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March 13th, 2008 (March 13 2008) | Event | Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000.00 an ounce for the first time. | |
March 13th, 2007 (March 13 2007) | Death | Arnold Skaaland, American professional wrestler (born in 1925) | |
March 13th, 2006 (March 13 2006) | Death | Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (born in 1944) | John Scott Quotes |
March 13th, 2006 (March 13 2006) | Death | Maureen Stapleton, American actress (born in 1925) | |
March 13th, 2006 (March 13 2006) | Death | Peter Tomarken, American game show host (Press Your Luck) (born in 1942) | |
March 13th, 2005 (March 13 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. | |
March 13th, 2004 (March 13 2004) | Death | Franz Konig, Austrian Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (born in 1905) | |
March 13th, 2003 (March 13 2003) | Event | Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy. | |
March 13th, 2002 (March 13 2002) | Death | Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (born in 1900) | Philo Quotes |
March 13th, 2001 (March 13 2001) | Death | Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (born in 1895) | |
March 13th, 1999 (March 13 1999) | Birth | Wiktoria Gasiewska, Polish actress | |
March 13th, 1999 (March 13 1999) | Death | Lee Falk, American cartoonist (born in 1911) | |
March 13th, 1999 (March 13 1999) | Death | Garson Kanin, American writer and director (born in 1912) | |
March 13th, 1999 (March 13 1999) | Death | Bidu Sayao, Brazilian born soprano (born in 1902) | |
March 13th, 1998 (March 13 1998) | Death | Bill Reid, Canadian artist (born in 1920) | |
March 13th, 1998 (March 13 1998) | Death | Hans von Ohain, German engineer (born in 1911) | |
March 13th, 1997 (March 13 1997) | Event | India s Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader. | |
March 13th, 1997 (March 13 1997) | Event | The Phoenix lights were seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television. They are now a hotly debated controversy. | |
March 13th, 1996 (March 13 1996) | Event | Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 children and 1 teacher are shot dead by a spree killer who then commits suicide. | |
March 13th, 1996 (March 13 1996) | Death | Krzysztof Kieslowski, Polish film director (born in 1941) | |
March 13th, 1995 (March 13 1995) | Death | Leon Day, American baseball player (born in 1916) | |
March 13th, 1995 (March 13 1995) | Death | Odette, French-born WWII heroine (born in 1912) | |
March 13th, 1992 (March 13 1992) | Event | An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey. | |
March 13th, 1991 (March 13 1991) | Event | 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. | |
March 13th, 1990 (March 13 1990) | Birth | Alec Medlock, American actor | |
March 13th, 1990 (March 13 1990) | Death | Bruno Bettelheim, American psychiatrist (born in 1903) | |
March 13th, 1990 (March 13 1990) | Death | Karl Munchinger, German conductor (born in 1915) | |
March 13th, 1989 (March 13 1989) | Event | A geomagnetic storm causes the collapse of the Hydro-Quebec power gridied in Six million people were left without power for nine hours. | |
March 13th, 1989 (March 13 1989) | Birth | Harry Melling, British actor | |
March 13th, 1988 (March 13 1988) | Death | John Holmes, American porn star (born in 1944) | |
March 13th, 1987 (March 13 1987) | Birth | Marco Andretti, American racecar driver (grandson of Mario Andretti) | |
March 13th, 1986 (March 13 1986) | Event | Microsoft has its Initial public offering. | |
March 13th, 1986 (March 13 1986) | Birth | Chiaki Kyan, Japanese gravure idol | |
March 13th, 1985 (March 13 1985) | Birth | Emile Hirsch, American actor | |
March 13th, 1985 (March 13 1985) | Birth | Austin Scott, American football player | |
March 13th, 1985 (March 13 1985) | Birth | Alcides, Brazilian football player | |
March 13th, 1984 (March 13 1984) | Birth | Rachael Bella, actress | |
March 13th, 1984 (March 13 1984) | Birth | Pieter Custers, Dutch athlete | |
March 13th, 1984 (March 13 1984) | Birth | Noel Fisher, Canadian actor | |
March 13th, 1984 (March 13 1984) | Birth | Yuuka Nanri, Japanese seiyu | |
March 13th, 1984 (March 13 1984) | Birth | Marc Zwiebler, German badminton player | |
March 13th, 1983 (March 13 1983) | Birth | Kaitlin Sandeno, American swimmer | |
