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What Happened on March 13th This Day in History

Year	Name
2020	President Donald Trump declares the COVID-19 pandemic to be a national emergency in the United States.
2020	Breonna Taylor is killed by police officers who were forcibly entering her home in Louisville, Kentucky; her death sparked extensive protests against police brutality.
2016	The Ankara bombing kills at least 37 people.
2016	Three gunmen attack two hotels in the Ivory Coast town of Grand-Bassam, killing at least 19 people.
2013	The 2013 papal conclave elects Pope Francis as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
2012	The Sierre coach crash kills 28 people, including 22 children.
2003	An article in Nature identifies the Ciampate del Diavolo as 350,000-year-old hominid footprints.
1997	The Missionaries of Charity choose Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as their leader.
1996	The Dunblane massacre leads to the death of sixteen primary school children and one teacher in Dunblane, Scotland.
1993	The 1993 Storm of the Century affects the eastern United States, dropping feet of snow in many areas.
1992	The Mw  6.6 Erzincan earthquake strikes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe).
1988	The Seikan Tunnel, the longest tunnel in the world with an undersea segment, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.
1979	The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts the Prime Minister of Grenada, Eric Gairy, in a coup d'état.
1969	Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
1957	Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
1954	The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ begins with an artillery barrage by Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp; Viet Minh victory led to the end of the First Indochina War and French withdrawal from Vietnam.
1943	The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
1940	The Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union officially ends after the signing of the Moscow Peace Treaty.
1930	The news of the discovery of Pluto is announced by Lowell Observatory.
1920	The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
1900	British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War.
1884	The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
1862	The Act Prohibiting the Return of Slaves is passed by the United States Congress, effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
1848	The German revolutions of 1848–1849 begin in Vienna.
1845	Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
1826	Pope Leo XII publishes the apostolic constitution Quo Graviora in which he renewed the prohibition on Catholics joining freemasonry.
1811	A French and Italian fleet is defeated by a British squadron off the island of Vis in the Adriatic during the Napoleonic Wars.
1809	Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in the Coup of 1809.
1781	William Herschel discovers Uranus.
1741	The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (part of the War of Jenkins' Ear) begins.
1697	Nojpetén, capital of the last independent Maya kingdom, falls to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
1639	Harvard College is named after clergyman John Harvard.
1591	At the Battle of Tondibi in Mali, Moroccan forces of the Saadi dynasty, led by Judar Pasha, defeat the Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by at least five to one.
1567	The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War.
624	The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh.

Famous People Born on March 13

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Year	Name
1855	Percival Lowell, American astronomer and mathematician (d. 1916)
1969	Darren Fritz, Australian rugby league player
1763	Guillaume Brune, French general and diplomat (d. 1815)
1884	Hugh Walpole, New Zealand-English author and educator (d. 1941)
1960	Joe Ranft, American animator, screenwriter, and voice actor (d. 2005)
1967	Pieter Vink, Dutch footballer and referee
1953	Andy Bean, American golfer
1955	Olga Rukavishnikova, Russian pentathlete
1372	Louis I, Duke of Orléans (d. 1407)
1926	Carlos Roberto Reina, Honduran lawyer and politician, President of Honduras (d. 2003)

Famous People Deaths On March 13

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Date	Name
1971	Rockwell Kent, American painter and illustrator (b. 1882)
1842	Henry Shrapnel, English general (b. 1761)
1921	Jenny Twitchell Kempton, American opera singer and educator (b. 1835)
1999	Lee Falk, American cartoonist, director, and producer (b. 1911)
1990	Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American psychologist and author (b. 1903)
1965	Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (b. 1891)
1881	Alexander II of Russia (b. 1818)
2006	Robert C. Baker, American businessman, invented the chicken nugget (b. 1921)
1711	Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (b. 1636)
1884	Leland Stanford Jr., American son of Leland Stanford (b. 1868)