About March 13
March 13, 2024 is the 73rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 293 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 322 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 13
- 624 –Battle of Badr: a key battle between Muhammad’s army – the new followers of Islam and the Quraish of Mecca. The Muslims won this battle, known as the turning point of Islam, which took place in the Hejaz region of western Arabia.
- 1138 –Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
- 1781 –William Herschel discovers Uranus.
- 1809 –Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'état.
- 1845 –Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
- 1862 –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.
- 1884 –The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885.
- 1921 –Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China.
- 1925 –Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
- 1938 –Anschluss of Austria to the Third Reich.
- 1938 –World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
- 1943 –The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
- 1943 –World War II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.
- 1954 –Battle of Điện Biên Phủ: Viet Minh forces attack the French.
- 1957 –Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
- 1962 –Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks upon Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The proposal is scrapped and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position.
- 1964 –American Kitty Genovese is murdered, reportedly in view of neighbors who did nothing to help her, prompting research into the bystander effect.
- 1979 –The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'etat in Grenada.
- 1992 –An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
- 2003 –Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.
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