02-13-2006, 07:49 AM
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Location: Maryland
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February 13th
1866 ~ Jesse James robbed his first bank.
1883 ~ Death of Richard Wagner, Composer.
1923 ~ Birthday of Chuck Yeager, pilot of first supersonic flight.
1935 ~ A jury in Flemington, New Jersey 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.
1988 ~ Winter Olympic Games opened in Calgary, Alberta.
1990 ~ An agreement was reached for a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
1997 ~ Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope performed by astronauts from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
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