Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Today is March 13. The world reacted in horror and grief on this date in 1996 when a gun collector opened fire on a kindergarten class in Dunblane, Scotland. He killed 16 children and their teacher before turning the gun on himself. One year later, in 1997 at the Israeli-Jordan border, a Jordanian soldier suddenly opened fire and killed seven Israeli schoolgirls. Jordan's King Hussein would travel to Israel to personally convey his condolences to the victims' families. Advertisement It was on this date in 1868 that the U.S. Senate began impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson. He was charged with "high crimes and misdemeanors." Eventually, Johnson would be acquitted by one vote. It would be 130 years before a second American president would be impeached. Like Johnson, Bill Clinton was also acquitted. As the Great Depression wore on, banks throughout the United States began to reopen on this date in 1933 following a weeklong bank holiday declared by President Roosevelt in an effort to stop runs on bank assets. It worked. And British astronomer William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, on this date in 1781. We know a great "Star Trek" joke involving Uranus but we can't tell it here... Advertisement We now return you to the present, already in progress.
