What are the important events that happened on March 13? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

March 13: Facts & Myths About This Day

March 13 is the 73^rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 293 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 29, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 28,504,800 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘heptacontatrigon’ day.

Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 322 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,100 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

March 13 Historical Events

• 1862 –
  American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers to return fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
• 1900 –
  Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
• 1925 –
  Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
• 1938 –
  Anschluss of Austria to the Third Reich.
• 1940 –
  The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends.
• 1943 –
  The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
• 1991 –
  The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
• 1996 –
  Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 Primary School children and 1 teacher are shot dead by a spree killer, Thomas Watt Hamilton who then committed suicide.
• 2003 –
  Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.
• 2005 –
  Terry Ratzmann shoots and kills six members of the Living Church of God and the minister at Sheraton Inn in Brookfield, Wisconsin before killing himself.

Who were born on March 13?

• 1781 –
  Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German architect (d. 1841)
• 1860 –
  Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (d. 1903)
• 1900 –
  Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
• 1927 –
  Robert Denning, American interior designer (d. 2005)
• 1939 –
  Neil Sedaka, American singer and songwriter
• 1947 –
  Beat Richner, Swiss physician and cellist
• 1956 –
  Davor Slamnig, Croatian writer and musician
• 1957 –
  John Hoeven, American politician, 31st governor and junior senator from North Dakota
• 1972 –
  Common, American rapper
• 1974 –
  Thomas Enqvist, Swedish tennis player

Who died on March 13?

• 1516 –
  King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1456)
• 1711 –
  Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (b. 1636)
• 1773 –
  Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist and explorer (b. 1727)
• 1873 –
  David Swinson Maynard, Founder of Seattle, Washington, United States (b. 1808)
• 1901 –
  Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (b. 1833)
• 1938 –
  Clarence Darrow, American attorney (b. 1857)
• 1938 –
  Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual (b. 1888)
• 1941 –
  Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and novelist (b. 1881)
• 1990 –
  Karl Münchinger, German conductor (b. 1915)
• 2006 –
  Robert C. Baker, Inventor of the chicken nugget (b. 1921)