TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS TUESDAY, FEB. 13, the 44th day of 2018. There are 321 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY:
On this date in 1633, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition, accused of defending the theory that the Earth revolved around the sun instead of the other way around. (Galileo was sentenced to a form of house arrest.)
In 1542, the fifth wife of England’s King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard, was executed for adultery.
In 1741, Andrew Bradford of Pennsylvania published the first American magazine. “The American Magazine, or A Monthly View of the Political State of the British Colonies” lasted three issues.
In 1861, Abraham Lincoln was declared winner of the 1860 presidential election.
In 1914, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, also known as ASCAP, was founded.
In 1933, the Warsaw Convention, governing airlines’ liability for international carriage of persons, luggage and goods, went into effect.
In 1935, a jury in Flemington, N.J., found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnapslaying of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh.
In 1943, the U.S. Marine Corps Women’s Reserve was established.
In 1968, actress Mae Marsh, known for her silent film work (“The Birth of a Nation”, “Intolerance”), died at 73.
In 1974, Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet Union.
In 1998, Dr. David Satcher was sworn in as the 16th Surgeon General.
In 2016, Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court, was found dead at a private residence in the Big Bend area of West Texas; he was 79.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager (ret.) is 95. Actress Kim Novak is 85. Actor George Segal is 84. Actor Bo Svenson is 77. Actress Carol Lynley and singer-musician Peter Tork (The Monkees) are 76. Actress Stockard Channing and talk show host Jerry Springer are 74. Singer Peter Gabriel is 68. Actor David Naughton is 67. Rock musician Peter Hook is 62. Singer Henry Rollins is 57. Actress Kelly Hu is 50. Rock singer Matt Berninger (The National) is 47. Rock musician Todd Harrell (3 Doors Down) is 46. Rhythmand-blues performer Natalie Stewart and actress Mena Suvari are 39. Actress Katie Volding is 29. Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. (aka Prince Michael Jackson I) is 21.