Today In History

In 1542: The fifth wife of England’s King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard, was executed for adultery.

In 1935: A jury in Flemington, N.J., found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-death of the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Hauptmann was later executed.

In 1945: Allied planes began bombing the German city of Dresden.

In 1960: France exploded its first atomic bomb.

In 1988: The 15th Winter Olympics opened in Calgary, Alberta.