What Day of the Week

March 13, 2020 was the 73^rd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 293 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is vendredi.

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Here’s the March calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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.

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• 1639

  Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard.
• 1809

  Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'état.
• 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.
• 1900

  Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
• 1920

  The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
• 1940

  The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends.
• 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.
• 1997

  India’s Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
• 2003

  Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.

• 1720

  Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer (d. 1793)
• 1782

  Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish nobility (d.1863)
• 1883

  Enrico Toselli, Italian (Florentine) composer and pianist(d. 1926)
• 1899

  Jan Lechoń, Polish poet (d. 1956)
• 1900

  Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (d. 1981)
• 1921

  Al Jaffee, American cartoonist
• 1956

  Dana Delany, American actress
• 1957

  Steve Lake, American baseball player
• 1979

  Cedric Van Branteghem, Belgian athlete
• 1999

  Wiktoria Gąsiewska, Polish actress

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