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Today in History: Monday, February\u00a0 13, 2017<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\nOn Feb. 13, 1935, a jury in Flemington, N.J., found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-death of the infant son of aviator Charles Lindberg and his wife, Anne. (Hauptmann was later executed.)
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1542<\/td>\nThe fifth wife of England’s King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard, was executed for adultery.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1635<\/td>\nThe Boston Public Latin School, the first public school in what is now the United States, was founded.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1914<\/td>\nThe American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers was founded in New York City.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1920<\/td>\nThe League of Nations recognized the perpetual neutrality of Switzerland.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1945<\/td>\nAllied planes began bombing the German city of Dresden during World War II.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1960<\/td>\nFrance exploded its first atomic bomb.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1984<\/td>\nKonstantin Chernenko succeeded the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party’s Central Committee.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1991<\/td>\nDuring 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1997<\/td>\nThe Dow Jones industrial average broke through the 7,000 barrier for the first time, closing at 7,022.44.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000<\/td>\nCharles Schulz’s final “Peanuts” comic strip ran in Sunday newspapers, the day after the cartoonist died at age 77.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/td>\nJohn 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.).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\nRay Charles won eight posthumous Grammy awards for his final album, “Genius Loves Company.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008<\/td>\nSeven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens denied having taken performance-enhancing drugs in testimony before Congress.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/td>\nEgypt’s military leaders dissolved parliament, suspended the constitution and promised elections in moves cautiously welcomed by protesters who’d helped topple President Hosni Mubarak.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012<\/td>\nWashington became the seventh state to legalize same-sex marriage.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Duke men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski turns 70 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Chuck Yeager<\/td>\nTest pilot<\/td>\n94<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kim Novak<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n84<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
George Segal<\/td>\nActor<\/td>\n83<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bo Svenson<\/td>\nActor<\/td>\n76<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Peter Tork<\/td>\nSinger, musician (The Monkees)<\/td>\n75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stockard Channing<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n73<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jerry Springer<\/td>\nTalk show host<\/td>\n73<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bo Svenson<\/td>\nActor<\/td>\n73<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Richard Blumenthal<\/td>\nU.S. senator, D-Conn.<\/td>\n71<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Peter Gabriel<\/td>\nRock singer<\/td>\n67<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jay Nixon<\/td>\nGovernor of Missouri<\/td>\n61<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Henry Rollins<\/td>\nRock singer, actor<\/td>\n56<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Randy Moss<\/td>\nFootball player<\/td>\n40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Actress Mena Suvari turns 38 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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