On this day …
February 13, 2015
- In 1542, Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII, was executed for adultery.
- In 1633, Galileo arrived in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
- In 1668, Spain recognized Portugal as an independent nation.
- In 1920, the Negro National League was formed.
- In 1931, New Delhi became the capital of India.
- In 1935, a jury in Flemington, N.J. found Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr.
- In 1960, France successfully tested an atomic bomb to become the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
- In 1984, Konstantin Chernenko succeeded Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- In 2000, the last original “Peanuts” comic strip appeared in newspapers.
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