Today in History

Listings for Sunday, March 13, 2022.

Birthdays:


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.



Today In History