March 13: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

March 13th marks the 72nd day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 73rd in case of leap years). There are 293 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Pisces. Famous birthdays on this day include Kaya Scodelario (1992), Ron Lafayette Hubbard (1911) and Dana Delany (1956).
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2019 Syrian Civil War: According to the SOHR, Russian air strikes and Syrian government shelling have occurred in Idlib province. This was the first such raids after a September truce agreement. At least 15 civilians were killed, including eight children, and around 60 others were injured.
2018 Naxalite Maoist insurgency. Maoists set fire to a mine-protected vehicle belonging to CRPF personnel.
2017 Afghanistan War (2001-present: At least one person dies and eight others are injured in a suicide bomber attack on a bus carrying Kabul government employees.
2016 March 2016, Ankara bombing: An explosion takes place in central Ankara (Turkey), with at least 34 deaths and 125 injuries.
2015 Four people were killed in a Myanmar air strike targeting rebels at its border with China.
2014 2014 Crimean crisis: Ukrainian leaders in the Kherson Oblast threaten all power and water supply to Crimea if the referendum is not approved. (FOX).Russian troops are reassembled near the Ukrainian border as new military operations are launched.
2013 2013 Srinagar Attack: Five Indian paramilitary troops are killed and three civilians are injured in a gun battle with two militants in Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir. Later, two militants were killed by CRPF.
2012 The ''Encyclopaedia Britishnica'' has been discontinued after 244 years.
2011 Arab Spring
2010 He Pingping, the shortest person alive, dies in Rome at 21 due to unknown complications.
2009 The United States has dropped the term "ampquotenemy combatantampquot" for Guantanamo Bay Naval base's detention camp detainees.
2008 For the first time in 12 year, the US dollar falls below 100 Japanese yen and gold climbs to US$1000 an ounce.
2007 As U.S. President George W. Bush meets Mexican President Felipe Calderon at Merida (Yucatan), demonstrators clash with the police in Mexico City
2006 Tony Blair, the UK Prime Minister, has been embroiled in a cash-for-honours scandal. One millionaire donor revealed that Labour fundraisers had secured secret loans from businessmen in order to be nominated for peerages.
2005 Terry Ratzmann kills six members of Living Church of God, and also the minister at Sheraton Inn Brookfield, Wisconsin. He then commits suicide.
2004 2004 ROC presidential election: 24 demonstrations held across Taiwan to support Lien Chan's bid.
2003 Evolution of human beings: A journal Nature reports that 350,000 year-old footprints belonging to an upright-walking person were found in Italy.
1998 The High-Z Supernova Search Team becomes the first team to publish evidence that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.
1997 The Phoenix lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.
1996 Thomas Hamilton kills 16 kindergardeners, their teacher and himself
1995 David Daliberti and William Barloon, two Americans working for a military contractor in Kuwait, are arrested after straying into Iraq.
1994 Cuba Godding Jr (26) weds Sara Kapfer (26)
1993 The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern U.S., bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba to QuTbec; it is reported to have killed 184.
1992 570 die in a Turkish earthquake
1991 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines and cleanup of Valdez oil spill
1990 Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada.
1989 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown
1988 14th People's Choice Awards: Fatal Attraction, Bill Cosby win.
1987 Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova and Bukin
1986 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 Cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
1985 Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)
1983 Woman of the Year closes at Palace Theater NYC after 770 performances
1982 Elaine Zayak, lands 6 triple jumps to win world skating championship
1981 Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca
1980 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000 metre (1:13.60).
1979 European Monetary System is established, ECU created.
1978 Moluccans "suicide commandos" occupy Province house.
1977 Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test.
1976 Mozambique recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
1975 Vietnam War: South Vietnam President Nguyen van Thieu orders the Central Highlands evacuated. This turns into a mass exodus involving troops and civilians (the ''Convoy of Tears'').
1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris, France.
1973 Irene opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 605 performances
1971 Live at Fillmore East recorded
1970 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam
1969 Apollo 9 returns to Earth.
1968 Beatles release Lady Madonna in the UK
1967 Moise Tshombe, ex-prime minister of Congo, is sentenced to death in absentia.
1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lagunita Golf Invitational.
1965 Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds
1964 Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack.
1963 Russians make two reconnaissance flights over Alaska.
1962 Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty.
1961 JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress
1960 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship.
1958 Government troops land in Sumatra, Indonesia.
1957 Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana, Cuba.
1956 Elvis Presley releases his first Gold Album titled ''Elvis Presley''.
1955 Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of Nepal.
1954 Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu.
1953 The United Nations Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjöld as United Nations Secretary General.
1951 Israel demands 6.2 billion Deutsche marks compensation from Germany.
1950 General Motors reports 1949 net earnings of US$656,434,232 (record).
1949 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Yvonne C Sherman.
1947 Brigadoon opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 581 performances
1945 Queen Wilhelmina returns to the Netherlands
1944 USSR recognizes Italian Badoglio government.
1943 Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight
1942 Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman Colonel in US army
1941 A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand).
1940 Finland-Russian cease fire signed, Finland gives up Karelische
1938 World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
1934 John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and their gang rob the First National Bank in Mason City, Iowa.
1933 Banks reopen
1930 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory, USA.
1928 450 die in St. Francisquito Valley Dam burst
1927 Fritz Lang's culturally influential film ''Metropolis'' premieres in Germany.
1925 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Arenas in two games.
1924 German Republic day
1923 Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (New York City, New York).
1922 WRR-AM in Dallas TX begins radio transmissions
1921 Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China.
1920 The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
1918 American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms.
1913 Kansas legislature approves censorship of motion pictures.
1912 Stanley Cup: QuTbec Bulldogs sweep Moncton (New Brunswick) in two games.
1911 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (Ontario), 7-4.
1904 Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilian border dedicated.
1900 Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
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