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1599 Johannes Berchmans, Jesuit/saint 1615 Innocent XII, [Antonio Pignatelli], Pope (1691-1700) 1696 Louis F A D Hertog de Richelieu, French marshal 1733 Joseph Priestly, England, clergyman/scientist, discovered oxygen 1764 Charles Earl Grey, (Whig), British PM (1830-34) 1770 Daniel Lambert, England, giant (weighed 334 kg at death) 1798 Abigail Powers Fillmore, 1st lady (1850-53) 1818 Albion Parris Howe, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897 1820 Louis Herbert, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 1855 Percival Lowell, predicted discovery of Pluto 1860 Hugo Wolf, Windisch-Grz Austria, composer 1872 Oswald Garrison Villard, American journalist 1875 Maria EG "Lizzy" Ansingh, house painter (Caught Sultane) 1881 Balthazar H Verhagen, Neth/South African writer 1884 Hugh S Walpole, NZ, novelist/critic/playwright (Jeremy, Maradick at 40 1886 John "Home Run" Baker, hall of famer (hit 2 HR in 1911 world series) 1897 Marcel Thiry, Belgian poet (Statue of Fatigue) 1897 William Herald, Australia, swimmer (Olympic-1920) 19-- Don Nute, Connellsville Penn (Denver University), actor 1901 Paul Fix, Dobbs Ferry NY, actor (Rifleman) 1907 Daphne Du Maurier, British writer (Homes & Haunts, Glass Blowers) 1907 Frank Wilcox, DeSoto Mo, actor (John-Beverly Hillbillies) 1908 Paul Stewart, NYC, actor (Top Secret USA, Deadline) 1908 Walter Annenberg, Milwaukee, publisher (Triangle-TV Guide)/Amb to GB 1909 Gilbert Inglefield, Burgemeister London (1967-68) 1910 Sammy Kaye, Rocky River Ohio, orch leader (Sammy Kaye Show) 1911 L[aFayette] Ron Hubbard, sci-fi writer/scientologist (Dianetics) 1913 William J Casey, headed CIA during Iran-contra scandal (1981-87) 1916 Lindy Boggs, (Rep-D-LA, 1973- ) 1917 Ina Ray Hutton, Chicago Ill, orch leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show) 1917 Tessie O'Shea, England, actress (Entertainers) 1918 George McAfee, NFL halfback (Chicago Bears) 1925 Bertha Tickey, Dinuba Calif, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1973) 1926 Ra£l Alfons¡n, Argentine pres (1983- ) (or 03121927) 1927 Charles Sickman Corsen, Netherland Antillian poet 1929 J D Slater, writer 1929 Peter Breck, Rochester NY, actor (Black Saddle, Big Valley, Benji) 1929 Walter Medio, race horse trainer 1930 Doug Harvey, hockey star (3 time James Norris winner) 1931 Marc Dessauvage, Flemish architect 1931 Rosalind Elias, Lowell Mass, mezzo-soprano (Grimgerde-Die Walkuere) 1933 Frank H Murkowski, (Sen-R-AK, 1981- ) 1937 Fofo I F Sunia, (Rep-D-Amer Samoa, 1981- ) 1938 Joseph Bellino, footballer (1960 Heisman Trophy) 1939 Neil Sedaka, Bkln NY, singer/songwriter (Breaking Up is Hard to Do) 1947 Lesley Collier, British ballet dancer 1947 Tomas Hinojosa, jockey 1950 Robert S Woods, Calif, actor (Bo-One Life to Live, Waltons) 1951 Fred Berry, St Louis Mo, actor (Rerun-What's Happening) 1953 Andy Bean, Lafayette Ga, PGA golfer (Western 1978, Kemper 1978) 1953 Deborah Raffin, LA Calif, actress (Ransom, Demon, 40 Carats) 1954 Robin Duke, Toronto Canada, comedienne (SCTV, SNL) 1955 Glebbe Headly, actress (Dick Tracy, Making Mr Right) 1955 Olga Rukavishnikova, USSR, pentathlete (Olympic-silver-1980) 1955 Patricia J Engfer, general manager (Hyatt Regency-Orlando) 1956 Dana Delany, NYC, actress (Colleen McMurphy-China Beach) 1958 Debi Nicolle Johnson, Torrance Calif, playmate (October, 1984) 1958 Rick A Lazio, (Rep-R-New York) 1959 Ronnie Rogers, guitarist (T'Pau-Heart & Soul) 1960 Adam Clayton, Oxfordshire, rock bassist (U2-I Will Follow) 1968 Christopher Collett, NYC, actor (Manhattan Project) 1971 Tracy Wells, actress (Heather-Mr Belvedere) 1981 Howard Coble, (Rep-R-NC, 1985- ) Back to GREGSITE Passings for March 131202 Mieszko III de Oude, great duke of Poland (1173-77, 1200-02), dies 1558 Jean Fernel, French physician/physiologist, dies 1569 Louis Cond, French prince/co-leader of Hugenot, dies in battle 1879 Adolf Anderssen, Chess author (Aufgabe fr Schachspeiler), dies at 60 1881 Alexander II, Tsar of Russia, assassinated 1901 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd pres (1889-1893), dies in Indianapolis at 67 1903 Nicolas Beets [Hildebrand], writer (Camera Obscura), dies 1906 Susan B[rownell] Anthony, American suffragist, dies 1911 Jacob M of Bemmelen, physicist/chemist, dies 