Historical Events In March - 13

1992  On this day in history clarence Wright, singer, dies at 84   

1993  On March - 13 blizzard of '93 hits north-east US   

1993  On this day in history ralph Smith Fults, US gangster (Bonnie & Clyde gang), dies at 82   

1994  On March - 13 33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right FPÖ   

1994  On this day in history cuba Godding Jr (26) weds Sara Kapfer (26)   

1994  Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed) on this day in history.   

1994  On this day in history president Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed   

1995  On March - 13 9th Soul Train Music Awards Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win   

1995  On this day in history anti fascist Kazakhstan anti-parliament forms   

1995  On March - 13 hungarian Forint devalued 9%   

1995  Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators on March - 13.   

1995  9th Soul Train Music Awards: Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win on March - 13.   

1996  At Dunblane, a thirteenth century village on the edge of the Scottish Highlands, forty-three-year-old Thomas Hamilton bursts into the gymnasium of the Dunblane Primary School with four guns, and opens fire on a kindergarten class. Sixteen children and their teacher, Gwenne Mayor, are killed before Hamilton turns the gun on himself on March - 13.   

1996  Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play on this day in history.   

2005  First round of Central African Republic elections on March - 13.   

2012  On this day in history 19 people are shot dead in a bus attack in Ethiopia   

2012  On March - 13 after 244 years since its first publication, the Encyclopædia Britannica discontinues its print edition.   

2013  On March - 13 10 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Kunduz province, Afghanistan   

2014  On March - 13 after protests earlier this month, the Israeli parliament votes 65 to 1 for legislation that ends exemptions from military service for ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students   

2018  On this day in history uS Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is fired via a tweet from President Donald Trump   

2018  National Geographic magazine admits its past coverage was racist in issue to mark 50 years since death of Martin Luther King Jr on March - 13.   

2019  March 2019 North American blizzard: A winter storm completes its explosive intensification over the Southern Rocky Mountains region, which began the day before, becoming a powerful "bomb cyclone" and triggering severe blizzard conditions across much of the Southwestern and Central United States on this day in history.   

2019  On March - 13 australian Cardinal George Pell is sentenced to six years in prison for sexually abusing two choirboys in 1996.   

2020  Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates steps down from the company's board to focus on philanthropic activities on March - 13.   

2020  On this day in history african American Breonna Taylor shot and killed by police officers executing a no-knock warrant on her flat with a battering ram in Louisville, Kentucky [1]   

2020  On this day in history [COVID-19 pandemic] The government of Nepal announces that Mount Everest will be closed to climbers and the public for the rest of the season due to concerns from the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia.   

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1372  Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, brother of Charles VI of France (d. 1407) was born on this day in history.   

1548  On March - 13 birth of sasbout Vosmeer, Dutch Catholic theologist/apostole   

1599  Johannes Berchmans, Dutch Jesuit/saint was born on this day in history.   

1615  On March - 13 birth of innocent XII, [Antonio Pignatelli], Pope (1691-1700)   

1683  John Theophilus Desaguliers, French-British philosopher (d. 1744) was born on March - 13.   

1696  On March - 13 birth of louis F A D Duke de Richelieu, French marshal   

1700  James Kent, composer was born on March - 13.   

1700  On this day in history birth of michel Blavet, composer   

1202  Mieszko III, the Elder, grand duke of Poland (1173-77, 1200-02), dies on this day in history.   

1271  Death of Henry of Almain, English crusader (b. 1235) on this day in history.   

1395  On this day in history death of john Barbour, Scottish poet   

1516  Vladislav II Jagiello, king of Bohemia (1490-1516), dies at 60 on March - 13.   

1558  Jean Fernel, French physician/physiologist, dies on this day in history.   

1569  On this day in history lodewijk Condé, French prince/co-leader of Hugenot, dies   

1573  On this day in history death of michel de l'Hôpital, French statesman   

1604  Death of Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (b. 1537) on March - 13.