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Feb 13, when British annexed Oudh
On this day in 1856 the British annexed Oudh
Today is Sunday, February 13, the forty fourth day of 2005.
There are 321 days left in the year.
Highlights in history on this date:
1542 - England's Queen Catherine Howard is executed for treason on the orders of her husband Henry VIII.
1601 - John Lancaster leads first East India Company's voyage from London.
1633 - Italian astronomer Galileo arrives in Rome and is detained by Roman Catholic Inquisition.
1635 - Boston Latin School, the United States' oldest secondary school is founded.
1689 - English Parliament adopts a Bill of Rights.
1856 -Britain annexes Oudh, in India, increasing further hostility to British rule.
1920 - The League of Nations recognizes Switzerland's neutrality.
1945 - Allied forces capture Budapest, Hungary, in World War II. U.S. warplanes firebomb Dresden, Germany, wiping out the city and killing more than 35,000 civilians.
1960 - France explodes its first atomic bomb.
1961 - U.N. Security Council urges use of force to prevent civil war in the Congo.
1989 - Soviet Red Army leaves Afghan capital of Kabul.
1990 - Britain, France, Soviet Union, United States and two Germanys announce two-stage plan for talks leading to German reunification.
1992 - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat claims tape in which he purportedly made slanderous comments of Jews was doctored.
1995 - Peru announces it has captured the last Ecuadorean stronghold in Peruvian territory and declares a unilateral cease-fire in the Andean border war.
1996 - Israeli troops seal off the West Bank and Gaza to prevent terrorist attacks. The restrictions last for years.
1999 - Osama bin Laden, the Saudi millionaire suspected of being behind the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, is reported to have disappeared from his base in Afghanistan.
2000 - Serbia announces it will demand compensation at an international court from those responsible for a cyanide spill that contaminated a major river, destroying most aquatic life.
2002 - John Walker Lindh, a US citizen captured fighting alongside Afghanistan's deposed Taliban militia, pleads not guilty to 10 counts of conspiring to kill Americans and abetting terrorist groups.
2004 - Chechnya's exiled former president Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, wanted by Russia for terrorism and ties to al-Qaida, is assassinated when a bomb blows apart his car as he leaves a mosque in Doha, Qatar. Yandarbiyev's 13-year-old son is critically wounded.
Today's Birthdays:
Charles Maurice Talleyrand-Perigord, French statesman (1754-1838)
Eileen Farrell, U.S. soprano (1920--)
Kim Novak, U.S. actress (1933--)
Stockard Channing, U.S. actress (1944--)
Jerry Springer, U.S. talk show host (1944--)
Peter Gabriel, British singer (1950--)
Robbie Williams, British singer (1974--)
