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-- card: 38715 from stack: in.0
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March 13
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In 1639, Harvard University was named for clergyman John Harvard.
In 1781, the planet Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel.
In 1868, the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson began in the U.S. Senate.
In 1884, standard time was adopted throughout the United States.
In 1901, the 23rd president of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, died in Indianapolis.
In 1906, one of the pioneers of the American suffragist movement, Susan B. Anthony, died in Rochester, N.Y.
In 1925, a law went into effect in Tennessee prohibiting the teaching of evolution.
In 1928, more than 400 people died when the San Francisquito Valley in California was inundated with water after the St. Francis Dam burst.
In 1933, banks in the United States began to re-open after a
"holiday" declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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"A man in passion rides a mad horse."
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Anonymous.