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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Vo Nguyen Giap
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Uranus
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 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. | Need to verify date, tagged refimprove + cleanup |
| 1881 – Tsar Alexander II of Russia was assassinated near his palace in a bomb-throwing plot by Ignacy Hryniewiecki and three other revolutionaries. | Tagged with {{citation style}}, unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1781 – German-born 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.
- 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.
- 1920 – The Kapp Putsch briefly ousted the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
- 1954 – Viet Minh forces under Vo Nguyen Giap 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.
- 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.
- 1988 – The Seikan Tunnel, the longest and deepest tunnel in the world, opened between the cities of Hakodate and Aomori, Japan.
- 1997 – A series of unexplained lights appeared in the skies over the U.S. states of Arizona and New Mexico, and the Mexican state of Sonora.
Notes
- Rings of Uranus appears on March 10, so Uranus should not appear in the same year.
- 624 – Led by Muhammad, the Muslims of Medina defeated the Quraysh of Mecca in Badr, present-day Saudi Arabia.
- 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.
- 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 (deportation pictured), with the rest either killed or sent to Auschwitz.
- 1964 – American Kitty Genovese was murdered, reportedly in view of neighbors who did nothing to help her, prompting research into the bystander effect.
- 1996 – A mass-murderer killed sixteen children and a teacher at a primary school in Dunblane, Scotland.