THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Today is Thursday, February 13, the 44th day of 2014. 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

1678 ― Tycho Brahe first sketches “Tychonic system” of solar system

1689 ― British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights

1861 ― Abraham Lincoln declared President

1959 ― Barbie doll goes on sale

1970 ― Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi

1974 ― Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR

1983 ― World Boxing Council becomes first to cut boxing from 15 to 12 rounds

1988 ― European Community plans removal of inner boundaries on Jan. 1, 1992

1990 ― U.S., France and England give Germany the OK to reunify