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Events from History on March 13

1138 : German king Koenraad II von Hohenstaufen crowned
1519 : Cortez lands in M‚xico
1560 : Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli
1564 : Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels
1567 : Battle at Oosterweel: Spanish troops destroy Geuzenleger
1569 : Battle of Jarnac, Count of Anjou defeats Huguenots
1591 : Battle at Tondibi: Moroccans army under Judar beats sultan Askia
1591 : Ishaq II of Songhai
1634 : Acad‚mie Fran‡aise opens
1639 : Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard
1656 : Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam
1677 : Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000
1735 : 1st US Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany
1759 : 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1772 : Gotthold Lessing's "Emilia Calotti," premieres in Brunswick
1781 : Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really discovered Uranus)
1790 : John Martin, 1st American-born actor, performs in Philadelphia
1797 : Cherubini's opera "Med‚e," premieres in Paris
1835 : Charles Darwin departs Valparaiso for Andes crossing
1846 : Friedrich Hebbel's "Maria Magdalena," premieres in K”nigsberg
1852 : Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the NY Lantern weekly
1861 : Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers
1865 : US Confederate Congress calls on black slaves for field service
1868 : Senate begins Pres Andrew Johnson impeachment trial
1869 : Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law
1884 : Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins
1884 : US adopts Standard Time
1887 : Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs
1888 : Great Blizzard of 1888 rages
1894 : J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate
1895 : Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die
1900 : British troops occupy Bloemfontein, Orange-Free state
1904 : Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilian border dedicated
1911 : Ivan Caryll's musical "Pink Lady," premieres in NYC
1911 : Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (Ont), 7-4
1912 : Stanley Cup: Quebec Bulldogs sweep Moncton (NB) in 2 games
1913 : Kansas legislature approved censorship of motion pictures
1915 : from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit
1918 : American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms
1918 : them 10-7 in a 2 game set
1920 : Wolfgang Kapp's coup attempt in Berlin fails
1921 : Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China
1922 : George Bernard Shaws "Back to Methusaleh V," premieres in NYC
1922 : WRR-AM in Dallas TX begins radio transmissions
1922 : in 2 games
1923 : Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (NYC)
1924 : German Republic day
1925 : Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution
1928 : 450 die in St Francisquito Valley Dam burst (Calif)
1928 : Rudolph Friml's musical "Three Musketeers," premieres in NYC
1929 : Bradman scores 123 Aust v England at MCG, his 2nd Test Cricket ton
1930 : Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
1933 : Banks reopen
1933 : Josef G”bbels becomes German minister of Information & Propaganda
1935 : Driving tests introduced in Great Britain
1938 : Anschluá-Austria annexed by Nazi Germany
1940 : Finland-Russian cease fire signed, Finland gives up Karelische
1941 : A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand)
1942 : Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army
1943 : Baseball approves official ball (with cork & balata)
1943 : Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight
1943 : Frank Dixon wins Knights of Columbus mile (4:09.6)
1944 : USSR recognizes Italian Badoglio govt
1945 : Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands
1945 : Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman
1947 : "Brigadoon" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 581 performances
1947 : 19th Academy Awards - "Best Years of Lives," De Havilland, March win
1948 : 10th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Baylor 58-42
1949 : US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
1949 : US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1950 : General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record)
1951 : 2nd Dutch govt of Drees forms
1951 : Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany
1954 : Braves' Bobby Thomson breaks his ankle, he is replaced by Hank Aaron
1954 : Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu
1955 : Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of Nepal
1956 : NZ bowl out WI for 77 at Eden Park to score their 1st Test Cricket win
1957 : Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba
1958 : Govt troops land in Sumatra Indonesia
1960 : NFL's Chicago Cardinals moves to St Louis
1960 : White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number
1961 : Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes pres of US Communist Party
1961 : JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress
1961 : Landslide in USSR, kills 145
1961 : Old type, black & white notes cease to be legal tender
1961 : Pablo Picasso (79) marries his model Jacqueline Rocque (37)
1962 : Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty
1963 : 2 Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska
1963 : Hindemith & Wilder's opera "Long Christmas Dinner," premieres in NYC
1963 : Indonesia & Netherlands recover diplomatic relations
1964 : Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack
1965 : Beatles' "Eight Days a Week," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1965 : Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds
1967 : Congo sentences ex-premier Mo‹se Tsjombe to death
1967 : Robert Anderson's "You Know I Can't Hear You ...," premieres in NYC
1968 : Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK
1969 : Apollo 9 returns to Earth
1970 : 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam
1970 : Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
1970 : SF city employees begin 4-day strike
1971 : Live at Fillmore East recorded
1973 : "Irene" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 605 performances
1973 : Minskoff Theater opens at 200 W 45th St NYC
1973 : Syria adopts constitution
1974 : Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris
1974 : Glenn Turner scores twin tons for NZ's 1st win against Aust
1975 : Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year," premieres in NYC
1977 : #2508 Alupka, #2646 Abetti, #2792 Ponomarev, #2966, #3100,
1977 : #3884 Alferov, #4009 Drobyshevskij, #5083 Irinara, #5413 Smyslov,
1977 : #5935 Ostankino & #8062
1977 : Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test
1978 : Moluccans "suicide commandos" occupies Province house
1979 : European Monetary System is established, ECU created
1979 : Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement
1979 : Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick
1980 : Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:13.60)
1980 : Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto
1980 : Men's Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Jan Hoffmann GDR
1981 : Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca
1981 : NCAA St Joseph's upsets top seed DePaul
1982 : Elaine Zayak, lands 6 triple jumps to win world skating championship
1982 : Ice Dance Championship at Copenhagen won by Torvill & Dean (GRB)
1982 : Ice Pairs Championship at Copenhagen won by Baess & Thierbach (GDR)
1982 : Men's Fig Skating Champions in Copenhagen won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
1982 : Worlds Ladies Fig Skate Champs in Copenhagen won by Elaine Zayak (USA)
1983 : "Woman of the Year" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 770 perfs
1983 : 1st USFL overtime game-Birmingham Stallions beat Oakld Invaders 20-14
1984 : WA beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield
1985 : Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)
1985 : Michael Secrest (US) begins 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
1986 : Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
1987 : Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
1987 : John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering
1987 : Washington Caps score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 mins & 3 secs
1988 : 14th People's Choice Awards: Fatal Attraction, Bill Cosby. win
1989 : 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown
1989 : FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US
1989 : US space shuttle STS-29 launched
1990 : Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada
1991 : Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill
1992 : 570 die in a Turkish earthquake
1992 : FCC rules companies can own 30 AM & 30 FM stations (formerly 12)
1992 : Martina Navratilova & Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit
1993 : Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US
1994 : 33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right FP™
1994 : Cuba Godding Jr (26) weds Sara Kapfer (26)
1994 : Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed)
1994 : President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed
1995 : 9th Soul Train Music Awards: Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win
1995 : Anti fascist Kazachstan anti-parliament forms
1995 : Hungarian Forint devalued 9%
1995 : Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators
1996 : Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play
1996 : Thomas Hamilton kills 16 kindergardeners, their teacher & himself

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