On this day: March 13

POSTED: 03:42 PM PST Mar 07, 2013    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Mar 12, 2013 

Uncle Sam makes his print debut, Susan B. Anthony dies, the NHL crowns its first champion, Cher's career resurgence breaks a record, and gold prices top $1,000 for the first time, all on this day.

OTD March 13 - Harvard College
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1639: New College in Cambridge, Mass., is renamed Harvard College for clergyman John Harvard, who had bequeathed to the school his entire library and half of his monetary estate.

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