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Date | Description | Type |
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13th of March 1138 | EVENT | Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II. |
13th of March 1639 | EVENT | Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard. |
13th of March 1781 | EVENT | William Herschel discovers Uranus. |
13th of March 1809 | EVENT | Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'etat. |
13th of March 1845 | EVENT | Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its premiere performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist. |
13th of March 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers to return fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation. |
13th of March 1865 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops. |
13th of March 1881 | EVENT | 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.) |
13th of March 1884 | EVENT | The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885. |
13th of March 1897 | EVENT | San Diego State University is founded. |
13th of March 1900 | EVENT | Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State. |
13th of March 1920 | EVENT | The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin. |
13th of March 1921 | EVENT | Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China. |
13th of March 1925 | EVENT | Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution. |
13th of March 1930 | EVENT | The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory. |
13th of March 1933 | EVENT | Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a "bank holiday". |
13th of March 1938 | EVENT | World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States. |
13th of March 1938 | EVENT | Anschluss of Austria to the Third Reich. |
13th of March 1940 | EVENT | The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends. |
13th of March 1943 | EVENT | World War II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700. |
13th of March 1943 | EVENT | The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Krakow. |
13th of March 1954 | EVENT | Battle of ?ien Bien Phu: Viet Minh forces attack the French. |
13th of March 1957 | EVENT | Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista. |
13th of March 1962 | EVENT | Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks upon Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The proposal is scrapped and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position. |
13th of March 1964 | EVENT | American Kitty Genovese is murdered, reportedly in view of neighbors who did nothing to help her, prompting research into the bystander effect. |
13th of March 1969 | EVENT | Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module. |
13th of March 1979 | EVENT | The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'etat in Grenada. |
13th of March 1988 | EVENT | The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan. |
13th of March 1991 | EVENT | The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. |
13th of March 1992 | EVENT | An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey. |
13th of March 1996 | EVENT | Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 Primary School children and 1 teacher are shot dead by a spree killer, Thomas Watt Hamilton who then committed suicide. |
13th of March 1997 | EVENT | The Phoenix lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television. |
13th of March 1997 | EVENT | India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader. |
13th of March 2003 | EVENT | Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy. |
13th of March 2005 | EVENT | Terry Ratzmann shoots and kills six members of the Living Church of God and the minister at Sheraton Inn in Brookfield, Wisconsin before killing himself. |
13th of March 2008 | EVENT | Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time. |
13th of March 1372 | BIRTHDAY | Louis of Valois, Duke of Orleans, brother of Charles VI of France (d. 1407) |
13th of March 1615 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Innocent XII (d. 1700) |
13th of March 1683 | BIRTHDAY | John Theophilus Desaguliers, French-British philosopher (d. 1744) |
13th of March 1700 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Blavet, French flutist (d. 1768) |
13th of March 1719 | BIRTHDAY | John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (d. 1797) |
13th of March 1720 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer (d. 1793) |
13th of March 1733 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Priestley, English scientist and minister (d. 1804) |
13th of March 1741 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1790) |
13th of March 1753 | BIRTHDAY | Louise Marie Adelaide de Bourbon, great heiress and wife of Philippe Egalite (d. 1821) |
13th of March 1763 | BIRTHDAY | Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (d. 1815) |
13th of March 1764 | BIRTHDAY | Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1845) |
13th of March 1770 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Lambert, Englishman famous for his obesity (d. 1809) |
13th of March 1777 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Lot Church, Nova Scotia politician (d. 1864) |
13th of March 1781 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German architect (d. 1841) |
13th of March 1782 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish nobility (d.1863) |
13th of March 1798 | BIRTHDAY | Abigail Fillmore, First Lady of the United States (d. 1853) |
13th of March 1815 | BIRTHDAY | James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist (d. 1911) |
13th of March 1825 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Gude, Norwegian romanticist landscape painter (d. 1903) |
13th of March 1855 | BIRTHDAY | Percival Lowell, American astronomer (d. 1916) |