March 13th, 1983 (March 13 1983) | Death | Louison Bobet, French cyclist (born in 1925) | |
March 13th, 1982 (March 13 1982) | Birth | Nicole Ohlde, WNBA basketball player | |
March 13th, 1981 (March 13 1981) | Birth | Stephen Maguire, Scottish snooker player | |
March 13th, 1980 (March 13 1980) | Birth | Caron Butler, American basketballer | |
March 13th, 1980 (March 13 1980) | Birth | Lee Jung-hyun, South Korean pop singer and actress | |
March 13th, 1980 (March 13 1980) | Birth | Molly Stanton, American actress | |
March 13th, 1979 (March 13 1979) | Event | The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d etat in Grenada. | |
March 13th, 1979 (March 13 1979) | Birth | Johan Santana, Venezuelan baseball player | |
March 13th, 1979 (March 13 1979) | Birth | Spanky G, American musician (Bloodhound Gang) | |
March 13th, 1979 (March 13 1979) | Birth | Cedric Van Branteghem, Belgian athlete | |
March 13th, 1978 (March 13 1978) | Birth | Tom Danielson, American cyclist | |
March 13th, 1978 (March 13 1978) | Birth | Karina Smirnoff, Ukrainian dancer | |
March 13th, 1978 (March 13 1978) | Birth | Kenny Watson, American football player | |
March 13th, 1977 (March 13 1977) | Birth | Ed Sloan, American musician (Crossfade) | |
March 13th, 1977 (March 13 1977) | Birth | Momo Sylla, Guinean footballer | |
March 13th, 1977 (March 13 1977) | Birth | Kay Tse, Hong Kong singer | |
March 13th, 1976 (March 13 1976) | Birth | James Dewees, musician | |
March 13th, 1976 (March 13 1976) | Birth | Danny Masterson, American actor | |
March 13th, 1975 (March 13 1975) | Death | Ivo Andric, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel laureate | Ivo Andric Quotes |
March 13th, 1974 (March 13 1974) | Birth | Thomas Enqvist, Swedish tennis player | |
March 13th, 1974 (March 13 1974) | Birth | Vampeta, Brazilian footballer | |
March 13th, 1973 (March 13 1973) | Birth | Edgar Davids, Dutch footballer | |
March 13th, 1973 (March 13 1973) | Birth | David Draiman, American musician and songwriter (Disturbed) | |
March 13th, 1973 (March 13 1973) | Birth | Bobby Jackson, American basketballer | |
March 13th, 1972 (March 13 1972) | Birth | Common, American rapper | |
March 13th, 1972 (March 13 1972) | Death | Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (born in 1941) | |
March 13th, 1971 (March 13 1971) | Birth | Annabeth Gish, American actress | |
March 13th, 1971 (March 13 1971) | Birth | Robert Lanham, American author and satirist | |
March 13th, 1970 (March 13 1970) | Birth | Tim Story, American film director | |
March 13th, 1969 (March 13 1969) | Event | Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module. | |
March 13th, 1968 (March 13 1968) | Birth | Akira Nogami, Japanese professional wrestler | |
March 13th, 1967 (March 13 1967) | Birth | Andres Escobar, Colombian footballer (died in 1994) | |
March 13th, 1965 (March 13 1965) | Death | Corrado Gini, Italian statistician (born in 1884) | |
March 13th, 1965 (March 13 1965) | Death | Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, poet, and politician (born in 1882) | |
March 13th, 1965 (March 13 1965) | Death | Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (born in 1891) | |
March 13th, 1964 (March 13 1964) | Birth | Will Clark, American baseball player | |
March 13th, 1964 (March 13 1964) | Death | Kitty Genovese, American murder victim (born in 1935) | |
March 13th, 1963 (March 13 1963) | Birth | Fito Paez, Argentine musician and songwriter | |
March 13th, 1963 (March 13 1963) | Death | Austin Dobson, British racing driver (born in 1912) | |
March 13th, 1962 (March 13 1962) | Event | Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, 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. | Robert McNamara Quotes |
March 13th, 1960 (March 13 1960) | Birth | Yuri Andrukhovych, Ukrainian writer, poet and political essayist | |
March 13th, 1960 (March 13 1960) | Birth | Adam Clayton, Irish bassist (U2) | |
March 13th, 1960 (March 13 1960) | Birth | Joe Ranft, American animator (died in 2005) | |
March 13th, 1959 (March 13 1959) | Birth | Kathy Hilton, socialite-Hilton Hotels, mother of Nikki Hilton and Paris Hilton | |
March 13th, 1958 (March 13 1958) | Birth | Linda Robson, English actress. | |
March 13th, 1957 (March 13 1957) | Event | Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista. | |
March 13th, 1957 (March 13 1957) | Birth | Steve Lake, American baseball player | |
