March 13

Birthdays:

1956 ~ Jamie Dimon, Chairman, CEO and President of JPMorgan Chase.

1950 ~ Charles Krauthammer, American journalist.  He became paralyzed from the neck down in a diving accident when he was in his 20s.

1950 ~ William Hall Macy, Jr., American actor.

1946 ~ Yonatan Netanyahu (d. July 4, 1976), Israeli soldier and younger brother of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  He was the only soldier killed during the daring raid on Entebbe in 1976 to release hostages.  He was 30 years old.

1945 ~ Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko, Russian mathematician.

1944 ~ George Rodrigue (d. Dec. 14, 2013), American artist from New Iberia, Louisiana most famous for his Blue Dog series.  He died of lung cancer at age 69.

1929 ~ Bunny Yaeger (née Linnea Eleanor Yeager, d. May 25, 2014), American photographer and pin-up model.  She perfected the pin-up.  She died of congestive heart failure at age 85.

1923 ~ William F. Bolger (d. Aug. 21, 1989), 65^th United States Postmaster General.  He served in this position from March 1975 until January 1985.  He died at age 66.

1921 ~ Gitta Sereny (d. June 14, 2012), Austrian-born British author who explored the roots of evil.  She wrote extensively about the Holocaust.  She died at age 91.

1920 ~ Ralph Joel Roberts (d. June 18, 2015), American businessman and co-founder of Comcast Communications.  He died at age 95.

1916 ~ Lindy Boggs (née Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs, d. July 27, 2013), American politician and first woman from Louisiana to be elected to Congress.  She served as a member of the House of Representatives who legislated with charm.  She was born in New Roads, Louisiana.  She was also the mother of Cokie Roberts.  She died at age 97.

1914 ~ Edward “Butch” O’Hare (d. Nov. 26, 1943), American flying ace. He was shot down during a mission during World War II.  He was 29 years old.  The O’Hare Airport in Chicago is named after him.

1913 ~ William Joseph Casey (d. May 6, 1987), 13^th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.  He served in that office during the Ronald Reagan administration from January 1981 through January 1987.  He died of a brain tumor at age 74.

1911 ~ L. Ron Hubbard (né Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, d. Jan. 24, 1986), American founder of the Church of Scientology.  He died of a stroke at age 74.

1910 ~ Sammy Kaye (né Samuel Zarnocay, Jr., d. June 2, 1987), American musician and saxophonist.  He died at age 77.

1900 ~ Giorgos Seferis (d. Sept. 20, 1971), Greek poet and recipient of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Literature.  His birthday is sometime listed as February 29, because of the calendar in use in Greece at the time of his birth.  He died at age 71.

1899 ~ John Hasbrouck van Vleck (d. Oct. 27, 1980), American physicist and mathematician.  He was the recipient of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics.  He died at age 81 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1892 ~ Janet Flanner (d. Nov. 7, 1978), American journalist and author.  She was the Paris corresponded for The New Yorker.  She died at age 86.

1855 ~ Percival Lowell (d. Nov. 12, 1916), American astronomer and mathematician.  He was born in Boston, Massachusetts.  He died at age 61.

1798 ~ Abigail Powers Fillmore (d. Mar. 30, 1853), First Lady of the United States and wife of President Millard Fillmore.  She died of pneumonia just over 2 weeks following her 55^th birthday.

1764 ~ Charles Grey, 2^nd Earl Grey (d. July 17, 1845), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.  He served as Prime Minister from November 1830 until July 1834, during the reign of King William IV.  He is also associated with Earl Grey tea.  He died at age 81, eleven years almost to the date of his departure as Prime Minister.

1741 ~ Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. Feb. 20, 1790).  He died 3 weeks before his 49^th birthday.

1615 ~ Pope Innocent XII (né Antonio Pignatelli, d. Sept. 27, 1700).  He was Pope from July 1691 until his death 9 years later.  He died at age 85.

Events that Changed the World:

2013 ~ Pope Francis (né Jorge Mario Bergoglio, b. 1936) was elected to succeed Pope Benedict XVI, thereby making him the 266^th Pope of the Catholic Church.

1992 ~ A 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit Erzincan in Eastern Turkey, killing over 500 people.

1991 ~ Exxon agreed to pay $1 Billion for the clean-up of the 1989 Exxon-Valdez oil spill off the coast of Alaska.

1969 ~ The Apollo 9 Spacecraft returned safely to earth after testing the Lunar Module.