13th of March 1855 | BIRTHDAY | B. H. Roberts, Mormon leader, historian, and politician (d. 1933) |
13th of March 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (d. 1903) |
13th of March 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (d. 1941) |
13th of March 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Meyer, member of the Swiss Federal Council in the 1930s (d. 1953) |
13th of March 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Enrico Toselli, Italian (Florentine) composer and pianist(d. 1926) |
13th of March 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist (d. 1941) |
13th of March 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Home Run Baker, Hall of Fame third baseman (d.1963) |
13th of March 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Busch, German conductor (d. 1951) |
13th of March 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Gordon, American animator (d. 1969) |
13th of March 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Yeghishe Charents, Armenian poet, writer and public activist (d. 1937) |
13th of March 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Hathaway, American film director and producer (d. 1985) |
13th of March 1899 | BIRTHDAY | John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1980) |
13th of March 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Lechon, Polish poet (d. 1956) |
13th of March 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet, Nobel laureate (d. 1971) |
13th of March 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Bela Guttman, Hungarian footballer (d. 1981) |
13th of March 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian of religions and writer (d. 1986) |
13th of March 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Annenberg, American publisher and philanthropist (d. 2002) |
13th of March 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. 1985) |
13th of March 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Sammy Kaye, American musician (d. 1987) |
13th of March 1911 | BIRTHDAY | L. Ron Hubbard, American science fiction author and founder of Scientology (d. 1986) |
13th of March 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (d. 1985) |
13th of March 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer (d. 2009) |
13th of March 1913 | BIRTHDAY | William Casey, American CIA director (d. 1987) |
13th of March 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Edward "Butch" O'Hare, American pilot and Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1943) |
13th of March 1914 | BIRTHDAY | W.O. Mitchell, Canadian writer (d. 1998) |
13th of March 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Lindy Boggs, American politician |
13th of March 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Al Jaffee, American cartoonist |
13th of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitrios Ioannidis, Greek military officer who was involved in the Greek military junta |
13th of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | William F. Bolger, 65th Postmaster General of the United States (d. 1989) |
13th of March 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Haynes, American jazz drummer |
13th of March 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (d. 2003) |
13th of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Denning, American interior designer (d. 2005) |
13th of March 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Mascolo, American actor |
13th of March 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Breck, American actor |
13th of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Howard, American singer |
13th of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Stoller, American songwriter |
13th of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Hughart, American author |
13th of March 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Leslie Parrish, American actress |
13th of March 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Walzer, American philosopher |
13th of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Nana Meskhidze, Georgian artist-painter (d. 1997) |
13th of March 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Erma Franklin, American singer (d. 2002) |
13th of March 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Tochinoumi Teruyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 49th Yokozuna |
13th of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Sedaka, American singer and songwriter |
13th of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian prominent poet and writer of prose (d. 2008) |
13th of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Donella Meadows, American scientist (d. 2001) |
13th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Cutler, American software engineer |
13th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Scatman John, American singer (real name John Larkin) (d. 1999) |
13th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Geoffrey Hayes, English television presenter and actor |
13th of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Techine, French film director and screenwriter |
13th of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko, Russian mathematician |
13th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli soldier (d. 1976) |
13th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Beat Richner, Swiss physician and cellist |
13th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Robert S. Woods, American actor |
13th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese racing driver (d. 1974) |
13th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Migenes, American soprano |
13th of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Krauthammer, American political commentator |
