March 13

On This Day In History
	1781: The planet Uranus discovered English astronomer William Herschel observed this day in 1781 the seventh planet from the Sun, Uranus—first described by him as "a curious either nebulous star or perhaps a comet" and named for the father of the god Saturn.
False-colour image of Uranus and its rings, based on observations made by the Hubble Space
Biography Of The Day
	William Glackens American artist William Glackens, whose paintings of street scenes and urban life rejected the dictates of 19th-century academic art and introduced a matter-of-fact realism into U.S. art, was born this day in 1870.
At Mouquin's, oil on canvas by William J. Glackens, 1905; in The Art Institute of Chicago
More Events On This Day In History
1986	1986 Soviet cosmonauts Leonid Kizim and Vladimir Solovyev were sent aloft aboard a Soyuz spacecraft to rendezvous with the space station Mir and become its first occupants.
1938	1938 The Anschluss, political union between Austria and Germany, was announced.
	1884 Al-Mahdi began the Siege of Khartoum, capital of the Sudan, which was defended by an Egyptian garrison under the British general Charles George ("Chinese") Gordon.
	1881 Tsar Alexander II of Russia was assassinated in St. Petersburg.
	1741 The Holy Roman emperor Joseph II, who was at first coruler (1765–80) with his mother, Maria Theresa, and then acted as sole ruler (1780–90) of the Austrian Habsburg dominions, was born.
1642	1642 The marquis de Cinq-Mars, a favourite of King Louis XIII of France, signed a secret treaty with King Philip IV of Spain in a plot to overthrow Cardinal de Richelieu.