A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.
March 13: Day of the Week
March 13, 2024 was the 73rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 293 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is mercredi.
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Here’s the March calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
March 13 Historical Event(s)
1862
American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers to return fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
1865
American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops.
1881
Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)
1921
Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China.
1938
Anschluss of Austria to the Third Reich.
1943
The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
1964
American Kitty Genovese is murdered, reportedly in view of neighbors who did nothing to help her, prompting research into the bystander effect.
1969
Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
1988
The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.
2005
Terry Ratzmann shoots and kills six members of the Living Church of God and the minister at Sheraton Inn in Brookfield, Wisconsin before killing himself.
Who were born on March 13?
1683
John Theophilus Desaguliers, French-British philosopher (d. 1744)
1700
Michel Blavet, French flutist (d. 1768)
1753
Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, great heiress and wife of Philippe Égalité (d. 1821)
1781
Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German architect (d. 1841)
1782
Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish nobility (d.1863)
1864
Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (d. 1941)
1941
Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian prominent poet and writer of prose (d. 2008)
1973
Edgar Davids, Dutch footballer
1986
Chiaki Kyan, Japanese gravure idol
1987
Rosela Gjylbegu, Albanian singer
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