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On 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 Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Hauptmann was later executed. (Go to article.)

On Feb. 13, 1910, William Shockley, the controversial Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose work led to the miniaturization of radio, TV and computer circuits, was born. Following his death on Aug. 12, 1989, his obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)



On February 13, 1886, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about a federal government scandal. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)

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1542 The fifth wife of England's King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard, was executed for adultery.


1635 The oldest public school in the United States, the Boston Public Latin School, was founded.


1914 The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, known as ASCAP, was founded in New York City.


1920 The League of Nations recognized the perpetual neutrality of Switzerland.


1945 The Soviets captured Budapest, Hungary, from the Germans during World War II.


1945 Allied planes began bombing the German city of Dresden.


1960 France exploded its first atomic bomb.


1984 Konstantin Chernenko was chosen to be general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding the late Yuri Andropov.


1991 Hundreds of Iraqi civilians were killed when a pair of laser-guided U.S. 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 The Dow Jones industrial average broke through the 7,000 barrier for the first time, ending the day at 7,022.44.


2000 Charles Schulz's final ''Peanuts'' strip ran in Sunday newspapers, the day after the cartoonist died at age 77.


2001 A 6.6 magnitude earthquake shook El Salvador, killing at least 402 people one month to the day after another quake killed more than 800 people.


2002 John Walker Lindh pleaded innocent in federal court in Alexandria, Va., to conspiring to kill Americans and supporting the Taliban and terrorist organizations.


2002 At the Salt Lake City winter games, the head of the French Olympic team said the French figure skating judge had been pressured before she voted to give the gold medal to the Russians in pairs.


2002 Country singer Waylon Jennings died in Chandler, Ariz., at age 64.