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March_13
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{| style="float:right;" |- |{{MarchCalendar}} |- |{{ThisDateInRecentYears|Month=March|Day=13}} |} {{PAGENAME}} is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian_calendar (73rd in Leap_years). There are 293 days remaining. ==Events== * 483 - St. Felix becomes Pope. * 874 - The bones of Saint_Nicephorus are interred in the Church_of_the_Apostles, Constantinople. *1138 - Cardinal_Gregory is elected anti-pope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II. *1639 - Harvard_College was named for clergyman John Harvard. *1781 - William_Herschel discovers the Planet Uranus. *1846 - Ballinglass_Incident: eviction of 300 tenants at the village of Ballinglass in Ireland during the Irish_Potato_famine. *1862 - American_Civil_War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive_Slave_Law_of_1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation_Proclamation. *1865 - American_Civil_War: The Confederate_States_of_America reluctantly agrees to the use of African_American troops. *1881 - Alexander_II_of_Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March_1 in the Julian_calendar then in use in Russia.) *1884 - The siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins (ends on January_26, 1885). *1897 - San_Diego_State_University founded. *1900 - Boer_Wars: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange_Free_State. * 1900 - In France, length of a workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law *1921 - Mongolia, under ''Black Baron'', declares its independence from China. *1925 - Scopes_Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of Evolution. *1930 - The news of the discovery of Pluto was telegraphed to the Harvard_College_Observatory. *1933 - Great_Depression: Banks in the United_States begin to re-open after the Presidentially mandated "Bank_holiday". *1940 - Winter_War ended. *1943 - World_War_II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill_700. * 1943 - Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków. *1954 - Battle of Điện Biên Phủ: Viet_Minh forces attack the French. *1957 - The FBI arrests Jimmy_Hoffa and charges him with bribery. *1962 - Lyman_Lemnitzer,chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff in the USA, proposes a document, called Operation_Northwoods, regarding performing Terrorist_attacks in Guantanamo Bay to Secretary_of_Defense Robert Mcnamara. The proposal is scrapped and President_John_F._Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position. *1964 - A young woman, Kitty_Genovese is murdered in front of multiple witnesses who all fail to help her, in an incident which shocks the world and prompts investigation into the Bystander_effect. *1969 - Apollo_program: Apollo_9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar_Module. *1971 - In New_York_City, Rock group The_Allman_Brothers_Band record a concert that will be released as their classic Live_album ''At_Fillmore_East'' *1979 - The New_Jewel_Movement, headed by Maurice_Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric_Gairy in a nearly bloodless Coup_d'etat in Grenada. *1986 - Microsoft has its Initial_public_offering. *1988 - I._King_Jordan becomes the first Deaf_president of Gallaudet_University after the Deaf_President_Now demonstrations. *1991 - The United States Justice Department announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill in Alaska. *1992 - In eastern Turkey, an Earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter_scale kills over 500. *1993 - The Great_Blizzard_of_1993 strikes the eastern U.S., bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba to Québec. *1996 - The Dunblane Massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 children and 1 adult teacher are shot dead by a Spree_killer who then commits suicide. *1997 - India's Missionaries_of_Charity chooses Sister_Nirmala to succeed Mother_Teresa as its leader. * 1997 - In Phoenix, Arizona, the Phoenix_Lights, one of the most widely witnessed UFO sightings, take place. *2003 - Human_evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old upright-walking Human footprints have