Editing Worldpedia:Selected anniversaries/March 13 (section)

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* [[1567]] – A Spanish mercenary army surprised a band of rebels at the '''[[Battle of Oosterweel]]''' in the [[Habsburg Netherlands]], beginning the [[Eighty Years' War]].
* [[1697]] – [[Nojpetén]], capital of the [[Peten Itza kingdom|Itza Maya]] kingdom, fell to Spanish [[conquistador]]s, the final step in the '''[[Spanish conquest of Guatemala]]'''.
* [[1781]] – [[William Herschel]] discovered the planet '''[[Uranus]]''' from the garden of his house in [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]], England, initially considering it to be a [[comet]].
* [[1811]] – [[Napoleonic Wars]]: A British [[frigate]] squadron defeated a much larger squadron of French and Italian frigates and smaller vessels in the '''[[Battle of Lissa (1811)|Battle of Lissa]]''' in the [[Adriatic Sea]].
* [[1845]] – German composer [[Felix Mendelssohn]]'s '''[[Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)|Violin Concerto]]''' was premiered in [[Leipzig]] with [[Ferdinand David (musician)|Ferdinand David]] as the soloist.
* [[1920]] – The '''[[Kapp Putsch]]''' ''(participants pictured)'', an attempted [[Coup d'état|coup]] aiming to undo the [[German Revolution of 1918–1919]], briefly ousted the government of the [[Weimar Republic]].
* [[1943]] – [[The Holocaust]]: Nazi troops <!--under [[Amon Göth]] -->began the final liquidation of the '''[[Kraków Ghetto]]''' in [[General Government|German-occupied Poland]], sending about 2,000 Jews to the [[Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp|Płaszów labor camp]] ''(deportation pictured)'', with the remaining 5,000 either killed or sent to [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]].
* [[1985]] – One of England's worst incidents of [[football hooliganism]] occurred when supporters of [[Luton Town F.C.|Luton Town]] and [[Millwall F.C.|Millwall]] '''[[1985 Luton riot|rioted]]''' before a match at [[Kenilworth Road]] stadium.
* [[1986]] – Claiming the right of [[innocent passage]], the American warships ''[[USS Yorktown (CG-48)|Yorktown]]'' and ''[[USS Caron|Caron]]'' '''[[1986 Black Sea incident|entered Soviet territorial waters]]''' in the [[Black Sea]].
* [[1988]] – The 53.85&nbsp;km (33.46&nbsp;mi) '''[[Seikan Tunnel]]''' opened between the cities of [[Hakodate]] and [[Aomori]], Japan.
* [[2004]] – The Filipino singer '''[[Rachelle Ann Go]]''' won the reality talent show ''[[Search for a Star]]'', performing a cover of [[Mariah Carey]]'s "[[Through the Rain]]" in the grand final.
* [[2013]] – Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio [[2013 papal conclave|was elected]] as '''[[Pope Francis]]''', making him the first [[Jesuits|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: | '''[[Daniel Lambert]]'''<!--English animal breeder--> |b|1770| '''[[Mustafa Reşid Pasha]]'''<!--Ottoman diplomat--> |b|1800|'''[[John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent]]'''<!--English admiral--> |d|1823| '''[[Hans Gude]]'''<!--Norwegian painter--> |b|1825| '''[[Percival Lowell]]'''<!--American astronomer--> |b|1855| '''[[Benjamin Harrison]]'''<!--American president--> |d|1901|'''[[Sālote Tupou III]]'''<!--Tongan queen--> |b|1900|   '''[[Jane Grigson]]'''<!--English cookery writer--> |b|1928| '''[[Helen Renton]]'''<!--Scottish air force officer--> |b|1931| '''[[Anne Acheson]]'''<!--Irish sculptor--> |d|1962| '''[[Iris Calderhead]]'''<!--American suffragist--> |d|1966 '''[[Encarnacion Alzona]]'''<!--Filipino historian, female--> |d|2001