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Today is Thursday, February 13, the 44th day of 2025. There are 321 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On February 13, 1945, the Allied troops started a three -day bombing in Dresden, Germany in the Second World War, in which no fewer than 25,000 people were killed and caused a fire storm that sweeped through the city center.
Also on this date:
In 1935 a jury in Flemington, New Jersey, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was guilty of murder in the first degree in the kidnapping of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month old son of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. (Hauptmann was executed by electric chairman the following year.)
In 1965, during the war in Vietnam, President Lyndon B. Johnson has authorized Operation Rolling Thunder, an extensive bombing against the North Vietnamese.
In 1980 the 13th Winter Olympics opened in Lake Placid, New York.
In 1996, Jonathan Larson’s rock musical ‘Rent’ premiered less than three weeks after Larson’s death.
In 2002, John Walker Lindh did not owe the federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, to work together to kill Americans and to support the Taliban and terrorist organizations. (Lindh later argued guilty of lesser violations and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.)
In 2016, Justice Antonin Scalia, the influential conservative member of the American Supreme Court, was found dead in a private home in the Big Bend area of West -Texas; He was 79.
In 2017, the controversial national security adviser of President Donald Trump, Michael Flynn, resigned after reports that he had misled vice -president Mike Pence and other officials about his contacts with Russia.
In 2018, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, said that he had paid $ 130,000 from his own pocket to Stephanie Clifford (Aka Stormy Daniels), a porn actor who claimed to have had a sexual encounter with Trump.
In 2021, former President Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate during his second accusation process – the first to concern a former president – in which he was accused of inciting the attack on the American Capitol on January 6. Seven Republicans joined all 50 Democrats with all 50 Democrats to vote to condemn, less than the two -thirds threshold is required.
Today’s birthdays:
- Actor Kim Novak is 92.
- Actor Stockard Channing is 81.
- Democratic senator Richard Blumenthal van Connecticut is 79.
- Basketball Hall of Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski is 78.
- Musician Peter Gabriel is 75.
- Musician Peter Hook is 69.
- Singer writer Henry Rollins is 64.
- Hockey Hall of Famer Mats Sundin is 54.
- Singer Robbie Williams is 51.
- Football Hall of Famer Randy Moss is 48.
- Actor Mena Suvari (Mee’-Nuh Soo-Vahr’-EE) is 46.