March 13th, 1957 (March 13 1957) | Birth | John Hoeven, American politician, governor of North Dakota | |
March 13th, 1956 (March 13 1956) | Birth | Dana Delany, American actress | |
March 13th, 1955 (March 13 1955) | Birth | Bruno Conti, Italian footballer | |
March 13th, 1955 (March 13 1955) | Birth | Glenne Headly, American actress | |
March 13th, 1955 (March 13 1955) | Death | King Tribhuvan of Nepal (born in 1906) | |
March 13th, 1954 (March 13 1954) | Event | Battle of Di?n Bien Ph?: Viet Minh forces attack the French. | |
March 13th, 1953 (March 13 1953) | Birth | Deborah Raffin, American actress | |
March 13th, 1952 (March 13 1952) | Birth | Wolfgang Rihm, German composer | |
March 13th, 1951 (March 13 1951) | Birth | Fred Berry, American actor and dancer (died in 2003) | |
March 13th, 1950 (March 13 1950) | Birth | Charles Krauthammer, American political commentator | |
March 13th, 1950 (March 13 1950) | Birth | William H. Macy, American actor | |
March 13th, 1949 (March 13 1949) | Birth | Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese racing driver (died in 1974) | |
March 13th, 1949 (March 13 1949) | Birth | Julia Migenes, American soprano | |
March 13th, 1949 (March 13 1949) | Death | Henri Giraud, French general (born in 1879) | |
March 13th, 1948 (March 13 1948) | Birth | Robert S. Woods, American actor | |
March 13th, 1947 (March 13 1947) | Birth | Beat Richner, Swiss physician and cellist | |
March 13th, 1946 (March 13 1946) | Birth | Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli soldier (died in 1976) | |
March 13th, 1945 (March 13 1945) | Birth | Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko, Russian mathematician | |
March 13th, 1943 (March 13 1943) | Event | World War II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700. | |
March 13th, 1943 (March 13 1943) | Event | The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Krakow. | |
March 13th, 1943 (March 13 1943) | Birth | Andre Techine, French film director and screenwriter | |
March 13th, 1943 (March 13 1943) | Death | Stephen Vincent Benet, American author (born in 1898) | |
March 13th, 1942 (March 13 1942) | Birth | Dave Cutler, American software engineer | |
March 13th, 1942 (March 13 1942) | Birth | Geoffrey Hayes, English television presenter and actor | |
March 13th, 1942 (March 13 1942) | Birth | Scatman John, (real name John Larkin) American singer (died in 1999) | |
March 13th, 1941 (March 13 1941) | Death | Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and novelist (born in 1881) | |
March 13th, 1940 (March 13 1940) | Event | The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends. | |
March 13th, 1939 (March 13 1939) | Birth | Neil Sedaka, American singer and songwriter | |
March 13th, 1938 (March 13 1938) | Event | World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States. | |
March 13th, 1938 (March 13 1938) | Birth | Erma Franklin, American singer (died in 2002) | |
March 13th, 1938 (March 13 1938) | Death | Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual (born in 1888) | |
March 13th, 1938 (March 13 1938) | Death | Clarence Darrow, American attorney (born in 1857) | Clarence Darrow Quotes |
March 13th, 1935 (March 13 1935) | Birth | Joseph Mascolo, American actor | |
March 13th, 1935 (March 13 1935) | Birth | Leslie Parrish, American actress | |
March 13th, 1935 (March 13 1935) | Birth | Michael Walzer, American philosopher | Philo Quotes |
March 13th, 1934 (March 13 1934) | Birth | Barry Hughart, American author | |
March 13th, 1933 (March 13 1933) | Event | Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandated a "bank holiday". | |
March 13th, 1933 (March 13 1933) | Birth | Mike Stoller, American songwriter | |
March 13th, 1930 (March 13 1930) | Event | The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory. | |
March 13th, 1930 (March 13 1930) | Birth | Jan Howard, American singer | |
March 13th, 1930 (March 13 1930) | Birth | Liz Anderson, American country music singer-songwriter | |
March 13th, 1929 (March 13 1929) | Birth | Peter Breck, American actor | |
March 13th, 1927 (March 13 1927) | Birth | Robert Denning, American interior designer (died in 2005) | |
March 13th, 1926 (March 13 1926) | Birth | Raul Alfonsin, President of Argentina | |
March 13th, 1926 (March 13 1926) | Birth | Roy Haynes, American jazz drummer | |
