^B{^#!16!13 March^N! Feast day of St Gerald of Mayo, St Mochoemoc, St Nicephorus of Constantinople, Saints Roderic and Salomon, St Ansovinus, and St Euphrasia.
^B{1781^B} German-born British astronomer William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus. ^B{1881^B} Tsar Alexander II of Russia died after a bomb was thrown at him in St Petersburg.^B{ 1894^B} The first public striptease act was performed in Paris. ^B{1928^B} 450 people drowned when a dam burst near Los Angeles, US. ^B{1930^B} US astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered the planet Pluto; its existence had been predicted 14 years earlier by US astronomer Percy Lowell. ^B{1979^B} A Marxist coup led by Maurice Bishop took place in Grenada while Prime Minister Edward Gairy was in New York at a meeting of the United Nations.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Joseph Priestley, English scientist, ^B{1733^B}; Percy Lowell, US astronomer, ^B{1855^B}; Hugh Walpole, English novelist, ^B{1884^B}; Henry Hathaway, US film director, ^B{1898^B}; Neil Sedaka, US singer and songwriter, ^B{1939^B}; Joe Bugner, Hungarian-born British boxer, ^B{1950^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Richard Burbage, English actor who built the Globe Theatre, ^B{1619^B}; Susan Anthony, US feminist, ^B{1906^B}; Stephen Benet, US poet who wrote 'John Brown's Body', ^B{1943^B}; Angela Brazil, English writer of stories about girls' schools, ^B{1947^B}; John Middleton Murry, English writer and critic, ^B{1957^B}.
