Today is Thursday, March 13, the 72nd day of 2014. There are 293 days left in the year. March 13, 1964bar manager Catherine Kitty Genovese, 28, was stabbed to death near her Queens, N.Y. home; the case generated controversy over the supposed reluctance of Genoveses neighbors to respond to her cries for help. (Genoveses killer, Winston Moseley, remains in prison.) 1764Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, who served as British Prime Minister from 1830 to 1834 (and for whom Earl Grey tea is named), was born in Falloden, Northumberland. 1781the seventh planet of the solar system, Uranus, was discovered by Sir William Herschel. 1862President Abraham Lincoln signed a measure prohibiting Union military officers from returning fugitive slaves to their owners. 1901the 23rd President of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, died in Indianapolis at age 67
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