Today in History - History - February 13th

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

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

1861Abraham Lincoln declared president in Washington DC

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

1961Frank Sinatra launches Reprise label under Warner Bros Records

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1974Robbie Williams, English singer

1728Cotton Mather, American Puritan minister, dies at 65

1883Wilhelm Richard Wagner, composer, dies at 69