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Year | Name |
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2020 | President Donald Trump declares the COVID-19 pandemic to be a national emergency in the United States. |
2020 | Breonna Taylor is killed by police officers who were forcibly entering her home in Louisville, Kentucky; her death sparked extensive protests against police brutality. |
2016 | The Ankara bombing kills at least 37 people. |
2016 | Three gunmen attack two hotels in the Ivory Coast town of Grand-Bassam, killing at least 19 people. |
2013 | The 2013 papal conclave elects Pope Francis as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church. |
2012 | The Sierre coach crash kills 28 people, including 22 children. |
2003 | An article in Nature identifies the Ciampate del Diavolo as 350,000-year-old hominid footprints. |
1997 | The Missionaries of Charity choose Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as their leader. |
1996 | The Dunblane massacre leads to the death of sixteen primary school children and one teacher in Dunblane, Scotland. |
1993 | The 1993 Storm of the Century affects the eastern United States, dropping feet of snow in many areas. |
1992 | The Mw 6.6 Erzincan earthquake strikes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). |
1988 | The Seikan Tunnel, the longest tunnel in the world with an undersea segment, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan. |
1979 | The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts the Prime Minister of Grenada, Eric Gairy, in a coup d'état. |
1969 | Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module. |
1957 | Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista. |
1954 | The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ begins with an artillery barrage by Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp; Viet Minh victory led to the end of the First Indochina War and French withdrawal from Vietnam. |
1943 | The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków. |
1940 | The Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union officially ends after the signing of the Moscow Peace Treaty. |
1930 | The news of the discovery of Pluto is announced by Lowell Observatory. |
1920 | The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin. |
1900 | British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War. |
1884 | The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885. |
1862 | The Act Prohibiting the Return of Slaves is passed by the United States Congress, effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation. |
1848 | The German revolutions of 1848–1849 begin in Vienna. |
1845 | Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist. |
1826 | Pope Leo XII publishes the apostolic constitution Quo Graviora in which he renewed the prohibition on Catholics joining freemasonry. |
1811 | A French and Italian fleet is defeated by a British squadron off the island of Vis in the Adriatic during the Napoleonic Wars. |
1809 | Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in the Coup of 1809. |
1781 | William Herschel discovers Uranus. |
1741 | The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (part of the War of Jenkins' Ear) begins. |
1697 | Nojpetén, capital of the last independent Maya kingdom, falls to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala. |
1639 | Harvard College is named after clergyman John Harvard. |
1591 | At the Battle of Tondibi in Mali, Moroccan forces of the Saadi dynasty, led by Judar Pasha, defeat the Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by at least five to one. |
1567 | The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War. |
624 | The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh. |
Here is a random list who born on March 13. For full list please click on the link above.
Year | Name |
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1939 | Neil Sedaka, American singer-songwriter and pianist |
1955 | Glenne Headly, American actress (d. 2017) |
1972 | Common, American rapper and actor |
1825 | Hans Gude, Norwegian-German painter and academic (d. 1903) |
1995 | Jang Su-jeong, South Korean tennis player[167] |
1973 | Edgar Davids, Surinamese born Dutch international footballer and manager |
1955 | Bruno Conti, Italian footballer and manager |
1978 | Kenny Watson, American football player |
1991 | Daniel Greig, Australian speed skater |
1951 | Charo, Spanish-American singer, guitarist, and actress |
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on March 13. For full list please click on the link above.
Date | Name |
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1951 | Ants "the Terrible" Kaljurand, Estonian anti-communist, freedom fighter and forest brother (b. 1917) |
1881 | Alexander II of Russia (b. 1818) |
1800 | Nana Fadnavis, Indian minister and politician (b. 1742) |
1447 | Shah Rukh, Timurid ruler of Persia and Transoxania (b. 1377) |
1946 | Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal (b. 1878) |
2017 | Amy Krouse Rosenthal, American author (b. 1965) |
2010 | Jean Ferrat, French singer-songwriter (b. 1930) |
2004 | Franz König, Austrian cardinal (b. 1905) |
1415 | Minye Kyawswa, Crown Prince of Ava (b. 1391) |
2002 | Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher and scholar (b. 1900) |