Sunday, February 13, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY

FEB 13TH

1635-Boston Latin School, the oldest public school in the United States, was founded.

1866-The gang that included Jesse James and Cole Younger committed their first bank robbery in Liberty, Mo.

1867-Johann Strauss's Blue Danube waltz premiered in Vienna.

1935-Bruno Hauptmann was found guilty of murder in the Lindbergh kidnapping case.

1960-France exploded its first atomic bomb.

1974-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who won the 1970 Nobel Prize for literature, was deported from the Soviet Union.

2002-The French judge was accused of throwing the pairs skating decision to the Russians at the Olympics.


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