About March 13
March 13, 2024 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.
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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 322 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 13
- 1639 –Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard.
- 1781 –William Herschel discovers Uranus.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers to return fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
- 1884 –The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885.
- 1900 –Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
- 1920 –The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
- 1925 –Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
- 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.
- 1954 –Battle of Điện Biên Phủ: Viet Minh forces attack the French.
- 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.
- 1964 –American Kitty Genovese is murdered, reportedly in view of neighbors who did nothing to help her, prompting research into the bystander effect.
- 1969 –Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
- 1979 –The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'etat in Grenada.
- 1988 –The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.
- 1992 –An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
- 2003 –Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.
- 2008 –Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time.
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