TODAY IN HISTORY

1781

The seventh planet of the solar system, Uranus, was discovered by Sir William Herschel.

1928

At least 400people died when the San Francisquito Canyon in Southern California was inundated with water after the St. Francis Dam collapsed just before midnight on March 12.

1933

Banks in the U.S. began to reopen after a “holiday” declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1947

The Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical “Brigadoon,” about a Scottish village that magically reappears once every hundred years, opened on Broadway.