March 13th, 1979

Born on March 13th, 1979

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What happened on March 13th, 1979?

March 13th, 1979

The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts the Prime Minister of Grenada, Eric Gairy, in a coup d'état.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jewel_Movement

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, 1979

45

Jens Filbrich

German cross-country skier

*March 13th, 1979, Suhl

45

Liam Young

English designer and architect

*March 13th, 1979, Australia

45

Jeannette Götte

German footballer

*March 13th, 1979, Hagen

45

Christoph Meineke

German Politician (Mayor / Bürgermeister)

*March 13th, 1979, Hanover

45

Cata Díaz

Argentine association football player

*March 13th, 1979, San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca

45

Anja-Nadin Pietrek

German volleyball player

*March 13th, 1979, Berlin

45

Carla Ashford

British rower

*March 13th, 1979, Northallerton

45

Johan Santane

Venezuelan baseball player

*March 13th, 1979, Tovar

45

Cédric Van Branteghem

Belgian sprinter

*March 13th, 1979, Ghent

45

Flavia Cacace

Professional dancer

*March 13th, 1979, Naples

45

Sandra Dahlberg

Actress

*March 13th, 1979, Klimpfjäll

45

Paulius Saudargas

Lithuanian physicist and politician

*March 13th, 1979, Kaunas

45

Yoni Chetboun

Israeli politician

*March 13th, 1979, Netanya

45

Alain Bieri

Swiss football referee

*March 13th, 1979, Switzerland

45

Espen Olsen

Norwegian footballer

*March 13th, 1979, Oslo

45

Luis Venegas

Spanish magazine publisher

*March 13th, 1979, Vitoria-Gasteiz

45

Gustavo García Eugenio

Spanish association football player

*March 13th, 1979, Lanzarote Arrecife

45

Spanky G

American musician

*March 13th, 1979, United States of America

45

Arkadiusz Głowacki

Polish footballer

*March 13th, 1979, Poznań

45

Maher Al-Sayed

Syrian footballer

*March 13th, 1979, Damascus

45

Vanina Sánchez

Argentine taekwondoin

*March 13th, 1979, San Martín de los Andes

45

Wesley Whitehouse

South African tennis player

*March 13th, 1979, Durban

45

Safiullah Khan

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*March 13th, 1979, Dir

45

Revaz Kemoklidze

Georgian footballer

*March 13th, 1979, Tbilisi

45

Børge Lund

Norwegian handball player

*March 13th, 1979, Bodø

45

Louise Dearman

British actress

*March 13th, 1979, Linslade

45

Kim Mullen

American model

*March 13th, 1979, California

45

Jorge Elenilson Sánchez

Salvadoran footballer

*March 13th, 1979, Usulután

45

Ma Jung-kil

South Korean baseball player

*March 13th, 1979, Cheongju

45

Michael Locke

Welsh stuntman

*March 13th, 1979, Port Talbot

45

Pablo Fernández Antuña

Association football player

*March 13th, 1979, La Felguera

45

Dainius Saulėnas

Lithuanian footballer

*March 13th, 1979, Vilnius

45

Svetlana Chepelnikova

Belarusian speed skater

*March 13th, 1979, Vitebsk

45

Alex Bengard

American soccer player

*March 13th, 1979, Chino Hills

45

Cosimo Sarli

Italian footballer

*March 13th, 1979, Corigliano Calabro

45

Roman Friedli

Footballer

*March 13th, 1979, Kathmandu

45

Romain Thievin

French racing driver

*March 13th, 1979, Fontainebleau

45

Marius Stravinsky

British Conductor

*March 13th, 1979, Almaty

45

Louise Marwood

English actress and comedian

*March 13th, 1979, Bristol

45

Zhu Benqiang

Chinese tennis player

*March 13th, 1979, Hubei

Same Day
Who's birthday is on March 13th?

40

Marc Zwiebler

German badminton player

*March 13th, 1984, Bonn

26

Jack Harlow

American rapper from Kentucky (born 1998)

*March 13th, 1998, Louisville

33

Luan Santana

Brazilian singer-songwriter (born 1991)

*March 13th, 1991, Campo Grande

35

Holger Badstuber

German association football player

*March 13th, 1989, Memmingen

29

Nozomi Okuhara

Japanese badminton player

*March 13th, 1995, Ōmachi

30

Yang Po-Han

Taiwanese badminton player

*March 13th, 1994, Taipei

50

Lee Joo Hyun

South Korean badminton player

*March 13th, 1974, Masan

66

Caryl Phillips

Kittian-British writer

*March 13th, 1958, Saint Kitts

55

Alexia Bohwim

Norwegian writer, feminist

*March 13th, 1969, Oslo

32

Panuga Riou

Badminton player

*March 13th, 1992, Bangkok

28

Cory Fanus

Badminton player

*March 13th, 1996, Bridgetown

71

Kinji Zeniya

Badminton player

*March 13th, 1953, Kaga

35

Pierre Niney

French actor

*March 13th, 1989, Boulogne-Billancourt

42

Denys Kostyuk

Ukrainian road bicycle racer

*March 13th, 1982, Pervomaisk

35

Marko Marin

German association football player

*March 13th, 1989, Gradiška

47

Walter Gaitán

Argentine footballer

*March 13th, 1977, La Rioja

48

Danny Masterson

American actor and convicted sex offender

*March 13th, 1976, Albertson

74

William H. Macy

American actor

*March 13th, 1950, Miami

39

Vesna Fabjan

Slovenian cross-country skier

*March 13th, 1985, Kranj

44

Kira Miró

Spanish actress

*March 13th, 1980, Santa Brígida, Las Palmas

Same year
Born in 1979

45

Gao Ling

Chinese badminton player

*March 14th, 1979, Wuhan

45

Yang Wei

Chinese badminton player

*January 13th, 1979, Guangdong

44

Tine Baun

Danish badminton player

*July 21st, 1979, Hørsholm

44

Deborah Secco

Brazilian actress

*November 26th, 1979, Rio de Janeiro

45

Johan Harstad

Norwegian author

*February 10th, 1979, Stavanger Municipality

44

Saralee Thungthongkam

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1979, Bangkok

44

Anders Kristiansen

Badminton player

*September 7th, 1979, Frederikssund Municipality

44

Nikhil Kanetkar

Badminton player

*May 13th, 1979, Pune

44

Guf

Russian rapper

*September 23rd, 1979, Ivanteyevskaya Street

44

Ghayath Almadhoun

Swedish poet

*July 19th, 1979, Damascus

45

Dan Tangnes

Norwegian ice hockey player (1979-)

*March 8th, 1979, Oslo

44

Patricia Aulitzky

Austrian actress

*July 7th, 1979, Salzburg

44

Mia Audina

Indonesian badminton player

*August 22nd, 1979, Jakarta

44

Chen Hong

Badminton player

*November 28th, 1979, Changting County

45

Ingo Kindervater

Badminton player

*January 1st, 1979, Burgwedel

44

Britta Andersen

Badminton player

*December 19th, 1979, Aarhus

44

Vincent Kartheiser

American actor

*May 5th, 1979, Minneapolis

44

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

44

Chris Pratt

American actor (born 1979)

*June 21st, 1979, Virginia

45

Lise Risom Olsen

Norwegian actress

*March 1st, 1979, Fredrikstad Municipality

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