1258 Baghdad, then a city of 1 million, falls to the Mongols as the abbasid Caliphate is destroyed, tens of thousands slaughtered, ending the Islamic Golden Age
1601 1st British East India Company voyage departs from London, lead by John Lancaster
1951 At the Battle of Chipyong-ni, in Korea, U.N. troops contain the Chinese forces' offensive in a two-day battle
1942 Hitler's Operation Sealion, the invasion of England, is cancelled
1945 Allied planes begin bombing Dresden, Germany; a firestorm results and over 22,000 die
1945 USSR captures Budapest, after a 49-day battle with Nazi Germany in which 159,000 die
1979 On 13 February 1979, Captain Robert Laurence Nairac was posthumously awarded the George Cross. W
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