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Monday 14 March 2016

Today in History [14th March, 2016]

A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.



Today in History
March 13

483
St. Felix begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
607
The 12th recorded passage of Halley’s Comet occurs.
1519
Hernando Cortez lands in what will become Mexico.
1660
A statute is passed limiting the sale of slaves in the colony of Virginia.
1777
Congress orders its European envoys to appeal to high-ranking foreign officers to send troops to reinforce the American army.
1781
Astronomer William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus, which he names ‘Georgium Sidus,’ in honor of King George III.
1793
Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
1861
Jefferson Davis signs a bill authorizing slaves to be used as soldiers for the Confederacy.
1868
The U.S. Senate begins the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson.
1881
Czar Alexander II is assassinated when a bomb is thrown at him near his palace.
1915
The Germans repel a British Expeditionary Force attack at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in France.
1918
Women are scheduled to march in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York due to a shortage of men.
1935
A three-thousand-year-old archive is found in Jerusalem confirming biblical history.
1940
Finland capitulates conditionally to Soviet terms, but maintains its independence.
1941
Hitler issues an edict calling for an invasion of the Soviet Union.
1942
Julia Flikke of the Nurse Corps becomes the first woman colonel in the U.S. Army.
1943
Japanese forces end their attack on the American troops on Hill 700 in Bougainville.
1951
Israel demands $1.5 billion in German reparations for the cost of caring for war refugees.
1957
The FBI arrests Jimmy Hoffa on bribery charges.
1963
China invites Soviet Premiere Nikita Khrushchev to visit Beijing.
1970
Cambodia orders Hanoi and Viet Cong troops to get out.
1974
The U.S. Senate votes 54-33 to restore the death penalty.
1974
Arab nations decide to end the oil embargo on the United States.
1981
The United States plans to send 15 Green Berets to El Salvador as military advisors.
1985
Upon the death of Konstantin Chernenko, Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the new leader of the Soviet Union.
1991
Exxon pays $1 billion in fines and costs for the clean-up of the Alaskan oil spill.
Born on March 13
1615
Innocent XII, Roman Catholic Pope
1733
Joseph Priestly, scientist credited with the discovery of oxygen.
1764
Charles Earl Grey, British Prime Minister
1798
Abigail Powers Fillmore, First Lady and wife of Millard Fillmore
1855
Percival Lowell, astronomer who predicted the discovery of the planet Pluto.
1886
Albert William Stevens, balloonist and photographer.
1892
Janet Flanner, writer (“Letter from Paris”).
1900
George Seferis, Greek poet.

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