Births, Deaths and events that occurred on March 13th.
0483 - St. Felix begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
0607 - 12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
1462 - Johannes Gutenberg prints the first Bible using moveable type.
1733 - English chemist Joseph Priestly, the discoverer of oxygen.
1759 - 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
1781 - William Hershel discovers Uranus.
1852 - Uncle Sam cartoon made its debut in the New York Lantern.
1881 - Tsar Alexander II assassinated.
1884 - US adopts Standard Time.
1894 - J L Johnstone invents horse racing starting gate.
1895 - Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar.
1911 - L. Ron Hubbard was born.
1918 - Tessie O'Shea was born.
1921 - Mongolia declares independence from China.
1930 - Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto.
1935 - Driving tests introduced in Great Britain.
1939 - Neil Sedaka was born.
1943 - Failed assassination of Adolf Hitler.
1950 - Danny Kirwan was born.
1950 - Joe Bugner was born.
1960 - Adam Clayton was born.
1961 - JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress.
1965 - Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds.
1969 - "The Love Bug" film was released bringing "Herbie" to life.
1969 - Apollo 9 returns to Earth.
1970 - Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer.
1974 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris France.
1979 - European Monetary System is established, ECU created.
1981 - Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca.
1983 - Louison Bobet dies.
1986 - Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir.
1986 - Space probe Giotto encounters Halley's Comet.
1989 - Discovery 8 launched, 1st woman to do the countdown.
1989 - US space shuttle STS-29 launched.
1992 - A 6.8 magnitude Earthquake rocks Turkey.
1996 - Tragedy at Dunblane.