March 13
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March 13 is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (73rd in leap years). There are 293 days remaining.
[change] 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.
- 1862 – American Civil War:the US 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 1 March 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 War: 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.
- 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 Dien Bien Phu: Viet Minh forces attack the French.
- 1957 – The FBI arrests Jimmy Hoffa and charges him with bribery.
- 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.
- 1988 – The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in world, is opened, connecting Aomori and Hakodate in Japan.
- 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, Arizona, the Phoenix Lights, one of the most widely witnessed UFO sightings, take place.
- 2000 – After 17 seasons in the NFL, Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino retires.
- 2003 – Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old upright-walking human footprints have been found in Italy.
[change] Births
- 1615 – Pope Innocent XII (d. 1700)
- 1720 – Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer (d. 1793)
- 1733 – Joseph Priestley, English scientist (d. 1804)
- 1741 – Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1790)
- 1764 – Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1845)
- 1781 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German architect (d. 1841)
- 1798 – Abigail Fillmore, First Lady of the United States (d. 1853)
- 1825 – Hans Gude, Norwegian painter (d. 1903)
- 1855 – Percival Lowell, American astronomer (d. 1916)
- 1860 – Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (d. 1903)
- 1886 – Home Run Baker, American baseball player (d. 1963)
- 1888 – Paul Morand, French writer (d. 1976)
- 1899 – John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist (d. 1980)
- 1900 – Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet (d. 1971)
- 1911 – L. Ron Hubbard, American founder of Scientology (d. 1986)
- 1913 – Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer (d. 2009)
- 1913 – William Casey, American CIA director (d. 1987)
- 1923 – Dimitrios Ioannidis, Greek military officer (d. 2010)
- 1926 – Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (d. 2003)
- 1939 – Neil Sedaka, American singer-songwriter
- 1941 – Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet (d. 2008)
- 1942 – Scatman John, American singer (d. 1999)
- 1945 – Anatoly Fomenko, Russian mathematician
- 1946 – Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli soldier (d. 1976)
- 1950 – William H. Macy, American actor
- 1953 – Deborah Raffin, American actress
- 1954 – Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos, British politician and diplomat
- 1955 – Bruno Conti, Italian footballer
- 1958 – Linda Robson, English actress
- 1960 – Adam Clayton, Irish bassist (U2)
- 1961 – Sebastiano Nela, Italian footballer
- 1967 – Andres Escobar, Colombian footballer (d. 1994)
- 1969 – Luca Bucci, Italian footballer
- 1971 – Annabeth Gish, American actress
- 1973 – Edgar Davids, Dutch footballer
- 1974 – Thomas Enqvist, Swedish tennis player
- 1977 – Momo Sylla, Guinean footballer
- 1981 – Stephen Maguire, Scottish snooker player
- 1987 – Andreas Beck, German footballer
- 1989 – Holger Badstuber, German footballer
- 1989 – Marko Marin, German footballer
[change] Deaths
- 1767 – Maria Josepha of Saxony, mother of Louis XVI of France (b. 1731)
- 1808 – King Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1749)
- 1842 – Henry Shrapnel, English soldier and inventor (b. 1761)
- 1879 – Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (b. 1818)
- 1881 – Tsar Alexander II of Russia (b. 1818)
- 1901 – Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (b. 1833)
- 1906 – Susan B. Anthony, American suffragette (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)
- 1955 – King Tribhuvan of Nepal (b. 1906)
- 1975 – Ivo Andric, Serbo-Croatian writer (b. 1892)
- 1987 – Bernhard Grzimek, German zoologist, filmmaker and author (b. 1909)
- 1990 – Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American child psychologist (b. 1903)
- 2002 – Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (b. 1900)
- 2006 – Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (b. 1944)
- 2006 – Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)
- 2006 – Robert C. Baker, inventor of the Chicken Nugget (b. 1921)
- 2010 – He Pingping, smallest man in the world with the ability to walk (b. 1988)
- 2011 – Owsley Stanley, LSD supplier (b. 1935)
- 2012 – Michel Duchaussoy, French actor (b. 1938)
