Volume 14 , Issue 7

On This Day In History (13 February)

On February 13, 1935, Flemington, N.J., Feb. 18 - Bruno Richard Hauptmann was convicted of murder in the first degree at 10:45 o'clock tonight for the killing of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. at Hopewell on the night of March 1, 1932. He was sentenced to die in the electric chair at the State prison in Trenton some time during the week of March 18. Go to article

On This Date, February 13:

• 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.

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