Today in History - History - February 13th

1777Marquis de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress

1942Hitler's Operation Sealion (invasion of England) cancelled

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

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

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

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

1990Larry Bird (Celtics) ends NBA free throw streak of 71 games

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

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

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

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

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

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

1974Robbie Williams, English singer

1883Wilhelm Richard Wagner, composer, dies at 69

1728Cotton Mather, American Puritan minister, dies at 65