TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2019

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

0483 - St Felix III began his reign as Pope.

0607 - The 12th recorded passage of Halley’s Comet occurred.

1519 - Cortez landed in Mexico.

1847 - Kennedy departs Parramatta to trace the course of the Barcoo River, hoping it will lead to the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north.

1875 - Giles departs Fowlers Bay on his third expedition to cross the western deserts.

1900 - In South Africa, British Gen Roberts took Bloemfontein.

1902 - In Poland, schools were shut down across the country when students refused to sing the Russian hymn God Protect the Czar.

1915 - The Germans repelled a British expeditionary force attack in France.

1930 - It was announced that the planet Pluto had been discovered by scientist Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory.

1935 Three-thousand-year-old archives were found in Jerusalem confirming some biblical history.

1940 - The war between Russia and Finland ended with the signing of a treaty in Moscow.

1941 - Adolf Hitler issued an edict calling for an invasion of the USSR.

1970 - Cambodia ordered Hanoi and Viet Cong troops to leave.

2012 - After 244 years of publication, Encyclopaedia Britannica announced it would discontinue its print edition. Birthdays

Georges de La Tour 1593 - French Baroque painter Joseph Priestley 1733 Charles Earl Grey 1764 Lorenzo Delmonico 1813 Percival Lowell 1855 Helen Sinclair Glatz 1908 Sammy Kaye 1910

L. Ron Hubbard 1911 William Casey 1913

Ina Ray Hutton 1916 Tessie O’Shea 1918

Roy Haynes 1926 - Jazz drummer

Jan Howard 1930 - Country singer

Peter Breck 1930 Rosalind Elias 1931 - Opera singer