- Today is Saturday, Feb. 13, the 44nd day of 1999. There are 321
days left in the year.
- On this date in 1542, The fifth wife of England's King Henry
VIII, Catherine Howard, was executed for adultery.
- In 1633, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for
trial before the Inquisition for professing the belief that the
earth revolves around the sun.
- In 1635, the oldest public school in the United States, the Boston
Public Latin School, was founded.
- In 1866, Jesse James held up his first bank in Liberty, Mo.
- In 1867, Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube Waltz" was played for the
first time at a public concert in Vienna, Austria.
- In 1875, Edna Kanouse of Watertown, Wisc., gave birth to America's
first quintuplets on this day. All five of the baby boys died within
two weeks.
- In 1914, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers,
known as ASCAP, was founded in New York City.
- In 1920, the League of Nations recognized the perpetual neutrality
of Switzerland. Also, the National Negro Baseball League was
organized.
- In 1932, the release of "Free Eats" introduced George "Spanky"
McFarland to Hal Roach's "Our Gang" series.
- In 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 and Anne Lindbergh.
- In 1937, the NFL's Boston Redskins moved to Washington.
- In 1943, the Women's Marine Corps was created.
- In 1945, Allied planes staged a massive bombing raid on Dresden,
Germany, killing over 35,000 people.
- In 1961, Frank Sinatra, after spending many years signed to Capitol
Records, launched his own Reprise label under Warner Bros. Records.
- In 1972, the Broadway show "Grease" opened in New York City and went
on to become one of the longest-running shows in history.
- In 1996, the rock musical "Rent," by Jonathan Larson, opened
off-Broadway.
- One year ago, police in Pleasanton, Calif., said they were looking
for a man who had dropped photographs of his private parts in the
path of unsuspecting women.
*Happy Birthday*
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- Actress Stockard Channing is 55
- Musician Peter Gabriel is 49
- Actor David Naughton is 48, "An American Werewolf in London"
- Actress Kim Novak is 66
- Actor Oliver Reed is 61
- Musician Henry Rollins is 38
- Actor George Segal is 65, "Just Shoot Me"
- Talk show host Jerry Springer is 55
- Musician Peter Tork is 55, The Monkees
- Test pilot Gen. Chuck Yeager is 76, 1st to break sound barrier