Today is Wednesday, February 13, the 44th day of 2008. There are 322 days left in the year.
1689 _ British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights
1861 _ Abraham Lincoln declared president
1867 _ Johann Strauss' ``Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna
1920 _ The League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland
1924 _ King Tut's tomb opened
1945 _ Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135,000 die
1961 _ The Soviet Union fires a rocket Sputnik V to Venus
1973 _ The U.S. dollar devalues 10 percent
1977 _ ``Guys & Dolls" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 239 performances
1990 _ U.S., England, and France give Germany the OK to reunify