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Today in History
March 13
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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