Group IV - 19 and above

Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 13 March.

1. Harvard U named for clergyman John Harvard
2. Mass gains title to Maine for $6 -000
3. Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really Uranus)
4. Uncle Sam debuts in NY Lantern
5. Senate begins Pres Andrew Johnson impeachment trial
6. Chester Greenwood patents ear muffler
7. Tsar Alexander II of Russia assassinated
8. US adopts standard time
9. Benjamin Harrison - 23rd pres - dies in Indianapolis
10. American suffragist Susan B Anthony dies
11. Tenn law prohibits teaching evolution
12. 400 die in St Francis Dam burst (Calif)
13. Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
14. Anschluá -- Austria joins Nazi Germany
15. Attorney Clarence S Darrow dies
16. Kitty Genovese stabbed dead - 40 witness attack in Queens
17. Apollo 9 returns to Earth
18. Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
19. SF city employees start 4 day strike
20. Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement
21. Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick
22. Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)
23. Soyuz T-15 launched

These famous people were born on 13 March.

1. 1733 - Joseph Priestly, Engl, clergyman, discovered oxygen
2. 1764 - Charles, Earl Grey, (Whig), British PM (1830-34)
3. 1770 - Daniel Lambert, English giant (weighed 334 kg at death)
4. 1781 - Johann Wyss, Switz, Author
5. 1798 - Abigail Powers Fillmore, 1st lady
6. 1855 - Percival Lowell, predicted discovery of Pluto
7. 1911 - L. Ron Hubbard, scientologist
8. 1913 - William J. Casey, headed CIA during Iran-contra scandal
9. 1914 - Sammy Kaye, Bandleader
10. 1918 - George McAfee, NFL halfback (Chicago Bears)
11. 1926 - Ra£l Alfons¡n, Argentine pres (1983-, )
12. 1931 - Rosalind Elias, Opera singer
13. 1939 - Neil Sedaka, singer, Bkln
14. 1946 - Steve Kanaly
15. 1953 - Deborah Raffin, LA