13 March In History - What Happened On This Day

According to Gregory calendar, on March 13, the day number in a year is 73 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 74. March 13 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1697	Nojpetén, capital of the Itza Maya kingdom, fell to Spanishconquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
1759	The percolation passage of the 27th orbiter of Haley's comet was interpreted.
1772	Gotthold Lessing's "Emilia Gallotti" premiered in Brunswick.
1781	German-born astronomer and composer William Herschel discoveredthe planet Uranus while in the garden of his house in Bath, Somerset,thinking it was a comet.
1800	Nana Fadnavis, a noted politician of the Maratha Empire, died in Pune, Maharashtra.
1808	After the death of Christian VII, Frederick VI became king of Denmark, the very next day Denmark declared war on Sweden.
1845	German composer Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, one of the most popular and most frequently performed violin concertos of all time, was first played in Leipzig.
1848	Prince Clemens von Metertich resigned as the State Chancellor and Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Austria.
1878	Oxford University defeated Cambridge University in their first golf match.
1878	The Vernacular Press Act came into effect and the next day Amrit Bazar Patrika became an English newspaper.
1884	Mahdist War-Forces loyal to self-proclaimed Mahdi MuhammadAhmad began a 319-day siege of a combined Anglo-Egyptian force defendingKhartoum, Sudan.
1897	San Diego State University was founded.
1920	The Kapp Putsch briefly ousted the Weimar Republic governmentfrom 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.
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.
1944	Italy and the Soviet Union restored diplomatic relations with each other.
1954	Viet Minh forces under Vo Nguyen Giap unleashed a massiveartillery barrage on the French military to begin the Battle of DienBien Phu, the climactic battle in the First Indochina War.
1961	Two female and three male officers from Britain were accused of spying for Russia. It was said that he was sending the clues of the country to Russia.
1961	Landslides killed 145 people in the Soviet Union.
1962	Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Lyman Lemnitzerdelivered a proposal to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara calledOperation Northwoods to create public support for a war against FidelCastro and Cuba, which was eventually rejected by President John F.Kennedy.
1963	Arjuna Award was announced for outstanding performance in sports.
1964	American Kitty Genovese was murdered, reportedly in view ofneighbors who did nothing to help her (later disproved), promptingresearch into the bystander effect.
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.
1996	A gunman entered a school in Dunblane, Scotland, and opened fire, killing 16 children and their teacher.
1996	Thomas Hamilton kills 16 kindergartens, their teacher and himself.
1996	In the deadliest attack on children in the history of the United Kingdom, a spree killer murdered sixteen children and a teacher at a primary school in Dunblane, Scotland.
1999	Sheikh Hamaz bin Isa Al Khalifa became the new ruler of Bahrain.
2002	Robert Mugave was re-elected President of Zimbabwe.
2008	NASA's spacecraft Endeavor safely arrives at the International Space Station.
2011	Due to the fear of nuclear contamination from the power plant, over 200,000 people were evacuated from Japan.
2011	Japan estimates over 46,000 structures were damaged in the 9.0 earthquake.
2012	110 people died in a collision between an oil tanker and a ferry near Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.
2012	A Harvard Medical School study claims that red meat increases the death and has additional negative health implications.
2012	A 25 years old Alaskan, Dallas Seavey becomes the youngest winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
2013	The European Parliament rejects a European Union budget for the first time in its history.
2013	The Siumut party wins the parliamentary election setting up Aleqa Hammond to become Greenland’s first female Prime Minister.
2013	Francis was elected pope, making him the first Jesuit, thefirst from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere and thefirst non-European pope in over 1,000 years.
2014	The European Central Bank announces its readiness to ensure that interest rates will remain steady or decrease as inflation rises.
2014	The government of U.K has announced that it will put 11 million pounds into the funding of the square kilometre Array project, a radio telescope that will collect massive amounts of data from space, requiring immense computing resources.
2016	Suicide bombings killed 37 people in Ankara, Turkey.
624	Led by Muhammad, the Muslims of Medina defeated the Quraysh ofMecca in Badr, present-day Saudi Arabia.
624	Led by Muhammad, the Muslims of Medina defeated the Quraysh ofMecca in Badr, present-day Saudi Arabia.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1774	First Postal Service Office opened in India.
1940	Indian revolutionary Udham Singh shot and killed former Punjab Governor Michael O Dyer in London to avenge the Jallianwala Bagh from the British.
1996	Sri Lanka beats India in World cup semi final as riots stop play.
1997	Sister Nirmala was selected by Mother Teresa at the Indian Missionaries of Charity as the leader.
2004	Indian sitar maestro Vilayat Khan died.

Birth Year	Name/Category/Country
1899	Burgula Ramakrishna Rao / Politician / India
1905	Durgabai Kamat / Actress / India
1978	Anusha Rizvi / Director / India
1982	Nimrat Kaur / Actress / India

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