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On this day: February 13

Published On: Feb 13 2013 12:42:10 AM CST Updated On: Feb 13 2013 01:00:00 AM CST

Bruno Hauptmann is convicted in the Lindbergh baby case, France tests a nuclear weapon, and the last "Peanuts" comic strip runs, all on this day.

OTD February 13 - Bess Truman — 5 / 37

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1885: Bess Truman, who became the first lady of the United States when her husband Harry S. Truman was elected president in 1945, is born Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence, Mo. Dying at age 97 in 1982, she remains the longest-lived first lady.

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OTD February 13 - Waylon Jennings

OTD February 13 - Ray Charles

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