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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48022)3/13/2005 4:01:41 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 50167
 
Today in history-March 13:

874 - The bones of Saint Nicephorus were interred in Constantinople.

1639 - New College in Cambridge, Massachusetts was renamed Harvard College, after its first principal donor, John Harvard.

1781 - William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

1881 - Tsar Alexander II of Russia was assassinated in a Nihilist plot by Ignacy Hryniewiecki.

1954 - Viet Minh forces under Vo Nguyen Giap unleashed a massive artillery barrage on the French military to begin the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the final battle in the First Indochina War.