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
- 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.
- 1884 –The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885.
- 1897 –San Diego State University is founded.
- 1900 –Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
- 1925 –Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
- 1933 –Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a “bank holiday”.
- 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 –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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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