• Today is Shrove Tuesday, Feb. 12, the 43rd day of 2013. There are 322 days left in the year.
• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Feb. 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in present-day Larue County, Ky.
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• On this date:
• In 1554, Lady Jane Grey, who'd claimed the throne of England for nine days, and her husband, Guildford Dudley, were beheaded after being condemned for high treason.
• In 1818, Chile officially proclaimed its independence, more than seven years after initially renouncing Spanish rule.
• In 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded.
• In 1912, Pu Yi (poo yee), the last emperor of China, abdicated, marking the end of the Qing Dynasty.
• In 1915, the cornerstone for the Lincoln Memorial was laid in Washington D.C., a year to the day after groundbreaking.
• In 1924, George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" premiered in New York.
• In 1940, the radio play "The Adventures of Superman" debuted with Bud Collyer as the Man of Steel.
• In 1959, the redesigned Lincoln penny - with an image of the Lincoln Memorial replacing two ears of wheat on the reverse side - went into circulation.
• In 1963, President John F. Kennedy celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation with a reception at the White House. A Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 720 broke up during severe turbulence and crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing all 43 people aboard.
• In 1973, Operation Homecoming began as the first release of American prisoners of war from the Vietnam conflict took place.
• In 1993, in a crime that shocked and outraged Britons, two 10-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, lured 2-year-old James Bulger from his mother at a shopping mall near Liverpool, England, then beat him to death. (Thompson and Venables were kept in custody before being paroled in 2001 at age

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