Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 13

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 * 1660 – The four-year-old Charles XI became King of Sweden upon his father's death.
 * 1692 – Members of Clan MacDonald of Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands were massacred, allegedly for failing to pledge allegiance to the new monarchs, William III and Mary II.
 * 1867 – Work began on the covering of the Senne (pictured), burying the polluted main river of Brussels to allow for urban renewal in the centre of the city.
 * 1945 – World War II: The Allies began a strategic bombing of Dresden, Germany, creating a lethal firestorm that killed tens of thousands of civilians.
 * 1960 – African-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.
 * 1970 – The English rock band Black Sabbath released their debut album, which is generally accepted as the first heavy metal album.
 * 1981 – Explosions caused by the ignition of hexane vapors destroyed more than 13 mi of sewer lines in Louisville, Kentucky.
 * 1991 – Gulf War: The United States Air Force dropped two laser-guided "smart bombs" on an air-raid shelter in Baghdad, Iraq, which was believed to be a military command site, killing at least 408 civilians.
 * 2010 – A terrorist bombing at a bakery popular among foreigners in Pune, India, killed 17 people and injured 60 others.
 * 2012 – The first Vega rocket was launched by the European Space Agency from the Guiana Space Centre.
 * Born/died: | Béla II of Hungary |d|1141| Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva |d|1591| Rufus Wilmot Griswold |b|1815| George Rogers Clark |d|1818|  Sarojini Naidu |b|1879| Provo Wallis |d|1892| Faiz Ahmad Faiz |b|1911|  Mami Kawada|b|1980| Waylon Jennings |d|2002| Antonin Scalia |d|2016