Today in History
13th March
Sir William
Herschel 1738-1822
Astronomer
by Lemuel Francis Abbott - 1785
oil on canvas
30 in. x 25 in. (762 mm x 635 mm)
NPG 98
Enrico Toselli
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| 1138 German king Koenraad II von Hohenstaufen crowned | ||
| 1519 Cortez lands in Mexico | ||
| 1560 Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli | ||
| 1564 Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels |
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| 1567 Battle at Oosterweel: Spanish troops destroy Geuzenleger | ||
| 1569 In the Third French Religious War, the Huguenots under Prince de Conde were defeated by the Catholics at the Battle of Jarnac. Conde died in the battle. | ||
| 1591 Battle at Tondibi: Moroccans army under Judar beats sultan Askia | ||
| 1591 Ishaq II of Songhai | ||
| 1634 Academie Francaise opens | ||
| 1656 Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam | ||
| 1741 Jozef II, arch duke of Austria/RC German emperor (1765-90) was born | ||
| 1744 David Allan, Scottish painter was born | ||
| 1759 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet | ||
| 1764 Charles Earl Grey, (Whig), British PM (1830-34) was born | ||
| 1779 Oliver Shaw, composer was born | ||
| 1781 The German-born English astronomer Sir William Herschel discovered the planet Georgium Sidus, later known as Uranus | ||
| 1809 King Gustavus IV of Sweden was overthrown in a coup d'etat and was succeeded by his uncle Charles XIII. | ||
| 1813 Sweden joined the Grand Alliance against Napoleon and his allies. | ||
| 1835 Charles Darwin departs Valparaiso for Andes crossing | ||
| 1848 After demonstrations and riots in Vienna, Prince Metternich resigned as chancellor. | ||
| 1858 Felice Orsini, Italian revolutionary, was executed for his part in the assassination attempt on Napoleon III of France. | ||
| 1861 Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers | ||
| 1865 During the U.S. Civil War, the Confederate Congress under President Jefferson Davis signed a bill allowing slaves to join the army in exchange for freedom. |
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Herschel 1738-1822 |
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| 1868 Senate begins Pres Andrew Johnson impeachment trial | ||
| 1869 Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law | ||
| 1881 Czar Alexander II of Russia, died after a bomb was thrown at him near the Winter Palace. | ||
| 1883 Enrico Toselli, composer was born | ||
| 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 The British under Lord Frederick Roberts captured Bloemfontein in the Boer War. | ||
| 1915 The British under General Haig were denied a breakthrough at the end of the Battle of Neuve-Chappelle when the Germans rushed in more troops in and prevented a British advance. | ||
| 1920 Wolfgang Kapp's coup attempt in Berlin fails | ||
| 1921 Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China | ||
| 1924 German Republic day | ||
| 1928 The St. Francis dam 40 miles north of Los Angeles burst and flooded the valley; at least 450 people were drowned. | ||
| 1935 Driving tests introduced in Great Britain | ||
| 1938 In Austria, Chancellor Seyss-Inquart introduced a law re-unifying Austria with the German Reich. | ||
| 1938 In France, Leon Blum became prime minister and formed the Popular Front ministry. | ||
| 1940 Hostilities between Russia and Finland ceased at noon | ||
| 1940 Finland-Russian cease fire signed, Finland gives up Karelische | ||
| 1942 Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army | ||
| 1943 Baseball approves official ball (with cork & balata) | ||
| 1943 Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight | ||
| 1944 USSR recognizes Italian Badoglio governament | ||
| 1945 Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands | ||
| 1951 2nd Dutch govt of Drees forms |
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| 1954 Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu | ||
| 1955 Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of Nepal | ||
| 1958 Govt troops land in Sumatra Indonesia | ||
| 1961 JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress | ||
| 1961 Landslide in USSR, kills 145 | ||
| 1961 Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, 79, married his model Jacqueline Rocque, 37, in Nice, France. | ||
| 1962 Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty | ||
| 1963 2 Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska | ||
| 1963 Indonesia & Netherlands recover diplomatic relations | ||
| 1964 Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack | ||
| 1969 Apollo 9 returns to Earth | ||
| 1970 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam | ||
| 1972 Britain and China resumed full diplomatic relations after 22 years; Britain withdrew its consulate from Taiwan. | ||
| 1972 Clifford Irving admitted to a New York court that he had fabricated his autobiography of Howard Hughes and defrauded his publisher McGraw Hill. | Enrico Toselli |
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| 1973 Syria adopts constitution | ||
| 1974 The Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris was inaugurated. | ||
| 1979 Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement | ||
| 1980 Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto | ||
| 1981 Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca | ||
| 1985 Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow) | ||
| 1986 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir | ||
| 1987 John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering | ||
| 1989 US space shuttle STS-29 launched | ||
| 1990 The Soviet parliament voted to end the political monopoly of the Communist Party after 72 years. | ||
| 1990 Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada | ||
| 1992 Pravda, founded in 1912 by Lenin and the official newspaper of the Soviet Communist Party, ceased publication because of lack of funds. | ||
| 1992 570 die in a Turkish earthquake | ||
| 1994 President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed | ||
| 1995 Anti fascist Kazachstan anti-parliament forms | ||
| 1995 Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators | ||
| 1995 General Olusegun Obasanjo, the only Nigerian military ruler to have voluntarily handed over power to elected civilians, was arrested. | ||
| 1996 A man with four guns shot dead 16 children and a woman teacher in a school in Dunblane, Scotland. He then shot himself. | ||
| 1997 A Jordanian soldier shot dead seven Israeli girls on a school trip to an area called "The Island of Peace" on the border with Jordan. | ||
| 1997 Sister Nirmala was elected as the new Superior-General of the Missionaries of Charity, succeeding Mother Teresa. | ||