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What happend on 13. March in History
In our data base we found 291 events happened on 13. March:
• 624: Battle of Badr: a key battle between Muhammad's army – the new followers of Islam and the Quraish of Mecca. The Muslims won this battle, known as the turning point of Islam, which took place in the Hejaz region of western Arabia. [category: Events]
• 1138: Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II. [category: Events]
• 1271: Henry of Almain, English crusader (b. 1235) [category: Deaths]
• 1372: Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, brother of Charles VI of France (d. 1407) [category: Births]
• 1395: John Barbour, Scottish poet [category: Deaths]
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• 1417: Crown Prince Minyekyawswa of Ava (b. 1391) [category: Deaths]
• 1516: King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1456) [category: Deaths]
• 1569: Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French Huguenot general (b. 1530) [category: Deaths]
• 1573: Michel de l'Hôpital, French statesman (b. 1507) [category: Deaths]
• 1591: Battle of Tondibi: In Mali, Moroccan forces of the Saadi Dynasty led by Judar Pasha defeat the Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by at least five to one. [category: Events]
• 1604: Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (b. 1537) [category: Deaths]
• 1615: Pope Innocent XII (d. 1700) [category: Births]
• 1619: Richard Burbage, English actor (b. 1567) [category: Deaths]
• 1639: Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard. [category: Events]
• 1683: John Theophilus Desaguliers, French-British philosopher (d. 1744) [category: Births]
• 1697: Nojpetén, capital of the Itza Maya kingdom, fell to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala. [category: Events]
• 1700: Michel Blavet, French flautist (d. 1768) [category: Births]
• 1711: Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (b. 1636) [category: Deaths]
• 1719: John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (d. 1797) [category: Births]
• 1719: Johann Friedrich Böttger, German alchemist (b. 1682) [category: Deaths]
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• 1720: Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer (d. 1793) [category: Births]
• 1733: Joseph Priestley, English scientist and minister (d. 1804) [category: Births]
• 1741: Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1790) [category: Births]
• 1753: Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, great heiress and wife of Philippe Égalité (d. 1821) [category: Births]
• 1762: Anine Frölich, Danish ballerina (d. 1784) [category: Births]
• 1763: Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (d. 1815) [category: Births]
• 1764: Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1845) [category: Births]
• 1767: Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France, mother of Louis XVI (b.1731) [category: Deaths]
• 1770: Daniel Lambert, Englishman famous for his obesity (d. 1809) [category: Births]
• 1773: Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist and explorer (b. 1727) [category: Deaths]
• 1777: Charles Lot Church, Nova Scotia politician (d. 1864) [category: Births]
• 1778: Charles le Beau, French historian (b. 1701) [category: Deaths]
• 1781: Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German architect (d. 1841) [category: Births]
• 1781: William Herschel discovers Uranus. [category: Events]
• 1782: Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish nobility (d. 1863) [category: Births]
• 1798: Abigail Fillmore, First Lady of the United States (d. 1853) [category: Births]
• 1800: Nana Fadnavis, influential minister and statesman of the Maratha Empire in India (b. 1742) [category: Deaths]
• 1803: William Emes, English landscape architect (b. 1729 or 1730) [category: Deaths]
• 1808: King Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1749) [category: Deaths]
• 1809: Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'état. [category: Events]
• 1815: James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist (d. 1911) [category: Births]
• 1825: Hans Gude, Norwegian romanticist landscape painter (d. 1903) [category: Births]
• 1842: Henry Shrapnel, British soldier and inventor (b. 1761) [category: Deaths]
• 1845: Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist. [category: Events]
• 1854: Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, French statesman (b. 1773) [category: Deaths]
• 1855: Percival Lowell, American astronomer (d. 1916) [category: Births]
• 1857: B. H. Roberts, Mormon leader, historian, and politician (d. 1933) [category: Births]
• 1860: Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (d. 1903) [category: Births]
• 1862: American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers to return fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation. [category: Events]
• 1864: Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (d. 1941) [category: Births]
• 1865: American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops. [category: Events]
• 1870: Albert Meyer, member of the Swiss Federal Council in the 1930s (d. 1953) [category: Births]
• 1870: Henri Étiévant, French actor, film director (d. 1953) [category: Births]
• 1870: William Glackens, American artist (d. 1938) [category: Births]
• 1873: David Swinson Maynard, Founder of Seattle, Washington, United States (b. 1808) [category: Deaths]
• 1879: Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (b. 1818) [category: Deaths]
• 1881: Tsar Alexander II of Russia (b. 1818) [category: Deaths]
• 1881: Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.) [category: Events]
• 1883: Enrico Toselli, Italian composer and pianist (d. 1926) [category: Births]
• 1884: Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist (d. 1941) [category: Births]
• 1884: Leland Stanford, Jr., son of American railroad magnate, Stanford University named for him (b. 1868) [category: Deaths]
