March 13 March 13 is the 72nd day of the year (73rd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 293 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
– 20001920 – The "Wolfgang Kapp Putsch" briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin .1921 – Mongolia , under Black Baron China .1925 – Scopes Trial : A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution .1933 – Great Depression : Banks in the United States begin to re–open after the Presidentially mandated "bank holiday".1940 – Winter War ended.1943 – World War II : In Bougainville , Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.1943 – Holocaust : German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków .1954 – Battle of Dien Bien Phu : Viet Minh forces attack the French .1957 – The FBI arrests Jimmy Hoffa and charges him with bribery .1964 – A young woman, Kitty Genovese , is murdered in front of multiple witnesses who all fail to help her, in an incident which shocks the world and prompts investigation into the Bystander effect .1969 – Apollo program : Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module .1971 – In New York City , Rock group The Allman Brothers Band record a concert that will be released as their classic live album At Fillmore East 1979 – The New Jewel Movement , headed by Maurice Bishop , ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'état in Grenada .1988 – The Seikan Tunnel , the longest undersea tunnel in world, is opened, connecting Aomori and Hakodate in Japan .1988 – I. King Jordan becomes the first Deaf president of Gallaudet University after the Deaf President Now demonstrations.1990 – Ertha Pascal-Trouillot becomes the first female President of Haiti .1991 – The United States Justice Department announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean–up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska .1992 – In eastern Turkey , an earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500.1993 – The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern U.S., bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba to Québec .1996 – The Dunblane Massacre : In Dunblane , Scotland , 16 children and 1 adult teacher are shot dead by a spree killer who then commits suicide.1997 – India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.1997 – In Phoenix, Arizona , Arizona , the Phoenix Lights , one of the most widely witnessed UFO sightings, take place.2000 – After 17 seasons in the NFL , Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino retires.From 2001
2003 – Human evolution : The journal Nature reports that 350,000–year–old upright–walking human footprints have been found in Italy .2005 – A Presidential election takes place in Kyrgyzstan . Controversy around this election leads to the removal of President Askar Akayev .2012 – Editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica announce that they are to stop publishing its print edition, in order to focus on its online edition.2012 – 28 people are killed as a bus returning from a school trip back to Belgium crashes in a tunnel in Canton Valais , Switzerland .2013 – cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina is elected Pope , choosing to be known as Pope Francis . He is the first Pope from Latin America as well as the first Jesuit Pope.2015 – Iceland withdraws its application for European Union membership.2016 – 17 people are killed in an armed attack on a hotel in the Ivory Coast .2016 – 37 people are killed in bomb attack in Ankara , Turkey .2017 – Nicola Sturgeon asks for permission to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence .2018 – US President Donald Trump fires his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and nominates CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him.2019 – A school shooting in Suzano , São Paulo, Brazil , kills 8 people.2019 – A school collapse in Lagos , Nigeria , kills 8 people.2019 – The House of Commons of the United Kingdom votes by a majority against a "No-Deal" Brexit .Births
Up to 1900
