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Information about March 13


March 13 is the 72th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (73rd in leap


years). There are 293 days remaining.


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.


   * 1993 - The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern U.S., bringing


     record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba to


     QuŽbec.


   * 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)

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