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Historical Events

13 Mar 1138
German king Koenraad II von Hohenstaufen crowned
13 Mar 1567
Battle at Oosterweel Spanish troops destroy Geuzenleger
13 Mar 1569
Battle of Jarnac Count of Anjou defeats Huguenots
13 Mar 1591
Battle at Tondibi Moroccan army under Judar defeats Sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai
13 Mar 1634
First meeting of what would become the Academie Francaise in Paris at the house of Valentin Conrart
13 Mar 1639
Cambridge College Massachusetts renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard
13 Mar 1656
Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam
13 Mar 1735
1st US Moravian bishop David Nitschmann consecrated in Germany
13 Mar 1759
27th recorded perihelion passage of Halleys Comet
13 Mar 1772
Gotthold Lessings Emilia Calotti premieres in Brunswick
13 Mar 1790
John Martin 1st American-born actor performs in Philadelphia
13 Mar 1797
Cherubinis opera Mede premieres in Paris
13 Mar 1846
Friedrich Hebbels Maria Magdalena premieres in Knigsberg
13 Mar 1852
Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly
13 Mar 1861
23rd Grand National Joseph Kendall wins aboard Jealousy at 51
13 Mar 1869
Arkansas legislature passes anti-Ku Klux Klan law
13 Mar 1878
Oxford University defeats Cambridge University in their 1st golf match
13 Mar 1884
Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins by Mahdist forces lasts 10 months
13 Mar 1888
Great Blizzard of rages across the east coast of the USA and Canada
13 Mar 1894
J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate
13 Mar 1900
British troops occupy Bloemfontein capital of the Orange Free State (Boer War)
13 Mar 1900
In France the length of the working day for women and children is limited by law to 11 hours.
13 Mar 1903
Fall of the Sokoto Caliphate in Northern Nigeria the British claim supremacy of over 500000 square miles
13 Mar 1904
Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilean border dedicated
13 Mar 1911
Ivan Carylls musical Pink Lady premieres in NYC
13 Mar 1911
Stanley Cup Ottawa Senators beat Galt (Ont) 7-4
13 Mar 1911
The Colonial-Born and Settlers Indian Association is formed at a meeting in Durban South Africa and has at its aim to fight the infamous 3 poll tax
13 Mar 1912
Stanley Cup Quebec Bulldogs sweep Moncton (NB) in 2 games
13 Mar 1912
Bulgaria and Serbia conclude an alliance pact ostensibly against Austria but it secretly provides for a possible war against Turkey
13 Mar 1913
Kansas legislature approved censorship of motion pictures
13 Mar 1915
Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane but the pilot substitutes a grapefruit
13 Mar 1918
American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms
13 Mar 1918
1st NHL championship Montreal Canadiens beat Toronto Arenas outscoring them 10-7 in a 2 game set
13 Mar 1920
After the German government is forced to cut its army to 10000 men military groups plot an unsuccessful coup - a revolt ended by a general strike
13 Mar 1921
Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China
13 Mar 1922
WRR-AM in Dallas TX begins radio transmissions
13 Mar 1922
NHL Championship Ottawa Senators outscore Toronto St Pats 5 to 4 in 2 games
13 Mar 1923
Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (NYC)
13 Mar 1925
NHL Championship Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Arenas in 2 games
13 Mar 1925
Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution
13 Mar 1928
Rudolph Frimls musical Three Musketeers premieres in NYC
13 Mar 1930
Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
13 Mar 1933
American banks allowed to reopen after a government imposed bank holiday
13 Mar 1936
Irish-bred Golden Miller with Evan Williams aboard wins record 5th consecutive Cheltenham Gold Cup steeplechase at 2120 favourite only horse to complete Gold Cup-Grand National double
13 Mar 1938
In a process known as Anschluss Austria is annexed into Nazi Germany
13 Mar 1938
World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
13 Mar 1940
Finland-Russian cease fire signed the Winter War ends. Finland gives up Karelische
13 Mar 1941
A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand)
13 Mar 1942
Julia Flikke of the Nurse Corps becomes 1st woman colonel in US army
13 Mar 1943
Baseball approves official ball (with cork & balata)
13 Mar 1943
Frank Dixon wins Knights of Columbus mile (409.6)
13 Mar 1944
USSR recognizes Italian government of Pietro Badoglio
13 Mar 1945
Nazi Sicherheitsdienst arrests Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman
13 Mar 1946
Paul-Henri Spaak (Belgium Socialist Party) forms Belgian government - shortest Belgian government (ends 31 March)
13 Mar 1947
Brigadoon opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 581 performances
13 Mar 1947
19th Academy Awards Best Years of Our Lives De Havilland March win
13 Mar 1949
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
13 Mar 1950
General Motors reports net earnings of 656434232 (record)
13 Mar 1951
Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany
13 Mar 1954
Braves Bobby Thomson breaks his ankle he is replaced by Hank Aaron
13 Mar 1954
Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu
13 Mar 1955
Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of Nepal
13 Mar 1955
Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
13 Mar 1956
NZ bowl out WI for 77 at Eden Park to score their 1st Test Cricket win
13 Mar 1960
Fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
13 Mar 1960
White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players names above number
13 Mar 1961
Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes President of US Communist Party
13 Mar 1961
Old type black & white notes cease to be legal tender
13 Mar 1963
Two Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska
13 Mar 1963
Hindemith & Wilders opera Long Christmas Dinner premieres in NYC
13 Mar 1963
Indonesia & Netherlands reinstate diplomatic relations
13 Mar 1965
Beatles Eight Days a Week single goes 1 & stays 1 for 2 weeks
13 Mar 1967
Congo sentences ex-premier Moise Tsjombe to death
13 Mar 1967
Robert Andersons You Know I Cant Hear You ... premieres in NYC
13 Mar 1968
Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley Utah kills 6000 sheep
13 Mar 1970
100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam
13 Mar 1970
Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
13 Mar 1970
San Francisco city employees begin 4-day strike
13 Mar 1971
Australian Open Womens Tennis Margaret Court wins her 10th Australian singles title beats fellow Australian Evonne Goolagong 2-6 7-6 7-5
13 Mar 1971
18th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament South Carolina beats North Carolina 52-51
13 Mar 1973
Irene opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 605 performances
13 Mar 1974
Glenn Turner scores twin tons for NZs 1st win against Aust
13 Mar 1975
Bernard Slades Same Time Next Year premieres in NYC
13 Mar 1977
Dennis Lillee takes 6-26 England all out 95 in Centenary Test
13 Mar 1978
Moluccan suicide commandos occupies Province house
13 Mar 1979
European Monetary System is established ECU created
13 Mar 1979
Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement
13 Mar 1980
Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (113.60)
13 Mar 1980
Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto
13 Mar 1980
Mens Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Jan Hoffmann GDR
13 Mar 1982
Ice Dance Championship at Copenhagen won by Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (GBR)
13 Mar 1982
Ice Pairs Championship at Copenhagen won by Baess & Thierbach (GDR)
13 Mar 1982
Mens Figure Skating Champions in Copenhagen won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
13 Mar 1982
Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champs in Copenhagen won by Elaine Zayak (USA) who lands 6 triple jumps
13 Mar 1983
Peter Stones musical Woman of the Year closes at Palace Theater NYC after 770 performances
13 Mar 1983
1st USFL overtime game-Birmingham Stallions beat Oakld Invaders 20-14
13 Mar 1983
30th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament NC State beats Virginia 81-78
13 Mar 1983
24th SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Georgia beats Alabama 86-71
13 Mar 1984
Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell R Marsh B Laird
13 Mar 1984
WA beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield
13 Mar 1985
Michael Secrest (US) begins 24-hr ride of 516 miles 427 yards
13 Mar 1986
Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
13 Mar 1987
Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
13 Mar 1987
Washington Caps score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 mins & 3 secs
13 Mar 1988
35th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament Duke beats North Carolina 65-61
13 Mar 1988
29th SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Kentucky beats Georgia 62-57
13 Mar 1988
9th Big East Mens Basketball Tournament Syracuse beats Villanova 85-68
13 Mar 1989
27th shuttle Discovery 8 launched 1st woman to do the countdown
13 Mar 1990
Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada
13 Mar 1991
Exxon pays 1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill
13 Mar 1991
Saudi Arabia and Iran say OPEC oil production cuts will take effect April 1
13 Mar 1992
FCC rules companies can own 30 AM & 30 FM stations (formerly 12)
13 Mar 1992
An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan eastern Turkey.
13 Mar 1994
33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right Freedom Party
13 Mar 1994
Donna Andrews wins LPGA Ping Welchs Golf Championship
13 Mar 1994
Oil tankairship crash at Bosporus (huge fire15 killed)
13 Mar 1994
41st ACC Mens Basketball Tournament 4 North Carolina beats Virginia 73-66
13 Mar 1994
35th SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Kentucky beats Florida 73-60
13 Mar 1994
15th Big East Mens Basketball Tournament Providence beats Georgetown 74-64
13 Mar 1995
9th Soul Train Music Awards Boyz II Men Anita Baker win
13 Mar 1995
Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators
13 Mar 1996
Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play
13 Mar 1996
At Dunblane Primary School Scotland 16 children and 1 teacher are shot dead by Thomas Hamilton who then commits suicide. Results in handguns being banned in the UK.