1372 – Louis of Valois, Duke of Orleans , brother of Charles VI of France (d. 1407 )1593 – Georges de La Tour , French painter (d. 1652 )1615 – Pope Innocent XII (d. 1700 )1683 – John Theophilus Desaguliers , French–British politician (d. 1744 )1696 – Armand de Vignerot du Plessis , Marshal of France (d. 1788 )1700 – Michel Blavet , French flautist (d. 1768 )1720 – Charles Bonnet , Swiss naturalist and writer (d. 1793 )1733 – Joseph Priestley , English scientist (d. 1804 )1741 – Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1790 )1764 – Earl Grey , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1845 )1770 – Daniel Lambert , English man known for his obesity (d. 1809 )1781 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel , German architect (d. 1841 )1798 – Abigail Fillmore , First Lady of the United States (d. 1853 )1815 – James Curtis Hepburn , American physician and Christian missionary (d. 1911 )1825 – Hans Gude , Norwegian painter (d. 1903 )1829 – Richard Coke , 16th Governor of Texas (d. 1897 )1842 – Joseph Valentin Boussinesq , French mathematician and physicist (d. 1929 )1845 – Jan Baudouin de Courtenay , Polish linguist (d. 1929 )1855 – Percival Lowell , American astronomer (d. 1916 )1857 – B. H. Roberts , Mormon leader, historian and politician (d. 1935 )1860 – Hugo Wolf , Austrian composer (d. 1903 )1864 – Alexei von Jawlensky , Russian painter (d. 1941 )1870 – Albert Meyer , Swiss politician (d. 1953 )1874 – Ellery Clark , American athlete (d. 1949 )1883 – Enrico Toselli , Italian composer and pianist (d. 1926 )1884 – Hugh Walpole , English novelist (d. 1941 )1886 – Home Run Baker , American baseball player (d. 1963 )1888 – Paul Morand , French writer (d. 1976 )1890 – Fritz Busch , German conductor (d. 1951 )1895 – Luigi Cevenini , Italian footballer (d. 1968 )1897 – Yeghishe Charents , Armenian poet , writer and public activist (d. 1937 )1898 – Henry Hathaway , American movie director and producer (d. 1985 )1899 – Bela Guttman , Hungarian footballer (d. 1981 )1899 – John Hasbrouck van Vleck , American physicist (d. 1980 )1900 – Salote Tupou III , Queen of Tonga (d. 1965 )1900 – Giorgos Seferis , Greek poet (d. 1971 )– 19501902 – Mohammed Abdel Wahab , Egyptian singer and composer (d. 1991 )1903 – Yasutaro Koide , Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2016 )1906 – Nguyen Van Thien , Vietnamese Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2012 )1907 – Mircea Eliade , Romanian historian and writer (d. 1986 )1908 – Walter Annenberg , American philanthropist, editor and diplomat (d. 2002 )1910 – Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt , Danish actor (d. 1985 )1910 – Sammy Kaye , American saxophonist, bandleader and songwriter (d. 1987 )1910 – Kemal Tahir , Turkish novelist and intellectual (d. 1973 )1911 – L. Ron Hubbard , American founder of Scientology (d. 1986 )1913 – Sergey Mikhalkov , Russian writer (d. 2009 )1913 – William Casey , American CIA director (d. 1987 )1916 – Jacque Fresco , American futurist, writer and engineer (d. 2017 )1921 – Al Jaffee , American cartoonist1921 – Gitta Sereny , Austrian–British biographer, historian and investigative journalist (d. 2012 )1923 – Dimitrios Ioannidis , Greek military officer (d. 2010 )1923 – William F. Bolger , 65th Postmaster General of the United States (d. 1989 )1925 – Roy Haynes , American jazz drummer1926 – Carlos Roberto Reina , President of Honduras (d. 2003 )1927 – Ivan Irwin , American–Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2019 )1928 – Douglas Rain , Canadian actor (d. 2018 )1929 – Zbigniew Messner , Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2014 )1929 – Bunny Yeager , American model and photographer (d. 2014 )1929 – Peter Breck , American actor (d. 2012 )1929 – Joseph Mascolo , American musician and actor (d. 2016 )1930 – Günther Uecker , German painter1931 – Wolfgang Kohlhaase , German screenwriter and movie director 1933 – Pee Wee Gaskins , American serial killer (d. 1991 )1933 – Mahdi Elmandjra , Moroccan economist and futurologist (d. 2014 )1934 – Mario David , Italian footballer (d. 2005 )1934 – Mario Missiroli , Italian director (d. 2014 )1935 – David Nobbs , English comedy writer (d. 2015 )1936 – José Mojica Marins , Brazilian filmmaker and actor1936 – Michael Checkland , former