13th of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | William H. Macy, American actor |
13th of March 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Berry, American actor and dancer (d. 2003) |
13th of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Wolfgang Rihm, German composer |
13th of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Deborah Raffin, American actress |
13th of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Conti, Italian footballer |
13th of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Glenne Headly, American actress |
13th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Dana Delany, American actress |
13th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Dimon, American Banking executive |
13th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | John Hoeven, American politician, 31st governor and junior senator from North Dakota |
13th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Lake, American baseball player |
13th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Linda Robson, English actress |
13th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Kathy Hilton, socialite-Hilton Hotels, mother of Nicky Hilton and Paris Hilton |
13th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Yuri Andrukhovych, Ukrainian writer, poet and political essayist |
13th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Ranft, American animator (d. 2005) |
13th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Clayton, Irish bassist (U2) |
13th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Fito Paez, Argentine musician and songwriter |
13th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Joao Gordo, American musician (Ratos de Porao) |
13th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Will Clark, American baseball player |
13th of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Andres Escobar, Colombian footballer (d. 1994) |
13th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Akira Nogami, Japanese professional wrestler |
13th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Story, American film director |
13th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Annabeth Gish, American actress |
13th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Lanham, American author and satirist |
13th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Common, American rapper |
13th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | David Draiman, American musician and songwriter (Disturbed) |
13th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Jackson, American basketballer |
13th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Edgar Davids, Dutch footballer |
13th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Enqvist, Swedish tennis player |
13th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Vampeta, Brazilian footballer |
13th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | James Dewees, American musician |
13th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Masterson, American actor |
13th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Troy Hudson, American basketball player |
13th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kay Tse, Hong Kong singer |
13th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Momo Sylla, Guinean footballer |
13th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Danielson, American cyclist |
13th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Watson, American football player |
13th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Spanky G, American musician (Bloodhound Gang) |
13th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Santana, Venezuelan baseball player |
13th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Cedric Van Branteghem, Belgian athlete |
13th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Molly Stanton, American actress |
13th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Caron Butler, American basketballer |
13th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | April Matson, American actress and singer |
13th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Maguire, Scottish snooker player |
13th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Curl, British explorer |
13th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Nicole Ohlde, WNBA basketball player |
13th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Thomson, New Zealand rugby player |
13th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Lupu, Romanian Actor |
13th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Kaitlin Sandeno, American swimmer |
13th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Rachael Bella, actress |
13th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Pieter Custers, Dutch athlete |
13th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Noel Fisher, Canadian actor |
13th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Darcis, Belgian tennis player |
13th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Yuuka Nanri, Japanese seiyu |
13th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Zwiebler, German badminton player |
13th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Emile Hirsch, American actor |
13th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Austin Scott, American football player |
13th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Alcides, Brazilian football player |
13th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Chiaki Kyan, Japanese gravure idol |
13th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Andretti, American racecar driver |
13th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Rosela Gjylbegu, Albanian singer |
13th of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Holger Badstuber, German footballer |
13th of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Melling, British actor |
