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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
March 13 is the 72nd day of the year (73rd
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
293 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
1567 – The Battle of Oosterweel,
traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War.[1] ·
1591 – At the Battle of Tondibi in Mali, Moroccan forces of the Saadi dynasty, led by Judar Pasha, defeat
the Songhai Empire,
despite being outnumbered by at least five to one.[2] ·
1639 – Harvard College is named after
clergyman John Harvard.[3] ·
1697 – Nojpetén, capital of the last
independent Maya kingdom,
fell to Spanish conquistadors, the
final step in the Spanish
conquest of Guatemala.[4] ·
1741 - The Battle of
Cartagena de Indias (part of the War of Jenkins' Ear)
begins.[5] ·
1781 – William Herschel discovers Uranus.[6] ·
1809 – Gustav IV Adolf
of Sweden is deposed in the Coup of 1809.[7] ·
1826 – Pope Leo XII publishes the apostolic
constitution Quo Graviora in
which he renewed the prohibition on Catholics joining freemasonry.[8] ·
1845 – Felix Mendelssohn's Violin
Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand
David as soloist.[9] ·
1848 – The German
revolutions of 1848–1849 begin in Vienna.[10] ·
1862 – The Act
Prohibiting the Return of Slaves was passed by the United States
Congress, effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave
Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation
Proclamation.[11] ·
1881 – Alexander II of
Russia is assassinated.[12] ·
1884 – The Siege of Khartoum begins.
It lasts until January 26, 1885.[13] ·
1900 – British forces
occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State,
during the Second Boer War.[14] ·
1920 – The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.[15] ·
1930 – The news of the
discovery of Pluto is announced by Lowell Observatory.[16] ·
1933 – Banks in the
U.S. begin to re-open after the three-day national "bank holiday"
mandated by the Franklin D.
Roosevelt's Emergency Banking
Act.[17] ·
1943 – German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.[18] ·
1954 – The Battle of Điện
Biên Phủ begins with an artillery barrage by Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp;
Viet Minh victory lead to the end of the First Indochina War and
French withdrawal from Vietnam.[19] ·
1957 – Cuban student
revolutionaries storm the presidential
palace in Havana in a failed
attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.[20] ·
1969 – Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.[21] ·
1979 – The New Jewel Movement,
headed by Maurice Bishop,
ousts the Prime Minister
of Grenada, Eric Gairy, in
a coup d'état.[22] ·
1988 – The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel
in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate,
Japan.[23] ·
1992 – The Mw
6.6 Erzincan
earthquake strikes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of VIII (Severe).[24] ·
1996 – The Dunblane massacre leads
to the death of sixteen primary school children and one teacher in Dunblane, Scotland.[25] ·
1997 – The Missionaries of
Charity choose Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as their leader.[26] ·
2003 – An article
in Nature identifies
the Ciampate del Diavolo as
350,000-year-old hominid footprints.[27] ·
2012 – The Sierre coach crash kills
28 people, including 22 children.[28] ·
2013 – The 2013 papal conclave elects Pope Francis as the 266th Pope of
the Catholic Church.[29] ·
2016 – The Ankara bombing kills
at least 37 people.[30] ·
2016 – Three gunmen attack two
hotels in the Ivory Coast town
of Grand-Bassam,
killing at least 19 people.[31] Births[edit]
·
1372 – Louis I, Duke of
Orléans (d. 1407)[32] ·
1479 – Lazarus Spengler, German hymnwriter (d. 1534)[33] ·
1560 – William
Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, Dutch count (d. 1620)[34] ·
1593 – Georges de La Tour,
French painter (probable;[35] d. 1652) ·
1599 – John Berchmans, Belgian Jesuit scholastic
and saint (d. 1621)[36] ·
1615 – Innocent XII,
pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1700)[37] ·
1683 – Johann Wilhelm
Weinmann, German botanist (d. 1741)[38] ·
1700 – Michel Blavet, French flute player and
composer (d. 1768)[39] ·
1719 – John
Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, English field marshal and
politician, Lord Lieutenant
of Essex (d. 1797)[40] ·
1720 – Charles Bonnet, Swiss historian and author
(d. 1793)[41] ·
1741 – Joseph II,
Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1790)[42] ·
1763 – Guillaume Brune, French general and diplomat
(d. 1815)[43] ·
1764 – Charles Grey,
2nd Earl Grey, English politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1845)[44] ·
1770 – Daniel Lambert, English animal breeder (d.
