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#TodayInHistory โ€“ March 13

March 13 โ€“ Some Important Events on this day

624 ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ Battle of Badr: Muhammadโ€™s Muslim forces win significant victory over Meccan army
1591 ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ Battle at Tondibi: Moroccan army under Judar defeats Sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai

1770 ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ Nobody knows what was wrong with Daniel Lambert who was born on this day. But he went from being a slim, athletic, sports-loving guy to a very very very big man in his thirties, so big that he entered record books as the heaviest person ever to have lived. โœ”๏ธ Read the article!

1781 ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ William Herschel sees what he thinks is a โ€œcometโ€ but is actually the discovery of the planet Uranus ๐Ÿ’ซ
1865 ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ Confederate President Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers in US Civil War ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

1877 ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ Chester Greenwood invented earmuffs aged just 15, in 1873, while growing up in Maine. He reportedly made his first pair from farm wire and asked his grandmother to sew beaver fur onto the loops around the ears. He later made a metal band to connect the two ear pieces.
Thus, after further testing of designs in 1877, Chester applied for and was granted US patent No. 188,292. Seeing a local need, especially in snowy Maine, he set up Greenwoodโ€™s Ear Protector Factory in Framington and the town became known as the Earmuff Capital of the World going on to supply troops during WWI.

1881 ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ Alexander II of Russia is assassinated by members of far-left terror group โ€˜Peopleโ€™s Willโ€™ who throw a bomb at him in the city of St. Petersburg ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ
1884 ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins by Mahdist forces, lasts 10 months ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฉ
1903 ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ Fall of the Sokoto Caliphate in Northern Nigeria, the British claim supremacy on over 500,000 square miles
1930 ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
1943 ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ Failed assassin attempt on Adolf Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight
1980 ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ American John Wayne Gacy receives the death sentence in Illinois for the murder of 12 people ๐Ÿ”ซ
2003 ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น
2019 ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ US grounds all Boeing 737 Max aircraft after bans by others countries following the plane typeโ€™s second crash in Ethiopia

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