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• ...that, of the 2.6 million hectares of cultivated land in Peru, approximately 1.7 million hectares have an irrigation infrastructure (example pictured) but only 1.2 million hectares are actually irrigated?
• ...that the French wine region of Châteauneuf-du-Pape has a wine law banning the overhead flying, landing or taking off of flying saucers?
• ...that before he became involved in the Ituri conflict, alleged war criminal Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui was a nurse?
• ...that the Great Phenol Plot of 1915 was to divert phenol from U.S. explosives production to prop up German Bayer's aspirin business?
• ...that rubrics were originally anything written in red letters in a manuscript, but now most often mean instructions, especially for officiating clergy, or scoring tools for tests in education?
• ...that Wally Weber, football player, coach and broadcaster at Michigan for 45 years, was renowned for his "polysyllabic fluency" and sounding like an "an educated foghorn"?
  

• The Writers Guild of America ends a three-month strike after approving a new revenue-sharing agreement with media producers.
• Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issues a formal apology to the indigenous Stolen Generations on behalf of the Parliament of Australia.
• Namdaemun (pictured), the southern gate of the original walls surrounding Seoul during the Joseon Dynasty, is partially destroyed by fire.
• The 50th Annual Grammy Awards take place in Los Angeles, USA.
• President José Ramos-Horta of East Timor is wounded in an attack that leaves rebel leader Alfredo Reinhado dead.

February 13:

• 1689 – Glorious Revolution: Instead of James Francis Edward Stuart, the Prince of Wales, acceding to the throne, his half-sister Mary (pictured) and her husband William were proclaimed co-rulers of England.
• 1815 – The Cambridge Union Society, one of the oldest debating societies in the world, was founded at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.
• 1867 – Work began on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels' polluted main waterway to allow urban renewal in the centre of the city.
• 1880 – American inventor Thomas Edison observed the Edison Effect, which later formed the basis of vacuum tube diodes designed by English electrical engineer John Ambrose Fleming.
• 1945 – World War II: The Allies began the strategic bombing of Dresden in Dresden, Saxony, Germany, resulting in a lethal firestorm which killed tens of thousands of civilians.

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