March 13: Day of the Week
March 13, 2023 is the 72nd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 293 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Monday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Getsuyōbi.
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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.
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March 13 Historical Event(s)
- 1138Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
- 1809Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'état.
- 1881Alexander 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.)
- 1900Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
- 1938Anschluss of Austria to the Third Reich.
- 1969Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
- 1992An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
- 1997India’s Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
- 1997The Phoenix lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.
- 2005Terry 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?
- 1825Hans Gude, Norwegian romanticist landscape painter (d. 1903)
- 1926Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (d. 2003)
- 1936Nana Meskhidze, Georgian artist-painter (d. 1997)
- 1939Neil Sedaka, American singer and songwriter
- 1960Yuri Andrukhovych, Ukrainian writer, poet and political essayist
- 1964João Gordo, American musician (Ratos de Porão)
- 1976Troy Hudson, American basketball player
- 1979Johan Santana, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1984Noel Fisher, Canadian actor
- 1991Lê Quang Liêm, Vietnamese chess player.
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