• 1884: The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885. [category: Events]
• 1886: Albert William Stevens, United States Army Air Corps officer, balloonist and aerial photographer (d. 1949) [category: Births]
• 1886: John Franklin "Home Run" Baker, Hall of Fame third baseman (d. 1963) [category: Births]
• 1888: Paul Morand, French writer (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1890: Fritz Busch, German conductor (d. 1951) [category: Births]
• 1892: Janet Flanner, American writer and journalist (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1897: Yeghishe Charents, Armenian poet, writer and public activist (d. 1937) [category: Births]
• 1897: San Diego State University is founded. [category: Events]
• 1898: Henry Hathaway, American film director and producer (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1899: Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1899: Jan Lechoń, Polish poet (d. 1956) [category: Births]
• 1899: John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1900: Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet, Nobel laureate (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1900: Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State. [category: Events]
• 1901: Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (b. 1833) [category: Deaths]
• 1902: Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer and composer (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1906: Susan B. Anthony, American women's suffrage activist (b. 1820) [category: Deaths]
• 1907: Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian of religions and writer (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1908: Walter Annenberg, American publisher and philanthropist (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1910: Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1910: Sammy Kaye, American musician (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1911: L. Ron Hubbard, American science fiction author and founder of Scientology (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1911: John J. Toffey, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1844) [category: Deaths]
• 1912: Eugène-Étienne Taché, French Canadian civil engineer and architect (b. 1836) [category: Deaths]
• 1913: Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1913: Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1913: William J. Casey, American CIA director (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1914: Edward "Butch" O'Hare, American pilot and Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1943) [category: Births]
• 1914: W. O. Mitchell, Canadian writer (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1914: Hakeem Noor-ud-Din, Muslim scholar and 1st Caliph of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam. [category: Deaths]
• 1916: Lindy Boggs, American politician [category: Births]
• 1918: César Cui, Russian composer (b. 1835) [category: Deaths]
• 1920: Ralph J. Roberts, co-founder of Comcast Communications [category: Births]
• 1920: The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin. [category: Events]
• 1921: Al Jaffee, American cartoonist [category: Births]
• 1921: Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China. [category: Events]
• 1923: Dimitrios Ioannidis, Greek military officer who was involved in the Greek military junta [category: Births]
• 1923: William F. Bolger, 65th Postmaster General of the United States (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1925: Roy Haynes, American jazz drummer [category: Births]
• 1925: Lucille Ricksen, American actress (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1925: Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution. [category: Events]
• 1926: Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1927: Robert Denning, American interior designer (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1929: Joseph Mascolo, American actor [category: Births]
• 1929: Peter Breck, American actor (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1930: Jan Howard, American singer [category: Births]
• 1930: The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory. [category: Events]
• 1933: Mike Stoller, American songwriter [category: Births]
• 1933: Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a "bank holiday". [category: Events]
• 1934: Barry Hughart, American author [category: Births]
• 1935: Leslie Parrish, American actress [category: Births]
• 1935: Michael Walzer, American philosopher [category: Births]
• 1936: Nana Meskhidze, Georgian artist-painter (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1938: Erma Franklin, American singer (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1938: Robert Gammage, American politician (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1938: Tochinoumi Teruyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 49th Yokozuna [category: Births]
• 1938: Clarence Darrow, American attorney (b. 1857) [category: Deaths]
• 1938: Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
• 1938: Anschluss of Austria to the Third Reich. [category: Events]
• 1938: World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States. [category: Events]
• 1939: Neil Sedaka, American singer and songwriter [category: Births]
• 1940: Candi Staton, American singer [category: Births]
• 1940: Christopher Gable, British dancer, choreographer and actor (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1940: Jacqueline Sassard, French actress [category: Births]
• 1940: The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends. [category: Events]
• 1941: Donella Meadows, American scientist (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1941: Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian prominent poet and writer of prose (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1941: Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and novelist (b. 1881) [category: Deaths]
• 1942: Dave Cutler, American software engineer [category: Births]
