of a suspected suicide at the age of 37. (E! Online)
February 18, 2013,
February 18, 2013,
February 18, 2013, 2013 Belgium diamond heist: Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million during a raid at Brussels Airport in Belgium. (BBC)
February 19, 2013,
February 19, 2013,
February 19, 2013, North Korea threatens the "final destruction" of South Korea during a United Nations conference on disarmament. (BBC)
February 19, 2013, A one-man carjacking and shooting spree in Orange County, California, United States, results in the death of 4 people including the alleged gunman. (KTLA)
February 19, 2013, NASA loses direct contact with the International Space Station due to an equipment failure. Communications are restored three hours later. (Space.com)
February 20, 2013,
February 20, 2013,
February 20, 2013,Sony announces their eighth generation console, the PlayStation 4. (IGN)
February 20, 2013, NASA reports the discovery of Kepler-37b, the smallest exoplanet yet known. (NASA)
February 21, 2013, A car crash and shooting occurs at the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Three people are dead, and six others are wounded. (CNN)
February 21, 2013, Retired police sergeant Drew Peterson, whose fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, disappeared in 2007, is sentenced by the US state of Illinois to 38 years incarceration for the 2004 murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio. (AP)
February 21, 2013, A study finds that bumblebees can sense electric fields around flowers. (Science News)
February 22, 2013, Release of Dark Skies
February 22, 2013, Release of Snitch
February 22, 2013, For the first time ever, Moody's Investors Service downgrades the United Kingdom's bond credit rating from AAA to AA1. (The Wall Street Journal)
February 22, 2013, The United States Justice Department joins a lawsuit against Lance Armstrong for allegedly defrauding the United States Postal Service by using money from it to buy performance enhancing drugs. (The Washington Post)
February 22, 2013, Paralympian Oscar Pistorius is released on 1 million rand bail, pending trial for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp. (Reuters)
February 23, 2013, Space tourist Dennis Tito founds Inspiration Mars Foundation and announces plans for a privately funded manned trip to Mars in 2018. (The Space Reporter)
February 23, 2013,
February 23, 2013,
February 23, 2013, Iran announces that it has discovered new uranium deposits and that it is planning to build 16 new nuclear power plants. (Haaretz)
February 23, 2013, Six tanks at Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the U.S. state of Washington are leaking radioactive waste, but the leak has not posed an immediate public health risk. (AP via CBC News)
February 24, 2013, The 85th Academy Awards are held at the Dolby Theatre in the Los Angeles district of Hollywood. (CNN)
-Argo wins the Academy Award for Best Picture. (BBC)
-Ang Lee wins the Academy Award for Best Director for Life of Pi. (AP)
-Daniel Day-Lewis wins his third Academy Award for Best Actor for Lincoln. (Reuters)
-Jennifer Lawrence wins the Academy Award for Best Actress for Silver Linings Playbook. (AFP via The Australian)
February 24, 2013, In stock car racing, Jimmie Johnson wins the 2013 Daytona 500. Pole winner Danica Patrick finishes eighth, marking the highest ever finish by a woman. (USA Today)
February 24, 2013,
February 24, 2013,A new study finds that chimpanzees will solve puzzles for the fun of it. (The Telegraph)
February 25, 2013, Park Geun-hye is sworn in as the first female President of South Korea in the capital Seoul. (Radio Australia)
February 25, 2013,
February 25, 2013, A 6.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Tokyo, Japan, with no injuries reported. (Voice of America)
February 25, 2013, 2013 meat adulteration scandal: Ikea withdraws Swedish meatballs from sale in 14 countries after tests in the Czech Republic revealed traces of horse meat. (BBC)
February 25, 2013, Cardinal Keith O'Brien resigns as the Archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh due to allegations of inappropriate sexual behaviour towards priests in the 1980s. (BBC)
February 25, 2013, Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launches Indo-French satellite SARAL using PSLV rocket from the spaceport in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, India. (Zee News)
February 25, 2013, British explorer Ranulph Fiennes abandons The Coldest Journey expedition, his attempt to cross Antarctica in the heart of the region's winter due to a case of frostbite. (BBC)
February 26, 2013, Representatives of six major world powers – China, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Russia and the United States – meet with Iranian officials to discuss the nation's nuclear program. (JTA)
February 26, 2013, 2013 Luxor hot air balloon crash: A hot air balloon crashes near the Egyptian town of Luxor near dawn killing 19 Asian and European tourists. (BBC)
February 26, 2013,
February 26, 2013,
February 26, 2013, Chuck Hagel is confirmed as the United States Secretary of Defense. (New York Times)
February 26, 2013, United States researchers announce a flexible battery that can be charged wirelessly and will continue to work when folded, twisted, or stretched. (UPI)
February 27, 2013, Inspiration Mars Foundation: First space tourist Dennis Tito announces a plan to send a married couple on the first manned mission to Mars in January 2018 on a round-trip journey lasting 501 days. (Popular Mechanics)
February 27, 2013,
February 27, 2013, Pope Benedict XVI gives his farewell address at the Vatican City. (ABC News)
February 27, 2013, Archbishop of Glasgow Philip Tartaglia is appointed apostolic administrator of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh following Monday's resignation of Cardinal Keith O'Brien. (BBC)
February 28, 2013, Pope Benedict XVI completes his last day of work before he starts his retirement. (BBC)
February 28, 2013,
February 28, 2013,
February 28, 2013,
February 28, 2013, United States v. Bradley Manning: Bradley Manning pleads guilty to 10 counts out of 22 against him for leaking classifed material in the WikiLeaks case. (BBC)
February 28, 2013, A temporary third radiation belt is discovered around planet Earth by NASA's twin Van Allen Probes. (Space.com)
February 28, 2013, A Duke research scientist announces that he has successfully connected the brains of two rats in such a way that they share information. (The New York Times)
February 28, 2013, Sacramento, California mayor Kevin Johnson announces that a local investor will head a group that will seek to buy the NBA's Sacramento Kings, and a second investor will finance a new downtown arena, in an attempt to stop the team's proposed move to Seattle. (AP/ESPN)
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