March 12
1664 - England's King Charles II granted an area on the East Coast of present-day North America known as New Netherland to his brother James, Duke of York.
1864 - Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant assumed command as General-in-Chief of Union armies in the Civil War.
1912 - Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts.
1930 - Mohandas Gandhi began his 200-mile march to protest the British salt tax.
1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the first of his nationwide "fireside chats" on radio.
1938 - "Anschluss" took place when Adolf Hitler incorporated his homeland of Austria into the Third Reich.
1947 - President Harry S. Truman established the "Truman Doctrine" to aid in the containment of Communsim.
1980 - AChicago jury found John Wayne Gacy Jr. guilty of the murders of 33 men and boys. (The next day, Gacy was sentenced to death; he was executed in May 1994.)
1993 - Janet Reno was sworn in as America's first female attorney general.
1994 - The Church of England ordained female priests for the first time in 460 years.
2002 - The color-coded terror alert system was unveiled by Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge.
2003 - Elizabeth Smart, the 15-year-old girl who vanished from her bedroom nine months earlier, was found alive in a Salt Lake City suburb with two drifters, Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee. (Mitchell is serving a life sentence; Barzee was released from prison in September 2018.)
2008 - New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned two days after reports had surfaced that he was a client of a prostitution ring (Spitzer was succeeded as governor by fellow Democrat David Paterson).
2020 - The stock market had its biggest drop since the Black Monday crash of 1987 as fears of economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis deepened; the Dow industrials plunged more than 2,300 points, or 10%.
2020 - New York’s governor ordered Broadway theaters to shut down for a month; all gatherings of more than 500 people were temporarily banned. (The theaters remain closed.) Disneyland in California said it would close for the rest of March. (The park has yet to reopen.) Studios announced that the release of major films, including “Mulan,” would be delayed because of the virus.
Birthdays
22 - Kendall Applegate (actress)
27 - Tyler Patrick Jones (actor)
28 - Anna Clendening (singer)
37 - Jaimie Alexander (actress)
40 - Holly Williams (country singer)
42 - Rhys Coiro (actor)
52 - Jake Tapper (journalist)
53 - Aaron Eckhart (actor)
58 - Jake Weber (actor)
58 - Julia Campbell (actress)
59 - Darryl Strawberry (baseball player)
59 - Titus Welliver (actor)
61 - Courtney B. Vance (actress)
61 - Jason Beghe (actor)
64 - Marlon Jackson (singer)
64 - Jerry Levine (actor)
65 - Lesley Manville (actress)
71 - Jon Provost (actor)
73 - James Taylor (singer)
74 - Mitt Romney (politician)
75 - Liza Minnelli (actress/singer)
88 - Barbara Feldon (actress)
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Today in Sports History - May 13
1913 - The American League approved the name change of the New York Highlanders to the Yankees.
1956 - Dick Farley (Syracuse) fouled out after playing just five minutes. It was the fastest disqualification in NBA history.
1966 - Bobby Hull (Chicago Black Hawks) became the first player in the NHL to score more than 50 goals in a season. Hull ended the season with 54 goals.
1971 - Gordie Howe (Detroit Red Wings) announced his retirement after playing 26 seasons in the NHL. He came out or retirement two years later to play for the Houston Aeros of the World Hockey Association.
1972 - The Boston Celtics retired Bill Russell's #6.
1985 - Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics scored a franchise-record 60 points in a game against the Atlanta Hawks.
1987 - David Robinson of Navy scores 50 points in an NCAA Tournament game.
1992 - Moses Malone (Milwaukee Bucks) became the fourth all-time scorer in NBA history.
1992 - Coach Don Nelson (Golden State Warriors) became the first man in NBA history to participate in 2,500 games as a player and coach.
2020 - The NCAA canceled its basketball tournaments after earlier planning to play in empty arenas. The NHL joined the NBA in suspending play. Major League Baseball delayed the start of its season by at least two weeks. (An abbreviated 60-game season would begin in July.)
