On This Day in History: March 13th

colby2152 · #1 $Old$ March 13th, 2008, 09:21 AM

0483 - St Felix III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0607 - 12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1138 - German king Koenraad II von Hohenstaufen crowned
1519 - Cortez lands in M‚xico
1560 - Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli
1564 - Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels
1567 - Battle at Oosterweel: Spanish troops destroy Geuzenleger
1569 - Battle of Jarnac, Count of Anjou defeats Huguenots
1591 - Battle at Tondibi: Moroccans army under Judar beats sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai
1634 - Acad‚mie Fran‡aise opens
1639 - Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard
1656 - Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam
1677 - Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000
1735 - 1st US Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany
1759 - 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1772 - Gotthold Lessing's "Emilia Calotti," premieres in Brunswick
1781 - Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really discovered Uranus)
1790 - John Martin, 1st American-born actor, performs in Philadelphia
1797 - Cherubini's opera "Med‚e," premieres in Paris
1835 - Charles Darwin departs Valparaiso for Andes crossing
1846 - Friedrich Hebbel's "Maria Magdalena," premieres in K”nigsberg
1852 - Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the NY Lantern weekly
1861 - Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers
1865 - US Confederate Congress calls on black slaves for field service
1868 - Senate begins Pres Andrew Johnson impeachment trial
1869 - Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law
1878 - Oxford defeats Cambridge in their 1st golf match
1884 - Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins
1884 - US adopts Standard Time
1887 - Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs
1888 - Great Blizzard of 1888 rages
1894 - J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate
1895 - Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die
1900 - British troops occupy Bloemfontein, Orange-Free state
1904 - Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilian border dedicated
1911 - Ivan Caryll's musical "Pink Lady," premieres in NYC
1911 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (Ont), 7-4
1912 - Stanley Cup: Quebec Bulldogs sweep Moncton (NB) in 2 games
1913 - Kansas legislature approved censorship of motion pictures
1915 - Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit
1918 - 1st NHL championship: Mont Canadiens beat Toronto Arenas, outscoring them 10-7 in a 2 game set
1918 - American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms
1920 - Wolfgang Kapp's coup attempt in Berlin fails
1921 - Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China
1922 - George Bernard Shaws "Back to Methusaleh V," premieres in NYC
1922 - WRR-AM in Dallas TX begins radio transmissions
1922 - NHL Championship: Ottawa Senators outscore Toronto St Pats, 5 to 4, in 2 games
1923 - Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (NYC)
1924 - German Republic day
1925 - Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution
1925 - NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Arenas in 2 games
1928 - 450 die in St Francisquito Valley Dam burst (Calif)
1928 - Rudolph Friml's musical "Three Musketeers," premieres in NYC
1929 - Bradman scores 123 Aust v England at MCG, his 2nd Test Cricket ton
1930 - Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
1933 - Josef G”bbels becomes German minister of Information and Propaganda
1933 - Banks reopen
1935 - Driving tests introduced in Great Britain
1938 - Anschluá-Austria annexed by Nazi Germany
1940 - Finland-Russian cease fire signed, Finland gives up Karelische
1941 - A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand)
1942 - Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army
1943 - Baseball approves official ball (with cork and balata)
1943 - Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight
1943 - Frank Dixon wins Knights of Columbus mile (4:09.6)
1944 - USSR recognizes Italian Badoglio govt
1945 - Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands
1945 - Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman
1947 - "Brigadoon" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 581 performances
1947 - 19th Academy Awards - "Best Years of Lives," De Havilland, March win
1948 - 10th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Baylor 58-42
1949 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
1949 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1950 - General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record)
1951 - 2nd Dutch govt of Drees forms
1951 - Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany
1954 - Braves' Bobby Thomson breaks his ankle, he is replaced by Hank Aaron
1954 - Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu
1955 - Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of Nepal
1955 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1956 - NZ bowl out WI for 77 at Eden Park to score their 1st Test Cricket win
1957 - Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba
1958 - Govt troops land in Sumatra Indonesia
1960 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1960 - NFL's Chicago Cardinals moves to St Louis
