Wednesday March 13, 2024
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)

1138
Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
1639
Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard.
1897
San Diego State University is founded.
1900
Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
1921
Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China.
1925
Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
1943
World War II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.
1957
Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
1992
An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
1997
The Phoenix lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.

Who were born on March 13?

1782
Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish nobility (d.1863)
1926
Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (d. 2003)
1930
Jan Howard, American singer
1957
Steve Lake, American baseball player
1964
João Gordo, American musician (Ratos de Porão)
1978
Tom Danielson, American cyclist
1981
April Matson, American actress and singer
1981
Stephen Maguire, Scottish snooker player
1987
Rosela Gjylbegu, Albanian singer
1989
Holger Badstuber, German footballer

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