March 13th Events |
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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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 1986 (March 13 1986) | Event | Microsoft has its Initial public offering. | |
| 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, 1969 (March 13 1969) | Event | Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module. | |
| 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, 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, 1954 (March 13 1954) | Event | Battle of Di?n Bien Ph?: Viet Minh forces attack the French. | |
| 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, 1940 (March 13 1940) | Event | The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends. | |
| 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, 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, 1930 (March 13 1930) | Event | The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory. | |
| March 13th, 1925 (March 13 1925) | Event | Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution. | |
| March 13th, 1921 (March 13 1921) | Event | Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China. | |
| March 13th, 1920 (March 13 1920) | Event | The Kapp Putsch briefly oust the Weimar Republic government from Berlin. | |
| 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, 1897 (March 13 1897) | Event | San Diego State University is founded. | |
| March 13th, 1884 (March 13 1884) | Event | The siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885. | |
| 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, 1865 (March 13 1865) | Event | American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops. | |
| 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, 1845 (March 13 1845) | Event | Felix Mendelssohn s Violin Concerto is premiered in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist. | |
| March 13th, 1781 (March 13 1781) | Event | William Herschel discovers Uranus. | |
| March 13th, 1639 (March 13 1639) | Event | Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard. | |
| March 13th, 1138 (March 13 1138) | Event | Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II. | |
