Historical Events In March - 13

1992  On March - 13 clarence Wright, singer, dies at 84   

1993  Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US on March - 13.   

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

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

1994  On March - 13 cuba Godding Jr (26) weds Sara Kapfer (26)   

1994  On this day in history oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed)   

1994  President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed on this day in history.   

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

1995  On March - 13 anti fascist Kazakhstan anti-parliament forms   

1995  Hungarian Forint devalued 9% on this day in history.   

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

1995  9th Soul Train Music Awards: Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win on this day in history.   

1996  On this day in history 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   

1996  Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play on March - 13.   

2005  On this day in history first round of Central African Republic elections.   

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

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

2013  10 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Kunduz province, Afghanistan on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history 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.   

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

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

2020  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] on this day in history.   

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  On March - 13 birth of louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, brother of Charles VI of France (d. 1407)   

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

1599  On this day in history birth of johannes Berchmans, Dutch Jesuit/saint   

1615  Innocent XII, [Antonio Pignatelli], Pope (1691-1700) was born on this day in history.   

1683  On this day in history birth of john Theophilus Desaguliers, French-British philosopher (d. 1744)   

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

1700  James Kent, composer was born on this day in history.   

1700  Michel Blavet, composer was born on this day in history.   

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

1271  On this day in history death of henry of Almain, English crusader (b. 1235)   

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

1516  On this day in history vladislav II Jagiello, king of Bohemia (1490-1516), dies at 60   

1558  Jean Fernel, French physician/physiologist, dies on March - 13.   

1569  On March - 13 lodewijk Condé, French prince/co-leader of Hugenot, dies   

1573  On March - 13 death of michel de l'Hôpital, French statesman   

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