February 13
1542 - Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of King Henry VIII of England, was beheaded for adultery.
1633 - Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition, accused of defending Copernican theory that the Earth revolved around the sun instead of the other way around. (Galileo was found vehemently suspect of heresy and ended up being sentenced to a form of house arrest.)
1635 - The Boston Public Latin School, the first public school in what is now the United States, was founded.
1866 - The gang that included Jesse James and Cole Younger committed their first bank robbery in Liberty, Missouri.
1867 - The world's most famous waltz, the "Blue Danube Waltz," premiered in Vienna.
1920 - The League of Nations recognized the perpetual neutrality of Switzerland.
1933 - The Warsaw Convention, governing airlines’ liability for international carriage of persons, luggage and goods, went into effect.
1935 - A jury in Flemington, New Jersey, found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-slaying of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. (Hauptmann was later executed.)
1939 - Justice Louis D. Brandeis retired from the U.S. Supreme Court. (He was succeeded by William O. Douglas.)
1960 - France detonated its first atomic bomb.
1965 - During the Vietnam War, President Lyndon B. Johnson authorized Operation Rolling Thunder, an extended bombing campaign against the North Vietnamese.
1984 - Konstantin Chernenko succeeded the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee.
1991 - During Operation Desert Storm, allied warplanes destroyed an underground shelter in Baghdad that had been identified as a military command center; Iraqi officials said 500 civilians were killed.
1997 - The Dow Jones industrial average broke through the 7,000 barrier for the first time, closing at 7,022.44.
2000 - Charles Schulz's final "Peanuts" comic strip ran in Sunday newspapers, the day after the cartoonist died at age 77.
2002 - John Walker Lindh pleaded not guilty in federal court in Alexandria, Va., to conspiring to kill Americans and supporting the Taliban and terrorist organizations. (Lindh later pleaded guilty to lesser offenses and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.)
2005 - Ray Charles won eight posthumous Grammy awards for his final album, "Genius Loves Company."
2011 - Egypt's military leaders dissolved parliament, suspended the constitution and promised elections in moves cautiously welcomed by protesters who'd helped topple President Hosni Mubarak.
2012 - Washington became the seventh state to legalize same-sex marriage.
2012 - President Barack Obama unveiled a record $3.8 trillion election-year budget plan, calling for stimulus-style spending on roads and schools and tax hikes on the wealthy to help pay the costs.
2013 - Beginning a long farewell to his flock, a weary Pope Benedict XVI celebrated his final public Mass as pontiff, presiding over Ash Wednesday services inside St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican.
2016 - Justice Antonin Scalia, the influential conservative and most provocative member of the U.S. Supreme Court, was found dead at a private residence in the Big Bend area of West Texas; he was 79.
2017 - President Donald Trump’s embattled national security adviser, Michael Flynn, resigned following reports he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other officials about his contacts with Russia.
2017 - Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, died after two women smeared a nerve agent on his face an airport terminal in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Murder charges against the women were eventually dropped, and they returned home to Vietnam and Indonesia; four North Koreans who fled Malaysia on the day after the killing were named as co-conspirators.)
2021 - Former President Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate at his second impeachment trial, the first to involve a former president, in which he was accused of inciting the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6; seven Republicans joined all 50 Democrats in voting to convict, but it was far from the two-thirds threshold required. Although he voted “not guilty,” Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell delivered a scalding denunciation of Trump in a speech from the Senate floor, calling the former president “morally responsible” for the attack on the Capitol.
Birthdays
25 - Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. (son of Michael Jackson)
33 - Katie Volding (acterss)
43 - Mena Suvari (actress)
43 - Natalie Stewart (singer)
47 - Katie Hopkins (reality star)
48 - Robbie Williams (singer)
54 - Kelly Hu (actress)
56 - Neal McDonough (actor)
61 - Henry Rollins (singer)
62 - Matt Salinger (actor)
71 - David Naughton (actor)
72 - Peter Gabriel (singer)
78 - Stockard Channing (actress)
78 - Jerry Springer (talk show host)
81 - Bo Svenson (actor)
89 - Kim Novak (actress)
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Today in Sports History - February 13
1920 - The National Negro Baseball League was organized.
1937 - The NFL's Boston Redskins moved to Washington.
1982 - Bryan Trottier (New York Islanders) scored five goals against the Philadelphia Flyers.
1983 - The World Boxing Council became the first to cut matches from 15 to 12 rounds.
2002 - The French judge was accused of throwing the pairs figure skating competition to the Russians at the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah.
2002 - Bill Simpson filed a defamation suit against NASCAR for blaming a seat belt made by Simpson Performance Products for the death of Dale Earnhardt a year before. Simpson said that all he wanted was an apology, but when NASCAR refused he filed the suit.
2008 - Seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens denied having taken performance-enhancing drugs in testimony before Congress.
