March 13 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for March 13
In the headlines today:

2007	The Bolo Tie becomes the official necktie of New Mexico.
1999	Playwright Garson Kanin dies in New York City at age 86.
1980	A Winamac, IN jury finds auto maker Ford not guilty of reckless homicide after three women are burned alive in a Ford Pinto.
1972	The Merv Griffin Show makes its syndicated TV debut.
1969	The Apollo 9 spacecraft splashes down in the Atlantic.
1955	Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah becomes King of Nepal.
1938	Germany and Austria proclaim a political and geographical union.
1937	Warships from England, France, Germany and Italy begin patrolling the Spanish coast during the Spanish Civil War.
1928	450 people are killed when St. Francis Dam collapses near Los Angeles.
1884	Standard Time is adopted in the US.
1884	Basutoland becomes a British African colony.
1881	Russia's Czar Alexander II is assassinated.
1852	The first picture of Uncle Sam is published (New York Lantern).
1808	Christian VII, monarch of Denmark and Norway, dies.
1781	The planet Uranus is discovered by the astronomer Herschel.
1644	Rhode Island becomes an American colony.
1493	Columbus leaves Lisbon, Portugal.
1462	Johannes Gutenberg prints the first Bible using moveable type.
1138	Conrad III is crowned King of Germany.