This Day in History: February 13th

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Please list 10 historical events that took place on February 13th, listed in chronological order:

  1. 1689: William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
  2. 1741: Andrew Bedford publishes the first American magazine, “The American Magazine.”
  3. 1880: Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect for the first time.
  4. 1920: The League of Nations recognizes the perpetual neutrality of Switzerland.
  5. 1945: Allied forces bomb the German city of Dresden during World War II.
  6. 1955: The Mirzapur rail disaster occurs in Uttar Pradesh, India, one of the deadliest train accidents in Indian history.
  7. 1960: France conducts its first nuclear test in the Sahara Desert.
  8. 1974: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is expelled from the Soviet Union.
  9. 2000: Charles M. Schulz’s final “Peanuts” comic strip is published posthumously.
  10. 2008: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a formal apology to the Stolen Generations.

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