1963 ~ Ernesto Miranda (1941 ~ 1976) was arrested by police in Phoenix, Arizona and charged with kidnap and rape.  His conviction ultimate was set aside by the United States Supreme Court in the 1966 case of Miranda v. Arizona because he was not advised of his rights.  He was retried and his confession was not introduced into evidence.  In his second trial, he was found guilty and sentenced to 20-30 years in prison.  He was released on parole in 1972.  In 1976, he was stabbed to death in a bar fight.

1943 ~ German forces liquidated the Jewish ghetto in Kraków, Poland.

1940 ~ The Russo-Finnish Winter War ended.

1933 ~ Following President Franklin Roosevelt’s mandate for a “Bank Holiday,” banks began to re-open.

1925 ~ The state of Tennessee passed a law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in the schools.  This eventually led to the Scopes Trial.

1865 ~ The Confederate States of America began using African American troops in its cause against the Union during the American Civil War.

1862 ~ The US Federal government forbad all Union army officers to return fugitive slaves, thus annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which required run-away slaves to their former owners.

1809 ~ Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (1778 ~ 1837) was deposed in a coup d’état.

1781 ~ William Herschel (1738 ~ 1822) discovered the planet Uranus.  It would be nearly 200 years before other astronomers discovered that there were rings around the planet.

1639 ~ Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass., was named for clergyman John Harvard.  The school had been established three years earlier.

Good-Bye

2016 ~ Hilary Whitehall Putnam (b. July 31, 1926), American mathematician and computer scientist.  He died at age 89.

2014 ~ Sean Leary (b. Aug. 23, 1975), American extreme athlete who found escape in flight.  He was killed at age 38 in a BASE jumping accident in Utah’s Zion National Park.

2006 ~ Maureen Stapleton (née Lois Maureen Stapleton, b. June 21, 1925), American actress.  She died in Lenox, Massachusetts at age 80.

1990 ~ Bruno Bettelheim (b. Aug. 28, 1903), Austrian-born American psychiatrist.  He died at age 86.

1975 ~ Ivo Andrić (b. Oct. 9, 1892), Serbo-Croatian writer and recipient of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature.  He died at age 82.

1971 ~ Rockwell Kent (b. June 21, 1882), American painter and illustrator.  He died of a heart attack at age 88.

1964 ~ Kitty Genovese (née Catherine Susan Genovese, b. July 7, 1935) American murder victim.  She was murdered in New York City while her neighbors allegedly did nothing to help her.  This became known as the By-stander or Genovese Effect.

1960 ~ Yosef Zvi HaLevy (b. 1874), Israeli rabbi and judge.

1943 ~ Stephen Vincent Benét (b. July 22, 1898), American writer.  He died at age 44 of a heart attack.

1938 ~ Clarence Seward Darrow (b. Apr. 18, 1857), American attorney.  He is best known for defending John Scopes in the famous Monkey Trial, which was about teaching evolution in the Tennessee schools.  He was a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union.  He died about a month before his 81^st birthday of pulmonary heart disease.

1906 ~ Susan B. Anthony (née Susan Brownell Anthony, b. Feb. 15, 1820), American woman’s suffrage activist.  She died about a month after her 86^th birthday.

1901 ~ Benjamin Harrison (b. Aug. 20, 1833), 23^rd President of the United States.  He was President from March 1889 until March 1893.  He was the grandson of President William Henry Harrison.  He died of pneumonia at age 67.

1885 ~ Titian Ramsey Peale (b. Nov. 2, 1799), American artist, naturalist and explorer.  He died at age 85.

1884 ~ Leland Stanford, Jr. (b. May 14, 1868), only son of the American railroad magnate.  He died of typhoid fever at age 15.  His father named Stanford University in California in his memory.

1881 ~ Tsar Alexander II of Russia (b. Apr. 29, 1818).  He was killed near his palace when a bomb was thrown at him.  In the Julian calendar that was used by Russia at the time, this event was recorded on March 1.  He was 62 at the time of his death.

1879 ~ Adolf Anderssen (né Karl Ernst Aldolf Anderssen, b. July 6, 1818), German mathematician.  He died at age 60.

1842 ~ Henry Shrapnel (b. June 3, 1761), British soldier and inventor.  He invented the Shrapnel Shell.  He died at age 80.

1808 ~ King Christian VII of Denmark (b. Jan. 29, 1748).  He died at age 59.

1516 ~ Vladislaus II of Hungary (b. Mar. 1, 1456).  He was King of Bohemia from 1471 until his death, and King of Hungary and Croatia from 1490 until his death.  He died 12 days after his 60^th birthday.