Editing Worldpedia:Selected anniversaries/March 13 (section)

==Notes==
* [[Rings of Uranus]] appears on [[Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 10|March 10]], so Uranus should not appear in the same year.
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'''[[March 13]]''': '''[[Fast of Esther]]''' (Judaism, 2025)<!--this normally is the day before Purim except when Purim starts on Saturday-->
{{main page image/OTD|File:Defensa de Cartagena de Indias por la escuadra de D. Blas de Lezo, año 1741.jpg|British attack on Cartagena de Indias}}
* [[1741]] – [[War of Jenkins' Ear]]: The British began an assault against Spanish forts in the Caribbean in the '''[[Battle of Cartagena de Indias]]''' ''(pictured)''.
* [[1848]] – '''[[Klemens von Metternich]]''' was forced to resign as the foreign minister of [[Austrian Empire|Austria]] following student demonstrations in [[Vienna]].
* [[1964]] – '''[[Murder of Kitty Genovese|Kitty Genovese]]''' was murdered in New York City, prompting research into the [[bystander effect]] due to the false story that neighbors witnessed the killing and did nothing to help her.
* [[1996]] – '''[[Dunblane massacre|A mass shooting at a primary school]]''' occurred in [[Dunblane]], Scotland, killing 16 children and a teacher and prompting tighter [[firearms regulation in the United Kingdom|gun control in the United Kingdom]].
{{Born and died list|'''[[John Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden]]'''<!--English nobleman--> |b|1719|'''[[Adolf Anderssen]]'''<!--German chess player--> |d|1879| '''[[Meinhard Michael Moser]]'''<!--Austrian mycologist--> |b|1924|'''[[Jan Howard]]'''<!--American singer--> |b|1929|}}

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