Worldpedia:Selected anniversaries/March 13

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• 1639 - Already two years old but usually called simply "the New College", Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts was named after its first principal donor, John Harvard.

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William Herschel

• 874 - The remains of Saint Nicephorus were brought back to Constantinople to be interred at the Church of the Holy Apostles.
• 1781 - William Herschel (pictured) discovered the planet Uranus.
• 1881 - Tsar Alexander II of Russia was assassinated in a Nihilist plot by Ignacy Hryniewiecki.
• 1921 - Mongolia, under the Black Baron, proclaimed its independence from China.
• 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.

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