Society & Culture
March 13th is a slow day for observances around the world so we'll take it to the next level. It's Hamburger and Pickle Month and it's World Clown Week! It's also Play the Recorder Month, and your Almanac host makes his recorder dubut in today's episode. Tennessee's Butler Act went into effect this day in 1925. We've a brief explanation and we'll move on to 1938 and Germany's annexation of Austria. Today's the day news started getting out, and we've a snippet from a radio report. And then there's anniversary audio from The Long Hot Summer, The Allman Brothers Band, and Neil Sedaka. We close with observing the 21st anniversary of the Microsoft IPO. On the Almanac's companion Web page, there's more information about the Butler Act, the Scopes Trial, and there's even a link to the Microsoft IPO calculator. What the heck!