Director–General of the BBC 1937 – Vladimir Makanin , Russian writer (d. 2017 )1938 – Erma Franklin , American singer (d. 2002 )1938 – Tochinoumi Teruyoshi , Japanese sumo wrestler1939 – Yoshinobu Ishii , Japanese footballer (d. 2018 )1939 – Neil Sedaka , American singer-songwriter 1940 – Christopher Gable , British dancer , choreographer and actor (d. 1998 )1940 – Jacqueline Sassard , French actress1941 – John Clark , Scottish footballer 1941 – Mahmoud Darwish , Palestinian poet (d. 2008 )1942 – Scatman John , American singer (d. 1999 )1942 – Geoffrey Hayes , English actor and screenwriter (d. 2018 )1942 – Dave Cutler , American computer scientist and engineer 1943 – Giancarlo De Sisti , Italian footballer 1943 – André Téchiné , French director and songwriter 1945 – Anatoly Fomenko , Russian mathematician 1946 – Yonatan Netanyahu , Israeli soldier (d. 1976 )1947 – Lesley Collier , English ballerina and educator1949 – Sian Elias , New Zealand judge, 12th Chief Justice of New Zealand 1950 – William H. Macy , American actor– 19751952 – Wolfgang Rihm , German composer and essayist 1953 – Deborah Raffin , American actress (d. 2012 )1953 – Ridley Pearson , American writer1954 – Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos , British politician and diplomat 1955 – Bruno Conti , Italian footballer 1955 – Olga Rukavishnikova , Russian athlete1956 – Dana Delany , American actress1957 – John Hoeven , 31st Governor of North Dakota 1958 – Linda Robson , English actress1959 – Kathy Hilton , American socialite1960 – Adam Clayton , Irish bassist (U2 )1960 – Yuri Andrukhovych , Ukrainian writer, poet and political essayist1960 – Jorge Sampaoli , Argentine footballer and manager1961 – Sebastiano Nela , Italian footballer1962 – Terence Blanchard , American trumpeter and composer 1967 – Andrés Escobar , Colombian footballer (d. 1994 )1969 – Luca Bucci , Italian footballer1971 – Annabeth Gish , American actress1971 – Carme Chacón , Spanish politician (d. 2017 )1973 – Edgar Davids , Dutch footballer1973 – David Draiman , American musician1974 – Thomas Enqvist , Swedish tennis playerFrom 1976
1977 – Momo Sylla , Guinean footballer 1979 – Spanky G , American musician (Bloodhound Gang )1979 – Johan Santana , Venezuelan baseball player1979 – Cedric van Branteghem , Belgian athlete1980 – Sara Bergmark Elfgren , Swedish writer1980 – Caron Butler , American basketball player1980 – Molly Stanton , American actress1980 – Flavia Cacace , Italian dancer1981 – Stephen Maguire , Scottish snooker player1981 – April Matson , American actress and singer1982 – Jeremy Curl , English explorer, writer and photographer1982 – Gisela Mota Ocampo , Mexican politician (d. 2016 )1985 – Ben Lowe , Australian rugby player1985 – Naughty Boy , English DJ and producer 1986 – Shunsuke Daito , Japanese actor1987 – Marco Andretti , American racing driver1987 – Andreas Beck , German footballer1989 – Holger Badstuber , German footballer1989 – Marko Marin , German footballer1989 – Peaches Geldof , British television personality (d. 2014 )1989 – Harry Helling , British actor1991 – Kim Eli , South Korean singer (U-KISS )1991 – Le Quang Liem , Vietnamese chess player1991 – Tristan Thompson , Canadian basketball player1991 – Luan Santana , Brazilian singer and composer1992 – Lucy Fry , Australian actress1992 – Kaya Scodelario , British actress1994 – Gerard Deulofeu , Spanish footballer 1995 – Mikaela Shiffrin , American skierDeaths
Up to 1900
600 – Leander of Seville , Spanish bishop (b. 534 )1202 – Mieszko III the Old , Duke of Greater Poland (b. 1126 )1395 – John Barbour , Scottish priest and poet (b. 1320 )1516 – King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1456 )1569 – Louis, Prince of Condé (b. 1530 )1767 – Maria Josepha of Saxony , mother of Louis XVI of France (b. 1731 )1773 – Philibert Commerson , French historian and explorer (b. 1727 )1808 – King Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1749 )1842 – Henry Shrapnel , English soldier and inventor (b. 1761 )1854 – Jean-Baptiste Villèle , Prime Minister of France (b. 1773 )1873 – David Swinson Maynard , founder of Seattle (b. 1808 )1879 – Adolf Anderssen , German chess player (b. 