1809)[45] ·
1781 – Karl Friedrich
Schinkel, German painter and architect, designed the Konzerthaus Berlin (d.
1841)[46] ·
1798 – Abigail Fillmore, American wife of Millard Fillmore, 14th First
Lady of the United States (d. 1853)[47] ·
1800 – Mustafa
Reşid Pasha, Ottoman politician, 212th Grand
Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1858)[48] ·
1815 – James Curtis Hepburn,
American physician, linguist, and missionary (d. 1911)[49] ·
1825 – Hans Gude, Norwegian-German painter and
academic (d. 1903)[50] ·
1855 – Percival Lowell, American astronomer and
mathematician (d. 1916)[51] ·
1857 – B. H. Roberts, English-American historian
and politician (d. 1933)[52] ·
1860 – Hugo Wolf, Slovene-Austrian composer (d.
1903)[53] ·
1862 – Paul Prosper Henrys,
French general (d. 1943)[54] ·
1864 – Alexej von Jawlensky,
Russian-German painter (d. 1941)[55] ·
1870 – William Glackens, American painter and
illustrator (d. 1938)[56] ·
1874 – Ellery Harding Clark,
American jumper, coach, and lawyer (d. 1949)[57] ·
1880 – Josef Gočár, Czech architect (d. 1945)[58] ·
1883 – Enrico Toselli, Italian pianist and composer
(d. 1926)[59] ·
1884 – Hugh Walpole, New Zealand-English author and
educator (d. 1941)[60] ·
1886 – Home Run Baker, American baseball player and
manager (d. 1963)[61] ·
1886 – Albert William
Stevens, American captain and photographer (d. 1949)[62] ·
1888 – Paul Morand, French author and diplomat (d.
1976)[63] ·
1890 – Fritz Busch, German conductor and director
(d. 1951)[64] ·
1892 – Janet Flanner, American journalist and
author (d. 1978)[65] ·
1897 – Yeghishe Charents,
Armenian poet and activist (d. 1937)[66] ·
1898 – Henry Hathaway, American director and
producer (d. 1985)[67] ·
1899 – John Hasbrouck
Van Vleck, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1980)[68] ·
1899 – Pancho Vladigerov,
Bulgarian pianist and composer (d. 1978)[69] ·
1900 – Andrée Bosquet,
Belgian painter (d. 1980)[70] ·
1900 – Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet and
diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1971)[71] ·
1902 – Hans Bellmer, German-French painter and
sculptor (d. 1975)[72] ·
1904 – Clifford Roach, Trinidadian cricketer and
footballer (d. 1988)[73] ·
1907 – Dorothy Tangney, Australian politician (d.
1985)[74] ·
1908 – Walter Annenberg, American publisher,
philanthropist, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (d.
2002)[75] ·
1908 – Myrtle Bachelder, American chemist and Women's Army Corps officer
(d. 1997)[76] ·
1910 – Sammy Kaye, American saxophonist,
songwriter, and bandleader (d. 1987)[77] ·
1910 – Kemal Tahir, Turkish journalist and author
(d. 1973)[78] ·
1911 – José Ardévol, Cuban
composer and conductor (d. 1981)[79] ·
1913 – William J. Casey, American politician,
13th Director
of Central Intelligence (d. 1987)[80] ·
1913 – Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian author and
playwright (d. 2009)[81] ·
1914 – W. O. Mitchell, Canadian author and
playwright (d. 1998)[82] ·
1914 – Edward O'Hare, American lieutenant and
pilot, Medal of Honor recipient
(d. 1943)[83] ·
1916 – Lindy Boggs, American educator and
politician, 5th United
States Ambassador to the Holy See (d. 2013)[84] ·
1916 – Jacque Fresco, American engineer and academic
(d. 2017)[85] ·
1920 – Ralph J. Roberts, American businessman,
co-founded Comcast (d. 2015)[86] ·
1921 – Al Jaffee, American cartoonist[87] ·
1923 – Dimitrios Ioannidis,
Greek general (d. 2010)[88] ·
1925 – Roy Haynes, American drummer and composer[89] ·
1926 – Carlos Roberto Reina,
Honduran lawyer and politician, President of
Honduras (d. 2003)[90] ·
1929 – Zbigniew Messner, Polish economist and
politician, 9th Prime
Minister of the Republic of Poland (d. 2014)[91] ·
1933 – Mahdi Elmandjra, Moroccan economist and
sociologist (d. 2014)[92] ·
1933 – Gero von Wilpert, German author and academic
(d. 2009)[93] ·
1935 – David Nobbs, English author and screenwriter
(d. 2015)[94] ·
1938 – Robert Gammage, American captain and
politician (d. 2012)[95] ·
1939 – Neil Sedaka, American singer-songwriter and
pianist[51] ·
1941 – Donella Meadows, American environmentalist,
author, and academic (d. 2001)[96] ·
1942 – Dave Cutler, American computer scientist and
engineer[97] ·
1942 – Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet and author
(d. 2008)[98] ·
1942 – Scatman John, American singer-songwriter (d.
