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 &ndash; William Herschel discovers Uranus.
*1809 &ndash; Gustav IV Adolf o Swaden is deposed in a coup d'état.
*1881 &ndash; Tsar Alexander II o Roushie is assassinatit in Saunt Petersburg.
*1940 &ndash; The Winter War atween Finland an the Soviet Union ends.
*1943 &ndash; Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto o Warsaw.
*1954 &ndash; The KGB is foondit.
*1969 &ndash; Apollo 9 returns tae the Yird efter tests o the lunar module.
*1988 &ndash; The Seikan-Tunnel, connectin the Japanese islands o Honshu an Hokkaido, opens.
*1992 &ndash; A yirdquauk hits Erzincan, Turkey, killin 498 fowk.
*1996 &ndash; Dunblane massacre: Thomas Hamilton fatally shuits 16 pupils an their teacher at Dunblane Primary Schuil in Central Scotland.
*2013 &ndash; Jorge Mario Bergoglio o Argentinae is electit Pape. He becomes Pape Francis.
*2015 &ndash; Iceland withdraws its application tae jyn the European Union.
*2016 &ndash; A bomb attack in Ankara kills 37 fowk.
*2017 &ndash; First Meenister Nicola Sturgeon asks for permission tae hauld a seicont referendum on Scots unthirldom.
*2018 &ndash; US Preses Donald Trump fires his Secretar o State Rex Tillerson an nominates Mike Pompeo tae succeed him. 
*2019 &ndash; A shuitin at a schuil in Suzano, Sao Paulo, Brazil, kills 8 fowk.
*2019 &ndash; A schuil collapse in Lagos, Nigerie, kills 8 fowk.
*2019 &ndash; 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 &ndash; John Barbour, Scots poet (b. 1320)
*1834 &ndash; George Sinclair, Scots gairdener (b. 1787)
*1879 &ndash; Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (b. 1818)
*1881 &ndash; Alexander II o Roushie (b. 1818)
*1901 &ndash; Benjamin Harrison, 23rd Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1833)
*1906 &ndash; Susan B. Anthony, American activist (b. 1820)
*1933 &ndash; Robert T. A. Innes, Scots astronomer (b. 1861)
*1875 &ndash; Ivo Andrić, Croatian writer (b. 1892)
*2006 &ndash; Jimmy Johnstone, Scots fitbawer (b. 1944)
*2013 &ndash; Malachi Throne, American actor (b. 1928)
*2014 &ndash; Reubin Askew, American politeecian (b. 1928)
*2016 &ndash; 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