TODAY IN HISTORY

On March 13, 1781, the seventh planet of the solar system, Uranus, was discovered by Sir William Herschel.

the Tennessee General Assembly

In 1925,

approved a bill prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution.

In 1938, famed attorney Clarence S. Darrow died.

In 1943, financier and philanthropist J.P. Morgan Jr. died.

a gunman burst into an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and opened fire, killing 16

In 1996,

children and one teacher before killing himself.

In 2013, Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected pope, choosing the name Francis.

In 2020, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was fatally shot in her apartment during a botched raid by plainclothes narcotics detectives.