On This Day for March 13 - The planet Uranus discovered, Susan B. Anthony is featured, and more

Created: 2020-03-13 10:04 Updated: 2020-03-13 10:04 Notebook: On this Day in History

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March 13

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

1820

Susan B. Anthony

False-colour image of Uranus and its rings, based on observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope. The rings, which are dark in normal viewing, have been brightened greatly. The layers of the atmosphere of Uranus are also made visible, represented by different colours.

FEATURED EVENT

1781

The planet Uranus discovered

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2013: Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, was elected pope of the Roman Catholic Church; taking the name Francis I, he succeeded Benedict XVI, who had resigned. [ Test your knowledge of popes and antipopes .]

2012: Encyclopædia Britannica , Inc., announced that it was ceasing publication of its print version, the oldest and longest continually published English-language general print encyclopaedia.

1996: A gunman invaded a primary school in the small Scottish town of Dunblane and shot to death 16 young children and their teacher before turning a gun on himself; the school shooting resulted in various changes to British gun laws.

1925: The Tennessee legislature passed a bill that banned the teaching of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in the state's public schools; in a highly publicized trial, high-school teacher John T. Scopes was later convicted of breaking the law. [ Read more about this and nine other “trials of the century.” ]

1911: L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology, was born in Tilden, Nebraska.

At Mouquin's, oil on canvas by William J. Glackens, 1905; in The Art Institute of Chicago.

1870: Artist William Glackens , whose paintings of street scenes and urban life rejected the dictates of 19th-century academic art and introduced a matter-of-fact realism into American art, was born.

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1911

L. Ron Hubbard
American writer

1741

Joseph II
Holy Roman emperor

1733

Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist

1764

Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
prime minister of United Kingdom

1942

Mahmoud Darwish
Palestinian poet