13 Mairch

The 13t o Mairch is the 72nt day o the year (73rd in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 293 days ti come.

 Events 
1781 – William Herschel discovers Uranus.
1809 – Gustav IV Adolf o Swaden is deposed in a coup d'état.
1881 – Tsar Alexander II o Roushie is assassinatit in Saunt Petersburg.
1940 – The Winter War atween Finland an the Soviet Union ends.
1943 – Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto o Warsaw.
1954 – The KGB is foondit.
1969 – Apollo 9 returns tae the Yird efter tests o the lunar module.
1988 – The Seikan-Tunnel, connectin the Japanese islands o Honshu an Hokkaido, opens.
1992 – A yirdquauk hits Erzincan, Turkey, killin 498 fowk.
1996 – Dunblane massacre: Thomas Hamilton fatally shuits 16 pupils an their teacher at Dunblane Primary Schuil in Central Scotland.
2013 – Jorge Mario Bergoglio o Argentinae is electit Pape. He becomes Pape Francis.
2015 – Iceland withdraws its application tae jyn the European Union.
2016 – A bomb attack in Ankara kills 37 fowk.
2017 – First Meenister Nicola Sturgeon asks for permission tae hauld a seicont referendum on Scots unthirldom.
2018 – US Preses Donald Trump fires his Secretar o State Rex Tillerson an nominates Mike Pompeo tae succeed him. 
2019 – A shuitin at a schuil in Suzano, Sao Paulo, Brazil, kills 8 fowk.
2019 – A schuil collapse in Lagos, Nigerie, kills 8 fowk.
2019 – The Hoose o Commons o the Unitit Kinrick votes against a "No-Deal" Brexit.

 Births 
1615 - Pape Innocent XII (d. 1700)
1741 - Joseph II, Haly Roman Emperor (d. 1790)
1764 - Charles Grey, 2nt Yerl Grey, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1845)
1781 - Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Proushie airchitect (d. 1841)
1873 - George Forrest, Scots botanist (d. 1932)
1899 - John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American pheesicist an mathemateecian (d. 1980)
1900 - Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet an diplomat (d. 1971)
1900 - Salote Tupou III, Queen o Tonga (d. 1965)
1911 - L. Ron Hubbard, American author, founder o Scientology (d. 1986)
1939 - Neil Sedaka, American sangster
1941 - John Clark, Scots fitbawer
1942 - Scatman John, American sangster (d. 1999)
1950 - William H. Macy, American actor an screenwriter
1952 - Didier Raoult, French physician
1956 - Dana Delany, American actress
1960 - Jorge Sampaoli, Argentine fitbawer an coach
1961 - David Torrance, Scots politeecian
1967 - Andrés Escobar, Colombie fitbawer (d. 1994)
1973 - Edgar Davids, Dutch fitbawer
1981 - Stephen Maguire, Scots snooker player
1982 - Stephen Grindlay, Scots fitbawer
1988 - Shaun Simpson, Scots motocross racer
1989 - Holger Badstuber, German fitbawer
1997 - Ross MacLean, Scots fitbawer
1997 - Matty Smith, Scots fitbawer

 Daiths 
1395 – John Barbour, Scots poet (b. 1320)
1834 – George Sinclair, Scots gairdener (b. 1787)
1879 – Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (b. 1818)
1881 – Alexander II o Roushie (b. 1818)
1901 – Benjamin Harrison, 23rd Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1833)
1906 – Susan B. Anthony, American activist (b. 1820)
1933 – Robert T. A. Innes, Scots astronomer (b. 1861)
1875 – Ivo Andrić, Croatian writer (b. 1892)
2006 – Jimmy Johnstone, Scots fitbawer (b. 1944)
2013 – Malachi Throne, American actor (b. 1928)
2014 – Reubin Askew, American politeecian (b. 1928)
2016 – Hilary Putnam, American philosopher an mathemateecian (b. 1926)

 Halidays 
 13 Mairch is the feast day o the follaein saunts:
Bl. Agnello o Pisa
St. Roderic
St. Agnellus o Pisa
St. Ansovinus
St. Urpasian
St. Theusetas
St. Sabinus
St. Heldrad
St. Kevoca
St. Macedonius
St. Ramirus an Companions
St. Roderic an Salomon
St. Nicephorus
St. Mochoemoc

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