TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

March 13, 1928

At least 400 people died when the San Francisquito Canyon in Southern California was inundated with water after the nearly two-year-old St. Francis Dam collapsed just before midnight the evening of March 12.

ALSO ON THIS DATE 1639

New College was renamed Harvard College for clergyman John Harvard.

1781

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

1865

Confederate President Jefferson Davis signed a measure allowing black slaves to enlist in the Confederate States Army with the promise they would be set free.