This Day in History for Monday, February 13, 2012
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Events
Events: 1633: Galileo was detained by the Italian Inquisition in Rome.
Events: 1635: The oldest public school in the United States, the Boston Public Latin School, was founded.
Events: 1689: Following the Glorious Revolution in Britain, Mary II, the daughter of the deposed king, James II, and William III prince of Orange, her husband, were proclaimed joint sovereigns.
Events: 1741: amp;quot;The American Magazine" was published in Philadelphia, and became the first U.S. magazine, beating Benjamin Franklin's "General Magazine" off the presses by three days.
Events: 1795: The first U.S. state university opened, the University of North Carolina.
Events: 1914: The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) was founded.
Events: 1920: The League of Nations recognized the perpetual neutrality of Switzerland.
Events: 1935: Bruno Richard Hauptmann was found guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-death of the infant son of Charles Lindbergh and his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh; Hauptmann was later executed.
Events: 1945: Allied planes began the controversial and devastating bombing the German city of Dresden.
Events: 1974: Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the USSR.
Events: 2000: The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
Holidays
-- Feast day of St. Catherine dei Ricci, St. Stephen of Rieti, St. Ermenilda or Ermengild, St. Martinian the Hermit, St. Polyeuctes of Melitene, St. Licinus or Lesin, and St. Modomnoc.
-- Florida: Fiesta de Menendez (founder of St. Augustine).
Births
-- Georgios Papandreou, three-time Greek prime minister.
-- Grant Wood, American painter.
-- William Shockley, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose work led to the miniaturization of radio, TV, and computer circuits.
-- Charles "Chuck" Yeager, American test pilot, the first man to break the sound barrier.
-- Peter Gabriel, English musician.
-- Princess Alia bint Al Hussein, Jordanian Royal Family member.
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