Notable Historical Events on March 13th
March 13th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
483 |
St Felix III begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
607 |
12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
624 |
Battle of Badr, Muhammad's Muslim forces win significant victory over Meccan forces |
1138 |
German king Koenraad II von Hohenstaufen crowned |
1519 |
Cortez lands in Mexico |
1560 |
Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli |
1564 |
Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels |
1567 |
Battle at Oosterweel: Spanish troops destroy Geuzenleger |
1569 |
Battle of Jarnac, Count of Anjou defeats Huguenots |
1591 |
Battle at Tondibi: Moroccans army under Judar beats sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai |
1634 |
Academie Francaise opens |
1639 |
Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard |
1656 |
Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam |
1677 |
Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000 |
1735 |
1st US Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany |
1759 |
27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
1772 |
Gotthold Lessing's "Emilia Calotti" premieres in Brunswick |
1781 |
Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really discovered Uranus) |
1790 |
John Martin, 1st American-born actor, performs in Philadelphia |
1797 |
Cherubini's opera "Medée" premieres in Paris |
1835 |
Charles Darwin departs Valparaiso for Andes crossing |
1846 |
Friedrich Hebbel's "Maria Magdalena" premieres in Königsberg |
1852 |
Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the NY Lantern weekly |
1865 |
Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers |
1865 |
US Confederate Congress calls on black slaves for field service |
1868 |
Senate begins US President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial |
1869 |
Arkansas legislature passes anti-Ku Klux Klan law |
1878 |
Oxford University defeats Cambridge University in their 1st golf match |
1884 |
Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins |
1884 |
US adopts Standard Time |
1887 |
Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs |
1888 |
Great Blizzard of 1888 rages |
1894 |
J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate |
1897 |
San Diego State University is founded. |
1900 |
British troops occupy Bloemfontein, capital of the Orange Free State |
1900 |
In France the length of the workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law. |
1904 |
Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilean border dedicated |
1911 |
Ivan Caryll's musical "Pink Lady" premieres in NYC |
1911 |
Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (Ont) 7-4 |
1911 |
The Colonial-Born and Settlers Indian Association is formed at a meeting in Durban, South Africa, and has at its aim to fight the infamous 3 poll tax |
1912 |
Stanley Cup: Quebec Bulldogs sweep Moncton (NB) in 2 games |
1912 |
Bulgaria and Serbia conclude an alliance pact ostensibly against Austria, but it secretly provides for a possible war against Turkey |
1913 |
Kansas legislature approved censorship of motion pictures |
1915 |
Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit |
1918 |
Trotsky gains control of the Red Army |
1918 |
American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms |
1918 |
1st NHL championship: Mont Canadiens beat Toronto Arenas, outscoring them 10-7 in a 2 game set |
1920 |
Wolfgang Kapp's coup attempt in Berlin fails |
1921 |
Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China |
1922 |
George Bernard Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh V" premieres in NYC |
1922 |
WRR-AM in Dallas TX begins radio transmissions |
1922 |
NHL Championship: Ottawa Senators outscore Toronto St Pats, 5 to 4, in 2 games |
1923 |
Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (NYC) |
1924 |
German Republic day |
1925 |
NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Arenas in 2 games |
1925 |
Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution |
1928 |
Rudolph Friml's musical "Three Musketeers" premieres in NYC |
1929 |
Bradman scores 123 Aust v England at MCG, his 2nd Test Cricket century |
1930 |
Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory |
1933 |
Banks reopen |
1933 |
Joseph Goebbels becomes Nazi Germany's Minister of Information and Propaganda |
1935 |
Driving tests introduced in Great Britain |
1938 |
Anschluss - Austria annexed by Nazi Germany |
1938 |
World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States. |
1940 |
Finland-Russian cease fire signed, the Winter War ends. Finland gives up Karelische |
1941 |
A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand) |
1942 |
Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army |
1943 |
Baseball approves official ball (with cork & balata) |
1943 |
Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight |
1943 |
Frank Dixon wins Knights of Columbus mile (4:09.6) |
1944 |
USSR recognizes Italian Badoglio government |
1945 |
Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands |
1945 |
Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman |
1947 |
"Brigadoon" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 581 performances |
1947 |
19th Academy Awards - "Best Years of Lives", De Havilland, March win |
1948 |
10th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Baylor 58-42 |
1949 |
US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman |
1949 |
US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button |
1950 |
General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record) |
1951 |
2nd Dutch government of Drees forms |
1951 |
Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany |
1954 |
Braves' Bobby Thomson breaks his ankle, he is replaced by Hank Aaron |
1954 |
Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu |
1955 |
Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of Nepal |
1955 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
1956 |
NZ bowl out WI for 77 at Eden Park to score their 1st Test Cricket win |
1957 |
Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba |
1958 |
Government troops land in Sumatra Indonesia |
1960 |
Fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
1960 |
NFL's Chicago Cardinals moves to St Louis |
1960 |
White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number |
1961 |
Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes pres of US Communist Party |
1961 |
Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 6 for heavyweight boxing title |
1961 |
JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress |
1961 |
Landslide in USSR, kills 145 |
1961 |
Old type, black & white notes cease to be legal tender |
1962 |
Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty |
1963 |
2 Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska |
1963 |
Hindemith & Wilder's opera "Long Christmas Dinner" premieres in NYC |
