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• 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 1939, Justice Louis D. Brandeis retired from the U.S. Supreme Court. (He was succeeded by William O. Douglas.)
• In 1943, during World War II, the U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve was officially established.
• In 1960, France exploded its first atomic bomb in the Sahara Desert.
• In 1974, Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet Union.
• In 1980, the 13th Winter Olympics opened in Lake Placid, N.Y.
• In 1984, Konstantin Chernenko (chehr-NYEN'-koh) was chosen to be general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding the late Yuri Andropov.
• 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: President George W. Bush, trying to calm a political storm, ordered the release of his Vietnam-era military records to counter Democrats' suggestions that he'd shirked his duty in the Texas Air National Guard.
• Five years ago: A $787 billion stimulus bill aimed at easing the worst economic crisis in decades cleared both houses of Congress. Peanut Corp. of America, the Lynchburg, Va.-based peanut processing company at the heart of a national salmonella outbreak, filed for bankruptcy. A female suicide bomber targeted Shiite pilgrims in Musayyib, Iraq, killing at least 40.
• One year ago: Beginning a long farewell to his flock, a weary Pope Benedict XVI celebrated his final public Mass as pontiff, presiding over Ash Wednesday services inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.
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• Today's Birthdays: U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager (ret.) is 91. Actress Kim Novak is 81. Actor George Segal is 80. Actress Carol Lynley is 72. Singer-musician Peter Tork (The Monkees) is 72. Actress Stockard Channing is 70. Talk show host Jerry Springer is 70. Actor Bo Svenson is 70. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., is 68. Singer Peter Gabriel is 64. Actor David Naughton is 63. Rock

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