Today In History

Today is Tuesday, Feb. 13, the 44th day of 2018. There are 321 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

› 1633: Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition, accused of defending Copernican theory that the Earth revolved around the sun instead of the other way around. (Galileo was found vehemently suspect of heresy, and ended up being sentenced to a form of house arrest.)

ON THIS DATE

› 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.

› 1914: The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, also known as ASCAP, was founded in New York.

› 1933: The Warsaw Convention, governing airlines’ liability for international carriage of persons, luggage and goods, went into effect.

› 1943: During World War II, the U.S. Marine Corps Women’s Reserve was officially established.

› 1974: Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet Union.

› 1988: The 15th Winter Olympics opened in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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 is 76. Singer-musician Peter Tork (The Monkees) is 76. Actress Stockard Channing is 74. Talk show host Jerry Springer is 74. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., is 72. Singer Peter Gabriel is 68. Actor David Naughton is 67. Rock musician Peter Hook is 62. Actor Matt Salinger is 58. Singer Henry Rollins is 57. Actor Neal McDonough is 52. Singer Freedom Williams is 52. Actress Kelly Hu is 50. Rock singer Matt Berninger (The National) is 47. Rock musician Todd Harrell (3 Doors Down) is 46. Country musician Scott Thomas (Parmalee) is 45. Singer Robbie Williams is 44. Singer-songwriter Feist is 42. Rhythm and blues performer Natalie Stewart is 39. Actress Mena Suvari is 39. Rock musician Dash Hutton (HAIM) is 33. Actress Katie Volding is 29. Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. (also known as Prince Michael Jackson I) is 21.