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 Today's highlight in history:
On Feb. 13, 1861, Abraham Lincoln was officially declared winner of
the 1860 presidential election as electors cast their ballots.
On this date:
In 1542, the fifth wife of England's King Henry VIII, Catherine
Howard, was executed for adultery.
In 1741, Andrew Bradford of Pennsylvania published the first
American magazine. "The American Magazine, or A Monthly View of the
Political State of the British Colonies" lasted three issues.
In 1914, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers,
known as ASCAP, was founded in New York.
In 1920, the League of Nations recognized the perpetual neutrality
of Switzerland.
In 1935, a jury in Flemington, N.J. found Bruno Richard Hauptmann
guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-slaying of the son of
Charles and Anne Lindbergh. (Hauptmann was later executed.)
In 1945, during World War II, Allied planes began bombing the German
city of Dresden. The Soviets captured Budapest, Hungary, from the
Germans.
In 1960, France exploded its first atomic bomb in the Sahara Desert.
In 1961, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced that
three statues in its collection, supposedly Etruscan terra cotta
warriors, were, in fact, forgeries.
In 1972, the 11th Winter Olympics ended in Sapporo, Japan.
In 1980, the 13th Winter Olympics opened in Lake Placid, N.Y.
In 1988, the 15th Winter Olympics opened in Calgary, Alberta,
Canada.
In 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.
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Ten years ago: John 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.) Britain's Queen Elizabeth II made former New York City
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani an honorary knight. Country singer Waylon
Jennings died in Chandler, Ariz., at age 64.
Five years ago: Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney
officially entered the 2008 presidential race in Michigan, the place
of his birth. With Democrats in control, House members debated Iraq
in an emotional and historic faceoff over a war that Speaker Nancy
Pelosi condemned as a commitment with "no end in sight."
One year ago: 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. Lady Antebellum was the big winner at the Grammys
with five awards, including record and song of the year for the
band's yearning crossover ballad "Need You Now," but rockers Arcade
Fire won the biggest prize, album of the year, for their highly
acclaimed "The Suburbs."
Today's birthdays: Former test pilot Charles E. "Chuck"
Yeager is 89. Actress Kim Novak is 79. Actor George Segal is 78.
Actress Carol Lynley is 70. Singer-musician Peter Tork (The Monkees)
is 70. Actress Stockard Channing is 68. Talk show host Jerry
Springer is 68. Actor Bo Svenson is 68. Singer Peter Gabriel is 62.
Actor David Naughton is 61. Rock musician Peter Hook is 56. Actor
Matt Salinger is 52. Singer Henry Rollins is 51. Actor Neal
McDonough is 46. Singer Freedom Williams is 46. Actress Kelly Hu is
44. Rock musician Todd Harrell (3 Doors Down) is 40. Singer Robbie
Williams is 38. Rhythm-and-blues performer Natalie Stewart is 33.
Actress Mena Suvari (MEE'-nuh soo-VAHR'-ee) is 33.
Thought for today: "An explanation of cause is not a
justification by reason." -- C.S. Lewis, English author (1898-1963)
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