TODAY IN HISTORY

Thursday, February  13, 2014 AP Highlight in History:  On Feb. 13, 1935, a jury in Flemington, N.J., found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-death of the infant son of avaitor Charles Lindberg and his wife, Anne. (Hauptmann was later executed.)   AP Photo
On this date in: 1542 The fifth wife of England's King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard, was executed for adultery. 1635 The Boston Public Latin School, the first public school in what is now the United States, was founded. 1914 The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers was founded in New York City. 1920 The League of Nations recognized the perpetual neutrality of Switzerland. 1945 Allied planes began bombing the German city of Dresden during World War II. AP Photo 1960 France exploded its first atomic bomb. 1984 Konstantin Chernenko succeeded the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee. 1991 During Operation Desert Storm, allied warplanes destroyed an underground shelter in Baghdad that had been identified as a military command center; Iraqi officials said 500 civilians were killed. 1997 The Dow Jones industrial average broke through the 7,000 barrier for the first time, closing at 7,022.44. 2000 Charles Schulz's final "Peanuts" comic strip ran in Sunday newspapers, the day after the cartoonist died at age 77. 2002 John Walker Lindh pleaded not guilty in federal court in Alexandria, Va., to conspiring to kill Americans and supporting the Taliban and terrorist organizations. (Lindh later pleaded guilty to lesser offenses and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.). 2005 Ray Charles won eight posthumous Grammy awards for his final album, "Genius Loves Company." 2008 Seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens denied having taken performance-enhancing drugs in testimony before Congress. 2011 Egypt's military leaders dissolved parliament, suspended the constitution and promised elections in moves cautiously welcomed by protesters who'd helped topple President Hosni Mubarak. 2012 Washington became the seventh state to legalize same-sex marriage.		Video HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS DAY IN HISTORY Today's Birthdays: Duke men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski turns 67 years old today. AP Photo/Chuck Burton Name Profession Age Chuck Yeager Test pilot 91 Kim Novak Actress 81 George Segal Actor 80 Bo Svenson Actor 73 Peter Tork Singer, musician (The Monkees) 72 Stockard Channing Actress 70 Jerry Springer Talk show host 70 Bo Svenson Actor 70 Richard Blumenthal U.S. senator, D-Conn. 68 Peter Gabriel Rock singer 64 Jay Nixon Governor of Missouri 58 Henry Rollins Rock singer, actor 53 Randy Moss Football player 37 Actress Mena Suvari turns 35 years old today. AP Photo/Peter Kramer