page_title: 2013
section_title: February
hierarchical_section_title: 2013 / Events / February
caption_attribution_description: English: Witness photo of 2013 Russian meteor event made from Chelyabimsk Drama Theatre
context_page_description: 2013 was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar. It was the first year since 1987 to have all four of its digits being different numbers.
context_section_description: February 1 - A suicide bomber in Turkey blows up the United States Embassy in Ankara. One guard is killed.
  February 1 - Hillary Clinton's term as United States Secretary of State ends and nominee John Kerry was sworn in.
  February 4 - Human remains found under a car park in Leicester, England, are announced to have been those of King Richard III of England.
  February 4 - The hostage crisis in Alabama ended after James Lee Dykes is shot dead. The five-year-old boy survived.
  February 7 - Winter Storm Nemo hits the northwestern part of the United States and parts of Canada. The snow reached about 30 inches and was the largest snow storm in some states. The storm ended on February 10.
  February 9 - A massive earthquake of 6.9 hits border cities between Colombia and Ecuador. No one is killed.
  February 10 - Final of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations football competition in South Africa, which is won 1-0 by the Nigeria national football team over the Burkina Faso national football team. This is Nigeria's third African title, after 1980 and 1994.
  February 11 - Pope Benedict XVI announces that he would resign from being the Pope because of ill health and age. He leaves as pope on February 28. He is the first pope to resign since 1415.
  February 12 - North Korea announces that it has carried out an underground nuclear test, at a depth of around a kilometer, despite criticism from many countries around the world.
  February 15 - An meteor hits in Chelyabinsk, Russia. 1,200 people are injured due to shattered glass. The meteor was about 49 feet long.
  February 15 - Asteroid 2012 DA14, with an estimated diameter of 50 meters, flies to within 27,700 kilometers of Earth.
  February 16 - A bomb attack in Quetta, Pakistan, kills over 80 people.
  February 21 - Over 50 people are killed in a bombing in Damascus, Syria.
  February 24/25 - Parliamentary election in Italy.
  February 25 - Park Geunhye officially becomes the first female President of South Korea.
  February 28 - Pope Benedict XVI officially resigns as Pope, as the first Pope to resign in almost 600 years.
caption: The meteor over Chelyabinsk
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