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February 13th, 1935: In New Jersey, Bruno Richard Hauptmann is found guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap and death of aviator Charles Lindbergh’s infant son.
The following year, Hauptmann dies in the electric chair, insisting to the end that he’s innocent.
1945: During the final months of World War II, Allied planes begin bombing raids on the German city of Dresden.
The raids, which last for more than two months, kill up to 135,000 people, destroying 80 percent of the city.
1984: Konstantin Chernenko becomes the Soviet Union’s new leader when he’s named General Secretary of the Communist Party.
Chernenko, who succeeds the late Yuri Andropov, dies the following year. Mikhail Gorbachev succeeds Chernenko.
1950: Peter Gabriel, former lead singer of the rock band Genesis, whose solo career made room for the genre of world music, is born in Surrey, England.
And, 2002: Waylon Jennings, the singer-songwriter who served up the "outlaw" brand of country music, dies in Chandler, Arizona. He was 64.
Today in History, February 13th,_____, The Associated Press.
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