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 73rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 293 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 29, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,504,800 minutes 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 ‘heptacontatrigon’ 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 322 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 4,100 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 13 Historical Events
- 624 –Battle of Badr: a key battle between Muhammad’s army – the new followers of Islam and the Quraish of Mecca. The Muslims won this battle, known as the turning point of Islam, which took place in the Hejaz region of western Arabia.
- 1639 –Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard.
- 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.)
- 1921 –Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China.
- 1925 –Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
- 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.
- 1954 –Battle of Điện Biên Phủ: Viet Minh forces attack the French.
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on March 13?
- 1798 –Abigail Fillmore, First Lady of the United States (d. 1853)
- 1897 –Dan Gordon, American animator (d. 1969)
- 1930 –Jan Howard, American singer
- 1933 –Mike Stoller, American songwriter
- 1935 –Leslie Parrish, American actress
- 1938 –Tochinoumi Teruyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 49th Yokozuna
- 1939 –Neil Sedaka, American singer and songwriter
- 1953 –Deborah Raffin, American actress
- 1953 –Ridley Pearson, American writer
- 1971 –Annabeth Gish, American actress
Who died on March 13?
- 1395 –John Barbour, Scottish poet
- 1417 –Crown Prince Minyekyawswa of Ava (b. 1391)
- 1719 –Johann Friedrich Böttger, German alchemist (b. 1682)
- 1773 –Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist and explorer (b. 1727)
- 1873 –David Swinson Maynard, Founder of Seattle, Washington, United States (b. 1808)
- 1943 –Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (b. 1898)
- 1965 –Corrado Gini, Italian statistician (b. 1884)
- 1990 –Karl Münchinger, German conductor (b. 1915)
- 1999 –Garson Kanin, American writer and director (b. 1912)
- 1999 –Lee Falk, American cartoonist (b. 1911)
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