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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Uranus, as seen by Voyager 2
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Jews being deported from the Krakow Ghetto
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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. | no footnotes |
| 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. | 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. | refimprove |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Eligible
- 1781 – Astronomer and composer William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus while in the garden of his house in Bath, Somerset, thinking it was a comet.
- 1920 – The Kapp Putsch briefly ousted the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
- 1943 – The Holocaust: Nazi German 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1988 – The Seikan Tunnel, the longest and deepest tunnel in the world, opened between the cities of Hakodate and Aomori, Japan.
Notes
- Rings of Uranus appears on March 10, so Uranus should not appear in the same year.
March 13: Holi (Hinduism, 2017)
Pope Francis
Pope Francis
- 1697 – Nojpetén, capital of the Itza Maya kingdom, fell to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
- 1845 – German composer Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, one of the most popular violin concertos of all time, was first played in Leipzig.
- 1954 – Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp unleashed a massive artillery barrage on the French military to begin the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the climactic battle in the First Indochina War.
- 1996 – A gunman killed sixteen children and a teacher at a primary school in Dunblane, Scotland, before committing suicide.
- 2013 – Francis (pictured) was elected pope, making him the first Jesuit, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere and the first non-European pope in over 1,000 years.
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