On This Day in History - March 13 |
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| What Happened On This Day In History - March 13 |
1781 March 13
1781-03-13
William Herschel discovers Uranus.
1865 March 13
1865-03-13
American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops.
1881 March 13
1881-03-13
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.)
1897 March 13
1897-03-13
San Diego State University is founded.
1900 March 13
1900-03-13
Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
1918 March 13
1918-03-13
Women are scheduled to march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York due to a shortage of men.
1930 March 13
1930-03-13
The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
1935 March 13
1935-03-13
A three-thousand-year-old archive is found in Jerusalem confirming biblical history.
1938 March 13
1938-03-13
World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
1940 March 13
1940-03-13
The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends.
1942 March 13
1942-03-13
Julia Flikke of the Nurse Corps becomes the first woman colonel in the U.S. Army.
1951 March 13
1951-03-13
Israel demands $1.5 billion in German reparations for the cost of caring for war refugees.
1969 March 13
1969-03-13
Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
1986 March 13
1986-03-13
The Microsoft corporation had its Initial public offering.
1988 March 13
1988-03-13
The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.
1991 March 13
1991-03-13
Exxon pays $1 billion in fines and costs for the clean-up of the Alaskan oil spill.
1992 March 13
1992-03-13
An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
1997 March 13
1997-03-13
Indias Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
2000 March 13
2000-03-13
Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino retires from the National Football League after 17 seasons.
2003 March 13
2003-03-13
Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.
2008 March 13
2008-03-13
Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time.
