domingo, 13 de febrero de 2011

February 13

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.

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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.

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On This Date

1542	The fifth wife of England's King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard, was executed for adultery.
1635	The Boston Public Latin School, the first public school in what is now the United States, was founded.
1914	The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers was founded in New York City.
1920	The League of Nations recognized the perpetual neutrality of Switzerland.
1945	Allied planes began bombing the German city of Dresden.
1960	France exploded its first atomic bomb.
1984	Konstantin Chernenko succeeded the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee.
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, closing at 7,022.44.
2000	Charles Schulz's final "Peanuts" comic strip ran in Sunday newspapers, the day after the cartoonist died at age 77.
2005	Ray Charles won eight posthumous Grammy awards for his final album, "Genius Loves Company."
2008	Seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens denied having taken performance-enhancing drugs in testimony before Congress.

Current Birthdays

Mike Krzyzewski, College basketball coach

Duke men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski turns 64 years old today.

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Actress Stockard Channing turns 67 years old today.

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1923	Chuck Yeager, Test pilot, turns 88
1933	Kim Novak, Actress, turns 78
1934	George Segal, Actor, turns 77
1941	Bo Svenson, Actor, turns 70
1942	Peter Tork, Singer, musician (The Monkees), turns 69
1944	Jerry Springer, Talk show host, turns 67
1944	Bo Svenson, Actor, turns 67
1946	Richard Blumenthal, U.S. senator, D-Conn., turns 65
1947	Stephen Hadley, Former national security adviser, turns 64
1950	Peter Gabriel, Rock singer, turns 61
1956	Jay Nixon, Governor of Missouri, turns 55
1961	Henry Rollins, Rock singer, actor, turns 50
1977	Randy Moss, Football player, turns 34
1979	Mena Suvari, Actress, turns 32

Historic Birthdays

William Shockley2/13/1910 - 8/12/1989American engineer, teacher and Nobel Prize-winner.Go to obituary »

72	Giovanni Battista Piazzetta 2/13/1682 - 4/28/1754 Italian painter, illustrator and designer
65	John Hunter 2/13/1728 - 10/16/1793 English surgeon and founder of pathological anatomy
45	Lord Randolph Churchill 2/13/1849 - 1/24/1895 English politician and father of Winston Churchill
68	Leopold Godowsky 2/13/1870 - 11/21/1938 Russian-bn. American pianist and composer
65	Feodor Chaliapin 2/13/1873 - 4/12/1938 Russian operatic bass
80	Georgios Papandreou 2/13/1888 - 11/1/1968 Greek Prime Minister three times
50	Grant Wood 2/13/1891 - 2/12/1942 American painter
86	Georges Simenon 2/13/1903 - 9/4/1989 Belgian novelist
84	Pauline Frederick 2/13/1906 - 5/9/1990 American television news correspondent