March 13 - Wikipedia

March 13 is the 72th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (73rd in leap years). There are 293 days remaining.

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1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

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 University is named for a clergyman named John Harvard.
1781 - William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus.
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.
1884 - The siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins (ends on January 26, 1885).
1900 - Boer Wars: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
1921 - Mongolia declares its independence from China
1925 - Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
1933 - Great Depression: Banks in the United States begin to re-open after the Presidentially mandated "bank holiday."
1943 - World War II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.
1954 - Battle of Dien Bien Phu: Viet Minh forces attack French
1957 - The FBI arrests Jimmy Hoffa and charges him with bribery.
1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
1991 - The United States Justice Department annouces 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.
1996 - The Dunblane Massacre
1997 - India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala[?] to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
2003 - Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old upright-walking human footprints had been found in Italy.

Births

1733 - Joseph Priestley, scientist, minister (+ 1804)
1741 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (+ 1790)
1763 - Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French soldier (+ 1815)
1764 - Charles Grey, second Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1781 - Karl Friedrich Schinkel[?], master builder (+ 1841)
1798 - Abigail Fillmore[?], First Lady
1855 - Percival Lowell, astronomer (+ 1916)
1860 - Hugo Wolf, composer (+ 1903)
1864 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian impressionist painter (+ 1941)
1880 - Frank Thiess[?], writer (+ 1977)
1884 - Oskar Loerke[?], lyricist, narrator and essayist (+ 1941)
1884 - Sir Hugh Walpole[?], novelist (+ 1941)
1900 - George Seferis[?], Nobel prize-winning poet (+ 1971)
1908 - Walter Annenberg, publisher, philanthropist (+ 2002)
1910 - Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (+ 1985)
1911 - L. Ron Hubbard, author (+ 1986)
1913 - William Casey, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (+ 1987)
1914 - Edward O'Hare, US pilot
1939 - Neil Sedaka[?], singer
1942 - Dave Cutler, software engineer
1949 - Julia Migenes[?], soprano
1950 - William H. Macy[?], actor
1952 - Wolfgang Rihm[?], composer
1956 - Dana Delany[?], actress
1960 - Adam Clayton, bassist for the rock band U2

Deaths

1619 - Richard Burbage, actor
1808 - King Christian VII of Denmark
1842 - Henry Shrapnel, soldier, inventor
1881 - Tsar Alexander II of Russia
1901 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States
1906 - Susan B. Anthony, civil rights and women's suffrage activist
1938 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Soviet politician and intellectual
1938 - Clarence Darrow, attorney
1965 - Corrado Gini, statistician
1990 - Bruno Bettelheim[?], child psychologist, psychiatrist
1996 - Krzysztof Kieslowski, film director
1998 - Bill Reid, Canadian artist
1999 - Garson Kanin[?], writer, director

Holidays and observances

Feast of Saint Nicephorus (Roman and Greek churches)

See Also: March 12 - March 14 - February 13 - April 13 - more historical anniversaries

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