Here's a few other things that happened on March 13th down the years:
1. J. P. Morgan, Jr., the American Financier (and son of the original J.P Morgan) died (1943)
2. Sir William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus (1781)
3. The Senate began President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial (1868)
4. Tsar Alexander II was assassinated when a bomb was thrown at him near his palace (1881)
5. Standard Time is adopted in US (1884)
6. The 23rd president of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, died in Indianapolis (1901)
7. Clyde W. Tombaugh announced the discovery of the planet Pluto (1930)
8. Adolf Hitler issued an edict calling for an invasion of the U.S.S.R (1941)
9. The comic strip Dennis the Menace appeared for the first time in newspapers across the country (1951)
10. The U.S. Senate voted 54-33 to restore the death penalty (1974)
11. A man shot dead 16 children and a woman teacher in a school in Dunblane, Scotland. He then shot himself (1996)
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