Feb 13 2000 / Feb 13 2010

Wow lots today compared to back then.

13 February 2000 (2000-02-13) (Sunday) edit history watch

Final original Peanuts comic strip is published.

and this year

13 February 2010 (2010-02-13) (Saturday) edit history watch

Cyclone Rene approaches Manu'a at full force winds of 150 kilometres an hour. (Radio New Zealand International) 9 killed, more than 45 injured in suspected terrorist attack in western Indian city of Pune. BBC news (The Times of India) (The Hindu) (The Times) Burma releases vice-chairman of the National League for Democracy (NLD), Tin Oo at the age of 82, after he has spent more than a decade in prison or under house arrest. (BBC) Jabez Bryce, the longest-serving bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion and first Pacific Islander to become an Anglican bishop, dies in Suva at the age of 75. (Radio New Zealand International) (Fiji Times) The Côte d'Ivoire government is dissolved with President Laurent Gbagbo saying on state television that the peace process has broken down. (Al Jazeera) (The Sydney Morning Herald) (Reuters) 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver: The men's downhill skiing is postponed due to "slushy conditions", with the women's super-combined event having already been postponed. (BBC) (Sky Sports) The luge event goes ahead following the untimely death of Nodar Kumaritashvili. (BBC) (The Times) (ABC) Year of the Tiger: China prepares to celebrate its most important holiday with tens of millions of people travelling and fireworks anticipated. (The Daily Telegraph) Wen Jiabao delivers his New Year message in state newspapers. (Reuters) Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki demands eight senior officials to resign due to corruption scandals in the education ministry and a maize scandal. (BBC) NATO forces in Afghanistan launch Operation Moshtarak against the Taliban-controlled village of Marja in Helmand Province. (The New York Times) At least 10 people are electrocuted to death when a power cable collapses onto a bus in Port Harcourt. (BBC) Three people die and others are seriously injured after a Danish bus en route from Berlin to Munich hits a barrier and flips over on the Bundesautobahn 9 near Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt. The Autobahn is closed in both directions. (The Local) (IOL) (RTÉ) The letters of J. D. Salinger reveal new details about how the author became reclusive and reluctant to engage with the "big shitty world". (The Times)