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02-13-2011, 09:12 PM
jseal
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February 13th
1883
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Death of Richard Wagner, Composer.
1923
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Birthday of
Chuck Yeager
, pilot of first supersonic flight.
1935
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A
jury found Bruno Hauptmann guilty
of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
1945
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The
RAF & USAAF created a firestorm in Dresden
, Germany which killed tens of thousands of civilians.
1960
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France tested its first nuclear weapon.
1974
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in literature, was exiled from the Soviet Union.
1988
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Winter Olympic Games opened in Calgary, Alberta.
1991
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Hundreds of Iraqi civilians were killed when a pair of laser-guided bombs destroyed an underground facility in Baghdad
identified by U.S. officials as a military installation, but which Iraqi officials said was a bomb shelter.
1997
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Tune-up and
repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope
performed by astronauts from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
2002
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Death of
Waylon Jennings
, American musician.
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