1999)[99] ·
1944 – Terence Burns,
Baron Burns, English economist and academic[100] ·
1945 – Anatoly Fomenko, Russian mathematician and
academic[101] ·
1946 – Yonatan Netanyahu,
American-Israeli colonel (d. 1976)[102] ·
1947 – Lesley Collier, English ballerina and
educator[103] ·
1947 – Beat Richner, Swiss pediatrician and cellist
(d. 2018)[104] ·
1947 – Lyn St. James, American race car driver[105] ·
1949 – Ze'ev Bielski, Israeli politician[106] ·
1949 – Sian Elias, New Zealand lawyer and
politician, 12th Chief
Justice of New Zealand[107] ·
1950 – Joe Bugner, Hungarian-British boxer and actor[108] ·
1950 – Bernard Julien, Trinidadian cricketer[109] ·
1950 – Charles Krauthammer,
American physician, journalist, and author (d. 2018)[110] ·
1950 – William H. Macy, American actor, director,
and screenwriter[51] ·
1951 – Charo, Spanish-American singer, guitarist,
and actress[110] ·
1952 – Wolfgang Rihm, German composer and educator[111] ·
1952 – Tim Sebastian, English journalist and author[112] ·
1953 – Andy Bean, American golfer[51] ·
1953 – Michael Curry,
27th presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church[113] ·
1954 – Valerie Amos,
Baroness Amos, Guyanese-English politician and diplomat[114] ·
1954 – Robin Duke, Canadian actress and screenwriter[115] ·
1955 – Bruno Conti, Italian footballer and manager[116] ·
1955 – Glenne Headly, American actress (d. 2017)[117] ·
1955 – Olga Rukavishnikova,
Russian pentathlete[118] ·
1956 – Dana Delany, American actress and producer[51] ·
1957 – John Hoeven, American banker and politician,
31st Governor of
North Dakota[51] ·
1957 – Moses Hogan, American composer and conductor
(d. 2003)[119] ·
1958 – Mágico González,
Salvadoran footballer[120] ·
1958 – Rick Lazio, American lawyer and politician[121] ·
1958 – Caryl Phillips, Caribbean-English author and
playwright[122] ·
1959 – Dirk Wellham, Australian cricketer[123] ·
1960 – Adam Clayton, English-Irish musician and
songwriter[51] ·
1960 – Joe Ranft, American animator, screenwriter,
and voice actor (d. 2005)[124] ·
1963 – Vance Johnson, American football player[125] ·
1964 – Will Clark, American baseball player[126] ·
1964 – Craig Dimond, Australian rugby league player[127] ·
1964 – Trevor Gillmeister Australian
rugby league player and coach[128] ·
1966 – Chico Science, Brazilian singer-songwriter
(d. 1997)[129] ·
1967 – Andrés Escobar,
Colombian footballer (d. 1994)[130] ·
1967 – Pieter Vink, Dutch footballer and referee[131] ·
1969 – Darren Fritz, Australian rugby league player[132] ·
1970 – Tim Story, American director and producer[133] ·
1971 – Annabeth Gish, American actress[115] ·
1971 – Allan Nielsen, Danish international footballer,
midfielder and manager[134] ·
1972 – Common, American rapper and actor[51] ·
1973 – Edgar Davids, Surinamese born Dutch
international footballer midfielder and manager[135] ·
1973 – Bobby Jackson,
American basketball player and coach[136] ·
