Celebrations and notable events that occurred on February 13, 2026.
Events that occurred on February 13 throughout history
The Lumiere brothers, Auguste and Charles-Antoine, patent their cinematograph. Their pioneering work led to the first public screening of a moving picture.
The first National Negro League forms organizing teams of Black professional baseball players into one organization for the first time. Andrew "Rube" Foster, the owner of the American Giants, led the movement to form a league.
The Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania demonstrated the first electronic digital computer. Named the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIC), it was created as part of a military project by John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert.
For the first time in 100 years, tribal members of the Umatilla of Oregon return to Montana and Yellowstone National Park to hunt and harvest bison. Harvesting bison restores traditions from the Walla Walla, Cayuse, and Umatilla tribes guaranteed in an 1855 treaty. February 13th Celebrated Birthdays