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Worldpedia:Selected anniversaries/March 13
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Felix Mendelssohn
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Violin Concerto, 1st movement
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Tzar Alexander II of Russia
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Ignacy Hryniewiecki
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title=Uranus, as seen by Voyager 2
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Pope Francis
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 624 – Led by Muhammad, the Muslims of Medina defeated the Quraysh of Mecca in Badr, present-day Saudi Arabia. | primary sources |
| 874 – The remains of Saint Nicephorus were brought back to Constantinople to be interred at the Church of the Holy Apostles. | refimprove |
| 1639 – Already two years old but usually called simply "the New College", Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was named after its first principal donor, John Harvard. | lead too short, date not in article |
| 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 |
| 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. | globalize, refimprove sections |
| 1943 – The Holocaust: Nazi troops began liquidating the Jewish ghetto in Kraków, Poland, sending about 8,000 Jews to the Płaszów labor camp (deportation pictured), with the rest either killed or sent to Auschwitz. | figure of 8,000 needs review |
| 1954 – Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp opened fire with a massive artillery barrage on the French military to begin the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the climactic battle in the First Indochina War. | lots of CN tags |
| 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. | unreferenced section |
| 2013 – Francis was elected pope, making him the first 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. | too long |
| Mustafa Reşid Pasha (b. 1800)Template:· | unreferenced section |
| Odette Hallowes (d. 1995) | refimprove section |
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- 1845 – German composer Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, one of the most popular violin concertos of all time, received its world première in Leipzig.
- 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.
- 1986 – Claiming the right of innocent passage, American warships USS Yorktown and USS Caron entered the Soviet territorial waters in the Black Sea, inciting Soviet combat readiness.
- 1988 – The Seikan Tunnel, the longest and deepest tunnel in the world at the time, opened between the cities of Hakodate and Aomori, Japan.
- 1996 – A gunman killed sixteen children and a teacher at a primary school in Dunblane, Scotland, before committing suicide.
- Born/died this day: Sigismund Báthory (d. 1613)Template:· Daniel Lambert (b. 1770)Template:· Adolf Anderssen (d. 1879)Template:· Benjamin Harrison (d. 1901)Template:· Helen Renton (b. 1931)
Notes
- Rings of Uranus appears on March 10, so Uranus should not appear in the same year.
Jews being deported from the Kraków Ghetto
Jews being deported from the Kraków Ghetto
- 1697 – Nojpetén, capital of the Itza Maya kingdom, fell to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
- 1781 – Astronomer and composer William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus while in the garden of his house in Bath, England, thinking it was a comet.
- 1920 – The Kapp Putsch briefly ousted the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
- 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.
- 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.
John Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden (b. 1719)Template:· Hans Gude (b. 1825)Template:· Jenny Twitchell Kempton (d. 1921)