02-13-2014, 09:22 AM
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February 13th
1883 ~ Death of Richard Wagner, Composer.
1923 ~ Birthday of Chuck Yeager, pilot of first supersonic flight.
1935 ~ A jury found Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
1945 ~ The RAF & USAAF created a firestorm in Dresden, Germany which killed tens of thousands of civilians.
1960 ~ France tested its first nuclear weapon.
1974 ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in literature, was exiled from the Soviet Union.
1997 ~ Birthday of Jayden Jaymes, Porn Actress.
1988 ~ Winter Olympic Games opened in Calgary, Alberta.
1991 ~ Hundreds of Iraqi civilians were killed when a pair of laser-guided bombs destroyed an underground facility in Baghdad identified by U.S. officials as a military installation, but which Iraqi officials said was a bomb shelter.
2002 ~ Death of Waylon Jennings, American musician.
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