Right this moment is Thursday, March 13, the 72nd day of 2025. There are 293 days left within the yr.
Right this moment in historical past:
On March 13, 2013, Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected pope, selecting the papal identify Francis. He was the primary pontiff from the Americas, and the primary from exterior Europe since Pope Gregory III’s demise within the yr 741.
Additionally on this date:
In 1781, the seventh planet of the photo voltaic system, Uranus, was found by astronomer William Herschel.
In 1925, the Tennessee Normal Meeting accepted the Butler Act, which prohibited public colleges from instructing of the idea of evolution. (Gov. Austin Peay signed the measure on March 21; the invoice was challenged in courtroom later that yr within the well-known Scopes Monkey Trial. Tennessee in the end repealed the regulation in 1967.)
In 1946, U.S. Military Pfc. Sadao Munemori was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for sacrificing himself to avoid wasting fellow troopers from a grenade explosion in Seravezza, Italy; he was the one Japanese American service member so acknowledged within the speedy aftermath of World Struggle II.
In 1954, the pivotal Battle of Dien Bien Phu started throughout the First Indochina Struggle as Viet Minh forces attacked French troops, who have been defeated practically two months later.
In 1996, a gunman entered an elementary faculty in Dunblane, Scotland, and opened fireplace, killing 16 youngsters and one instructor earlier than killing himself; it stays the deadliest mass taking pictures in British historical past.
In 2020, President Donald Trump declared a nationwide emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2020, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black lady, was fatally shot in her condo in Louisville, Kentucky, throughout a botched raid by plainclothes narcotics detectives looking for a suspected drug vendor; no medication have been discovered, and the “no-knock” warrant used to enter by drive was later discovered to be primarily based on false info.
Right this moment’s Birthdays:
- Songwriter Mike Stoller is 92.
- Singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka is 86.
- Actor William H. Macy is 75.
- Actor Dana Delany is 69.
- Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., is 68.
- Bassist Adam Clayton (U2) is 65.
- Jazz musician Terence Blanchard is 63.
- Actor Annabeth Gish is 54.
- Rapper-actor Widespread is 53.
- Actor Emile Hirsch is 40.
- Olympic snowboarding gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin is 30.
- Rapper Jack Harlow is 27.
- Tennis star Coco Gauff is 21.