1542 - Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of King Henry VIII of England, was beheaded for adultery.
1633 - Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition, accused of defending Copernican theory that the Earth revolved around the sun instead of the other way around. (Galileo was found vehemently suspect of heresy and ended up being sentenced to a form of house arrest.)
1635 - The Boston Public Latin School, the first public school in what is now the United States, was founded.
1866 - The gang that included Jesse James and Cole Younger committed their first bank robbery in Liberty, Missouri.
1867 - The world's most famous waltz, the "Blue Danube Waltz," premiered in Vienna.
1920 - The League of Nations recognized the perpetual neutrality of Switzerland.
1933 - The Warsaw Convention, governing airlines’ liability for international carriage of persons, luggage and goods, went into effect.
1935 - A jury in Flemington, New Jersey, found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-slaying of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. (Hauptmann was later executed.)
1939 - Justice Louis D. Brandeis retired from the U.S. Supreme Court. (He was succeeded by William O. Douglas.)
1960 - France detonated its first atomic bomb.
1965 - During the Vietnam War, President Lyndon B. Johnson authorized Operation Rolling Thunder, an extended bombing campaign against the North Vietnamese.
1984 - Konstantin Chernenko succeeded the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee.
1991 - During Operation Desert Storm, allied warplanes destroyed an underground shelter in Baghdad that had been identified as a military command center; Iraqi officials said 500 civilians were killed.
1997 - The Dow Jones industrial average broke through the 7,000 barrier for the first time, closing at 7,022.44.
2000 - Charles Schulz's final "Peanuts" comic strip ran in Sunday newspapers, the day after the cartoonist died at age 77.
2002 - John Walker Lindh pleaded not guilty in federal court in Alexandria, Va., to conspiring to kill Americans and supporting the Taliban and terrorist organizations. (Lindh later pleaded guilty to lesser offenses and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.)
2005 - Ray Charles won eight posthumous Grammy awards for his final album, "Genius Loves Company."
2011 - Egypt's military leaders dissolved parliament, suspended the constitution and promised elections in moves cautiously welcomed by protesters who'd helped topple President Hosni Mubarak.
2012 - Washington became the seventh state to legalize same-sex marriage.
2012 - President Barack Obama unveiled a record $3.8 trillion election-year budget plan, calling for stimulus-style spending on roads and schools and tax hikes on the wealthy to help pay the costs.
2013 - Beginning a long farewell to his flock, a weary Pope Benedict XVI celebrated his final public Mass as pontiff, presiding over Ash Wednesday services inside St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican.
2016 - Justice Antonin Scalia, the influential conservative and most provocative member of the U.S. Supreme Court, was found dead at a private residence in the Big Bend area of West Texas; he was 79.
2017 - President Donald Trump’s embattled national security adviser, Michael Flynn, resigned following reports he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other officials about his contacts with Russia.
2017 - Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, died after two women smeared a nerve agent on his face an airport terminal in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Murder charges against the women were eventually dropped, and they returned home to Vietnam and Indonesia; four North Koreans who fled Malaysia on the day after the killing were named as co-conspirators.)
2021 - Former President Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate at his second impeachment trial, the first to involve a former president, in which he was accused of inciting the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6; seven Republicans joined all 50 Democrats in voting to convict, but it was far from the two-thirds threshold required. Although he voted “not guilty,” Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell delivered a scalding denunciation of Trump in a speech from the Senate floor, calling the former president “morally responsible” for the attack on the Capitol.
Birthdays
25 - Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. (son of Michael Jackson)
33 - Katie Volding (acterss)
43 - Mena Suvari (actress)
43 - Natalie Stewart (singer)
47 - Katie Hopkins (reality star)
48 - Robbie Williams (singer)
54 - Kelly Hu (actress)
56 - Neal McDonough (actor)
61 - Henry Rollins (singer)
62 - Matt Salinger (actor)
71 - David Naughton (actor)
72 - Peter Gabriel (singer)
78 - Stockard Channing (actress)
78 - Jerry Springer (talk show host)
81 - Bo Svenson (actor)
89 - Kim Novak (actress)
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Today in Sports History - February 13
1920 - The National Negro Baseball League was organized.
1937 - The NFL's Boston Redskins moved to Washington.
1982 - Bryan Trottier (New York Islanders) scored five goals against the Philadelphia Flyers.
1983 - The World Boxing Council became the first to cut matches from 15 to 12 rounds.
2002 - The French judge was accused of throwing the pairs figure skating competition to the Russians at the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah.
2002 - Bill Simpson filed a defamation suit against NASCAR for blaming a seat belt made by Simpson Performance Products for the death of Dale Earnhardt a year before. Simpson said that all he wanted was an apology, but when NASCAR refused he filed the suit.
2008 - Seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens denied having taken performance-enhancing drugs in testimony before Congress.
