Today in HistoryToday is Monday, March 13, the 72nd day of 2006. There are 293 days left in the year. The Jewish holiday Purim begins at sunset.

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In 1781, the planet Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel.

In 1925, a law went into effect in Tennessee prohibiting the teaching of evolution.

In 1964, 38 residents of a Queens, New York, neighbourhood failed to respond to the cries of Catherine (Kitty) Genovese, 28, as she was being stabbed to death.

In 1996, a gunman burst into an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and opened fire on a class of kindergartners, killing 16 children and one teacher before killing himself.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”