• Today is Ash Wednesday, Feb. 13, the 44th day of 2013. There are 321 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Feb. 13, 1943, during World War II, the U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve was officially established.
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• On this date:
• In 1542, the fifth wife of England's King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard, was executed for adultery.
• In 1741, Andrew Bradford of Pennsylvania published the first American magazine. "The American Magazine, or A Monthly View of the Political State of the British Colonies" lasted three issues.
• In 1861, Abraham Lincoln was officially declared winner of the 1860 presidential election as electors cast their ballots.
• In 1920, the League of Nations recognized the perpetual neutrality of Switzerland.
• In 1933, the Warsaw Convention, governing airlines' liability for international carriage of persons, luggage and goods, went into effect.
• In 1935, a jury in Flemington, N.J. found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-slaying of the son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. (Hauptmann was later executed.)
• In 1945, during World War II, Allied planes began bombing the German city of Dresden. The Soviets captured Budapest, Hungary, from the Germans.
• In 1960, France exploded its first atomic bomb in the Sahara Desert.
• In 1972, the 11th Winter Olympics ended in Sapporo, Japan.
• In 1980, the 13th Winter Olympics opened in Lake Placid, N.Y.
• In 1988, the 15th winter Olympics opened in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
• In 1991, during Operation Desert Storm, allied warplanes destroyed an underground shelter in Baghdad that had been identified as a military command center; Iraqi officials said 500 civilians were killed.
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• Ten years ago: Clara Harris, who'd run down her husband, David, with her Mer

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