About March 13
March 13, 2022 is the 72nd day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 293 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 315 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.
- 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.
- 1865 –American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops.
- 1920 –The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
- 1925 –Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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