• 1942: Geoffrey Hayes, English television presenter and actor [category: Births]
• 1942: Herman Wijffels, Dutch economist and politician [category: Births]
• 1942: Marshall Chess, American record producer, formerly of Chicago blues label Chess Records [category: Births]
• 1942: Scatman John, American singer (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1943: André Téchiné, French film director and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1943: Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1943: The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków. [category: Events]
• 1943: World War II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700. [category: Events]
• 1945: Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko, Russian mathematician [category: Births]
• 1946: Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli soldier (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1947: Beat Richner, Swiss physician and cellist [category: Births]
• 1948: Robert S. Woods, American actor [category: Births]
• 1949: Emmy Verhey, Dutch violinist [category: Births]
• 1949: Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese racing driver (d. 1974) [category: Births]
• 1949: Julia Migenes, American soprano [category: Births]
• 1949: Sian Elias, First female Chief Justice of New Zealand [category: Births]
• 1949: Henri Giraud, French general (b. 1879) [category: Deaths]
• 1950: Charles Krauthammer, American political commentator [category: Births]
• 1950: William H. Macy, American actor [category: Births]
• 1952: Wolfgang Rihm, German composer [category: Births]
• 1953: Deborah Raffin, American actress (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1953: Ridley Pearson, American writer [category: Births]
• 1954: Robin Duke, Canadian actress and comedienne [category: Births]
• 1954: Battle of Điện Biên Phủ: Viet Minh forces attack the French. [category: Events]
• 1955: Bruno Conti, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1955: Glenne Headly, American actress [category: Births]
• 1955: King Tribhuvan of Nepal (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1956: Dana Delany, American actress [category: Births]
• 1956: Davor Slamnig, Croatian writer and musician (Buldožer) [category: Births]
• 1956: Jamie Dimon, American Banking executive [category: Births]
• 1957: John Hoeven, American politician, 31st governor and junior senator from North Dakota [category: Births]
• 1957: Steve Lake, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1957: Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista. [category: Events]
• 1958: Linda Robson, English actress [category: Births]
• 1959: Kathy Hilton, American socialite, mother of Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton [category: Births]
• 1960: Adam Clayton, Irish bassist (U2 and Automatic Baby) [category: Births]
• 1960: Joe Ranft, American animator (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1960: Yuri Andrukhovych, Ukrainian writer, poet and political essayist [category: Births]
• 1960: Yosef Zvi HaLevy, Israeli rabbi and judge (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1962: Terence Blanchard, American jazz musician [category: Births]
• 1962: Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks upon Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. [category: Events]
• 1963: Fito Páez, Argentine musician and songwriter [category: Births]
• 1963: Austin Dobson, British racing driver (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: João Gordo, Brazilian musician (Ratos de Porão) [category: Births]
• 1964: Will Clark, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1964: Friedrich Lahrs, German architect (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: Kitty Genovese, American murder victim (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: American Kitty Genovese is murdered, reportedly in view of neighbors who did nothing to help her, prompting research into the bystander effect. [category: Events]
• 1965: Cees Geel, Dutch actor [category: Births]
• 1965: Gigi Rice, American actress [category: Births]
• 1965: Corrado Gini, Italian statistician (b. 1884) [category: Deaths]
• 1965: Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, poet, and politician (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1965: Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1968: Akira Nogami, Japanese professional wrestler [category: Births]
• 1968: Christopher Collet, American actor [category: Births]
• 1969: Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module. [category: Events]
• 1970: Tim Story, American film director [category: Births]
• 1971: Annabeth Gish, American actress [category: Births]
• 1971: Tracy Wells, American actress [category: Births]
• 1972: Common, American rapper and actor (Soulquarians) [category: Births]
• 1972: Khujo, American hip hop musician (Goodie Mob and The Lumberjacks) [category: Births]
• 1972: Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Bobby Jackson, American basketballer [category: Births]
• 1973: David Draiman, American musician and songwriter (Disturbed) [category: Births]
• 1973: Edgar Davids, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1974: Thomas Enqvist, Swedish tennis player [category: Births]
• 1975: Chris Ashworth, American actor [category: Births]
• 1975: Glenn Lewis, Canadian singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1975: Ivo Andrić, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1892) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Danny Masterson, American actor [category: Births]
• 1976: James Dewees, American musician (The Get Up Kids and Reggie and the Full Effect) [category: Births]
• 1976: Troy Hudson, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1977: Kay Tse, Hong Kong singer [category: Births]
• 1977: Momo Sylla, Guinean footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: Kenny Watson, American football player [category: Births]
• 1978: Tom Danielson, American cyclist [category: Births]
• 1979: Cedric Van Branteghem, Belgian athlete [category: Births]
