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'''February 13''' in history: * 1258, Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed * 1635, the first public school in the U.S., Boston Latin School, is founded * 1795, the University of North Carolina became the first U.S. state university to admit students with the arrival of Hinton James, who was the only student on campus for two weeks * 1880, Thomas Edison observes the "Edison effect", the thermally excited charge emission process * 1920, the League of Nations recognized the perpetual neutrality of Switzerland * 1935, a jury in Flemington, N.J., found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-slaying of the son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. (Hauptmann was later executed.) * 1945, during World War II, the Soviets captured Budapest, Hungary, from the Germans. ALSO: Allied planes began bombing the German city of Dresden * 1955, Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls * 1960, [[Directory:France|France]] exploded its first atomic bomb, in the Sahara Desert * 1981, a series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, [[Directory:Kentucky|Kentucky]] * 1990, an agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite [[Directory:Germany|Germany]]. * 1997, Discovery's astronauts hauled the Hubble Space Telescope aboard the shuttle for a 1 billion-mile tuneup to allow it to peer even deeper into the far reaches of the universe. * 1997, On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average broke through the 7,000 barrier for the first time, ending the day at 7,022.44 * 2000, the last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies * 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. * 2002, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II made former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani an honorary knight * 2003, an investigative panel found that superheated air almost certainly seeped through a breach in space shuttle Columbia's left wing and possibly its wheel compartment during the craft's fiery descent, resulting in the deaths of all seven astronauts * 2006, auditors reported that millions of dollars in Hurricane Katrina disaster aid had been squandered, paying for such items as a $450 tattoo and $375-a-day beachfront condos [[Category:February]] [[Category:Days of the Year]]

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