Pope Francis on the Vatican balcony following his election.
13 March 2013: Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected as Pope, taking the name 'Pope Francis'. #History
Dunblane memorial stone.
13 March 1996: Sixteen primary school children and a teacher were shot dead by Thomas Hamilton in #Dunblane, #Scotland. #History
13 March 1954: The Battle of Δiα»n BiΓͺn Phủ began with an artillery barrage of French positions by Viet Minh forces under VΓ΅ NguyΓͺn GiΓ‘p. #History #Vietnam
Following the signing of a peace treaty the previous day, a ceasefire ended the Russo-Finnish Winter War at 11 am on 13 March 1940. #History #Finland
13 March 1927: The #lance ceased to be an official weapon of the British Army. #History #UK
British troops entering Bloemfontein.
13 March 1900: Following the Battle of Paardeberg, British forces occupied #Bloemfontein during the Second Boer War. #History #SouthAfrica #BoerWar
General Charles George Gordon.
13 March 1884: The Siege of #Khartoum began. The defence of the city was organised by General Charles George Gordon. #History #Sudan
Crest of Glasgow Queen's Park football team
The formation of the Scottish FA #OTD in 1873 was initiated by the Glasgow team Queen's Park. #History #Scotland #football
Crest of the Scottish Football Association.
13 March 1873: The Scottish Football Association was founded. It initially consisted of just 8 teams. #History #Scotland #football
Napoleon Bonaparte, standing in front of an ornate gilded desk and chair.
13 March 1815: #Napoleon was declared an outlaw by the participants at the Congress of Vienna following his escape from Elba. #History
13 March 1811: The Battle of Lissa. A squadron of British frigates defeated a much larger combined French/Italian fleet in the Adriatic.
The battle was part of the Adriatic campaign of the Napoleonic Wars. #History #NapoleonicWars
Portrait of William Herschel
Photograph of Uranus
13 March 1781: William Herschel discovered Uranus. #History #Astronomy
Consensus on naming #Uranus was not reached until almost 70 years after its discovery.
The statue of "John Harvard" at Harvard University. It's worth noting that no portraits of Harvard are known to exist, so there is nothing to suggest what he had actually looked like. The inscription below the statue reads: "John Harvard Β· Founder Β· 1636". It also bears a bronze plaque indicating the university was founded in 1838. This has led to the stature becoming known as the "Statue of Three Lies". Those lies are: #1 : This is not John Harvard's face; no picture or statue of John Harvard survived. #2 : John Harvard was not founder of Harvard University; it was founded two years prior to being renamed Harvard in 1638. #3 : The plaque says Harvard was founded in 1638; in fact, it was founded two years earlier.
13 March 1639: Harvard University was named in honour of the former Charlestown minister, John Harvard. #History
John #Harvard had bequeathed his entire library, and half of his estate, to the school that now bears his name.
I can't help thinking that life was simpler (and safer) before we had Internet banking.
Perhaps those old Luddites had a point?
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Image showing Sir Terry Pratchett shaking hands with Discworld Death.
"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one".
- Sir Terry Pratchett. Died 12 March 2015. #RIP
Emergency responders tackling the aftermath of the 2011 explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
12 March 2011: A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant exploded, releasing radioactivity into the atmosphere the day after the 2011 TΕhoku earthquake and tsunami. #History #Japan
The NATO logo
12 March 1999: The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland joined #NATO. #History
12 March 1993: North Korea announced that it was withdrawing from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. #History #NorthKorea
Janet Reno being sworn in as Attorney General with Bill Clinton standing behind watching.
12 March 1993: Janet Reno was sworn in as the first female US Attorney General. #History #USA
Flag-raising ceremony on Independence Day on Mauritius.
12 March 1968: #Mauritius became independent from the United Kingdom. #History
12 March 1947: The Truman Doctrine, intended to help stem the spread of Communism, was announced in a speech to Congress. #History #USA #1stColdWar
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Austrian citizens gathered to hear Hitler's announcement of the Anschluss.
12 March 1938: German troops occupied Austria, completing the #Anschluss ("joining") of #Austria & Nazi #Germany. #History
British Red telephone box
12 March 1926: The first of Britainβs iconic red public telephone boxes, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, came into service on Charing Cross Road in #London. #History #K2
Vladimir Lenin
12 March 1918: Fearing possible invasion, Vladimir Lenin moved the capital of #Russia from Saint Petersburg back to Moscow. #History
An early "Hutchinson bottle" manufactured by the Biedenharn Candy Company of Vicksburg, Mississippi. These were the bottles originally used for used Coca Cola. The familiar "contour" Coca Cola bottle would be introduced in 1915.
12 March 1894: Coca-Cola was bottled and sold for the first time, by the Biedenharn Candy Company in Vicksburg, Mississippi. #History
Before Coca-Cola was sold in bottles, it had been sold (as a patent medicine) by the glass at soda fountains in the US. #History #CocaCola
Andrew Watson, pictured with some of his Scotland team-mates.
12 March 1881: Andrew Watson made his #Scotland debut as the world's first black international #football player and captain. #History
Watson led Scotland to a 6-1 victory against England. #History
Royal Geographical Society map of Basutoland (modern Lesotho).
12 March 1868: Basutoland ( #Lesotho ) was annexed by the United Kingdom. #History
James II
12 March 1689: James II landed at Kinsale in Ireland. #History
12 March 538: Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths, ended his siege of #Rome, and retreated to Ravenna. #History
