March 13

Today in History
• 1519 - Cortez landed in Mexico
• 1639 - Harvard University was named for clergyman John Harvard
• 1560 - Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli
• 1781 - Sir William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus
• 1868 - The U.S. Senate began the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson
• 1877 - Chester Greenwood patented the earmuff
• 1884 - Standard time was adopted throughout the U.S.
• 1925 - A law in Tennessee prohibited the teaching of evolution


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Adelaide Cup
• Commonwealth Day in Canada
• K-9 Veterans Day
• National Earmuff Day
• National Good Samaritan Day
• National Jewel Day
• National Open An Umbrella Indoors Day
• Taranaki Anniversary Day

Birthdays
• 1372 - Louis I, Duke of Orléans, Brother of Charles VI of France
• 1499 - Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo,conquistador who conquered Central America
• 1585 - Federico Cesi, founder of the first modern scientific society
• 1615 - Innocent XII [Antonio Pignatelli], Pope (1691-1700)
• 1719 - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden
• 1733 - Joseph Priestley, clergyman and scientist, discovered oxygen
• 1741 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1764-90)
• 1798 - Abigail Powers Fillmore, 1st lady, 1850-53