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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.
Contents
1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances
4.1 Liturgical Feast days
5 External links
Events 483 - St. Felix becomes Pope .
874 - The bones of Saint Nicephorus are interred in the Church of the Holy Apostles , Constantinople .
1138 - Cardinal Gregorio Conti 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 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 Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg , 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 - Russo-Finnish 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 - Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista .
1957 - The FBI arrests Jimmy Hoffa and charges him with bribery.
1962 - Lyman Lemnitzer , chairman of the Joint Chiefs 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 - An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan , eastern Turkey .
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 , USA, 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.
2007 - The Bank of England launched a new £20, featuring the Scottish economist Adam Smith . It was the first note in the new Series F banknotes
Births 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 )
1890 - Fritz Busch , German conductor (d. 1951 )
1898 - Henry Hathaway , American film director and producer (d. 1985 )
1899 - John Hasbrouck van Vleck , American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1980 )
1899 - Jan Lechoń , Polish poet (d. 1956 )
1900 - Béla Guttman , Hungarian footballer (d. 1981 )
1900 - Giorgos Seferis , Greek poet, Nobel laureate (d. 1971 )
1907 - Mircea Eliade , Romanian historian of religions and writer (d. 1986 )
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 and founder of Scientology (d. 1986 )
1913 - William Casey , American CIA director (d. 1987 )
1913 - Sergey Mikhalkov , Russian writer
1913 - Lambros Konstantaras , Greek actor (d. 1985 )
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 , American interior designer (d. 2005 )
1929 - Peter Breck , American actor
1930 - Jan Howard , American singer
1930 - Liz Anderson , American singer
1933 - Mike Stoller , American songwriter
1934 - Barry Hughart , American author
1935 - Leslie Parrish , American actress
1935 - Michael Walzer , American philosopher
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 )
1943 - André Téchiné , French film director and screenwriter
1945 - Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko , Russian mathematician
1945 - Michael Martin Murphey , American musician
1946 - Yonatan Netanyahu , Israeli soldier (d. 1976 )
1947 - Beat Richner , Swiss physician and cellist
1948 - Robert S. Woods , American actor
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
1953 - Deborah Raffin , American actress
1955 - Bruno Conti , Italian footballer
1955 - Glenne Headly , American actress
1956 - Dana Delany , American actress
1957 - Steve Lake , American baseball player
1960 - Yuri Andrukhovych , Ukrainian writer, poet and political essayist
1960 - Adam Clayton , Irish bassist (U2 )
1960 - Joe Ranft , American animator (d. 2005 )
1963 - Fito Páez , Argentine musician and songwriter
1964 - Will Clark , American baseball player
1967 - Andrés Escobar , Colombian footballer (d. 1994 )
1968 - Akira Nogami , Japanese professional wrestler
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 )
1973 - Bobby Jackson , American basketballer
1974 - Thomas Enqvist , Swedish tennis player
1974 - Vampeta , Brazilian footballer
1976 - Danny Masterson , American actor
1977 - Ed Sloan , American musician (Crossfade )
1977 - Momo Sylla , Guinean footballer
1978 - Karina Smirnoff , Ukrainian dancer
1979 - Johan Santana , Venezuelan baseball player
1979 - Spanky G , American musician (Bloodhound Gang )
1980 - Lee Jung-hyun , South Korean pop singer and actress
1981 - Stephen Maguire , Scottish snooker player
1983 - Mallory R. Evans , American writer and artist
1983 - Kaitlin Sandeno , American swimmer
1984 - Pieter Custers , Dutch athlete
1984 - Yuuka Nanri , Japanese seiyū
1985 - Emile Hirsch , American actor
1986 - Natalie and Nicole Albino , American musicians (Nina Sky )
1986 - Chiaki Kyan , Japanese gravure idol
1987 - Marco Andretti , American racecar driver (grandson of Mario Andretti )
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 )
1803 - William Emes , English landscape architect (b. 1729 or 1730)
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. , son of American railroad magnate, Stanford University named for him (b. 1868 )
1901 - Benjamin Harrison , 23rd President of the United States (b. 1833 )
1906 - Susan B. Anthony , American women's suffrage activist (b. 1820 )
1911 - John J. Toffey , American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1844 )
1918 - César Cui , Russian composer (b. 1835 )
1925 - Lucille Ricksen , American actress (b. 1909 )
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 )
1964 - Kitty Genovese , American murder victim (b. 1935 )
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 laureate (b. 1892 )
1983 - Louison Bobet , French cyclist (b. 1925 )
1988 - John Holmes , American porn star (b. 1944 )
1990 - Bruno Bettelheim , American psychiatrist (b. 1903 )
1990 - Karl Münchinger , German conductor (b. 1915 )
1995 - Leon Day , American baseball player (b. 1916 )
1995 - Odette , French-born WWII heroine (b. 1912 )
1996 - Krzysztof Kieślowski , Polish film director (b. 1941 )
1998 - Bill Reid , Canadian artist (b. 1920 )
1998 - Hans von Ohain , German engineer (b. 1911 )
1999 - Lee Falk , American cartoonist (b. 1911 )
1999 - Garson Kanin , American writer and director (b. 1912 )
1999 - Bidu Sayao , Brazilian born soprano (b. 1902 )
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 - Maureen Stapleton , American actress (b. 1925 )
2006 - Peter Tomarken , American game show host (Press Your Luck ) (b. 1942 )
2007 - Arnold Skaaland , American professional wrestler (b. 1925 )
Holidays and observances
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