Worldpedia:Selected anniversaries/March 13

March 13:

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• 874 - The bones of Saint Nicephorus were interred in Constantinople.
• 1639 - New College in Cambridge, Massachusetts was renamed Harvard College, after its first principal donor, John Harvard.
• 1781 - William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.
• 1881 - Tsar Alexander II of Russia was assassinated in Saint Petersburg by Ignacy Hryniewiecki in a Nihilist plot.
• 1954 - The Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the last battle of the Indochina War, began.

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