Today in History - History - February 13th

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

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

1861Abraham Lincoln declared president in Washington DC

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

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

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

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

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

1974James 'cool papa' Bell is named to baseball's Hall of Fame

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

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

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

1974Robbie Williams, English singer

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

1883Wilhelm Richard Wagner, composer, dies at 69

1728Cotton Mather, American Puritan minister, dies at 65