WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2019

Today is Wednesday, March 13, the 72nd day of 2019. There are 293 days left in the year.

1569 — Battle of Jarnac, Count of Anjou defeats Huguenots

1639 — Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard

1677 — Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000

1852 — Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly

1868 — Senate begins President Andrew Johnson impeachment trial

1869 — Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law

1878 — Oxford defeats Cambridge in their first golf match

1930 — Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory

1935 — Driving tests introduced in Great Britain