What are the important events that happened on March 13? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

March 13: Facts & Myths About This Day

March 13 is the 72^nd 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.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 28, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 483,840 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘heptacontadigon’ day.

Pisces is the zodiac 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.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,465 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

March 13 Historical Events

• 1639 –
  Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard.
• 1865 –
  American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops.
• 1881 –
  Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)
• 1884 –
  The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885.
• 1938 –
  Anschluss of Austria to the Third Reich.
• 1940 –
  The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends.
• 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.
• 1979 –
  The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'etat in Grenada.
• 1992 –
  An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
• 2008 –
  Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time.

Who were born on March 13?

• 1372 –
  Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, brother of Charles VI of France (d. 1407)
• 1615 –
  Pope Innocent XII (d. 1700)
• 1855 –
  B. H. Roberts, Mormon leader, historian, and politician (d. 1933)
• 1925 –
  Roy Haynes, American jazz drummer
• 1927 –
  Robert Denning, American interior designer (d. 2005)
• 1943 –
  André Téchiné, French film director and screenwriter
• 1964 –
  João Gordo, American musician (Ratos de Porão)
• 1973 –
  David Draiman, American musician and songwriter (Disturbed)
• 1976 –
  James Dewees, American musician
• 1989 –
  Holger Badstuber, German footballer

Who died on March 13?

• 1395 –
  John Barbour, Scottish poet
• 1516 –
  King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1456)
• 1925 –
  Lucille Ricksen, American actress (b. 1909)
• 1983 –
  Louison Bobet, French cyclist (b. 1925)
• 1988 –
  John Holmes, American porn star (b. 1944)
• 1995 –
  Odette Sansom Hallowes, French-born WWII heroine (b. 1912)
• 1999 –
  Bidu Sayão, Brazilian born soprano (b. 1902)
• 2004 –
  Franz König, Austrian Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1905)
• 2006 –
  Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)
• 2011 –
  Owsley Stanley, Sound Engineer for The Grateful Dead and renowned LSD manufacturer (b. 1935)