History
February 13...
1914, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, known as ASCAP, was founded in New York.
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-death 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.
DRESDEN DEVASTATED:February 13, 1945
On the evening of February 13, 1945, the most controversial episode in the Allied air war against Germany begins as hundreds of British bombers loaded with incendiaries and high-explosive bombs descend on Dresden, a historic city located in eastern Germany. Dresden was neither a war production city nor a major industrial center, and before the massive air raid of February 1945 it had not suffered a major Allied attack. By February 15, the city was a smoldering ruin and an unknown number of civilians--somewhere between 35,000 and 135,000--were dead.
1960, France exploded its first atomic bomb.
1966: The Rolling Stones appear for the first time on the Ed Sullivan Show.
2000, Charles Schulz's final "Peanuts" strip ran in Sunday newspapers, the day after the cartoonist died in his sleep at his California home at age 77.
Missing in Action
1967 CARLSON PAUL V. MINNEAPOLIS MN
1969 HERLIK QUERIN E GREEN BAY WI 03/12/69 RELEASED BY SIHANOUK ALIVE AND WELL 98
The Jerusalem Post
Italy to increase Mideast peace role
Italy was interested in increasing its role in Mideast peacemaking, Italian Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu, on a visit to Israel, told The Jerusalem Post in an exclusive interview.
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Peres to plead with Rabbi Yosef
Before he entered the coalition, the economic policies of Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu were "piggish capitalism" for Labor chairman Shimon Peres.
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Hamas, Jihad say they will maintain undeclared truce
Hamas and Islamic Jihad will maintain a de facto truce with Israel, the groups said on Saturday.
Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar told The Associated Press after the group's leaders met with Abbas that the group is "committed to what is called 'quietness'" until it sees whether Israel stops military activities, halts its targeted assassinations, and discloses according to what criteria Palestinian prisoners will be released.
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Iran goes public with stealth torpedo production
Iran on Saturday officially launched production of a line of stealth torpedoes, calling it the latest effort to step up its defense capabilities against possible threats, state-run television reported.
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Leaving Ethiopia for Zion
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's decision to bring the last of the eligible Falash Mura to Israel by the end of 2007 promises finally to resolve a controversial and heart-wrenching problem. People who have been following the Ethiopian aliya over the years, however, will wait to see what actually happens before accepting that this chapter really has been closed.
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