About March 13
March 13, 2025 is the 72nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 293 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 341 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 13
- 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.
- 1865 –American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops.
- 1897 –San Diego State University is founded.
- 1933 –Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a “bank holiday”.
- 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.
- 1940 –The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends.
- 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.
- 1979 –The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'etat in Grenada.
- 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.
- 1992 –An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
- 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 –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 footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.
- 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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