| March 13 In Pop Culture History |
| March 13th is… Coconut Torte Day Donald Duck Day Earmuff Day Good Samaritan Day National Jewel Day Ken Day K9 Veterans Day Open an Umbrella Indoors Day Day for Workplace Napping |
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1639 – Formerly ‘New College,” Harvard College was renamed after clergyman John Harvard. 1781 – German-born English astronomer William Hershel discovered Uranus. 1862 – The US government forbade all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation. 1868 – The impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson began. He was found ‘not guilty.’ 1877 – The first US Patent (#188,292) for earmuffs was issued to teen-aged Chester Greenwood of Farmington, Maine. 1930 – The discovery of a ninth planet, Pluto, was announced by Clyde W. Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory. Pluto was later degraded to a ‘Dwarf Planet.’ 1954 – #1 Hit March 13, 1954 – April 9, 1954: Jo Stafford – You can love me! 1965 – #1 Hit March 13, 1965 – March 26, 1965: Beatles – 8 Days per Week 1969 – Disney’s The Love Bug In theaters 1975 – #1 Hit March 13, 1976 – April 2, 1976: The Four Seasons – December 1963 (Oh! What a Night!) 1993 – #1 Hit March 13, 1993 – April 30, 1993: It snows – Informer 1999 – #1 Hit March 13, 1999 – April 9, 1999: Cher – Believe 2013 – Pope Francis was elected in the papal conclave as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church. |
