Once Upon A Time – March 13 – 1903 – Fall Of Sokoto Caliphate In Northern Nigeria, British Claims Supremacy On Over 500,000 Square Miles

1591 Battle at Tondibi: Moroccan army under Judar defeats Sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai

1781 William Herschel sees what he thinks is a “comet” but is actually the discovery of the planet Uranus

1884 Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins by Mahdist forces, lasts 10 months

1903 Fall of the Sokoto Caliphate in Northern Nigeria, the British claim supremacy on over 500,000 square miles

1930 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory

2003 The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy

2019 US grounds all Boeing 737 Max aircraft after bans by others countries following the plane type’s second crash in Ethiopia

Historical Events Today
Today in Film & TV
1956 “The Searchers” American western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Natalie Wood is released

Today in Music
2004 Luciano Pavarotti performs in his last opera at New York Metropolitan Opera’s “Tosca”

Today in Sport
1894 J. L. Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate

2004 Luciano Pavarotti performs in his last opera at New York Metropolitan Opera’s “Tosca”

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1852 Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly

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1915 Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substitutes a grapefruit