In the present day is Thursday, March 13, the 72nd day of 2025. There are 293 days left within the 12 months.
In the present day in historical past:
On March 13, 2013, Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected pope, selecting the papal identify Francis. He was the primary pontiff from the Americas, and the primary from outdoors Europe since Pope Gregory III’s dying within the 12 months 741.
Additionally on this date:
In 1781, the seventh planet of the photo voltaic system, Uranus, was found by astronomer William Herschel.
In 1925, the Tennessee Common Meeting accredited the Butler Act, which prohibited public faculties from instructing of the speculation of evolution. (Gov. Austin Peay signed the measure on March 21; the invoice was challenged in court docket later that 12 months within the well-known Scopes Monkey Trial. Tennessee in the end repealed the legislation in 1967.)
In 1946, U.S. Military Pfc. Sadao Munemori was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for sacrificing himself to save lots of fellow troopers from a grenade explosion in Seravezza, Italy; he was the one Japanese American service member so acknowledged within the rapid aftermath of World Battle II.
In 1954, the pivotal Battle of Dien Bien Phu started in the course of the First Indochina Battle as Viet Minh forces attacked French troops, who had been defeated practically two months later.
In 1996, a gunman entered an elementary faculty in Dunblane, Scotland, and opened hearth, killing 16 kids and one trainer earlier than killing himself; it stays the deadliest mass taking pictures in British historical past.
In 2020, President Donald Trump declared a nationwide emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2020, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black lady, was fatally shot in her condo in Louisville, Kentucky, throughout a botched raid by plainclothes narcotics detectives looking for a suspected drug vendor; no medication had been discovered, and the “no-knock” warrant used to enter by drive was later discovered to be primarily based on false info.
In the present day’s Birthdays:
- Songwriter Mike Stoller is 92.
- Singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka is 86.
- Actor William H. Macy is 75.
- Actor Dana Delany is 69.
- Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., is 68.
- Bassist Adam Clayton (U2) is 65.
- Jazz musician Terence Blanchard is 63.
- Actor Annabeth Gish is 54.
- Rapper-actor Widespread is 53.
- Actor Emile Hirsch is 40.
- Olympic snowboarding gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin is 30.
- Rapper Jack Harlow is 27.
- Tennis star Coco Gauff is 21.
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