March 13th, 1926 (March 13 1926) | Birth | Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (died in 2003) | |
March 13th, 1925 (March 13 1925) | Event | Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution. | |
March 13th, 1925 (March 13 1925) | Death | Lucille Ricksen, American actress (born in 1909) | |
March 13th, 1923 (March 13 1923) | Birth | William F. Bolger, 65th Postmaster General of the United States (died in 1989) | |
March 13th, 1921 (March 13 1921) | Event | Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China. | |
March 13th, 1921 (March 13 1921) | Birth | Al Jaffee, American cartoonist | |
March 13th, 1920 (March 13 1920) | Event | The Kapp Putsch briefly oust the Weimar Republic government from Berlin. | |
March 13th, 1918 (March 13 1918) | Death | Cesar Cui, Russian composer (born in 1835) | |
March 13th, 1914 (March 13 1914) | Birth | Edward O Hare, American pilot (died in 1943) | |
March 13th, 1914 (March 13 1914) | Birth | W.O. Mitchell, Canadian writer (died in 1998) | |
March 13th, 1913 (March 13 1913) | Birth | William Casey, American CIA director (died in 1987) | |
March 13th, 1913 (March 13 1913) | Birth | Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (died in 1985) | |
March 13th, 1913 (March 13 1913) | Birth | Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer | |
March 13th, 1911 (March 13 1911) | Birth | L. Ron Hubbard, American science fiction author and founder of Scientology (died in 1986) | L. Ron Hubbard Quotes |
March 13th, 1911 (March 13 1911) | Death | John J. Toffey, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (born in 1844) | |
March 13th, 1910 (March 13 1910) | Birth | Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (died in 1985) | |
March 13th, 1910 (March 13 1910) | Birth | Sammy Kaye, American musician (died in 1987) | |
March 13th, 1908 (March 13 1908) | Birth | Walter Annenberg, American publisher and philanthropist (died in 2002) | |
March 13th, 1907 (March 13 1907) | Birth | Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian of religions and writer (died in 1986) | |
March 13th, 1906 (March 13 1906) | Death | Susan B. Anthony, American women s suffrage activist (born in 1820) | Susan B. Anthony Quotes |
March 13th, 1901 (March 13 1901) | Death | Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (born in 1833) | |
March 13th, 1900 (March 13 1900) | Event | Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State. | |
March 13th, 1900 (March 13 1900) | Event | In France the length of the workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law. | |
March 13th, 1900 (March 13 1900) | Birth | Bela Guttman, Hungarian footballer (died in 1981) | |
March 13th, 1900 (March 13 1900) | Birth | Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet, Nobel laureate (died in 1971) | |
March 13th, 1899 (March 13 1899) | Birth | John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel laureate (died in 1980) | |
March 13th, 1899 (March 13 1899) | Birth | Jan Lechon, Polish poet (died in 1956) | |
March 13th, 1898 (March 13 1898) | Birth | Henry Hathaway, American film director and producer (died in 1985) | |
March 13th, 1897 (March 13 1897) | Event | San Diego State University is founded. | |
March 13th, 1890 (March 13 1890) | Birth | Fritz Busch, German conductor (died in 1951) | |
March 13th, 1884 (March 13 1884) | Event | The siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885. | |
March 13th, 1884 (March 13 1884) | Birth | Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist (died in 1941) | |
March 13th, 1884 (March 13 1884) | Death | Leland Stanford, Jr., son of American railroad magnate, Stanford University named for him (born in 1868) | |
March 13th, 1883 (March 13 1883) | Birth | Enrico Toselli, Italian (Florentine) composer and pianist(died in 1926) | |
March 13th, 1881 (March 13 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.) | Julian Quotes |
March 13th, 1881 (March 13 1881) | Death | Tsar Alexander II of Russia (born in 1818) | |
March 13th, 1879 (March 13 1879) | Death | Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (born in 1818) | |
March 13th, 1870 (March 13 1870) | Birth | Albert Meyer, member of the Swiss Federal Council in the 1930s (died in 1953) | |
March 13th, 1865 (March 13 1865) | Event | American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops. | |
