About March 13

March 13, 2020 is the 73rd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 293 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

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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 336 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On March 13

  • 1781 –
    William Herschel discovers Uranus.
  • 1809 –
    Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'état.
  • 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.
  • 1865 –
    American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops.
  • 1897 –
    San Diego State University is founded.
  • 1900 –
    Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
  • 1920 –
    The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
  • 1921 –
    Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1969 –
    Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
  • 1979 –
    The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'etat in Grenada.
  • 1988 –
    The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.
  • 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.
  • 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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