March 13th 1961 - Landslide in USSR, kills 145 1992 - An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey. 2003 - Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy. 1969 - Apollo 9 returns to Earth 1924 - German Republic day 1781 - Sir William Herschel sees comet (really discovered Uranus)
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