Worldpedia:Selected anniversaries/March 13

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• Felix Mendelssohn
  Felix Mendelssohn
• Violin Concerto, 1st movement
  Violin Concerto, 1^st movement
• Tzar Alexander II of Russia
  Tzar Alexander II of Russia
• Ignacy Hryniewiecki
  Ignacy Hryniewiecki
• Uranus, as seen by Voyager 2
  Uranus, as seen by Voyager 2
• Pope Francis
  Pope Francis
• Deportation of Jews from the Kraków Ghetto
  Deportation of Jews from the Kraków Ghetto
• Klemens von Metternich
  Klemens von Metternich

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624 – Led by Muhammad, the Muslims of Medina defeated the Quraysh of Mecca in Badr, present-day Saudi Arabia.	refimprove section
874 – The remains of Saint Nicephorus were brought back to Constantinople to be interred at the Church of the Holy Apostles.	refimprove
1639 – Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was named after its first principal donor, clergyman John Harvard.	Citations needed
1881 – Tsar Alexander II of Russia was assassinated near his palace in a bomb-throwing plot by Ignacy Hryniewiecki and three other revolutionaries.	unreferenced section (Ancestry)
1884 – Mahdist War: Forces loyal to self-proclaimed Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad began a 319-day siege of a combined Anglo-Egyptian force defending Khartoum, Sudan.	refimprove
1954 – Việt Minh forces under General Võ Nguyên Giáp began a massive artillery bombardment on the French military, beginning the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the climactic battle of the First Indochina War.	Citation needed for date
1962 – Lyman Lemnitzer, the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, presented to the Secretary of Defense a false flag conspiracy plan, Operation Northwoods, intended to create public support for a war against Fidel Castro and Cuba.	Too much uncited
1997 – A series of unexplained lights appeared in the skies over the US states of Arizona and New Mexico, and the Mexican state of Sonora.	refimprove
Odette Hallowes |d|1995	refimprove section
Hee Seo|b|1986	birth date failed verification
Benjamin Mountfort |b|1825|	Citation needed

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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 Itza Maya kingdom, fell to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
• 1781 – William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus from the garden of his house in 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 in the Adriatic Sea.
• 1845 – German composer Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto was premiered in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as the soloist.
• 1920 – The Kapp Putsch (participants pictured), an attempted coup aiming to undo the German Revolution of 1918–1919, briefly ousted the government of the Weimar Republic.
• 1943 – The Holocaust: Nazi troops began the final liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto in German-occupied Poland, sending about 2,000 Jews to the Płaszów labor camp (deportation pictured), with the remaining 5,000 either killed or sent to Auschwitz.
• 1985 – One of England's worst incidents of football hooliganism occurred when supporters of Luton Town and Millwall rioted before a match at Kenilworth Road stadium.
• 1986 – Claiming the right of innocent passage, the American warships Yorktown and Caron entered Soviet territorial waters in the Black Sea.
• 1988 – The 53.85 km (33.46 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 was elected as Pope Francis, making him the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, and the first from the Southern Hemisphere.
• Born/died this day: | Daniel Lambert |b|1770| Mustafa Reşid Pasha |b|1800|John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent |d|1823| Hans Gude |b|1825| Percival Lowell |b|1855| Benjamin Harrison |d|1901|Sālote Tupou III |b|1900| Jane Grigson |b|1928| Helen Renton |b|1931| Anne Acheson |d|1962| Iris Calderhead |d|1966 Encarnacion Alzona |d|2001

Notes

• Rings of Uranus appears on March 10, so Uranus should not appear in the same year.

March 13: Fast of Esther (Judaism, 2025)

British attack on Cartagena de Indias

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 Austria following student demonstrations in Vienna.
• 1964 – 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 – A mass shooting at a primary school occurred in Dunblane, Scotland, killing 16 children and a teacher and prompting tighter gun control in the United Kingdom.

• John Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden (b. 1719)
• Adolf Anderssen (d. 1879)
• Meinhard Michael Moser (b. 1924)
• Jan Howard (b. 1929)

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