About March 13
March 13, 2025 is the 72nd 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.
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Pisces is the sun 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.
What Happened On March 13
- 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.
- 1809 –Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'état.
- 1845 –Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
- 1884 –The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885.
- 1897 –San Diego State University is founded.
- 1900 –Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
- 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.
- 1930 –The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
- 1933 –Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a “bank holiday”.
- 1938 –Anschluss of Austria to the Third Reich.
- 1938 –World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
- 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.
- 1957 –Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
- 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.
- 1969 –Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
- 1992 –An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
- 1996 –Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 Primary School children and 1 teacher are shot dead by a spree killer, Thomas Watt Hamilton who then committed suicide.
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