Once Upon A Time – February 13 – 1942 – Hitler’s Operation Sealion, The Invasion Of England, Is Cancelled

1258 Baghdad, then a city of 1 million, falls to the Mongols as the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed, tens of thousands slaughtered, ending the Islamic Golden Age

1601 1st British East India Company voyage departs from London, lead by John Lancaster

1689 Parliament of England adopts the Bill of Rights which establishes the rights of parliament and places limits on the crown

1942 Hitler’s Operation Sealion, the invasion of England, is cancelled

1945 Allied planes begin bombing Dresden, Germany; a firestorm results and over 22,000 die

1945 USSR captures Budapest, after a 49-day battle with Nazi Germany in which 159,000 die

1960 France becomes the 4th nuclear nation by exploding the 70 kilo-ton “Gerboise Bleue” atomic bomb in the French Algerian Sahara desert

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Today In Film & TV

1972 “Cabaret”, directed by Bob Fosse, based on John Kander and Fred Ebb’s musical of the same name, starring Liza Minnelli and Michael York, released

Today In Music

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

Today In Sport

1920 Baseball Hall of Famer “Rube” Foster and 7 other team owners create the first Negro National League (NNL) at a meeting in a Kansas City YMCA

1866 Jesse James holds up his first bank, stealing $15,000 from the Clay County Savings Association in Liberty, Missouri

1982 Pink Floyd’s album “Dark Side of the Moon” marks 402 weeks in the album charts

Famous Weddings

1575 Henry III of France marries Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont.

1940 American actress Lana Turner (19) weds American bandleader Artie Shaw (29) in a Las Vegas elopement; divorce after 4 months

1983 Film genius Jerry Lewis (56) marries 2nd wife dancer SanDee Pitnick