March 13 0483 - St. Felix III began his reign as Pope. 0607 - The 12th recorded passage of Halleys Comet occurred. 1519 - Cortez landed in Mexico. 1639 - Harvard University was named for clergyman John Harvard. 1660 - A statute was passed limiting the sale of slaves in the colony of Virginia. 1777 - The U.S. Congress ordered its European envoys to appeal to high-ranking foreign officers to send troops to reinforce the American army. 1781 - Sir William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus. 1852 - The New York Lantern newspaper published the first Uncle Sam cartoon. It was drawn by Frank Henry Bellew. 1861 - Jefferson Davis signed a bill authorizing slaves to be used as soldiers for the Confederacy. 1868 - The U.S. Senate began the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. 1877 - Chester Greenwood patented the earmuff. 1878 - The first collegiate golf match was played between Oxford and Cambridge. 1884 - Standard time was adopted throughout the U.S. 1900 - In South Africa, British Gen. Roberts took Bloemfontein. 1901 - Andrew Carnegie announced that he was retiring from business and that he would spend the rest of his days giving away his fortune. His net worth was estimated at $300 million. 1902 - In Poland, schools were shut down across the country when students refused to sing the Russian hymn God Protect the Czar. 1902 - Andrew Carnegie approved 40 applications from libraries for donations. 1908 - The people of Jerusalem saw an automobile for the first time. The owner was Charles Glidden of Boston. 1911 - The U.S. Supreme Court approved corporate tax law. 1915 - The Germans repelled a British expeditionary force attack in France. 1918 - Women were scheduled to march in the St. Patricks Day Parade in New York due to a shortage of men due to wartime. 1925 - A law in Tennessee prohibited the teaching of evolution. 1930 - It was announced that the planet Pluto had been discovered by scientist Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory. 1933 - U.S. banks began to re-open after a holiday that had been declared by President Roosevelt. 1935 - Three-thousand-year-old archives were found in Jerusalem confirming some biblical history. 1940 - The war between Russia and Finland ended with the signing of a treaty in Moscow. 1941 - Adolf Hitler issued an edict calling for an invasion of the U.S.S.R. 1942 - Julia Flikke of the Nurse Corps became the first woman colonel in the U.S. Army. 1943 - Japanese forces ended their attack on the American troops on Hill 700 in Bougainville. 1946 - Reports from Iran indicated that Soviet tanks units were stationed 20 miles from Tehran. 1946 - Premier Tito seized wartime collaborator General Draja Mikhailovich in a cave in Yugoslavia. 1951 - Israel demanded $1.5 billion in German reparations for the cost of caring for war refugees. 1951 - The comic strip Dennis the Menace appeared for the first time in newspapers across the country. 1957 - Jimmy Hoffa was arrested by the FBI on bribery charges. 1963 - China invited Soviet President Khrushchev to visit Peking. 1969 - The Apollo 9 astronauts returned to Earth after the conclusion of a mission that included the successful testing of the Lunar Module. 1970 - Cambodia ordered Hanoi and Viet Cong troops to leave. 1970 - Digital Equipment Corp. introduced the PDP-11 minicomputer. 1972 - The Merv Griffin Show debuted in syndication for Metromedia Television. 1974 - The U.S. Senate voted 54-33 to restore the death penalty. 1974 - An embargo imposed by Arab oil-producing countries was lifted. 1980 - A jury in Winamac, IN, found Ford Motor Company innocent of reckless homicide in the deaths of three young women that had been riding in a Ford Pinto. 1988 - The board of trustees off Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, chose I. King Jordan to be its first deaf president. The college is a liberal arts college for the hearing-impaired. 1990 - The U.S. lifted economic sanctions against Nicaragua. 1991 - Exxon paid $1 billion in fines and for the clean-up of the Alaskan oil spill. 1995 - The first United Nations World Summit on Social Development concluded in Copenhagen, Denmark. 1997 - Sister Nirmala was chosen by Indias Missionaries of Charity to succeed Mother Teresa as leader of the Catholic order. 2002 - Fox aired Celebrity Boxing. Tonya Harding beat Paula Jones, Danny Banaduce beat Barry Williams and Todd Bridges defeated Vanilla Ice. 2003 - Japan sent a destroyer to the Sea of Japan amid reports that North Korea was planning to test an intermediate-range ballistic missile. 2003 - A report in the journal Nature reported that scientists had found 350,000-year-old human footprints in Italy. The 56 prints were made by three early, upright-walking humans that were descending the side of a volcano.
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