Today In History Spotlights Feb. 13, 1870, The Nashville Sit-Ins Begin

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The Nashville Sit-Ins begin. A response to the sit-ins from Greensboro, North Carolina, these were lead by the Nashville Student Movement and the Nashville Christian Leadership Council. These sit-ins targeted various segregated businesses in Nashville, Tennessee, such as Woolworth, Walgreens, and many others.

The participants included James Lawson, Kelly Miller Smith, and C.T. Vivian, among others. These sit-ins ended on May 10, 1960, though other sit-ins would continue across the south in response to segregation.

What Happened On This Day – February 13

2008 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologizes to Indigenous Australians for the “stolen generations”. Between 10 and 30 percent of Aboriginal and Torres Islander children were removed from their families until the 1960s.
2004 The universe’s largest known diamond is discovered. BPM 37093 is a white dwarf star about 50 light-years from Earth and was nicknamed “Lucy” after The Beatles’ song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”.
2000 The last “Peanuts” comic strip is published. The 17,897th-and-last installment was published in newspapers around the world on the day following the death of its creator, Charles M. Schulz.
1991 Two “smart bombs” kill at least 408 civilians in Baghdad. The Amiriyah shelter bombing was one of the worst cases of civilian killings during “Operation Desert Storm”.
1945 The German city of Dresden is destroyed by a bombing raid. According to estimates, up to 25,000 people were killed in the raids that lasted 3 days.

Births On This Day – February 13

1974 Robbie Williams – English singer-songwriter, producer, actor
1950 Peter Gabriel – English singer-songwriter, producer
1946 Richard Blumenthal – American politician
1849 Lord Randolph Churchill – English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
1835 Mirza Ghulam Ahmad – Indian religious leader, founded the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

Deaths On This Day – February 13

2002 Waylon Jennings – American singer-songwriter, musician
1883 Richard Wagner – German composer, director
1787 Ruđer Bošković – Croatian physicist, astronomer, mathematician
1728 Cotton Mather – American minister
1662 Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia

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Garrett Smith is a writer for NRN and recent graduate from Western Carolina University. He is a history major with a minor in political science. As a Conservative, Smith believes that the Left has taken over America's education system, which means they now control its history. To make their fellow Americans feel guilty, they often invoke a feeling of "American Shame" in students, indoctrinating them with radical, un-American ideas. It is Smith's goal to teach Americans the true history of America, and along with this, use its history to explain what makes us great.