ورلڈپیڈیا:Selected anniversaries/March 13
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Felix Mendelssohn
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Violin Concerto, 1st movement
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Tzar Alexander II of Russia
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Ignacy Hryniewiecki
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Jews being deported from the Krakow Ghetto
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Pope Francis
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 624 – Led by Muhammad, the Muslims of Medina defeated the Quraysh of Mecca in Badr, present-day Saudi Arabia. | primary sources |
| 874 – The remains of Saint Nicephorus were brought back to Constantinople to be interred at the Church of the Holy Apostles. | refimprove |
| 1639 – Already two years old but usually called simply "the New College", Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was named after its first principal donor, John Harvard. | lead too short, date not in article |
| 1881 – Tsar Alexander II of Russia was assassinated near his palace in a bomb-throwing plot by Ignacy Hryniewiecki and three other revolutionaries. | unreferenced section |
| 1884 – Mahdist War: Forces loyal to self-proclaimed Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad began a 319-day siege of a combined Anglo-Egyptian force defending Khartoum, Sudan. | globalize, refimprove sections |
| 1943 – The Holocaust: Nazi troops began liquidating the Jewish ghetto in Kraków, Poland, sending about 8,000 Jews deemed able to work to the Plaszow labor camp, with the rest either killed or sent to Auschwitz. | refimprove section |
| 1954 – Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp opened fire with a massive artillery barrage on the French military to begin the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the climactic battle in the First Indochina War. | lots of CN tags |
| 1962 – Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Lyman Lemnitzer delivered a proposal to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara called Operation Northwoods to create public support for a war against Fidel Castro and Cuba, which was eventually rejected by President John F. Kennedy. | refimprove section |
| 1997 – A series of unexplained lights appeared in the skies over the US states of Arizona and New Mexico, and the Mexican state of Sonora. | unreferenced section |
| Mustafa Reşid Pasha (b. 1800)سانچہ:· | unreferenced section |
| Odette Hallowes (d. 1995) | refimprove section |
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- 1697 – Nojpetén, capital of the Itza Maya kingdom, fell to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
- 1985 – One of England's worst incidents of football hooliganism when supporters of Luton Town and Millwall rioted before a match at Kenilworth Road stadium.
- 1986 – Claiming the right of innocent passage, American warships USS Yorktown and USS Caron entered the Soviet territorial waters in the Black Sea, inciting Soviet combat readiness.
- 1996 – A gunman killed sixteen children and a teacher at a primary school in Dunblane, Scotland, before committing suicide.
- 2013 – Francis was elected pope, making him the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas and the first from the Southern Hemisphere, as well as the first non-European pope in over 1,000 years.
- Born/died this day: Adolf Anderssen (d. 1879)سانچہ:·
Notes
- Rings of Uranus appears on March 10, so Uranus should not appear in the same year.
Uranus, as seen by Voyager 2
Uranus, as seen by Voyager 2
- 1781 – Astronomer and composer William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus (pictured) while in the garden of his house in Bath, Somerset, thinking it was a comet.
- 1845 – German composer Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, one of the most popular violin concertos of all time, received its world première in Leipzig.
- 1920 – The Kapp Putsch briefly ousted the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
- 1964 – Kitty Genovese was murdered in New York City, reportedly in view of neighbors who did nothing to help her (later disproved), prompting research into the bystander effect.
- 1988 – The Seikan Tunnel, the longest and deepest tunnel in the world at the time, opened between the cities of Hakodate and Aomori, Japan.
Daniel Lambert (b. 1770)سانچہ:· Benjamin Harrison (d. 1901)سانچہ:· Helen Renton (b. 1931)