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February 3, 2013 (2013-02-03) (Sunday)
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February 4, 2013 (2013-02-04) (Monday)
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February 5, 2013 (2013-02-05) (Tuesday)
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February 6, 2013 (2013-02-06) (Wednesday)
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February 7, 2013 (2013-02-07) (Thursday)
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February 8, 2013 (2013-02-08) (Friday)
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- The cover of the latest edition of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables arouses controversy among readers as the orphan with the "very thick, decidedly red hair" and the "much freckled" face is transformed into a blonde, buxom farm girl with come-hither eyes. This follows the recent controversy over a new cover for Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar which portrays a young woman applying make-up. (The Guardian)
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- 2013 Bangladesh protests: In Bangladesh, over 100,000 people join in a mass movement to demand justice for atrocities committed during the Bangladesh Liberation War. (BBC)
- 2010–2013 Greek protests: As demonstrations, protests and rallies against the government decisions to close down or downgrade schools and hospitals continue, in Ierapetra, Crete, over 7,000 people, including students, stage a peaceful march, holding candles and torches, to protest the forthcoming closure of the one of two technical schools and the only hospital of the region. (Zougla.gr)
- In Tunisia, the funeral of the opposition politician Chokri Belaid takes place as over a million people gather in mourning amid major protests. A general strike is declared. Tunis Airport is closed and all flights suspended. (BBC)
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February 9, 2013 (2013-02-09) (Saturday)
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February 10, 2013 (2013-02-10) (Sunday)
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- 2013 Kumbh Mela stampede: A stampede of people at the Allahabad railway station, India, coming back from bathing in the Ganges River during the Kumbh Mela festival, kills 36 and injures 39 many others. (Reuters) (BBC) (CNN) (The Hindu)[permanent dead link] (Hindustan Times)
- 2013 Hattiesburg, Mississippi tornado: A tornado causes significant damage to the American town of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. (AP via Fox News)
- A lifeboat falls off of a cruise ship MS Thomson Majesty while it was docked in the port of Santa Cruz de La Palma in the Canary Islands, killing 5 people. (AP via CBS) (BBC) (The Guardian)
- Three crew members are killed when a Bell 206 helicopter crashes at the Polsa Rosa Movie Ranch in Acton, California, United States, while filming a documentary. (The New York Times) (CNN)
- Cruise ship Carnival Triumph suffers a fire in the aft engine room. The fire is automatically extinguished, but it results in a loss of power and propulsion. There are no casualties or injuries to passengers or crew. (ABC News) (USA Today)
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February 11, 2013 (2013-02-11) (Monday)
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February 12, 2013 (2013-02-12) (Tuesday)
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- 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, College Park. (Reuters) (The Baltimore Sun)
- At Manchester Crown Court Dale Cregan pleads guilty to the murders of Police officers Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone, but denies two other accounts of murder. (BBC)
- 2013 Southern California shootings: Christopher Dorner kills a sheriff's deputy and injures another in the Big Bear Lake, California, United States. He then barricades himself in a cabin, which catches on fire during a police assault. The suspect was killed in the fire. (AP via Huffington Post) (CNN)
- Three people are dead and 11 are wounded in a stabbing attack on the U.S. territory island of Guam. (CNN)
- Three people are killed in a drug-related shooting in a house in Midvale, Utah, United States. (CBS News)
- The UK government's back-to-work programme suffers a setback when judges at the Court of Appeal of England and Wales rule in favour of a university graduate's claim that unpaid schemes are legally flawed. (BBC)
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February 13, 2013 (2013-02-13) (Wednesday)
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February 14, 2013 (2013-02-14) (Thursday)
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- The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will switch off for two years, giving time for engineers and scientists to install upgrades to the machine. (BBC)
- Steam for Linux is released, beginning the expansion of Valve's game service onto the free and open-source platform. This leads to 2000 games being ported to the platform in a span of a little over 3 years.
February 15, 2013 (2013-02-15) (Friday)
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February 16, 2013 (2013-02-16) (Saturday)
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February 17, 2013 (2013-02-17) (Sunday)
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February 18, 2013 (2013-02-18) (Monday)
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February 19, 2013 (2013-02-19) (Tuesday)
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February 20, 2013 (2013-02-20) (Wednesday)
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- The jury sitting in the case of R v Huhne and Pryce fails to reach a verdict on Vicky Pryce regarding driving licence penalty points she accepted on behalf of her former husband, Chris Huhne, requiring a retrial. (BBC)
- A United States federal grand jury in Georgia indicts four employees of bankrupt Virginia-based Peanut Corporation of America for the 2009 salmonella outbreak that killed nine people and infected hundreds. The 75–count indictment describes contaminated or misbranded food by company owner Stewart Parnell, his brother and company vice president Michael Parnell, and two company managers. The charges are conspiracy, wire fraud, and obstruction of justice. This infection triggered the most extensive food recall ever in United States history. (FoxNews)
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February 21, 2013 (2013-02-21) (Thursday)
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- A car crash and shooting occurs at the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States. Three people are dead, and six others are wounded. (CNN) (AP)
- Three young girls are kidnapped, raped, and killed in the Bhandara district of India. (CNN)
- 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)
- Japan executes by hanging three convicted murderers, Kaoru Kobayashi, Masahiro Kanagawa and Keiki Muto. The number of death-row inmates in Japan now stands at 134. (Japan Today)
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February 22, 2013 (2013-02-22) (Friday)
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February 24, 2013 (2013-02-24) (Sunday)
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- 3: Cuba, Parliament
- 10: Monaco, Parliament
- 15: Trinidad and Tobago, President (indirect)
- 17: Cyprus, President (1st round)
- 17: Ecuador, General
- 18: Armenia, President
- 19: Grenada, General
- 21: Barbados, General
- 22: Djibouti, Parliament
- 24: Cyprus, President (2nd round)
- 24–25: Italy, General
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- Canada: Michael Rafferty
- Croatia: Ivo Sanader
- Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak
- Germany: Breno Borges
- Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir
- Netherlands: Ante Gotovina (ICTY), Mladen Markač (ICTY)
- Norway: Anders Behring Breivik
- Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Pussy Riot
- Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL)
- South Africa: Chris Mahlangu
- Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko
- United Kingdom: Levi Bellfield, Robert Black, Vincent Tabak, Ali Dizaei, Antoni Imiela, Brian Regan, Donna Air, Ched Evans, Clayton McDonald, Titus Bramble, Dan Penteado, John Terry, Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed, Asil Nadir, Justin Lee Collins, Kweku Adoboli, Tony McCluskie, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Chris Huhne, Nicola Edgington
- United States: Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Casey Anthony, Conrad Murray, George Huguely, Allen Stanford, Roger Clemens, Jerry Sandusky, Jared Lee Loughner
Ongoing
- Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
- China: Organized crime in Chongqing
- France: Church of Scientology
- Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
- Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
- Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY), Ratko Mladic (ICTY)
- Palau: Tommy Remengesau
- Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
- Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev
- Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan
- South Africa: Oscar Pistorius
- Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
- Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
- Turkey: Ergenekon network, Kenan Evren
- United Kingdom: Koo Stark, Vicky Price, Dale Cregan, Mick Philpott, Mairead Philpott, Paul Mosley, Derek Rose
- United States: Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout, Lauryn Hill
- Vatican: Vatileaks scandal
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