Page 8: Historical Events In March - 13

1978  On March - 13 moluccans "suicide commandos" occupies Province house   

1978  On March - 13 the Canadian Radio & Television Commission rejects introduction of pay TV in Canada.. I guess we were not ready for it   

1978  On March - 13 david McKinley Williams, composer, dies at 91   

1979  European Monetary System is established, ECU created on this day in history.   

1979  On this day in history gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement   

1980  Eric Heiden skates world record 1000 meter (1 13.60) on March - 13.   

1980  On March - 13 ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto   

1980  Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen, composer, dies at 61 on this day in history.   

1980  Eric Heiden skates world record 1000 meter (1:13.60) on this day in history.   

1981  On March - 13 attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca   

1982  World Ice Dance Championship in Copenhagen won by Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (Great Britain) on March - 13.   

1982  Albert Weisser, composer, dies at 64 on March - 13.   

1983  Louison Bobet, French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55), dies at 58 on March - 13.   

1984  Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird on this day in history.   

1984  On March - 13 western Australia beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield   

1984  On March - 13 dick Whitington, journalist/cricketer (South Aust & AIF bat), dies   

1985  Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow) on this day in history.   

1986  Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir on March - 13.   

1986  Space probe Giotto encounters Halley's Comet on March - 13.   

1986  On March - 13 alvaro Fayad Delgado, Colombian guerilla leader (M-19), dies   

1987  On this day in history john Gotti is acquitted of racketeering   

1987  On March - 13 bernhard Grzimek, West German zoologist, dies at 77   

1988  14th People's Choice Awards Fatal Attraction, Bill Cosby win on this day in history.   

1988  Olive Carey, actress (Affairs With a Stranger), dies at 92 on this day in history.   

1988  On March - 13 14th People's Choice Awards: Fatal Attraction, Bill Cosby win   

1989  On March - 13 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, first woman to do the countdown   

1989  On this day in history fDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US   

1989  US space shuttle STS-29 launched on March - 13.   

1990  On March - 13 nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada   

1990  On March - 13 bruno Bettelhelm, Austrian/US psychoanalyst, commits suicide at 86   

1991  On March - 13 exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill (Prince William Sound, Alaska)   

1991  On March - 13 cor Witschge, [Pipo the Clown], Dutch actor (Alicia), dies at 65   

1992  On March - 13 570 die in a Turkish earthquake   

1992  On March - 13 martina Navratilova & Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit   

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1372  On this day in history birth of louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, brother of Charles VI of France (d. 1407)   

1548  Sasbout Vosmeer, Dutch Catholic theologist/apostole was born on March - 13.   

1599  On March - 13 birth of johannes Berchmans, Dutch Jesuit/saint   

1615  On this day in history birth of innocent XII, [Antonio Pignatelli], Pope (1691-1700)   

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

1696  On this day in history birth of louis F A D Duke de Richelieu, French marshal   

1700  On this day in history birth of james Kent, composer   

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 March - 13.   

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  On March - 13 vladislav II Jagiello, king of Bohemia (1490-1516), dies at 60   

1558  On this day in history jean Fernel, French physician/physiologist, dies   

1569  On this day in history 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.