WEDNESDAY, March 13, 2024

On this day...

0607-12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1639-Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard

1835-Charles Darwin departs Valparaiso for Andes crossing

1861-Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers

1884-U.S. adopts Standard Time

1921-Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China

1933-Josef Göbbels becomes German minister of Information & Propaganda

1957-Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba

1961-JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress

1961-Pablo Picasso (79) marries his model Jacqueline Rocque (37)

1964-Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack

1969-Apollo 9 returns to Earth

1974-Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris France

1986-Space probe Giotto encounters Halley's Comet

1989-U.S. space shuttle STS-29 launched

1992-570 die in a Turkish earthquake

1992-Martina Navratilova & Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit

1995-Anti fascist Kazakhstan anti-parliament forms