Today is Thursday, March 13, the 72nd day of 2014. There are 293 days left in the year. March 13, 1964: bar manager Catherine Kitty Genovese, 28, was stabbed to death near her Queens, N.Y. home; the case generated controversy over the supposed reluctance of Genoveses neighbors to respond to her cries for help. (Genoveses killer, Winston Moseley, remains in prison.) 1781: the seventh planet of the solar system, Uranus, was discovered by Sir William Herschel. 1862: President Abraham Lincoln signed a measure prohibiting Union military officers from returning fugitive slaves to their owners. 1901: the 23rd President of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, died in Indianapolis at age 67. 1925: the Tennessee General Assembly approved a bill prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution. (Gov. Austin Peay signed the measure on March 21.) 1933: banks in the U.S. began to reopen after a holiday declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1934: a gang that included John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson robbed the First National Bank in Mason City, Iowa, making off with $52,344. 1954: the Battle of Dien Bien Phu began during the First Indochina War as communist forces attacked French troops, who were defeated nearly two months later. 1969: the Apollo 9 astronauts splashed down, ending a mission that included the successful testing of the Lunar Module. 1980: Ford Motor Chairman Henry Ford II announced he was stepping down, the same day a jury in Winamac, Ind., found the company not guilty of reckless homicide in the fiery deaths of three young women in a Ford Pinto. 1996: a gunman burst into an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and opened fire, killing 16 children and one teacher before killing himself.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:57:24 +0000
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