Todayis Wednesday, February 13, the 44th day of 2002. There are 321 days left in the year. This is Ash Wednesday.

On this date

<*In 1542, the fifth wife of England’s King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard, was executed for adultery.

In 1945, during the Second World War, the Soviets captured Budapest, Hungary, from the Germans.

In 1960, France exploded its first atomic bomb.

In 1988, the 15th winter Olympics opened in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Thought for the Day <$>“To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can have.” — Theodore H. White, American political writer (1915-1986).