March 13<\/p>\n
1639 \u2013 3 years after it is founded at Cambridge Massachusetts, by the donation of half his estate and all his library, Harvard College is named after clergyman John Harvard.<\/p>\n
1741 \u2013 As part of the “War of Jenkins’ Ear”<\/em>, between Britain and Spain, British forces attempt and fail to capture the port of Cartagena in modern Columbia.<\/p>\n 1781 \u2013 Astronomer William Herschel, using a homemade telescope in the backyard of his home in Bath, England, discovers Uranus.<\/p>\n 1845 \u2013 Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto<\/em> premieres in Leipzig<\/p>\n 1862 \u2013 The Act Prohibiting the Return of Slaves<\/em>, prohibiting the military from returning escaped, or captured ‘contraband’ slaves, is passed by\u00a0 Congress, effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act<\/em> of 1850.<\/p>\n 1930 \u2013 Astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh, using photographs taken by the 13 inch Lowell Astrograph telescope\u00a0at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, discovers Pluto.<\/p>\n 1954 \u2013 The Battle of \u0110i\u1ec7n Bi\u00ean Ph\u1ee7 begins between French forces under Christian de Castries and Viet Minh forces under V\u00f5 Nguy\u00ean Gi\u00e1p<\/p>\n 1969 \u2013 The Apollo 9 mission ends when the command module Gumdrop<\/em> returns the crew safely to Earth after they test the Lunar Module Spider <\/em>in Earth orbit.<\/p>\n 1979 \u2013 The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts the Prime Minister of the island of Grenada, Eric Gairy, in a coup d’\u00e9tat.<\/p>\n 1996 \u2013 At Dunblane Primary School near Stirling, Scotland, Thomas Hamilton, using 4 handguns, kills 16 students, 1 teacher and wounds 15 others before killing himself.<\/p>\n 2016 \u2013 Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and al-Mourabitoun moslem terrorists attack a hotel in the Ivory Coast town of Grand-Bassam, killing 19 people and wounding 33 more before being killed themselves. 2020 \u2013 In Louisville, Kentucky, Breonna Taylor is killed by return fire when police officers, with a ‘No Knock’ search warrant, forcibly enter her home and are fired on by her boyfriend who claims he believed they were burglars perpetrating a home invasion, since the officers never identified themselves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 13 1639 \u2013 3 years after it is founded at Cambridge Massachusetts, by the donation of half his estate and all his library, Harvard College is named after clergyman John Harvard. 1741 \u2013 As part of the “War of Jenkins’ Ear”, between Britain and Spain, British forces attempt and fail to capture the port … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65744"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90718,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65744\/revisions\/90718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nKurdish Hawk terrorists detonate a VBIED on Atat\u00fcrk Boulevard in Ankara, Turkey, killing 37 people and wounding 125 more.<\/p>\n