March 13

Today's Events

  • 1639
    Harvard U named for clergyman John Harvard
  • 1677
    Mass gains title to Maine for $6 -000
  • 1781
    Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really Uranus)
  • 1852
    Uncle Sam debuts in NY Lantern
  • 1868
    Senate begins Pres Andrew Johnson impeachment trial
  • 1877
    Chester Greenwood patents ear muffler
  • 1881
    Tsar Alexander II of Russia assassinated
  • 1884
    US adopts standard time
  • 1901
    Benjamin Harrison - 23rd pres - dies in Indianapolis
  • 1906
    American suffragist Susan B Anthony dies
  • 1925
    Tenn law prohibits teaching evolution
  • 1928
    400 die in St Francis Dam burst (Calif)
  • 1930
    Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
  • 1938
    Anschluá -- Austria joins Nazi Germany
  • 1938
    Attorney Clarence S Darrow dies
  • 1964
    Kitty Genovese stabbed dead - 40 witness attack in Queens
  • 1969
    Apollo 9 returns to Earth
  • 1970
    SF city employees start 4 day strike
  • 1970
    Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
  • 1979
    Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement
  • 1979
    Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick
  • 1985
    Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)
  • 1986
    Soyuz T-15 launched
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