It happened today – this day in history – March 13
1639: Cambridge College, Massachusetts, is renamed Harvard. 1781: William Herschel sees what he thinks is a comet but is actually
Read more1639: Cambridge College, Massachusetts, is renamed Harvard. 1781: William Herschel sees what he thinks is a comet but is actually
Read more49BC: Julius Caesar defies the Roman Senate and crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war which would lead
Read more1400: Author and poet Geoffrey Chaucer dies aged 54. 1415: Henry V’s forces defeat the larger French army at the
Read moreOctober 11 1138: An earthquake in Aleppo, Syria, kills an estimated 230,000. 1521: Pope Leo X titles Henry VIII “Defender
Read more301: San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world’s oldest republic still in existence, is
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