1664 - England's King Charles II granted an area on the East Coast of present-day North America known as New Netherland to his brother James, Duke of York.
1864 - Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant assumed command as General-in-Chief of Union armies in the Civil War.
1912 - Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts.
1930 - Mohandas Gandhi began his 200-mile march to protest the British salt tax.
1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the first of his nationwide "fireside chats" on radio.
1938 - "Anschluss" took place when Adolf Hitler incorporated his homeland of Austria into the Third Reich.
1947 - President Harry S. Truman established the "Truman Doctrine" to aid in the containment of Communsim.
1980 - AChicago jury found John Wayne Gacy Jr. guilty of the murders of 33 men and boys. (The next day, Gacy was sentenced to death; he was executed in May 1994.)
1993 - Janet Reno was sworn in as America's first female attorney general.
1994 - The Church of England ordained female priests for the first time in 460 years.
2002 - The color-coded terror alert system was unveiled by Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge.
2003 - Elizabeth Smart, the 15-year-old girl who vanished from her bedroom nine months earlier, was found alive in a Salt Lake City suburb with two drifters, Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee. (Mitchell is serving a life sentence; Barzee was released from prison in September 2018.)
2008 - New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned two days after reports had surfaced that he was a client of a prostitution ring (Spitzer was succeeded as governor by fellow Democrat David Paterson).
2020 - The stock market had its biggest drop since the Black Monday crash of 1987 as fears of economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis deepened; the Dow industrials plunged more than 2,300 points, or 10%.
2020 - New York’s governor ordered Broadway theaters to shut down for a month; all gatherings of more than 500 people were temporarily banned. (The theaters remain closed.) Disneyland in California said it would close for the rest of March. (The park has yet to reopen.) Studios announced that the release of major films, including “Mulan,” would be delayed because of the virus.
Birthdays
22 - Kendall Applegate (actress)
27 - Tyler Patrick Jones (actor)
28 - Anna Clendening (singer)
37 - Jaimie Alexander (actress)
40 - Holly Williams (country singer)
42 - Rhys Coiro (actor)
52 - Jake Tapper (journalist)
53 - Aaron Eckhart (actor)
58 - Jake Weber (actor)
58 - Julia Campbell (actress)
59 - Darryl Strawberry (baseball player)
59 - Titus Welliver (actor)
61 - Courtney B. Vance (actress)
61 - Jason Beghe (actor)
64 - Marlon Jackson (singer)
64 - Jerry Levine (actor)
65 - Lesley Manville (actress)
71 - Jon Provost (actor)
73 - James Taylor (singer)
74 - Mitt Romney (politician)
75 - Liza Minnelli (actress/singer)
88 - Barbara Feldon (actress)
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Today in Sports History - May 13
1913 - The American League approved the name change of the New York Highlanders to the Yankees.
1956 - Dick Farley (Syracuse) fouled out after playing just five minutes. It was the fastest disqualification in NBA history.
1966 - Bobby Hull (Chicago Black Hawks) became the first player in the NHL to score more than 50 goals in a season. Hull ended the season with 54 goals.
1971 - Gordie Howe (Detroit Red Wings) announced his retirement after playing 26 seasons in the NHL. He came out or retirement two years later to play for the Houston Aeros of the World Hockey Association.
1972 - The Boston Celtics retired Bill Russell's #6.
1985 - Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics scored a franchise-record 60 points in a game against the Atlanta Hawks.
1987 - David Robinson of Navy scores 50 points in an NCAA Tournament game.
1992 - Moses Malone (Milwaukee Bucks) became the fourth all-time scorer in NBA history.
1992 - Coach Don Nelson (Golden State Warriors) became the first man in NBA history to participate in 2,500 games as a player and coach.
2020 - The NCAA canceled its basketball tournaments after earlier planning to play in empty arenas. The NHL joined the NBA in suspending play. Major League Baseball delayed the start of its season by at least two weeks. (An abbreviated 60-game season would begin in July.)
