Born on 13 February 1953

At A Glance

13 February 1953 at a glance

Day of the week

13 February 1953 was a Friday.

Australian No. 1 (Kent retrospective)

“You Belong to Me” recorded by Jo Stafford and Dean Martin was No. 1 on David Kent's retrospective Australian chart. This chart was compiled later by David Kent from radio station charts.

Top Film of 1953

The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1953 was Peter Pan.

Star sign

The star sign for 13 February is Aquarius.

Chinese zodiac

In the Chinese zodiac, 13 February 1953 fell in the Year of the Dragon.

Birthstone

The birthstone for February is Amethyst.

Moon phase

The moon phase on 13 February 1953 was New Moon.

On this day: 13 February

• 1951 Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
• 1954 Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
• 1960 With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
• 1960 Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
• 1961 An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.

Famous people born on 13 February

• Stockard Channing, American actress (born 1944)
• Henry Rollins, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (born 1961)
• Peter Gabriel, English singer-songwriter and musician (born 1950)
• Robbie Williams, English singer-songwriter (born 1974)

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