March 13th, 1954

Born on March 13th, 1954

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What happened on March 13th, 1954?

March 13th, 1954

The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ begins with an artillery barrage by Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp; Viet Minh victory led to the end of the First Indochina War and French withdrawal from Vietnam.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dien_Bien_Phu

What else happened on March 13th?

March 13th, 1741

War of Jenkins' Ear: The British began an assault against Spanish forts in the Caribbean in the Battle of Cartagena de Indias (depicted).

March 13th, 2013

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected as Pope Francis, making him the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, and the first from the Southern Hemisphere.

March 13th, 1996

A mass shooting at a school occurred in Dunblane, Scotland, killing 17 people and prompting tighter gun control in the UK.

March 13th, 1988

The 53.85 km (33.46 mi) Seikan Tunnel opened between the cities of Hakodate and Aomori, Japan.

March 13th, 1985

One of England's worst incidents of football hooliganism occurred when supporters of Luton Town and Millwall rioted before a match at Kenilworth Road stadium.

March 13th, 1964

Kitty Genovese was murdered in New York City, prompting research into the bystander effect due to the false story that neighbors witnessed the killing and did nothing to help her.

March 13th, 1962

Lyman Lemnitzer, the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, presented to the Secretary of Defense a false flag conspiracy plan, Operation Northwoods, intended to create public support for a war against Fidel Castro and Cuba.

March 13th, 1943

The Holocaust: Nazi troops began the final liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto in German-occupied Poland, sending about 2,000 Jews to the Płaszów labor camp (deportation pictured), with the remaining 5,000 either killed or sent to Auschwitz.

March 13th, 1920

The Kapp Putsch (participants pictured), an attempted coup aiming to undo the German Revolution of 1918–1919, briefly ousted the government of the Weimar Republic.

March 13th, 1845

German composer Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto was premiered in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as the soloist.

March 13th, 1811

Napoleonic Wars: A British frigate squadron defeated a much larger squadron of French and Italian frigates and smaller vessels in the Battle of Lissa in the Adriatic Sea.

March 13th, 1781

William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus from the garden of his house in Bath, England, initially considering it to be a comet.

March 13th, 1697

Nojpetén, capital of the Itza Maya kingdom, fell to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.

March 13th, 1567

A Spanish mercenary army surprised a band of rebels at the Battle of Oosterweel in the Habsburg Netherlands, beginning the Eighty Years' War.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 13th

Born on March 13th, 1954

70

Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres

French politician

*March 13th, 1954, Neuilly-sur-Seine

70

Sergei Sidorsky

6th Prime Minister of Belarus 2003–2010

*March 13th, 1954, Gomel

70

Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos

British diplomat (born 1954)

*March 13th, 1954, Georgetown

70

Phil Spence

American basketball player and coach

*March 13th, 1954, Raleigh

70

Peter Commette

American yacht racer

*March 13th, 1954, Bronxville

70

Randy Bass

American baseball player and politician

*March 13th, 1954, Lawton

70

Marika Adam

German actress

*March 13th, 1954, Wegberg

70

Győző Burcsa

Hungarian footballer

*March 13th, 1954, Kaposvár

70

Robin Duke

Actress, comedy teacher

*March 13th, 1954, St. Catharines

70

Michael Lowry

Irish politician

*March 13th, 1954, County Tipperary

70

Terry Leach

American baseball player

*March 13th, 1954, Selma

70

Roberto Mazzucato

Italian triple jumper

*March 13th, 1954, Rome

70

Micky Laverick

British footballer (born 1954)

*March 13th, 1954, Castle Eden

70

Francisco Javier Cedena

Spanish bicycle racer

*March 13th, 1954, Madrid

70

Ingrīda Priedīte

Latvian chess player

*March 13th, 1954, Riga

70

Frank Anzalone

American ice hockey coach

*March 13th, 1954, Brooklyn

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71

Kinji Zeniya

Badminton player

*March 13th, 1953, Kaga

66

Caryl Phillips

Kittian-British writer

*March 13th, 1958, Saint Kitts

40

Marc Zwiebler

German badminton player

*March 13th, 1984, Bonn

26

Jack Harlow

American rapper from Kentucky (born 1998)

