Today in History
Listings for Sunday, March 13, 2022.
Birthdays:
- 1733 Joseph Priestly, discoverer of oxygen, revolutionary
- 1855 Percival Lowell
- 1911 L. Ron Hubbard
- 1913 William Casey
- 1939 Neil Sedaka
- 1956 Dana Delany
Events:
- 1639 Harvard University is named for clergyman John Harvard.
- 1677 Massachusets gains title to Maine for $6,000.
- 1852 Uncle Sam makes his debut in the New York "Lantern"
- 1877 Chester Greenwood patents ear muffler
- 1884 US adopts standard time
- 1925 Law passed in Tennessee prohibiting teaching evolution
- 1930 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
- 1970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces the PDP-11 minicomputer.
- 1974 Howard Saint John dies.
- 1986 Soyuz T-15 launched
- 2000 FreeBSD 4.0 released.
That's all for today.