13th of March 1999 | BIRTHDAY | Wiktoria Gasiewska, Polish actress |
13th of March 1271 | DEATH | Henry of Almain, English crusader (Born 1235) |
13th of March 1395 | DEATH | John Barbour, Scottish poet |
13th of March 1417 | DEATH | Crown Prince Minyekyawswa of Ava (Born 1391) |
13th of March 1516 | DEATH | King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (Born 1456) |
13th of March 1569 | DEATH | Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Conde, French Huguenot general (Born 1530) |
13th of March 1573 | DEATH | Michel de l'Hopital, French statesman (Born 1507) |
13th of March 1604 | DEATH | Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (Born 1537) |
13th of March 1619 | DEATH | Richard Burbage, English actor (Born 1567) |
13th of March 1711 | DEATH | Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, French poet and critic (Born 1636) |
13th of March 1719 | DEATH | Johann Friedrich Bottger, German alchemist (Born 1682) |
13th of March 1767 | DEATH | Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France, mother of Louis XVI (Born1731) |
13th of March 1773 | DEATH | Philibert Commercon, French naturalist and explorer (Born 1727) |
13th of March 1778 | DEATH | Charles le Beau, French historian (Born 1701) |
13th of March 1803 | DEATH | William Emes, English landscape architect (Born 1729 or 1730) |
13th of March 1808 | DEATH | King Christian VII of Denmark (Born 1749) |
13th of March 1842 | DEATH | Henry Shrapnel, British soldier and inventor (Born 1761) |
13th of March 1854 | DEATH | Jean-Baptiste de Villele, French statesman (Born 1773) |
13th of March 1873 | DEATH | David Swinson Maynard, Founder of Seattle, Washington, United States (Born 1808) |
13th of March 1879 | DEATH | Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (Born 1818) |
13th of March 1881 | DEATH | Tsar Alexander II of Russia (Born 1818) |
13th of March 1884 | DEATH | Leland Stanford, Jr., son of American railroad magnate, Stanford University named for him (Born 1868) |
13th of March 1901 | DEATH | Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (Born 1833) |
13th of March 1906 | DEATH | Susan B. Anthony, American women's suffrage activist (Born 1820) |
13th of March 1911 | DEATH | John J. Toffey, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (Born 1844) |
13th of March 1918 | DEATH | Cesar Cui, Russian composer (Born 1835) |
13th of March 1925 | DEATH | Lucille Ricksen, American actress (Born 1909) |
13th of March 1938 | DEATH | Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual (Born 1888) |
13th of March 1938 | DEATH | Clarence Darrow, American attorney (Born 1857) |
13th of March 1941 | DEATH | Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and novelist (Born 1881) |
13th of March 1943 | DEATH | Stephen Vincent Benet, American author (Born 1898) |
13th of March 1949 | DEATH | Henri Giraud, French general (Born 1879) |
13th of March 1955 | DEATH | King Tribhuvan of Nepal (Born 1906) |
13th of March 1960 | DEATH | Yosef Zvi HaLevy, Israeli rabbi and judge (Born 1874) |
13th of March 1963 | DEATH | Austin Dobson, British racing driver (Born 1912) |
13th of March 1964 | DEATH | Kitty Genovese, American murder victim (Born 1935) |
13th of March 1965 | DEATH | Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, poet, and politician (Born 1882) |
13th of March 1965 | DEATH | Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (Born 1891) |
13th of March 1965 | DEATH | Corrado Gini, Italian statistician (Born 1884) |
13th of March 1972 | DEATH | Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (Born 1941) |
13th of March 1975 | DEATH | Ivo Andric, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel laureate (Born 1892) |
13th of March 1983 | DEATH | Louison Bobet, French cyclist (Born 1925) |
13th of March 1988 | DEATH | John Holmes, American porn star (Born 1944) |
13th of March 1990 | DEATH | Karl Munchinger, German conductor (Born 1915) |
13th of March 1990 | DEATH | Bruno Bettelheim, American psychiatrist (Born 1903) |
13th of March 1995 | DEATH | Leon Day, American baseball player (Born 1916) |
13th of March 1995 | DEATH | Odette Sansom Hallowes, French-born WWII heroine (Born 1912) |
13th of March 1996 | DEATH | Krzysztof Kieslowski, Polish film director (Born 1941) |
13th of March 1998 | DEATH | Hans von Ohain, German engineer (Born 1911) |
13th of March 1998 | DEATH | Bill Reid, Canadian artist (Born 1920) |
13th of March 1999 | DEATH | Lee Falk, American cartoonist (Born 1911) |
13th of March 1999 | DEATH | Garson Kanin, American writer and director (Born 1912) |
13th of March 1999 | DEATH | Bidu Sayao, Brazilian born soprano (Born 1902) |
13th of March 2001 | DEATH | Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (Born 1895) |
13th of March 2002 | DEATH | Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (Born 1900) |
13th of March 2004 | DEATH | Franz Konig, Austrian Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (Born 1905) |
13th of March 2006 | DEATH | Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (Born 1944) |
13th of March 2006 | DEATH | Peter Tomarken, American game show host (Press Your Luck) (Born 1942) |
13th of March 2006 | DEATH | Maureen Stapleton, American actress (Born 1925) |
13th of March 2006 | DEATH | Robert C. Baker, Inventor of the chicken nugget (Born 1921) |
13th of March 2007 | DEATH | Arnold Skaaland, American professional wrestler (Born 1925) |
13th of March 2009 | DEATH | Andrew "Test" Martin, Canadian professional wrestler (Born 1975) |
13th of March 2009 | DEATH | Betsy Blair, American actress of film and stage, (Born 1923) |
13th of March 2010 | DEATH | He Pingping, the world's shortest man who was able to walk. (Born 1988) |
13th of March 2011 | DEATH | Owsley Stanley, Sound Engineer for The Grateful Dead and renowned LSD manufacturer (Born 1935) |