0837 Best view of Halley's Comet in 2000 years

0989 The Byzantine emperor Basil II uses 6,000 Russians to help him defeat Bardas Phocas at Abydos in Anatolia April 13, ending the threat to Constantinople

1598 Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots

1743 Thomas Jefferson born

1759 French beat European Aliies in Battle of Bergen

1796 First elephant brought to America (from Bengal, India)

1808 William Henry Lane ("Juda") perfects the tap dance

1842 Lord Rosse successfully casts 72" (183-cm) mirror for a telescope

1847 Naval Forces begin 5 day battle to capture several towns in Mexico

1849 Hungarian Republic proclaimed

1858 John Quinn's Peninsula Hotel destroyed when storm cuts channel through peninsula, creating Toronto Island.

1861 After 34 hours of bombardment, Ft Sumter surrenders to Confederates

1861 Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces

1865 Sherman's march through Georgia begins

1866 Butch Cassidy (Robert Leroy Parker) born.

1869 Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse)

1873 Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish Louisiana (60 blacks killed)

1877 A US newspaper, the Fort Benton Record, coins a slogan for the RCMP "They always get their man." Gee I always thought it was a Canadian eh saying

1883 Alfred Packer convicted of cannibalism

1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist" (BG)

1902 JC Penney opened his first store in Kemmerer, Wyo

1904 Congress authorizes Lewis & Clark Expo $1 gold coin

1906 M Wolf discovers asteroid #598 Octavia

1918 Electrical fire kills 38 mental patients at Oklahoma State Hospital

1919 British forces kill 100s of Indian Nationalists (Amritsar Massacre)

1923 Army wins the first college three-weapon fencing championships

1933 First flight over Mount Everest (Lord Clydesdale)

1933 NY Rangers beat Tor Maple Leafs 3 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup

1934 4.7 million US families report receiving welfare payments

1936 P Djurkovic discovers asteroid #1605 Milankovitch

1940 Cornelious Warmerdam became the first man to pole vault 15 ft

1940 NY Rangers beat Toronto Maple Leafs 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup

1941 Corporal J H Edmonson, 2/17th Battalion, 2nd AIF, awarded posthumously the first Australian Victoria Cross of World War Two at Tobruk, Libya

1942 RCAF's 417 Fighter Squadron heads for Egypt to join Desert Air Force.

1943 FDR dedicates Jefferson Memorial

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