13 Mar 1997
Indias Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader
13 Mar 1997
Phoenix lights seen at night over Phoenix Arizona by hundreds of people and by millions on television. Now a hotly debated controversy.
13 Mar 2003
The journal Nature reports that 350000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy
13 Mar 2004
25th Big East Mens Basketball Tournament Connecticut beats Pittsburgh 61-58
13 Mar 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.
13 Mar 2005
52nd ACC Mens Basketball Tournament 3 Duke beats Georgia Tech 69-64
13 Mar 2005
46th SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Florida beats Kentucky 70-53
13 Mar 2008
Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit 1000.00 an ounce for the first time.
13 Mar 2009
30th Big East Mens Basketball Tournament 5 Louisville beats 10 Villanova 69-55
13 Mar 2010
31st Big East Mens Basketball Tournament 7 West Virginia beats 22 Georgetown 60-58
13 Mar 2011
58th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament 5 Duke beats 6 North Carolina 75-58
13 Mar 2011
52nd SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Kentucky beats Florida 70-54
13 Mar 2012
19 people are shot dead in a bus attack in Ethiopia
13 Mar 2012
Encyclopaedia Britannica announces that it will no longer publish printed versions of its encyclopaedia
13 Mar 2012
110 people are killed and 63 are missing after a ferry collides with an oil tanker near Dhaka Bangladesh
13 Mar 2012
28 people including 22 children are killed in a motorway bus crash near Sierre Switzerland
13 Mar 2013
10 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Kunduz province Afghanistan
13 Mar 2013
The European Parliament rejects a European Union budget for the first time
13 Mar 2013
An Embraer 821 aeroplane crashes and kills 9 people in Para Brazil
13 Mar 2013
North Korea shreds the Korean Armistice agreement
13 Mar 2013
Aleqa Hammonds Siumut party wins the Greenland parliamentary elections
13 Mar 1772
Gotthold Lessings Emilia Galotti premieres in Brunswick
13 Mar 1875
English FA Cup Final Kennington Oval London Royal Engineers and Old Etonians draw 1-1 replay won by Engineers 2-0
13 Mar 1903
Fall of the Sokoto Caliphate in Northern Nigeria the British claim supremacy on over 500000 square miles
13 Mar 1911
Stanley Cup Deys Arena Ottawa ON Ottawa Senators beat Galt (ON) 7-4
13 Mar 1912
Stanley Cup Quebec Skating Rink Quebec City Quebec Quebec Bulldogs rout Moncton Victorias (NB) 8-0 for a 2-0 sweep of the challenge series
13 Mar 1948
Ireland beats Wales 6-3 at Ravenhill Stadium Belfast to clinch the Five Nations Rugby Championship and first Grand Slam
13 Mar 1955
LPGA Titleholders Championship Womens Golf Augusta CC Patty Berg wins her 6th Titleholders title by 2 strokes from Mary Lena Faulk
13 Mar 1960
LPGA Titleholders Championship Womens Golf Augusta CC Fay Crocker of Uruguay wins by 7 strokes ahead of Kathy Cornelius
13 Mar 1918
1st NHL championship Toronto Arenas beat Montreal Canadiens outscoring them 10-7 in a 2 game set
13 Mar 1911
Ivan Carylls musical The Pink Lady premieres at the New Amsterdam Theatre NYC runs for 336 performances
13 Mar 1923
American inventor Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (NYC)
13 Mar 1968
Beatles release single Lady Madonna in the UK
13 Mar 1591
Battle at Tondibi Moroccan army under Judar [Jawdar] defeats Sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai
13 Mar 1797
Luigi Cherubinis opra-comique Mde premieres at the Thtre Feydeau in Paris France
13 Mar 1846
Friedrich Hebbels play Maria Magdalena premieres in Knigsberg
13 Mar 1901
Amidst increasing anti-gambling sentiment wagering on horse racing is banned in San Francisco CA Ingleside Race Track closes March 15
13 Mar 1915
Brooklyn Robins manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane but the pilot substitutes a grapefruit
13 Mar 1946
Paul-Henri Spaak (Belgium Socialist Party) forms Belgian government - then shortest Belgian government (ends 31 March)
13 Mar 1778
France informs Great Britain of their Treaty of Alliance with the US Great Britain responds with a declaration of war against France four days later
13 Mar 1894
J. L. Johnstone of England invents horse racings starting gate
13 Mar 1941
Fons de Boungne and Corneil Dombret found AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand (Friends of the Greater German Reich)) in Begium
13 Mar 1983
Peter Stones musical Woman of the Year closes at Palace Theater NYC after 770 performances
13 Mar 1988
Japans Seikan Tunnel the worlds longest tunnel with an underwater segment (53.90 km in total) opens connecting Honshu-Hokkaido by rail. The Channel Tunnel remains the longest underwater tunnel.
