02-13-2005, 06:26 AM
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February 13th
1542 ~ Death of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII of England.
1866 ~ Jesse James robbed his first bank.
1883 ~ Death of Richard Wagner, German composer.
1923 ~ Birthday of Chuck Yeager, pilot of first supersonic flight.
1935 ~ A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
1945 ~ World War II: The Royal Air Force created a firestorm in Dresden, Germany which killed tens of thousands of civilians.
1974 ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, was exiled from the Soviet Union his book The Gulag Archipelago.
1978 ~ Hilton bombing: a bomb exploded in a garbage truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two garbage men and a policeman.
1990 ~ German reunification: An agreement is 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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