What Day of the Week

March 13, 2019 was the 72^nd day of the year 2019 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 Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is miércoles.

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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.
• 1781

  William Herschel discovers Uranus.
• 1938

  Anschluss of Austria to the Third Reich.
• 1938

  World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
• 1943

  World War II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.
• 1954

  Battle of Điện Biên Phủ: Viet Minh forces attack the French.
• 1991

  The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
• 1992

  An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
• 1996

  Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 Primary School children and 1 teacher are shot dead by a spree killer, Thomas Watt Hamilton who then committed suicide.
• 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)
• 1898

  Henry Hathaway, American film director and producer (d. 1985)
• 1911

  L. Ron Hubbard, American science fiction author and founder of Scientology (d. 1986)
• 1936

  Nana Meskhidze, Georgian artist-painter (d. 1997)
• 1943

  André Téchiné, French film director and screenwriter
• 1949

  Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese racing driver (d. 1974)
• 1955

  Bruno Conti, Italian footballer
• 1970

  Tim Story, American film director
• 1971

  Annabeth Gish, American actress
• 1982

  Jeremy Curl, British explorer

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