1963 |
Indonesia & Netherlands recover diplomatic relations |
1964 |
Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack |
1965 |
Beatles' "Eight Days a Week" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks |
1965 |
Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds |
1966 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lagunita Golf Invitational |
1967 |
Congo sentences ex-premier Moise Tsjombe to death |
1967 |
Robert Anderson's "You Know I Can't Hear You ..." premieres in NYC |
1968 |
Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK |
1969 |
Apollo 9 returns to Earth |
1970 |
100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam |
1970 |
Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer |
1970 |
SF city employees begin 4-day strike |
1971 |
Live at Fillmore East recorded |
1973 |
Syria adopts constitution |
1973 |
"Irene" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 605 performances |
1973 |
Minskoff Theater opens at 200 W 45th St NYC |
1974 |
Glenn Turner scores twin tons for NZ's 1st win against Aust |
1975 |
Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year," premieres in NYC |
1977 |
Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test |
1978 |
Moluccan "suicide commandos" occupies Province house |
1979 |
European Monetary System is established, ECU created |
1979 |
Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement |
1979 |
Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick |
1980 |
Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:13.60) |
1980 |
Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto |
1980 |
Men's Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Jan Hoffmann GDR |
1981 |
NCAA St Joseph's upsets top seed DePaul |
1982 |
Ice Dance Championship at Copenhagen won by Torvill & Dean (GRB) |
1982 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Copenhagen won by Baess & Thierbach (GDR) |
1982 |
Men's Fig Skating Champions in Copenhagen won by Scott Hamilton (USA) |
1982 |
Worlds Ladies Fig Skate Champs in Copenhagen won by Elaine Zayak (USA) |
1982 |
Elaine Zayak, lands 6 triple jumps to win world skating championship |
1983 |
"Woman of the Year" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 770 perfs |
1983 |
1st USFL overtime game-Birmingham Stallions beat Oakld Invaders 20-14 |
1984 |
Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird |
1984 |
WA beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield |
1985 |
Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow) |
1985 |
Michael Secrest (US) begins 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards |
1986 |
12th People's Choice Awards: Sylvester Stallone & Meryl Streep win (Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby, Linda Evans win (TV) |
1986 |
Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir |
1986 |
Microsoft has its Initial public offering. |
1987 |
Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS) |
1987 |
John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering |
1987 |
Washington Caps score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 mins & 3 secs |
1988 |
14th People's Choice Awards: Michael Douglas & Glenn Close win (Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Cybill Shepherd win (TV) |
1989 |
27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown |
1989 |
FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US |
1989 |
US space shuttle STS-29 launched |
1990 |
Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada |
1991 |
Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill |
1991 |
Saudi Arabia and Iran say OPEC oil production cuts will take effect April 1 |
1992 |
FCC rules companies can own 30 AM & 30 FM stations (formerly 12) |
1992 |
Martina Navratilova & Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit |
1992 |
An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey. |
1993 |
Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US |
1994 |
33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right Freedom Party |
1994 |
Donna Andrews wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship |
1994 |
Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed) |
1994 |
President Mangope of Bophuthatswana deposed |
1995 |
9th Soul Train Music Awards: Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win |
1995 |
Anti fascist Kazachstan anti-parliament forms |
1995 |
Hungarian Forint devalued 9% |
1995 |
Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators |
1996 |
Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play |
1996 |
Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 children and 1 teacher are shot dead by spree killer Thomas Hamilton who then commits suicide. |
1997 |
India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader. |
1997 |
The Phoenix lights were seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television. They are now a hotly debated controversy. |
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 $1,000.00 an ounce for the first time. |
2012 |
19 people are shot dead in a bus attack in Ethiopia |
2012 |
Encyclopaedia Britannica announces that it will no longer publish printed versions of its encyclopaedia |
2012 |
110 people are killed and 63 are missing after a ferry collides with an oil tanker near Dhaka, Bangladesh |
2012 |
28 people, including 22 children, are killed in a motorway bus crash near Sierre, Switzerland |
2013 |
10 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Kunduz province, Afghanistan |
2013 |
The European Parliament rejects a European Union budget for the first time |
2013 |
An Embraer 821 aeroplane crashes and kills 9 people in Para, Brazil |
2013 |
North Korea shreds the Korean Armistice agreement |
2013 |
Aleqa Hammond's Siumut party wins the Greenland parliamentary elections |
2013 |
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio is elected as the new pope, taking the papal name Pope Francis |
2016 |
Donald Trump Says He May Pay Legal Fees of Accused Attacker From Rally |
2016 |
Israel Demands World Powers Punish Iran for Missile Tests |
2016 |
Trump Claims Man Who Tried to Rush Stage Connected to ISIS |
2016 |
Bangladesh bank says hackers tried to steal $951 million |
2016 |
Helicopters kill 17 as Yemen government moves against Aden militants |
2016 |
Seton Hall's Derrick Gordon the first openly gay player in NCAA tournament |
2016 |
Snowmobile Driver Apologizes for Hitting Iditarod Teams |
2016 |
Selection Sunday 2016: Kansas, North Carolina, Virginia and Oregon Are Top Seeds |
2016 |
Explosion in Turkish Capital Kills at Least 27, Officials Say |
2016 |
Germanwings Crash Inquiry Urges Stricter Oversight of Pilots' Mental Health |
2016 |
Al Qaeda claims responsibility for Ivory Coast attack |
2016 |
Turkish court orders ban on Facebook, Twitter after blast: broadcasters |
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