[Amnorix]

I know you've all been getting the shakes from withdrawal due ot my not updating this thread, but I'm back on the job...

February 13.

1633. Galileo arrives in Rome for trial before the Inquisition.

1635. The first public school in the US is founded -- the Boston Latin School (which remains an elite public school to this day).

1668. Spain recognizes Portugal's independence.

1935. A jury in New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty in the Lindbergh Baby kidnapping case (the "Crime of the Century"). He is subsequently sentenced to death and executed. To this day, the case and the finding of guilt remains controversial. One of the leading figures in the case was Herbert Norman Schwartkopf, the Superintendant of the New Jersey STate Police who was heavily involved in the investigation and had repeated run-ins iwth the FBI, who tried (and mostly succeeded) in taking over the case despite some jurisdictional questions. Schwartkopf's son would go on to lead all coalition forces against Iraq in the early 1990s.

1945. The firebombing of Dresden begins.

1990. Agreement is reached on a two stage plan to reunite Germany.