Today in History.....February 13

On this day in …

* 1635, the oldest public institution in America, the Boston Latin School, was founded

* 1795, the University of North Carolina became the first U.S. state university to admit students with the arrival of Hinton James, who was the only student on campus for two weeks

* 1866, Jesse James holds up his first bank, in Liberty, Missouri, and gets away with $15,000

* 1895, inventors Louis and August Lumiere patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector. Thomas Edison had patented his movie camera, the Kinetograph, and a separate viewing machine, the Kinetoscope, in 1893

* 1920, the League of Nations recognized the perpetual neutrality of Switzerland

* 1935, a jury in Flemington, N.J., found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-death of the son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. (Hauptmann was later executed.)

* 1945, during World War II, the Soviets captured Budapest, Hungary, from the Germans. ALSO: Allied planes began bombing the German city of Dresden

* 1955, Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls

* 1959, first Barbie doll goes on sale

* 1960, France exploded its first atomic bomb

* 1996, in the continuing drama of man versus machine, world chess champion Garry Kasparov asked for a draw in his third game against the IBM supercomputer named "Deep Blue," leaving the six-game match in Philadelphia tied at 1 1/2 games each

* 2005, final results showed clergy-backed Shiites and independence-minded Kurds had swept to victory in Iraq's landmark elections