Saturday, February 13, 2021

History for February 13

History for February 13 - On-This-Day.com
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754
  • 1633 - Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition.
  • 1920 - The National Negro Baseball League was organized.
  • 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.
  • 1960 - France detonated its first atomic bomb.
  • 1965 - Sixteen-year-old Peggy Fleming won the ladies senior figure skating title at Lake Placid, NY.
  • 1985 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed at a record high of 1297.92 after it topped the 1300 mark earlier in the trading session.
  • 2000 - Charles M. Schulz's last original Sunday "Peanuts" comic strip appeared in newspapers. Schulz had died the day before.

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