Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 13
This is a list of selected March 13 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Felix Mendelssohn -
Violin Concerto, 1st movement
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Tzar Alexander II of Russia -
Ignacy Hryniewiecki -
title=Uranus, as seen by Voyager 2 -
Pope Francis
Ineligible
| 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 |
| 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. | refimprove |
| 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 |
| Odette Hallowes (d. 1995) | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1697 – Nojpetén, capital of the Itza Maya kingdom, fell to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
- 1781 – Astronomer and composer William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus while in the garden of his house in Bath, England, 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.
- 1943 – The Holocaust: Nazi troops began liquidating the Jewish ghetto in Kraków, Poland, sending about 2,000 Jews to the Płaszów labor camp (deportation pictured), with the remaining 5,000 either killed or sent to Auschwitz.
- 1962 – Lyman Lemnitzer, the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, presented to the Secretary of Defense a false flag conspiracy plan, Operation Northwoods, intended to create public support for a war against Fidel Castro and Cuba.
- 1964 – Kitty Genovese was murdered in New York City, prompting research into the bystander effect due to the false story that neighbors witnessed the killing and did nothing to help her.
- 1985 – One of England's worst incidents of football hooliganism occurred 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 at the time, opened between the cities of Hakodate and Aomori, Japan.
- 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: John Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden (b. 1719) · John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent (d. 1823) · Hans Gude (b. 1825) · Adolf Anderssen (d. 1879) · Benjamin Harrison (d. 1901) · Helen Renton (b. 1931) · Anne Acheson (d. 1962)
Notes
- Rings of Uranus appears on March 10, so Uranus should not appear in the same year.
- 1567 – A Spanish mercenary army surprised and killed a band of rebels in the Battle of Oosterweel near Antwerp in the Habsburg Netherlands, beginning the Eighty Years' War.
- 1639 – Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was named after its first principal donor, clergyman John Harvard.
- 1920 – The Kapp Putsch (participants pictured), an attempted coup aiming to undo the German Revolution of 1918–1919, briefly ousted the government of the Weimar Republic.
- 1954 – Việt Minh forces under General Võ Nguyên Giáp began a massive artillery bombardment on the French military, beginning the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the climactic battle of the First Indochina War.
- 1996 – A gunman killed sixteen children and a teacher at a primary school in Dunblane, Scotland, before committing suicide.
Daniel Lambert (b. 1770) · Mustafa Reşid Pasha (b. 1800) · Encarnacion Alzona (d. 2001)