been found in Italy. *2006 - Earthquake struck Salta, Argentina * 2006 - Six men in London are hospitalised during trials of the drug TGN1412, raising concerns about testing on humans. ==Births== *2 - Apollonius_of_Tyana *1372 - Louis_of_Valois,_Duke_of_Orléans, brother of Charles_VI_of_France (d. 1407) *1615 - Pope_Innocent_XII (d. 1700) *1683 - John_Theophilus_Desaguliers, French-British philosopher (d. 1744) *1700 - Michel_Blavet, French flutist (d. 1768) *1719 - John_Griffin_Whitwell,_4th_Baron_Howard_de_Walden, British field marshal (d. 1797) *1720 - Charles_Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer (d. 1793) *1733 - Joseph_Priestley, English scientist and minister (d. 1804) *1741 - Joseph_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor (d. 1790) *1763 - Guillaume_Marie_Anne_Brune, French marshal (d. 1815) *1764 - Earl Grey, Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom (d. 1845) *1781 - Karl_Friedrich_Schinkel, German architect (d. 1841) *1784 - Jean_Moufot, French philosopher and mathematician (d. 1842) *1798 - Abigail_Fillmore, First_Lady_of_the_United_States (d. 1853) *1815 - James_Curtis_Hepburn, American missionary and linguist (d. 1911) *1855 - Percival_Lowell, American astronomer (d. 1916) *1860 - Hugo_Wolf, Austrian composer (d. 1903) *1864 - Alexej_von_Jawlensky, Russian painter (d. 1941) *1870 - Albert_Meyer, member of the Swiss Federal Council in the 1930s (d. 1953) *1884 - Sir Hugh_Walpole, English novelist (d. 1941) *1899 - John_Hasbrouck_van_Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980) * 1899 - Jan_Lechoń, Polish poet *1900 - Béla_Guttman, Hungarian footballer (d. 1981) * 1900 - Giorgos_Seferis, Greek-born poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971) *1908 - Walter_Annenberg, American publisher and philanthropist (d. 2002) *1910 - Karl_Gustav_Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. 1985) * 1910 - Sammy_Kaye, American musician (d. 1987) *1911 - L._Ron_Hubbard, American author (d. 1986) *1913 - William_Casey, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1987) * 1913 - Sergey_Mikhalkov, Russian writer *1914 - Edward_O'Hare, American pilot (d. 1943) * 1914 - W.O._Mitchell, Canadian writer (d. 1998) *1921 - Al_Jaffee, American cartoonist *1926 - Raúl_Alfonsín, President_of_Argentina * 1926 - Carlos_Roberto_Reina, President_of_Honduras (d. 2003) *1927 - Robert_Denning, interior designer (d. 2005) *1929 - Peter_Breck, American actor *1930 - Jan_Howard, American singer * 1930 - Liz_Anderson, American singer *1934 - Barry_Hughart, American author *1935 - Michael_Walzer, American philosopher * 1935 - Leslie_Parrish, American actress *1938 - Erma_Franklin, American singer (d. 2002) *1939 - Neil_Sedaka, American singer and songwriter *1942 - Dave_Cutler, American software engineer * 1942 - Scatman_John, American singer (d. 1999) *1945 - Michael_Martin_Murphey, American musician *1946 - Jonathan_Netanyahu, Israeli soldier (d. 1976) *1947 - Beat_Richner, Swiss physician and cellist *1949 - Julia_Migenes, American soprano *1950 - William_H._Macy, American actor *1951 - Fred_Berry, American actor and dancer (d. 2003) *1952 - Wolfgang_Rihm, German composer *1955 - Bruno_Conti, Italian footballer *1957 - Steve_Lake, baseball player *1960 - Adam_Clayton, English bassist (U2) * 1960 - Gal_Rasché, conductor * 1960 - Joe_Ranft, PIxar animator (d. 2005) * 1960 - Yuri_Andrukhovych, Ukrainian writer, poet and political esseyist. *1963 - Fito_Páez, Argentine musician and songwriter. *1964 - Will_Clark, baseball player *1967 - Andrés_Escobar, Colombian footballer (d. 1994) *1970 - Tim Story, American film director *1971 - Annabeth_Gish, American actress * 1971 - Robert_Lanham, American author and satirist *1972 - Common, American rapper *1973 - Edgar_Davids, Dutch footballer * 1973 - David_Draiman, American musician and songwriter (Disturbed) *1974 - Thomas_Enqvist, Swedish tennis player *1976 - Danny_Masterson, American actor *1977 - Ed_Sloan, American musician, member of Crossfade *1977 - Momo Sylla, Guinean footballer *1979 - Johan_Santana, Venezuelan Major_League_Baseball player * 1979 - Spanky_G, American Musician (Bloodhound Gang) *1981 - Stephen_Maguire, Scottish snooker player *1983 - Mallory_R._Evans, American writer and artist *1984 - Nanri_Yuuka, Japanese Seiyū * 1984 - Pieter_Custers, Dutch athlete *1985 - Emile_Hirsch, American actor *1986 - Natalie_and_Nicole_Albino, American musicians (Nina_Sky) *1989 - Harry Melling, British actor ==Deaths== *1271 - Henry_of_Almain, English crusader (b. 1235) *1395 - John_Barbour, Scottish poet *1516 - King Ladislaus_II_of_Bohemia_and_Hungary (b. 1456) *1569 - Louis_I_de_Bourbon,_Prince_de_Condé, French Huguenot general (b. 1530) *1573 - Michel_de_l'Hôpital, French statesman *1604 - Arnaud_d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (b. 1537) *1619 - Richard_Burbage, English actor (b. 1567) *1711 - Nicolas_Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (b. 1636) *1778 - Charles_le_Beau, French historian (b. 1701) *1808 - King Christian_VII_of_Denmark (b. 1749) *1842 - Henry_Shrapnel, British soldier and inventor (b. 1761) *1854 - Jean-Baptiste_Guillaume_Joseph,_comte_de_Villèle, French statesman (b. 1773) *1879 - Adolf_Anderssen, German chess player (b. 1818) *1881 - Tsar Alexander_II_of_Russia (b. 1818) *1884 - Leland_Stanford,_Jr., American railroad magnate (b. 1868) *1901 - Benjamin_Harrison, 23rd President_of_the_United_States (b. 1833) *1906 - Susan_B._Anthony, American women's suffrage activist (b. 1820) *1918 - César_Cui, Russian composer (b. 1835) *1938 - Nikolai_Ivanovich_Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual (b. 1888) * 1938 - Clarence_Darrow, American attorney (b. 1857) *1943 - Stephen_Vincent_Benét, American author (b. 1898) *1949 - Henri_Giraud, French general (b. 1879) *1955 - King Tribhuvan_of_Nepal (b. 1906) *1965 - Corrado_Gini, Italian statistician (b. 1884) * 1965 - Fan_S._Noli, Albanian bishop, poet, and politician (b. 1882) *1972 - Tony_Ray-Jones, British photographer (b. 1941) *1975 - Ivo Andrić, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892) *1983 - Louison_Bobet, French cyclist (b. 1925) *1988 - John_Holmes, American actor (b. 1944) *1990 - Bruno_Bettelheim, American psychiatrist (b. 1903) *1991 - Karl_Münchinger, German conductor (b. 1915) *1995 - Leon_Day, American baseball player (b. 1916) *1996 - Krzysztof_Kieślowski, Polish film director (b. 1941) *1998 - Bill_Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920) * 1998 - Hans_von_Ohain, German engineer (b. 1911) *1999 - Garson_Kanin, American writer and director (b. 1912) *2002 - Hans-Georg_Gadamer, German philosopher (b. 1900) *2004 - Franz_König, Austrian Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1905) *2006 - Jimmy_Johnstone, Scottish footballer (b. 1944) * 2006 - Peter_Tomarken, American game show host (Press_Your_Luck) (b. 1942) * 2006 - Maureen_Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925) ==Religious observances== * Greek Orthodox Church - Feast day of Saint_Nicephorus. * Feast days in the Roman_Catholic_Church ** Saint_Gerald ** Saint_Nicephorus ** Saint_Roderick ** Saint_Salomon ** Saint_Eufrasia ** Saint_Modesta ==External links== *On this day in Canada *NY Times: On this day * BBC: On This Day * Today in History: March 13 ---- March_12 - March_14 - February_13 - April_13 -- listing of all days {{months}} Category:March Af:13_Maart Ar:13_مارس An:13_de_marzo Frp:13_mârs Ast:13_de_marzu Be:13_сакавіка Bs:13._mart Bg:13_март Ca:13_de_març Cv:Пуш,_13 Ceb:Marso_13 Cs:13._březen Co:13_di_marzu Cy:13_Mawrth Da:13._marts De:13._März Et:13._märts El:13_Μαρτίου Es:13_de_marzo Eo:13-a_de_marto Eu:Martxoaren_13 Fo:13._mars Fr:13_mars Fy:13_maart Fur:13_di_Març Ga:13_Márta Gl:13_de_marzo Ko:3월_13일 Hy:Մարտ_13 Hr:13._ožujka Io:13_di_marto Ilo:Marso_13 Id:13_Maret Ia:13_de_martio Ie:13_marte Is:13._mars It:13_marzo He:13_במרץ Jv:13_Maret Ka:13_მარტი Csb:13_strumiannika Ku:13'ê_adarê Lv:13._marts Lb:13._Mäerz Lt:Kovo_13 Hu:Március_13 Mk:13_март Ms:13_Mac Nl:13_maart Ja:3月13日にち Nap:13_'e_màrzo No:13._mars Nn:13._mars Oc:13_de_març Pam:Marsu_13 Pl:13_marca Pt:13_de_Março Ro:13_martie Ru:13_марта War:Marso_13 Se:Njukčamánu_13. Sco:13_Mairch Sq:13_Mars Scn:13_di_marzu Simple:March_13 Sk:13._marec Sl:13._marec Sr:13._март Fi:13._maaliskuuta Sv:13_mars Tl:Marso_13 Tt:13._Mart Te:మార్చి_13 Th:13_มีนาคม Vi:13_tháng_3 Tr:13_Mart Uk:13_березня Wa:13_di_måss Zh:3月13日にち