March 13th, 1955

Born on March 13th, 1955

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What 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.

March 13th, 2020

Breonna Taylor is killed by police officers who were forcibly entering her home in Louisville, Kentucky; her death sparked extensive protests against racism and police brutality.

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

Born on March 13th, 1955

62

Glenne Headly

American actress (1955-2017)

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

69

Olga Rukavishnikova

Soviet pentathlete

*March 13th, 1955, Severodvinsk

69

Marek Siwiec

Polish politician

*March 13th, 1955, Piekary Śląskie

69

Ana Irma Rivera Lassén

Afro-Puerto Rican attorney who was the head of the Bar Association of Puerto Rico from 2012-2014

*March 13th, 1955, Santurce

69

Fu Zhenghua

Chinese politician

*March 13th, 1955, Luanzhou

69

Valeria Mancinelli

Italian politician and mayor

*March 13th, 1955, Ancona

69

Bruno Conti

Italian footballer

*March 13th, 1955, Nettuno

69

Cynthia Tucker

Journalist, columnist

*March 13th, 1955, Monroeville

69

Zinetula Bilyaletdinov

Russian ice hockey player

*March 13th, 1955, Moscow

69

Yılmaz Orhan

Cypriot footballer

*March 13th, 1955, Nicosia

69

John Garza

American politician

*March 13th, 1955, Herlong

69

Dale McMullin

Canadian ice hockey player

*March 13th, 1955, Procter

69

Gail Grandchamp

American boxer

*March 13th, 1955, North Adams

69

Edmund Ho

Chinese politician

*March 13th, 1955, Portuguese Macau

69

Milovan Bojić

Serbian politician

*March 13th, 1955, Kolašin

69

Mike Sleep

Canadian ice hockey player

*March 13th, 1955, Montreal

69

Gerardo Lugo Gómez

Mexican association football player

*March 13th, 1955, Mexico City

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Who's birthday is on March 13th?

66

Caryl Phillips

Kittian-British writer

*March 13th, 1958, Saint Kitts

40

Marc Zwiebler

German badminton player

*March 13th, 1984, Bonn

71

Kinji Zeniya

Badminton player

*March 13th, 1953, Kaga

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

35

Holger Badstuber

German association football player

*March 13th, 1989, Memmingen

74

William H. Macy

American actor

*March 13th, 1950, Miami

55

Alexia Bohwim

Norwegian writer, feminist

*March 13th, 1969, Oslo

70

Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres

French politician

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

68

Dana Delany

American actress

*March 13th, 1956, New York City

50

Lee Joo Hyun

South Korean badminton player

*March 13th, 1974, Masan

71

Ridley Pearson

American writer

*March 13th, 1953, Glen Cove

32

Panuga Riou

Badminton player

*March 13th, 1992, Bangkok

28

Cory Fanus

Badminton player

*March 13th, 1996, Bridgetown

70

Sergei Sidorsky

6th Prime Minister of Belarus 2003–2010

*March 13th, 1954, Gomel

66

Guillermo Arriaga

Mexican screenwriter and film director

*March 13th, 1958, Mexico City

56

Artus de Penguern

French actor, screenwriter and director (1957-2013)

*March 13th, 1957, Neuilly-sur-Seine †May 14th, 2013, 18th arrondissement of Paris

45

Jens Filbrich

German cross-country skier

*March 13th, 1979, Suhl

Same year
Born in 1955

63

Pete Shelley

British singer-songwriter (1955–2018)

*April 17th, 1955, Leigh †December 6th, 2018, Tallinn

68

Bill Gates

American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)

*October 28th, 1955, Seattle

68

Guillermo Lasso

47 president of Ecuador

*November 16th, 1955, Guayaquil

68

Tim Berners-Lee

English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web (born 1955)

*June 8th, 1955, London

56

Steve Jobs

American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)

*February 24th, 1955, San Francisco †October 5th, 2011, Palo Alto

69

Lasse Lindtner

Norwegian actor

*March 7th, 1955, Bergen

68

Steve Jones

English guitarist

*September 3rd, 1955, Shepherd's Bush

69

Nicolas Sarkozy

President of France from 2007 to 2012

*January 28th, 1955, Paris

61

Bill Paxton

American actor and filmmaker (1955–2017)

*May 17th, 1955, Fort Worth †February 25th, 2017, Los Angeles

68

Caroline Loeb

French actress and singer

*October 5th, 1955, Neuilly-sur-Seine

68

Saw Swee Leong

Badminton player

*July 16th, 1955, Penang

69

Uwe Reinders

German association football player and manager

*January 19th, 1955, Essen

61

Jimmy LaFave

American musician

*July 12th, 1955, Wills Point †May 21st, 2017, Austin

69

Steve Mann

British chemist

*April 1st, 1955, Leeds

69

Jair Bolsonaro

President of Brazil from 2019 to 2022

*March 21st, 1955, Glicério

68

Adolf Sauerland

German politician

*June 4th, 1955, Duisburg

43

Gerhard Gundermann

German musician

*February 21st, 1955, Weimar †June 21st, 1998, Spreetal

69

Martin Jehne

German historian of classical antiquity

*January 27th, 1955, Hamburg

68

Isabelle Adjani

French actress

*June 27th, 1955, 17th arrondissement of Paris

68

Whoopi Goldberg

American actress, comedian, author and television personality

*November 13th, 1955, New York City

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No: With 365 days 1955 is a normal year and no leap year.

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