March 13th

March 13 is the 73rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 283 days remaining until the end of time.

1639 Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard and not for Harvard beets as many think

1718 William Herschel, English astronomer, detects Uranus with a telescope, but mistakes it for a comet having obviously failed his coursework in anatomy

1852 Uncle Sam makes his debut in the New York Lantern weekly

1913 Kansas legislature approves censorship of motion pictures

1925 Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution

1961 Ken doll is created by Mattel as Barbie’s BFF boyfriend with a slight design flaw

1980 Ford Motor Company is found not guilty in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto

1991 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines and cleanup of Valdez oil spill

1992 Martina Navratilova and Judy Nelson settle their galimony suit.  Martina can do better.

1911 Snappy dresser, L Ron Hubbard, writer/founder of Scientology 

1950 William H Macy, actor/Frank Gallagher 

1954 Fred Berry, actor/Rerun on What's Happening

1974 Vampeta [Marcos André Batista dos Santos], soccer player/G Magazine model 

1976 Danny Masterson, actor

1982 Wayne Godwin, English rugger 

1983 Brandon Ruckdashel, actor/model 

1985 Emile Hirsch, actor 

Leaving so soon?

1906 Susan B[rownell] Anthony, US suffragist, doesn’t get to vote on this issue either

1938 Clarence S Darrow, US defense attorney/Scopes Monkey Trial attorney, loses this case

1964 Kitty Genovese, noted US victim, is raped and stabbed to death in Queens, New York by Winston Mosley in three separate attacks occurring over a period of more than half an hour. Although 38 people witness some or all of the crime, as Genovese cries for help, no one calls the police until she is already dead, 35 minutes after the assault begins.

1977 Fannie Lou Hamer, US freedom fighter, is truly sick and tired of being sick and tired

2006 Dick Cheney lookalike, Robert C. Baker, US inventor of the chicken nugget, gets deep-fried.

2010 He Pingping, Chinese/the world's shortest man who was able to walk, grows. . .wings.