This Day in History

March 13th in History

Uranus is discovered; schoolchildren everywhere snicker. In other news, the liquidation of the Krakow Ghetto begins, Kitty Genovese is murdered, and Apollo 9 returns to Earth. It's the birthday of airport namesake Butch O'Hare, scientologist L. Ron Hubbard, and tea drinker Earl Grey. RIP Clarence Darrow, Susan B. Anthony, shattering cannonball inventor Henry Shrapnel, and Robert Baker, who invented the chicken nugget. Happy Monkey Festival!

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Quote of the Day

"If a man be not mistaken in the principal object of his pursuits, he has no occasion to distress himself about lesser things."

Joseph Priestley, scientist and theologian born March 13, 1733