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.)
1866 - The gang that included Jesse James and Cole Younger committed their first bank robbery in Liberty, Missouri.
1867 - Considered the world's most famous waltz, Johann Strauss's "Blue Danube" waltz premiered in Vienna.
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 nuclear weapon.
1965 - During the Vietnam War, President Lyndon B. Johnson authorized Operation Rolling Thunder, an extended bombing campaign against the North Vietnamese.
1972 - “Cabaret,” directed by Bob Fosse, based on John Kander and Fred Ebb’s musical of the same name, starring Liza Minnelli and Michael York, was released.
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.
2000 - Charles Schulz’s final “Peanuts” strip ran in Sunday newspapers, the day after the cartoonist died in his sleep at his California home at age 77.
2002 - John Walker Lindh pleaded not guilty in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, 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. He was released in September 2019 after serving 17 years of that sentence.)
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.
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 - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the influential 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 at age 79.
2018 - President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, said he had paid $130,000 out of his own pocket to a porn actress who claimed to have had a sexual relationship with Trump.
Birthdays
21 - Sophia Lillis (actress)
26 - Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. (son of Michael Jackson)
34 - Katie Volding (actress)
44 - Mena Suvari (actress)
44 - Natalie Stewart (singer)
47 - Feist (singer)
48 - Tony Dalton (actor)
49 - Robbie Williams (singer)
55 - Kelly Hu (actress)
57 - Freedom Williams (singer)
57 - Neal McDonough (actor)
62 - Henry Rollins (singer)
63 - Matt Salinger (actor)
72 - David Naughton (actor)
73 - Peter Gabriel (singer)
76 - Mike Krzyzewski (basketball coach)
79 - Jerry Springer (talk show host)
79 - Stockard Channing (actress)
82 - Bo Svenson (actor)
90 - 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.
1953 - The Philadelphia Athletics changed the name of Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium. The change was in honor of their longtime owner and manager.
1965 - Sixteen-year-old Peggy Fleming won the ladies senior figure skating title at Lake Placid, NY.
1982 - Bryan Trottier (New York Islanders) scored five goals against the Philadelphia Flyers.
1983 - The World Boxing Council (WBC) became the first major boxing organization to cut matches from 15 to 12 rounds.
1990 - Bryan Trottier (New York Islanders) scored his 500th career goal in the NHL.
2002 - The French judge was accused of throwing the pairs figure skating decision 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 - Pitcher Roger Clemens denied having taken performance-enhancing drugs in testimony before Congress.
2022 - The Los Angeles Rams defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 to win Super Bowl LVI.
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.)
1866 - The gang that included Jesse James and Cole Younger committed their first bank robbery in Liberty, Missouri.
1867 - Considered the world's most famous waltz, Johann Strauss's "Blue Danube" waltz premiered in Vienna.
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 nuclear weapon.
1965 - During the Vietnam War, President Lyndon B. Johnson authorized Operation Rolling Thunder, an extended bombing campaign against the North Vietnamese.
1972 - “Cabaret,” directed by Bob Fosse, based on John Kander and Fred Ebb’s musical of the same name, starring Liza Minnelli and Michael York, was released.
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.
2000 - Charles Schulz’s final “Peanuts” strip ran in Sunday newspapers, the day after the cartoonist died in his sleep at his California home at age 77.
2002 - John Walker Lindh pleaded not guilty in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, 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. He was released in September 2019 after serving 17 years of that sentence.)
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.
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 - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the influential 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 at age 79.
2018 - President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, said he had paid $130,000 out of his own pocket to a porn actress who claimed to have had a sexual relationship with Trump.
Birthdays
21 - Sophia Lillis (actress)
26 - Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. (son of Michael Jackson)
34 - Katie Volding (actress)
44 - Mena Suvari (actress)
44 - Natalie Stewart (singer)
47 - Feist (singer)
48 - Tony Dalton (actor)
49 - Robbie Williams (singer)
55 - Kelly Hu (actress)
57 - Freedom Williams (singer)
57 - Neal McDonough (actor)
62 - Henry Rollins (singer)
63 - Matt Salinger (actor)
72 - David Naughton (actor)
73 - Peter Gabriel (singer)
76 - Mike Krzyzewski (basketball coach)
79 - Jerry Springer (talk show host)
79 - Stockard Channing (actress)
82 - Bo Svenson (actor)
90 - 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.
1953 - The Philadelphia Athletics changed the name of Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium. The change was in honor of their longtime owner and manager.
1965 - Sixteen-year-old Peggy Fleming won the ladies senior figure skating title at Lake Placid, NY.
1982 - Bryan Trottier (New York Islanders) scored five goals against the Philadelphia Flyers.
1983 - The World Boxing Council (WBC) became the first major boxing organization to cut matches from 15 to 12 rounds.
1990 - Bryan Trottier (New York Islanders) scored his 500th career goal in the NHL.
2002 - The French judge was accused of throwing the pairs figure skating decision 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 - Pitcher Roger Clemens denied having taken performance-enhancing drugs in testimony before Congress.
2022 - The Los Angeles Rams defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 to win Super Bowl LVI.
