02-13-2004, 08:11 AM
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February 13th
1689 ~ Following Britain's bloodless Glorious Revolution, Mary, the daughter of the deposed king James II, and William of Orange, her husband, are proclaimed joint sovereigns of Great Britain.
1867 ~ "Blue Danube" waltz premiers in Vienna.
1923 ~ Birthday of Chuck Yeagar, 1st man to break the sound barrier.
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. By February 15, the city was a smoldering ruin and an unknown number of civilians--somewhere between 35,000 and 135,000--were dead.
1959 ~ The Americana icon, the Barbie doll, goes on sale.
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