Date
Thu 13 Feb 2020
1542 - Catherine Howard was executed for adultery. She was the fifth wife of England's King Henry VIII.
1633 - Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition.
1900 - The Anglo-German accord of 1899 was ratified by Reichstag, in which Britain renounced rights in Samoa in favour of Germany and the U.S.
1920 - The League of Nations recognized the continued neutrality of Switzerland.
1832 - Cholera first appeared in London.
1935 - In Flemington, New Jersey, a jury found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of the kidnapping and death of the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Hauptmann was later executed for the crimes.
1945 - During World War II, the Soviets captured Budapest, Hungary, from the German army and allied aircraft began bombing the German city of Dresden.
1955 - Israel acquired 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
1959 - The Barbie doll went on sale.
1960 - France detonated its first atomic bomb.
1971 - South Vietnamese troops invaded Laos. They were backed by U.S. air and artillery support.
1990 - In Ottawa, the United States and its European allies forged an agreement with the Soviet Union and East Germany on a two-stage formula to reunite Germany.
1997 - Astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery brought the Hubble Space Telescope aboard for a tune up. The tune up allowed the telescope to see further into the universe.
2000 - Charles M. Schulz's last original Sunday "Peanuts" comic strip appeared in newspapers. Schulz had died the day before.
1633 - Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition.
1900 - The Anglo-German accord of 1899 was ratified by Reichstag, in which Britain renounced rights in Samoa in favour of Germany and the U.S.
1920 - The League of Nations recognized the continued neutrality of Switzerland.
1832 - Cholera first appeared in London.
1935 - In Flemington, New Jersey, a jury found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of the kidnapping and death of the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Hauptmann was later executed for the crimes.
1945 - During World War II, the Soviets captured Budapest, Hungary, from the German army and allied aircraft began bombing the German city of Dresden.
1955 - Israel acquired 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
1959 - The Barbie doll went on sale.
1960 - France detonated its first atomic bomb.
1971 - South Vietnamese troops invaded Laos. They were backed by U.S. air and artillery support.
1990 - In Ottawa, the United States and its European allies forged an agreement with the Soviet Union and East Germany on a two-stage formula to reunite Germany.
1997 - Astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery brought the Hubble Space Telescope aboard for a tune up. The tune up allowed the telescope to see further into the universe.
2000 - Charles M. Schulz's last original Sunday "Peanuts" comic strip appeared in newspapers. Schulz had died the day before.