March 13th, 1864 (March 13 1864) | Birth | Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (died in 1941) | |
March 13th, 1862 (March 13 1862) | Event | 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. | |
March 13th, 1860 (March 13 1860) | Birth | Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (died in 1903) | |
March 13th, 1855 (March 13 1855) | Birth | Percival Lowell, American astronomer (died in 1916) | Percival Lowell Quotes |
March 13th, 1855 (March 13 1855) | Birth | B. H. Roberts, Mormon leader, historian, and politician (died in 1933) | |
March 13th, 1854 (March 13 1854) | Death | Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph, comte de Villele, French statesman (born in 1773) | |
March 13th, 1845 (March 13 1845) | Event | Felix Mendelssohn s Violin Concerto is premiered in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist. | |
March 13th, 1842 (March 13 1842) | Death | Henry Shrapnel, British soldier and inventor (born in 1761) | |
March 13th, 1825 (March 13 1825) | Birth | Hans Gude, Norwegian romanticist landscape painter (died in 1903) | |
March 13th, 1815 (March 13 1815) | Birth | James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist (died in 1911) | |
March 13th, 1808 (March 13 1808) | Death | King Christian VII of Denmark (born in 1749) | |
March 13th, 1803 (March 13 1803) | Death | William Emes, English landscape architect (born in 1729 or 1730) | |
March 13th, 1798 (March 13 1798) | Birth | Abigail Fillmore, First Lady of the United States (died in 1853) | |
March 13th, 1784 (March 13 1784) | Birth | Jean Moufot, French philosopher and mathematician (died in 1842) | Philo Quotes |
March 13th, 1781 (March 13 1781) | Event | William Herschel discovers Uranus. | |
March 13th, 1781 (March 13 1781) | Birth | Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German architect (died in 1841) | |
March 13th, 1778 (March 13 1778) | Death | Charles le Beau, French historian (born in 1701) | |
March 13th, 1773 (March 13 1773) | Death | Philibert Commercon, French naturalist and explorer (born in 1727) | |
March 13th, 1770 (March 13 1770) | Birth | Daniel Lambert, Englishman famous for his obesity (died in 1809) | |
March 13th, 1764 (March 13 1764) | Birth | Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died in 1845) | |
March 13th, 1763 (March 13 1763) | Birth | Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (died in 1815) | |
March 13th, 1741 (March 13 1741) | Birth | Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (died in 1790) | |
March 13th, 1733 (March 13 1733) | Birth | Joseph Priestley, English scientist and minister (died in 1804) | Joseph Priestley Quotes |
March 13th, 1720 (March 13 1720) | Birth | Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer (died in 1793) | |
March 13th, 1719 (March 13 1719) | Birth | John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (died in 1797) | |
March 13th, 1711 (March 13 1711) | Death | Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, French poet and critic (born in 1636) | |
March 13th, 1700 (March 13 1700) | Birth | Michel Blavet, French flutist (died in 1768) | |
March 13th, 1683 (March 13 1683) | Birth | John Theophilus Desaguliers, French-British philosopher (died in 1744) | Philo Quotes |
March 13th, 1639 (March 13 1639) | Event | Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard. | |
March 13th, 1619 (March 13 1619) | Death | Richard Burbage, English actor (born in 1567) | |
March 13th, 1615 (March 13 1615) | Birth | Pope Innocent XII (died in 1700) | |
March 13th, 1604 (March 13 1604) | Death | Arnaud d Ossat, French diplomat and writer (born in 1537) | |
March 13th, 1573 (March 13 1573) | Death | Michel de l Hopital, French statesman | |
March 13th, 1569 (March 13 1569) | Death | Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Conde, French Huguenot general (born in 1530) | |
March 13th, 1516 (March 13 1516) | Death | King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (born in 1456) | |
March 13th, 1395 (March 13 1395) | Death | John Barbour, Scottish poet | John Scott Quotes |
March 13th, 1372 (March 13 1372) | Birth | Louis of Valois, Duke of Orleans, brother of Charles VI of France (died in 1407) | |
March 13th, 1271 (March 13 1271) | Death | Henry of Almain, English crusader (born in 1235) | |
March 13th, 1138 (March 13 1138) | Event | Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II. | |