1960 - White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number
1961 - Pablo Picasso (79) marries his model Jacqueline Rocque (37)
1961 - Old type, black and white notes cease to be legal tender
1961 - Landslide in USSR, kills 145
1961 - JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress
1961 - Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 6 for heavywgt boxing title
1961 - Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes pres of US Communist Party
1962 - Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty
1963 - Indonesia and Netherlands recover diplomatic relations
1963 - Hindemith and Wilder's opera "Long Christmas Dinner," premieres in NYC
1963 - 2 Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska
1964 - Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack
1965 - Beatles' "Eight Days a Week," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks
1965 - Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds
1966 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lagunita Golf Invitational
1967 - Robert Anderson's "You Know I Can't Hear You ...," premieres in NYC
1967 - Congo sentences ex-premier Mo‹se Tsjombe to death
1968 - Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK
1969 - Apollo 9 returns to Earth
1970 - 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam
1970 - Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
1970 - SF city employees begin 4-day strike
1971 - Live at Fillmore East recorded
1973 - Minskoff Theater opens at 200 W 45th St NYC
1973 - "Irene" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 605 performances
1973 - Syria adopts constitution
1974 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris
1974 - Glenn Turner scores twin tons for NZ's 1st win against Aust
1975 - Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year," premieres in NYC
1977 - Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test
1978 - Moluccans "suicide commandos" occupies Province house
1979 - European Monetary System is established, ECU created
1979 - Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement
1979 - Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick
1980 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Jan Hoffmann GDR
1980 - Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto
1980 - Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:13.60)
1981 - Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca
1981 - NCAA St Joseph's upsets top seed DePaul
1982 - Elaine Zayak, lands 6 triple jumps to win world skating championship
1982 - Worlds Ladies Fig Skate Champs in Copenhagen won by Elaine Zayak (USA)
1982 - Men's Fig Skating Champions in Copenhagen won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
1982 - Ice Pairs Championship at Copenhagen won by Baess and Thierbach (GDR)
1982 - Ice Dance Championship at Copenhagen won by Torvill and Dean (GRB)
1983 - "Woman of the Year" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 770 perfs
1983 - 1st USFL overtime game-Birmingham Stallions beat Oakld Invaders 20-14
1984 - WA beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield
1984 - Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird
1985 - Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)
1985 - Michael Secrest (US) begins 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
1986 - Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
1987 - Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova and Bukin (URS)
1987 - John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering
1987 - Washington Caps score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 mins and 3 secs
1988 - 14th People's Choice Awards: Fatal Attraction, Bill Cosby. win
1989 - US space shuttle STS-29 launched
1989 - FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US
1989 - 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown
1990 - Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada
1991 - Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines and cleanup of Valdez oil spill
1992 - 570 die in a Turkish earthquake
1992 - FCC rules companies can own 30 AM and 30 FM stations (formerly 12)
1992 - Martina Navratilova and Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit
1993 - Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US
1994 - President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed
1994 - Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed)
1994 - Donna Andrews wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship
1994 - Cuba Godding Jr (26) weds Sara Kapfer (26)
1994 - 33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right FP™
1995 - 9th Soul Train Music Awards: Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win
1995 - Anti fascist Kazachstan anti-parliament forms
1995 - Hungarian Forint devalued 9%
1995 - Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators
1996 - Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play
1996 - Thomas Hamilton kills 16 kindergardeners, their teacher and himself

colby2152 · #2 $Old$ March 13th, 2008, 11:41 AM

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1861 - Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers
1865 - US Confederate Congress calls on black slaves for field service

Interesting.... President of the Confederate States of America signs bill at the beginning of the war, but it doesn't follow through until the end of the war.