• 1979: Johan Santana, Venezuelan baseball player [category: Births]
• 1979: Spanky G, American musician (Bloodhound Gang) [category: Births]
• 1979: The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'etat in Grenada. [category: Events]
• 1980: Caron Butler, American basketballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Molly Stanton, American actress [category: Births]
• 1981: April Matson, American actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1981: Stephen Maguire, Scottish snooker player [category: Births]
• 1981: Toccara Jones, American fashion model [category: Births]
• 1982: Adam Thomson, New Zealand rugby player [category: Births]
• 1982: Jeremy Curl, British explorer [category: Births]
• 1982: Nicole Ohlde, WNBA basketball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Dan Lupu, Romanian actor [category: Births]
• 1983: George Rose, Australian rugby league player [category: Births]
• 1983: Kaitlin Sandeno, American swimmer [category: Births]
• 1983: Louison Bobet, French cyclist (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: Paul Citroen, Dutch artist (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Marc Zwiebler, German badminton player [category: Births]
• 1984: Noel Fisher, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1984: Pieter Custers, Dutch athlete [category: Births]
• 1984: Rachael Bella, American actress [category: Births]
• 1984: Rieneke Terink, Dutch swimmer [category: Births]
• 1984: Steve Darcis, Belgian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1984: Yuuka Nanri, Japanese voice actress [category: Births]
• 1985: Alcides Araújo Alves, Brazilian football player [category: Births]
• 1985: Austin Scott, American football player [category: Births]
• 1985: Ben Lowe, Australian rugby league player [category: Births]
• 1985: Emile Hirsch, American actor [category: Births]
• 1985: The Kenilworth Road riot takes place at an association football match at Kenilworth Road in Luton, England with disturbances before, during and after an F.A. Cup 6th Round tie between Luton Town F.C. and Millwall F.C.. [category: Events]
• 1986: Chiaki Kyan, Japanese gravure idol [category: Births]
• 1986: Shunsuke Daito, Japanese actor [category: Births]
• 1987: Marco Andretti, American racecar driver [category: Births]
• 1987: Rosela Gjylbegu, Albanian singer [category: Births]
• 1988: Furdjel Narsingh, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: John Holmes, American porn star (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan. [category: Events]
• 1989: Harry Melling, British actor [category: Births]
• 1989: Holger Badstuber, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1989: Marko Marin, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Bruno Bettelheim, American psychiatrist (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Karl Münchinger, German conductor (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Aaron Woods, Australian rugby league player [category: Births]
• 1991: Kim Eli, American-Korean singer (U-KISS) [category: Births]
• 1991: Lê Quang Liêm, Vietnamese chess player [category: Births]
• 1991: Tristan Thompson, Canadian basketball player [category: Births]
• 1991: The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. [category: Events]
• 1992: Kaya Scodelario, English actress [category: Births]
• 1992: An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey. [category: Events]
• 1995: Leon Day, American baseball player (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Odette Sansom Hallowes, French-born WWII heroine (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 Primary School children and 1 teacher are shot dead by a spree killer, Thomas Watt Hamilton who then committed suicide. [category: Events]
• 1997: India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader. [category: Events]
• 1997: The Phoenix lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television. [category: Events]
• 1998: Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Hans von Ohain, German engineer (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Wiktoria Gąsiewska, Polish actress [category: Births]
• 1999: Bidu Sayão, Brazilian born soprano (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Garson Kanin, American writer and director (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Lee Falk, American cartoonist (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy. [category: Events]
• 2004: Franz König, Austrian Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Peter Tomarken, American game show host (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Robert C. Baker, Inventor of the chicken nugget (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Arnold Skaaland, American professional wrestler (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time. [category: Events]
• 2009: Andrew "Test" Martin, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1975) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Betsy Blair, American actress (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: He Pingping, the world's shortest man who was able to walk. (b. 1988) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Jean Ferrat, French singer and songwriter (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Rick Martin, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1951) [category: Deaths]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Euphrasia of Constantinople [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Gerald of Mayo [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Kasuga Matsuri (Kasuga Grand Shrine, Nara, Japan) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Leander of Seville [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Leticia [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Nicephorus [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Roderick [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Sabinus of Hermopolis [category: Holidays and observances]