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)