What Day of the Week

March 13, 2021 was the 72^nd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 293 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Doyōbi.

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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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• 1781

  William Herschel discovers Uranus.
• 1845

  Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
• 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.)
• 1920

  The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
• 1933

  Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a “bank holiday”.
• 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.
• 1979

  The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'etat in Grenada.
• 2003

  Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.
• 2008

  Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time.

• 1897

  Dan Gordon, American animator (d. 1969)
• 1914

  W.O. Mitchell, Canadian writer (d. 1998)
• 1930

  Jan Howard, American singer
• 1950

  Charles Krauthammer, American political commentator
• 1956

  Dana Delany, American actress
• 1957

  Steve Lake, American baseball player
• 1983

  Kaitlin Sandeno, American swimmer
• 1985

  Alcides, Brazilian football player
• 1987

  Rosela Gjylbegu, Albanian singer
• 1989

  Holger Badstuber, German footballer

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