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• ...that, as well as being used to clear snow, winter service vehicles (pictured) can be used to repair roads which have melted in hot weather?
• ...that Indian Test cricketer Murali Kartik was expelled from the first intake of the National Cricket Academy due to indiscipline?
• ...that 16th century Genevan reformer John Calvin held Bible studies in the Calvin Auditory?
• ...that the Brunswick Manifesto, issued during the French Revolution to intimidate Paris, backfired and spurred further revolutionary action?
• ...that archaeologist Francis Turville-Petre, discoverer of Neanderthal remains in Israel, was portrayed in works by authors W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood?
• ...that 17th century philosopher Cesare Cremonini refused to look at the Moon's mountains through Galileo's telescope, because Aristotle had proved the Moon was a perfect sphere?

• In the six-party talks, North Korea agrees to shut down the Yongbyon nuclear reactor in exchange for fuel aid and steps towards normalization of relations with the United States and Japan.
• American country music trio Dixie Chicks win five Grammy Awards.
• A court in Stuttgart rules that former Red Army Faction member Brigitte Mohnhaupt is to be paroled from prison almost 30 years after the German Autumn.
• Swede Anja Pärson (pictured) becomes the first alpine skier in history to have World Ski Championship gold medals in all five disciplines.
• Following two months of negotiations a coalition agreement is reached in the Netherlands.

February 13:

• 1689 - Glorious Revolution: Instead of James Francis Edward Stuart, the Prince of Wales, acceding to the throne, his daughter Mary (pictured) and her husband William were proclaimed co-rulers of England.
• 1880 - Thomas Edison observed the Edison Effect, which later formed the basis of John Ambrose Fleming's vacuum tube diodes.
• 1945 - The RAF Bomber Command began the strategic bombing of Dresden in Saxony, Germany, resulting in a lethal firestorm which killed tens of thousands of civilians.
• 1984 - Konstantin Chernenko succeeded the late Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• 2004 - Researchers at Harvard University discovered BPM 37093, the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star.

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