Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Feb 13
Reuters
1935 - Jury finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty in Lindbergh baby murder.
1945 - Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden.
1945 - Nazi-occupied Budapest fell to the Russians during World War Two after a 50-day siege in which 50,000 Germans were killed.
1955 - Israel acquires four Dead Sea Scrolls.
1990 - Roaring crowds gave Nelson Mandela a hero's welcome when he returned to the black township of Soweto after being released from prison and pledged to end "the dark hell of apartheid" in South Africa.
2001 - The American Ann Bancroft and the Norwegian Liv Arnesen became the first women to cross Antarctica on skis, covering 2,700 km (1,700 miles) in 90 days.
2002 - Iran Air Tours Tu-154 crashes outside Khorramabad in western Iran.
2007 - Archaeologists remove skeletons more than 5,000 years old from the ground in Italy, where they were found with their arms wrapped around each other.
2008 - Thousands of Aborigines and other Australians hugged, sobbed or stood applauding as Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered an apology for past injustices, including the forced removal of children, after a decade of conservative refusal.
2009 - Continental Connection Flight 3407 crashes in New York.
2018 - Britain’s Prince Harry, Meghan Markle make official visit to Scotland.
