WillDekkard
03-13-2010, 04:06 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- March 13th
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* 1138 Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
* 1639 Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard.
* 1781 William Herschel discovers Uranus.
* 1809 Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'้tat.
* 1845 Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its premi่re performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
* 1862 American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
* 1865 American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops.
* 1881 Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)
* 1884 The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885.
* 1897 San Diego State University is founded.
* 1900 Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
* 1900 In France the length of the workday for women and children is limited by law to 11 hours.
* 1920 The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
* 1921 Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China.
* 1925 Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
* 1930 The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
* 1933 Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a "bank holiday".
* 1938 World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
* 1938 Anschluss of Austria to the Third Reich.
* 1940 The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends.
* 1943 World War II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.
* 1943 The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Krak๓w.
* 1954 Battle of Điện Bi๊n Phủ: Viet Minh forces attack the French.
* 1957 Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
* 1962 Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks upon Guantแnamo Bay Naval Base, to Secretary of Defense Robert Mcnamara. The proposal is scrapped and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position.
* 1969 Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
* 1979 The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'etat in Grenada.
* 1986 Microsoft has its initial public offering.
* 1991 The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
* 1992 An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
* 1996 Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 children and 1 teacher are shot dead by a spree killer, Thomas Watt Hamilton who then committed suicide.
* 1997 India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
* 1997 The Phoenix lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.
* 2003 Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.
* 2005 Terry Ratzmann shoots and kills six members of the Living Church of God and the minister at Sheraton Inn in Brookfield, Wisconsin before killing himself.
* 2008 Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time.
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- March 13th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 1138 Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
* 1639 Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard.
* 1781 William Herschel discovers Uranus.
* 1809 Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'้tat.
* 1845 Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its premi่re performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
* 1862 American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
* 1865 American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops.
* 1881 Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)
* 1884 The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885.
* 1897 San Diego State University is founded.
* 1900 Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
* 1900 In France the length of the workday for women and children is limited by law to 11 hours.
* 1920 The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
* 1921 Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China.
* 1925 Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
* 1930 The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
* 1933 Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a "bank holiday".
* 1938 World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
* 1938 Anschluss of Austria to the Third Reich.
* 1940 The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends.
* 1943 World War II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.
* 1943 The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Krak๓w.
* 1954 Battle of Điện Bi๊n Phủ: Viet Minh forces attack the French.
* 1957 Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
* 1962 Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks upon Guantแnamo Bay Naval Base, to Secretary of Defense Robert Mcnamara. The proposal is scrapped and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position.
* 1969 Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
* 1979 The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'etat in Grenada.
* 1986 Microsoft has its initial public offering.
* 1991 The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
* 1992 An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
* 1996 Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 children and 1 teacher are shot dead by a spree killer, Thomas Watt Hamilton who then committed suicide.
* 1997 India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
* 1997 The Phoenix lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.
* 2003 Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.
* 2005 Terry Ratzmann shoots and kills six members of the Living Church of God and the minister at Sheraton Inn in Brookfield, Wisconsin before killing himself.
* 2008 Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time.
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