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On this day: February 13

POSTED: 10:42 PM PST Feb 12, 2013 UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Feb 12, 2013

Bruno Hauptmann is convicted in the Lindbergh baby case, France tests a nuclear weapon, and the last "Peanuts" comic strip runs, all on this day.

OTD February 13 - Vega rocket — 37 / 37

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2012: The European Space Agency conducts the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The four-stage rocket was designed to give Europe a vehicle for scientific satellite missions. The first rocket carried nine scientific satellites into space.

OTD February 13 - Catherine Howard

OTD February 13 - Galileo

OTD February 13 - Cotton Mather

OTD February 13 - Richard Wagner

OTD February 13 - Bess Truman

OTD February 13 - Grant Wood

OTD February 13 - ASCAP

OTD February 13 - Negro National League

OTD February 13 - Chuck Yeager

OTD February 13 - Kim Novak

OTD February 13 - George Segal

OTD February 13 - Bruno Hauptmann

OTD February 13 - Peter Tork

OTD February 13 - Stockard Channing

OTD February 13 - Jerry Springer

OTD February 13 - Siege of Budapest

OTD February 13 - Mike Krzyzewski

OTD February 13 - Peter Gabriel

OTD February 13 - Frank Selvy

OTD February 13 - Gerboise-Bleue

OTD February 13 - Nashville sit-ins

OTD February 13 - Henry Rollins

OTD February 13 - Beatles

OTD February 13 - Black Sabbath

OTD February 13 - Cabaret

OTD February 13 - Robbie Williams

OTD February 13 - Feist

OTD February 13 - Mena Suvari

OTD February 13 - David Janssen

OTD February 13 - Dark Side of the Moon

OTD February 13 - Neverland Ranch

OTD February 13 - Amiriyah bombing

OTD February 13 - final Peanuts strip

OTD February 13 - El Salvador earthquake

OTD February 13 - Waylon Jennings

OTD February 13 - Ray Charles

OTD February 13 - Vega rocket

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