Today in history: March 13
Today in history: March 13
In 1781, the seventh planet of the solar system, Uranus, was discovered by Sir William Herschel.
1781: Uranus
In 1781, the seventh planet of the solar system, Uranus, was discovered by Sir William Herschel.
1954: Battle of Dien Bien Phu
In 1954, the Battle of Dien Bien Phu began during the First Indochina War as Viet Minh forces attacked French troops, who were defeated nearly two months later.
1995: David Daliberti
In 1995, two Americans working for U.S. defense contractors in Kuwait, David Daliberti and William Barloon, were seized by Iraq after they strayed across the border; sentenced to eight years in prison, both were freed later the same year.
2012: Rick Santorum
A resurgent Rick Santorum swept to victory in Republican presidential primaries in Alabama and Mississippi. Twenty-two young people returning from a ski holiday and six adults died when their bus crashed inside a tunnel in southern Switzerland.
2013: Jorge Bergoglio
In 2013, Jorge Bergoglio (HOHR’-hay behr-GOHG’-lee-oh) of Argentina was elected pope, choosing the name Francis; he was the first pontiff from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium.
2017 : Ilich Ramirez Sanchez
Once the world’s most-wanted fugitive, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the man known as “Carlos the Jackal,” appeared in a French court for a deadly 1974 attack on a Paris shopping arcade that killed two people.
2020: Breonna Taylor
Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was fatally shot in her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky, during a botched raid by plainclothes narcotics detectives; no drugs were found, and the warrant used to enter by force was later found to be flawed.
2021: Marvelous Marvin Hagler
In 2021, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, the middleweight boxing great whose title reign and career ended with a split-decision loss to “Sugar” Ray Leonard in 1987, died at age 66 at his New Hampshire home.
House passes bill that would lead to a TikTok ban if Chinese owner doesn't sell. Senate path unclear
The House has passed a bill that would lead to a nationwide ban of the popular video app TikTok if its China-based owner doesn't sell. Lawmakers are acting on concerns that the company's current ownership structure is a U.S. national security threat.