1915 Sergei J White, premier of Russia, dies 1930 Mary E W Freeman, US writer (Pembroke), dies 1938 Clarence S Darrow, Scopes Monkey Trial attorney, dies in Chicago 1941 A Coenradi, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1941 Bernard Iron wire, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1941 E Hellenbyn, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1941 J Eyl, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1946 Werner von Blomberg, German minister of Reichswehr, dies at 67 1951 James I Wedgwood, British theosopholgist/Catholic bishop, dies 1964 Kitty Genovese, stabbed to death in Queens; 40 neighbors looked on 1965 George Calinescu, Romanian author (Lauda Lucrorilor), dies at 65 1971 Rockwell Kens, US artist/painter/illustrator, dies at 88 1973 Stacy Harris, actor (NOPD, Doorway to Danger), dies at 54 1974 Howard St John, actor (Investigator, Dr Lewis-Hank), dies at 68 1974 Janos Prohaska, actor (Andy Williams Show), dies at 52 1975 Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier, dies at 71 1976 Willy Alfredo, [Willem Jue], comedian, dies at 77 1977 Fanie Lou Hamer, freedom fighter, dies 1982 Wilfred Hawker, Suriname sgt-major, executed 1987 Bernhard Grzimek, zoologist (West Germany), dies at 78 1987 Gerald Moore, England, pianist (Am I Too Loud), dies at 87 1990 Bruno Bettelhelm, Austrian/US psychoanalyst, commits suicide at 86 1991 Cor Witschge, actor [Pipo the Clown], dies 1991 Jimmy McPartland, US, jazz cornetist, dies 1992 Hans Redeker, art critic (Gen Trade Journal), dies 1993 Ralph Smith Fults, US gangster (Bonnie & Clyde gang), dies at 82 Back to GREGSITE Holidays for March 13[Cuba] Attack on the Presidental Palace [Liberia] Decoration Day [US] Good Samaritan Involvement Day [Gibralter] Commonwealth Day (2nd Monday in March) [Memphis, Tenn] Cotton Carnival (held for 5 days) [New Mexico] Arbor Day Back to GREGSITE Interest events for March 13[Christian] Commemoration of St Ansovinus Back to GREGSITE Special events for March 13 Friday the 13th! Beware! 483 St Felix III begins his reign as Catholic Pope 607 12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 1519 Cortez lands in Mxico 1569 Battle of Jarnac 1634 Acadmie Franaise opens 1639 Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard 1656 Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam 1677 Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000 1735 1st US Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany 1759 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 1781 Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really discovered Uranus) 1790 John Martin, 1st American-born actor, performs in Philadelphia 1852 Uncle Sam cartoon figure debuts in NY Lantern weekly 1861 Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers 1868 Senate begins Pres Andrew Johnson impeachment trial 1869 Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law 1878 Oxford defeats Cambridge in their 1st golf match 1884 Seige of Khartoum Sudan begins 1884 Siege of Khartoum Sudan, begins 1884 Standard Time adopted in US 1887 Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs 1888 Great Blizzard of 1888 rages 1894 J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate 1895 Spanish warship Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die 1904 Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilian border dedicated 1905 M Wolf discovers asteroid #560 Delila 1912 Quebec Bulldogs sweep Moncton (NB) in 2 for Stanley Cup 1913 Kansas legislature approves motion-picture censorship 1918 American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms 1920 Coup against Wolfgang Kapp in Berlin fails 1921 Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China 1922 WRR-AM in Dallas TX begins radio transmissions 1923 Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures, NYC 1924 German Republic day 1925 Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution 1928 450 die in St Francisquito Valley Dam burst (Calif) 1930 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory 1931 M Wolf discovers asteroid #1178 Irmela 1932 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1217 Maximiliana 1933 Banks reopen 1933 Josef Gbbels becomes German minister of Information & Propaganda 1938 Anschluá-Austria annexed by Nazi Germany 1939 Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto 1940 Finland-Russian ceasefire signed, Finland gives up Karelische 1941 A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand) 1942 Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army 1943 Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight 1943 Failed attempt on Hitler at Smolensk-Rastenburg 1943 Frank Dixon wins Knights of Columbus mile (4:09.6) 1945 Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherland 1948 Kentucky wins NCAA basketball championship 1950 General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record) 1951 Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany 1954 Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu 1955 Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of Nepal 1957 Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba 1958 Govt troops land in Sumatra Indonesia 1960 NFL's Chicago Cardinals move to St Louis 1961 Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes pres of US Communistic Party 1961 Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johannson to retain championship 1961 JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress 1961 Landslide in USSR, kills 145 1962 Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty 1963 2 Russian reconnasissance flights over Alaska 1963 Indonesia & Netherlands recover diplomatic relations 1964 Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack 1965 Beatles' "Eight Days a Week," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks 1965 Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds 1967 Congo sentences ex-premier Mose Tsjombe to death 1968 Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK 1969 Apollo 9 returns to Earth 1970 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam 1970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer 1970 SF city employees begin 4-day strike 1971 Live at Fillmore East recorded 1973 J Gibson discovers asteroid #1943 Anteros 1973 Syria adopts constitution 1979 Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement 1979 Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick 1980 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2796 Kron 1980 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #3633 1980 Ford Motor Co found innoncent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto 1981 Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca 1982 Elaine Zayak, lands 6 triple jumps to win world skating championship 1983 1st USFL overtime game-Birmingham Stallions beat Oakld Invaders 20-14 1985 Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow) 1985 Michael Secrest (US) begins 24hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards 1986 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir 1986 Space probe Giotto encounters Halley's Comet 1987 John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering 1987 Washington Caps score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 mins & 3 secs 1989 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown 1989 FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US 1989 US space shuttle STS-29 launched 1991 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Alaskan oil spill 1992 570 die in a Turkish earthquake 1992 FCC rules companies can own 30 AM & 30 FM stations (formerly 12) 1992 Martina Navratilova & Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit 1993 Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US Back to GREGSITE Facts for March 1372nd day of the year with 293 days left (Numerology = 7) 1880 6øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC 1990 85øF highest temperature for this date in NYC Back to GREGSITE Songs released on March 1303/13/42 --- Zoot Suit, A --- Kyser, Kay 03/13/42 --- Miss You --- Shore, Dinah 03/13/61 --- On The Rebound --- Cramer, Floyd 03/13/65 --- Nowhere To Run --- Martha & The Vandellas 03/13/71 --- One Toke Over The Line --- Brewer & Shipley 03/13/71 --- Another Day --- McCartney, Paul 03/13/76 --- Show Me The Way --- Frampton, Peter 03/13/76 --- Right Back Where We Started From --- Nightingale, Maxine 03/13/76 --- Boogie Fever --- Sylvers 03/13/82 --- Don't Talk To Strangers --- Springfield, Rick 03/13/82 --- 867-5309/Jenny --- Tommy Tutone |
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