1974 – James Brinkley, Scottish cricketer[137] ·
1974 – Thomas Enqvist, Swedish tennis player and
sportscaster[138] ·
1975 – Mark Clattenburg, English football referee[139] ·
1976 – Troy Hudson, American basketball player and
rapper[140] ·
1976 – Danny Masterson, American actor and producer[110] ·
1978 – Tom Danielson, American cyclist[141] ·
1978 – Kenny Watson, American football player[142] ·
1979 – Johan Santana, Venezuelan-American baseball
player[143] ·
1979 – Cédric Van
Branteghem, Belgian sprinter[144] ·
1980 – Caron Butler, American basketball player[51] ·
1980 – Brad Watts, Australian rugby league player[145] ·
1982 – Nicole Ohlde, American basketball player[146] ·
1983 – Kaitlin Sandeno, American swimmer[147] ·
1984 – Geeta Basra, Indian actress[148] ·
1985 – Alcides Araújo Alves,
Brazilian footballer[149] ·
1985 – Emile Hirsch, American actor[51] ·
1986 – Neil Wagner, South African-New Zealand
cricketer[150] ·
1987 – Marco Andretti, American race car driver[151] ·
1987 – Andreas Beck,
German footballer[152] ·
1988 – Furdjel Narsingh, Dutch footballer[153] ·
1989 – Holger Badstuber, German footballer[154] ·
1989 – Marko Marin, German footballer[155] ·
1989 – Robert Wickens, Canadian racing driver[151] ·
1990 – Anicet Abel, Malagasy footballer[156] ·
1991 – Daniel Greig, Australian speed skater[157] ·
1991 – Tristan Thompson, American basketball player[158] ·
1994 – Gerard Deulofeu, Spanish footballer[159] ·
1995 – Mikaela Shiffrin, American skier[160] ·
1998 – Jay-Roy Grot, Dutch footballer[161] ·
2001 – Thomas Dearden, Australian rugby league
player[162] Deaths[edit]
·
1202 – Mieszko III the Old,
king of Poland (b. c. 1121)[163] ·
1271 – Henry of Almain, English knight (b. 1235)[164] ·
1415 – Minye Kyawswa, Crown Prince of Ava (b. 1391)[165] ·
1447 – Shah Rukh, Timurid ruler of Persia and Transoxania
(b. 1377)[166] ·
1573 – Michel de l'Hôpital,
French politician (b. 1507)[167] ·
1601 – Henry Cuffe, Politician (b. 1563)[168] ·
1619 – Richard Burbage, English actor (b. 1567)[169] ·
1711 – Nicolas
Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (b. 1636)[170] ·
1719 – Johann Friedrich
Böttger, German chemist and potter (b. 1682)[171] ·
1800 – Nana Fadnavis, Indian minister and
politician (b. 1742)[172] ·
1808 – Christian VII of
Denmark (b. 1749)[173] ·
1823 – John
Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, English admiral and politician (b.
1735)[174] ·
1833 – William
Bradley, English lieutenant and cartographer (b. 1757)[175] ·
1842 – Henry Shrapnel, English general (b. 1761)[176] ·
1854 – Jean-Baptiste de
Villèle, French politician, 6th Prime Minister
of France (b. 1773)[177] ·
1873 – David Swinson
Maynard, American physician, lawyer, and businessman (b. 1808)[178] ·
1879 – Adolf Anderssen, German mathematician and chess
player (b. 1818)[179] ·
1881 – Alexander II of
Russia (b. 1818)[12] ·
1884 – Leland Stanford Jr.,
American son of Leland Stanford (b.
