Today in History - History - February 13th

1633Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun

1937Bradman scores 123 SA v Queensland, 165 mins, 10-4s 1-6 in cricket

1952Rocky Marciano defeated Lee Savold for his 39th straight win

1996Rapper Tupac Shakur releases his 4th studio album 'All Eyez on Me'

1974Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and historian, is deported from the Soviet Union to Frankfurt, West Germany and stripped of his Soviet citizenship

2000The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.

1940Bradman scores 209* in 161 minutes for South Aust at the WACA

1858Sir Richard Burton & John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa

1866Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty, Missouri ($15,000)

1578Tycho Brahe 1st sketches "Tychonic system" of solar system

1944Jerry Springer, London England, talk show host (Jerry Springer Show)

1974Robbie Williams, English singer

1743Joseph Banks, English botanist and naturalist (d. 1820)

1910William Shockley, London, US physicist (Nobel 1956), racist

1728Cotton Mather, American Puritan minister, dies at 65

1883Wilhelm Richard Wagner, composer, dies at 69