This Day in History: February 13, 2024
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1542
Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of King Henry VIII of England, was beheaded for adultery.
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1866
The gang that included Jesse James and Cole Younger committed their first bank robbery in Liberty, Mo.
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1867
Johann Strauss's Blue Danube waltz premiered in Vienna.
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1935
Bruno Hauptmann was found guilty of murder in the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
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1960
France exploded its first atomic bomb.
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1974
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who won the 1970 Nobel Prize for literature, was deported from the Soviet Union.
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2002
The French judge was accused of throwing the pairs skating decision to the Russians at the Olympics.
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