*March 13th, 1998, Louisville

29

Nozomi Okuhara

Japanese badminton player

*March 13th, 1995, Ōmachi

33

Luan Santana

Brazilian singer-songwriter (born 1991)

*March 13th, 1991, Campo Grande

30

Yang Po-Han

Taiwanese badminton player

*March 13th, 1994, Taipei

74

William H. Macy

American actor

*March 13th, 1950, Miami

35

Holger Badstuber

German association football player

*March 13th, 1989, Memmingen

55

Alexia Bohwim

Norwegian writer, feminist

*March 13th, 1969, Oslo

71

Ridley Pearson

American writer

*March 13th, 1953, Glen Cove

62

Glenne Headly

American actress (1955-2017)

*March 13th, 1955, New London †June 8th, 2017, Santa Monica

50

Lee Joo Hyun

South Korean badminton player

*March 13th, 1974, Masan

32

Panuga Riou

Badminton player

*March 13th, 1992, Bangkok

68

Dana Delany

American actress

*March 13th, 1956, New York City

28

Cory Fanus

Badminton player

*March 13th, 1996, Bridgetown

45

Jens Filbrich

German cross-country skier

*March 13th, 1979, Suhl

79

Tom Chapin

American musician

*March 13th, 1945, New York City

101

Jacque Fresco

American futurist and self-described social engineer

*March 13th, 1916, Brooklyn †May 18th, 2017, Sebring

69

Olga Rukavishnikova

Soviet pentathlete

*March 13th, 1955, Severodvinsk

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Born in 1954

69

François Hollande

President of France from 2012 to 2017

*August 12th, 1954, Rouen

69

Angela Merkel

Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021

*July 17th, 1954, Eimsbüttel

69

Lim Swee Say

Former Singaporean politician

*July 13th, 1954, Singapore

70

Rudolf Simek

Austrian philologist and Germanist

*February 21st, 1954, Eisenstadt

70

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

President of the Republic of Turkey since 2014

*February 26th, 1954, Kasımpaşa

69

Lorraine Bracco

American actress

*October 2nd, 1954, Brooklyn

67

Shinzō Abe

Prime Minister of Japan from 2006–2007 and 2012–2020 (1954-2022)

*September 21st, 1954, Shinjuku †July 8th, 2022, Nara Medical University Hospital

70

Jackie Chan

Hong Kong actor and martial artist (born 1954)

*April 7th, 1954, Victoria Peak

58

Hugo Chávez

President of Venezuela, 1999–2002 and 2002–2013

*July 28th, 1954, Sabaneta †March 5th, 2013, Hospital Militar de Caracas

69

Uli Stielike

German association football player and manager

*November 15th, 1954, Ketsch

69

Karl-Heinz Körbel

German association football player and manager

*December 1st, 1954, Dossenheim

69

Sven-Erik Bucht

Swedish politician

*December 28th, 1954, Karungi

70

Eckhardt Rehberg

German politician

*April 3rd, 1954, Ribnitz-Damgarten

69

Emir Kusturica

Bosnian film director, actor and musician

*November 24th, 1954, Sarajevo

69

Caroline Cossey

English model and actress

*August 31st, 1954, Brooke

69

Kathy Kinney

American actress

*November 3rd, 1954, Stevens Point

69

Petra Uhlig

East German handball player

*July 22nd, 1954, Penig

69

Alexander Lukashenko

President of Belarus since 1994

*August 30th, 1954, Kopyś

70

Isabelle McEwen

Canadian film director

*January 6th, 1954, Montreal

69

Renate Franz

German journalist and sport historian

*November 18th, 1954, Solingen

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No: With 365 days 1954 is a normal year and no leap year.

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