13 Mar 1936
Romanian composer George Enescus opera dipe inspired by the mythological tale of Oedipus the King premieres in Paris with French libretto by Edmond Fleg
13 Mar 1965
The Beatles Eight Days a Week single goes 1 and stays 1 for 2 weeks
13 Mar 2014
After protests earlier this month the Israeli parliament votes 65 to 1 for legislation that ends exemptions from military service for ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students
13 Mar 2015
Cyclone Pam causes widespread damage in Vanuatu and the South Pacific including 15-16 deaths.
13 Mar 2016
Suicide Bombing in Ankara Turkey kills 37 people
13 Mar 2019
Australian Catholic Cardinal George Pell is sentenced to 6 years in prison for sexual abuse in Australia conviction overturned in 2020
13 Mar 2019
Australian cricketers beat India by 35 runs in Delhi to win ODI series 3-2 first Australian team to recover from 0-2 in a 5-match series Usman Khawaja 100 Adam Zampa 346
13 Mar 2019
British MPs vote to reject a no-deal Brexit defeating Theresa Mays government 321 votes to 278
13 Mar 2019
Member of the New York Gambino mob family Frank Cali shot dead outside his home first killing of a high-ranking mobster since 1985
13 Mar 2019
President Trumps former campaign chairman Paul Manafort sentenced to a further 43 months in jail to add to his previous 47 months
13 Mar 2019
Shooting at school in Suzano near So Paulo Brazil kills six including five children before former student gunmen turn guns on themselves
13 Mar 2019
US grounds all Boeing 737 Max aircraft after bans by others countries following the plane types second crash in Ethiopia
13 Mar 2020
12 hours after PGA Tour cancelled its flagship event The Players Championship Augusta National announces postponement of the Masters Tournament to a date to be fixed because of COVID-19 pandemic
13 Mar 2020
Elite football in Britain including Englands Premier League EFL Womens Super League plus in Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland is suspended until at least 3 April because of COVID-19 pandemic
13 Mar 2020
US President Donald Trump declares a national emergency freeing up 50 billion to fight COVID-19
13 Mar 2023
Vinyl records outsell CDs in the US for the first time since 1987 (41 million vinyl records vs 33 million CDs) according to new report [1]
13 Mar 2024
US House of Representatives votes to force TikTok owner China-based ByteDance to sell the social media platform or face a ban in the US [1]
13 Mar 1564
Influential politician Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels
13 Mar 1567
Battle of Oosterweel Spanish mercenary troops destroy a band of Dutch rebels near Antwerp start of the Eighty Years War
13 Mar 1852
Uncle Sam cartoon figure debuts in the New York Lantern Weekly
13 Mar 1884
Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins by Mahdist forces and lasts ten months
13 Mar 1894
J. L. Johnstone of England invents the starting gate for horse racing
13 Mar 1903
Fall of the Sokoto Caliphate in Northern Nigeria British claim supremacy over 500000 square miles
13 Mar 1922
George Bernard Shaws largest-scale play Back to Methusaleh (Part 3) opens at the Garrick Theatre NYC runs for 25 performances
13 Mar 1930
Clyde Tombaugh announces the discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
13 Mar 1986
Microsoft has its initial public offering and lists on the NASDAQ
13 Mar 1992
Magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes near Erzincan in eastern Turkey killing over 500 people
13 Mar 1994
A third of voters in Austria vote for the far-right Freedom Party
13 Mar 1994
Oil tanker Nassia is hit by the cargo ship the Shipbroker in the Bosporus Strait causing a huge fire the deaths of 24 crew members injuries to 29 and 10 missing
13 Mar 1995
Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawite demonstrators
13 Mar 1996
Sri Lanka beats India in a Cricket World Cup semi-final as riots stop play at Eden Gardens in Calcutta
13 Mar 2005
Terry Ratzmann shoots and kills seven members of the Living Church of God including the minister at Sheraton Inn in Brookfield Wisconsin before killing himself
13 Mar 2008
Price of gold on the New York Mercantile Exchange hits 1000.00 an ounce for the first time
13 Mar 2019
US grounds all Boeing 737 Max aircraft after bans by other countries following the plane types second crash in Ethiopia
13 Mar 2025
Donatella Versace steps down after 28 years as Chief Creative Officer of Italian fashion house Versace founded by her brother with Dario Vitale taking over her role [1]