Daily Almanac for Saturday, March 13, 2021

On this date in 1639, Harvard University named the school after Clergyman John Harvard. His statue sits in Harvard Yard. 2005 photo By Jessica Williams, CC BY-SA 3.0, https commons.wikimedia.org

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