WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Today is Wednesday, February 13, the 44th day of 2013. There are 321 days left in the year.

1633 ― Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun

1689 ― British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights

1861 ― Abraham Lincoln declared President

1867 ― Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna

1945 ― Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135,000 die

1961 ― Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus

1974 ― Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR

1977 ― "Guys & Dolls" closes at Broadway Theater, NYC, after 239 performances

1984 ― Six-year-old Texan Stormie Jones gets first heart and liver transplant

1993 ― Sergei Bubka pole vaults indoor record (6.14 meters)