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.
- 1639 –Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard.
- 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.
- 1865 –American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops.
- 1881 –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.)
- 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.
- 1930 –The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
- 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.
- 1964 –American Kitty Genovese is murdered, reportedly in view of neighbors who did nothing to help her, prompting research into the bystander effect.
- 1991 –The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
- 1996 –Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 Primary School children and 1 teacher are shot dead by a spree killer, Thomas Watt Hamilton who then committed suicide.
- 1997 –The Phoenix lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.
- 2005 –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.
- 2008 –Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time.
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