1818 )1881 – Tsar Alexander II of Russia (b. 1818 )– 20001901 – Benjamin Harrison , 23rd President of the United States (b. 1833 )1906 – Susan B. Anthony , American suffragette (b. 1820 )1913 – Ernst Georg Ravenstein , German–English geographer and cartographer (b. 1834 )1914 – Hakeem Noord-ud-Din , Muslim scholar1918 – César Cui , Russian composer (b. 1835 )1936 – Francis Bell , 20th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1851 )1938 – Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin , Russian politician and intellectual (b. 1888 )1938 – Clarence Darrow , American attorney (b. 1857 )1938 – Carlo Minoretti , Italian cardinal (b. 1861 )1949 – Henri Giraud , French general (b. 1879 )1955 – King Tribhuvan of Nepal (b. 1906 )1964 – Kitty Genovese , American murder victim (b. 1935 )1965 – Fan S. Noli , 14th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1882 )1975 – Ivo Andric , Serbo–Croatian writer (b. 1892 )1987 – Bernhard Grzimek , German zoologist, movie maker and writer (b. 1909 )1990 – Bruno Bettelheim , Austrian–American child psychologist (b. 1903 )1990 – Karl Münchinger , German conductor (b. 1915 )1995 – Odette Hallowes , French nurse and spy (b. 1912 )1996 – Krzysztof Kieslowski , Polish movie director (b. 1941 )1998 – Judge Dread , English singer-songwriter (b. 1911 )1998 – Hans von Ohain , German–American physicist and engineer (b. 1911 )1999 – Garson Kanin , American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1912 )From 2001
2001 – Encarnacion Alzona , Filipino historian and educator (b. 1895 )2002 – Hans-Georg Gadamer , German philosopher (b. 1900 )2004 – Vilayat Khan , Indian sitar player and composer (b. 1928 )2006 – Jimmy Johnstone , Scottish footballer (b. 1944 )2006 – Maureen Stapleton , American actress (b. 1925 )2006 – Robert C. Baker , inventor of the Chicken Nugget (b. 1921 )2009 – Andrew Martin , American professional wrestler (b. 1975 )2010 – He Pingping , smallest man in the world with the ability to walk (b. 1988 )2011 – Owsley Stanley , LSD supplier (b. 1935 )2012 – Michel Duchaussoy , French actor (b. 1938 )2012 – Jacques Villiers , French engineer (b. 1924 )2013 – Tore Lokoloko , 2nd Governor–General of Papua New Guinea (b. 1930 )2013 – Malachi Throne , American actor (b. 1928 )2014 – Reubin Askew , 37th Governor of Florida (b. 1937 )2014 – Ahmad Tejan Kabbah , 3rd President of Sierra Leone (b. 1932 )2014 – Icchokas Mera , Lithuanian writer (b. 1934 )2015 – Daevid Allen , Australian musician (b. 1938 )2015 – Irwin Hasen , American cartoonist and comic artist (b. 1918 )2015 – Al Rosen , American baseball player (b. 1924 )2016 – Adrienne Corri , British actress (b. 1930 )2016 – Martin Olav Sabo , American politician (b. 1938 )2016 – Hilary Putnam , American philosopher , mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1926 )2017 – Adib Boroumand , Iranian poet and politician (b. 1924 )2017 – Kika de la Garza , American politician (b. 1927 )2017 – Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg , German nobleman (b. 1934 )2017 – Amy Krouse Rosenthal , American writer and film director (b. 1965 )2017 – Ed Whitlock , English–Canadian long–distance runner (b. 1931 )2017 – Hiroto Muraoka , Japanese footballer (b. 1931 )2017 – Henri Cueco , French painter and writer (b. 1929 )2017 – Morton Deutsch , American social psychologist (b. 1920 )2017 – André Jagendorf , American plant biologist (b. 1926 )2017 – Sarah Jiménez , Mexican artist (b. 1927 )2017 – Richard H. Solomon , American diplomat (b. 1939 )2018 – T. Berry Brazelton , American paediatrician and writer (b. 1918 )2018 – Bebeto de Freitas , Brazilian volleyball coach and football manager (b. 1950 )2018 – Jens Nilsson , Swedish politician (b. 1948 )2018 – Leonid Kvinikhidze , Russian screenwriter and director (b. 1937 )2018 – Gordon Walgren , American politician and convicted fraudster (b. 1933 )2019 – Frank Cali , American crime boss (b. 1965 )2019 – Harry Hughes , American politician, 57th Governor of Maryland (b. 1926 )2019 – Ghazali Jaafar , Filipino militant and politician (b. 1943 )2019 – Andrea Pollack , German swimmer (b. 1961 )2019 – Leroy Stanton , American baseball player (b. 1946 )