Born on 13 February 1957

At A Glance

13 February 1957 at a glance

Day of the week

13 February 1957 was a Wednesday.

UK Number One

The UK Number One single was “The Garden of Eden” by Frankie Vaughan.

Top Film of 1957

The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1957 was The Bridge on the River Kwai.

Star sign

The star sign for 13 February is Aquarius.

Chinese zodiac

In the Chinese zodiac, 13 February 1957 fell in the Year of the Rooster.

Birthstone

The birthstone for February is Amethyst.

Moon phase

The moon phase on 13 February 1957 was Waxing Gibbous.

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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