What happend on 13th February

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1984

Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

1979

The intense February 13, 1979 Windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge

1978

Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.

1974

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.

1971

Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.

1960

Nuclear testing: France tests its first atomic bomb.

1955

Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.

1945

World War II: The Royal Air Force bombers were dispatched to Dresden, Germany (see Bombing of Dresden in World War II).

1945

World War II: Soviet Union forces capture Budapest, Hungary from the Nazis.

1935

A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.