1868)[180] ·
1885 – Giorgio Mitrovich,
Maltese politician (b. 1795)[181] ·
1901 – Benjamin Harrison,
American general and politician, 23rd President
of the United States (b. 1833)[182] ·
1906 – Susan B. Anthony, American activist (b. 1820)[183] ·
1912 – Eugène-Étienne Taché,
Canadian engineer and architect, designed the Parliament
Building (b. 1836)[184] ·
1921 – Jenny Twitchell
Kempton, American opera singer and educator (b. 1835)[185] ·
1936 – Francis
Bell, New Zealand lawyer and politician, 20th Prime
Minister of New Zealand (b. 1851)[186] ·
1938 – Clarence Darrow, American lawyer and author
(b. 1857)[187] ·
1943 – Stephen Vincent
Benét, American poet, short story writer, and novelist (b. 1898)[188] ·
1946 – Werner von Blomberg,
German field marshal (b. 1878)[189] ·
1953 – Johan Laidoner, Estonian general and
statesman (b. 1884)[190] ·
1962 – Anne Acheson, Irish sculptor (b. 1882)[191] ·
1965 – Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (b. 1891)[192] ·
1965 – Fan Noli, Albanian-American bishop and
politician, 14th Prime Minister
of Albania (b. 1882)[193] ·
1971 – Rockwell Kent, American painter and
illustrator (b. 1882)[194] ·
1972 – Tony Ray-Jones, English photographer (b. 1941)[195] ·
1975 – Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav novelist, poet,
and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1892)[196] ·
1976 – Ole Haugsrud, American sports executive (b.
1900)[197] ·
1983 – Paul Citroen, German-Dutch illustrator and
educator (b. 1896)[198] ·
1990 – Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American
psychologist and author (b. 1903)[199] ·
1995 – Odette Hallowes, French nurse and spy (b.
1912)[200] ·
1996 – Krzysztof
Kieślowski, Polish director and screenwriter (b. 1941)[201] ·
1998 – Judge Dread, English singer-songwriter (b.
1945)[202] ·
1998 – Hans von Ohain, German-American physicist
and engineer (b. 1911)[203] ·
1999 – Lee Falk, American cartoonist, director, and
producer (b. 1911)[204] ·
1999 – Garson Kanin, American director and
screenwriter (b. 1912)[205] ·
2001 – John A. Alonzo, American actor and
cinematographer (b. 1934)[206] ·
2001 – Encarnacion Alzona,
Filipino historian and educator (b. 1895)[207] ·
2002 – Hans-Georg Gadamer,
German philosopher and scholar (b. 1900)[208] ·
2004 – Franz König, Austrian cardinal (b. 1905)[209] ·
2006 – Robert C. Baker, American businessman,
invented the chicken nugget (b.
1921)[210] ·
2006 – Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (b.
1944)[211] ·
2006 – Maureen Stapleton,
American actress (b. 1925)[212] ·
2007 – Arnold Skaaland, American wrestler and
manager (b. 1925)[213] ·
2009 – Betsy Blair, American actress (b. 1923)[214] ·
2009 – Alan W. Livingston,
American businessman (b. 1917)[215] ·
2010 – Jean Ferrat, French singer-songwriter (b.
1930)[216] ·
2011 – Rick Martin, Canadian-American ice hockey
player (b. 1951)[217] ·
2014 – Reubin Askew, American sergeant, lawyer, and
politician, 37th Governor of Florida (b.
1928)[218] ·
2014 – Edward
Haughey, Baron Ballyedmond, Irish businessman and politician (b.
1944)[219] ·
2014 – Ahmad Tejan Kabbah,
Sierra Leonean economist, lawyer, and politician, 3rd President of
Sierra Leone (b. 1932)[220] ·
2014 – Icchokas Meras, Lithuanian-Israeli author
and screenwriter (b. 1934)[221] ·
2015 – Al Rosen, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1924)[222] ·
2016 – Hilary Putnam, American philosopher,
mathematician, and computer scientist (b. 1926)[223] ·
2017 – Amy Krouse Rosenthal,
American author (b. 1965)[224] ·
2018 – Emily Nasrallah, Lebanese writer and women's
rights activist. (b. 1931)[225] ·
2020 – Breonna Taylor Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast days: o James Theodore Holly (Episcopal Church
(USA))[228] o March
13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Kasuga Matsuri (Kasuga Grand
Shrine, Nara, Japan)[230] ·
National
Elephant Day (Thailand)[231] |
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