| 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 Workplace Napping Day |
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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 – Make Love To Me! 1965 – #1 Hit March 13, 1965 – March 26, 1965: The Beatles – Eight Days a Week 1969 – Disney’s The Love Bug opened 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: Snow – 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. |