TUESDAY, Feb. 13, 2024

On this day...

1795-First state university in U.S. opens, University of North Carolina

1924-King Tut's tomb opened

1925-U.S. Congress makes Surpreme Court appeal more difficult

1948-Wright Flyer, first plane to fly, returns to US from England

1961-Frank Sinatra launches Reprise label under Warner Brothers Records

1968-U.S. sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam

1973-U.S. dollar devalues 10 percent

1974-Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR

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

1984-Konstantin Chernenko succeeds Yuri Andropov as USSR leader

1984-Six-year-old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart & liver transplant

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

1989-Salvadoran army attacks Encuentros hospital, rapes, kills patients

1990-U.S., England, France & England give Germany the OK to re-unify

1991-U.S. bombs Iraqi air raid shelter, killing 334

1992-Jose Canseco repeatedly rams his Porsche into wife Esther's BMW

1997-Discovery captures Hubble Space Telescope