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🏰 On this day in History - March 13, 2025

1982 Worlds Ladies Fig Skate Champs in Copenhagen won by Elaine Zayak (USA)

1979 Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick

1978 Moluccans "suicide commandos" occupies Province house

1987 Washington Caps score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 mins & 3 secs

1991 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill

1940 Finland-Russian cease fire signed, Finland gives up Karelische

1987 Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)

1961 Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 6 for heavywgt boxing title

1884 US adopts Standard Time

1995 9th Soul Train Music Awards: Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win

1913 Kansas legislature approved censorship of motion pictures

1967 Congo sentences ex-premier Mo‹se Tsjombe to death

1983 "Woman of the Year" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 770 perfs

1933 Banks reopen

1954 Braves' Bobby Thomson breaks his ankle, he is replaced by Hank Aaron

1961 Pablo Picasso (79) marries his model Jacqueline Rocque (37)

1564 Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels

1992 570 die in a Turkish earthquake

1980 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Jan Hoffmann GDR

1993 Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US

1928 Rudolph Friml's musical "Three Musketeers," premieres in NYC

1982 Men's Fig Skating Champions in Copenhagen won by Scott Hamilton (USA)

1973 Minskoff Theater opens at 200 W 45th St NYC

1955 Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship

1974 Glenn Turner scores twin tons for NZ's 1st win against Aust

1989 FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US

1591 Battle at Tondibi: Moroccans army under Judar beats sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai

1925 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Arenas in 2 games

1947 "Brigadoon" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 581 performances

1984 WA beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield

0607 12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1945 Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands

1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lagunita Golf Invitational

1982 Ice Pairs Championship at Copenhagen won by Baess & Thierbach (GDR)

1973 "Irene" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 605 performances

1884 Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins

1846 Friedrich Hebbel's "Maria Magdalena," premieres in K”nigsberg

1950 General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record)

1995 Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators

1951 Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany

1861 Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers

1994 33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right FP™

1944 USSR recognizes Italian Badoglio govt

1868 Senate begins Pres Andrew Johnson impeachment trial

1985 Michael Secrest (US) begins 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards

1869 Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law

1979 Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement

1994 Donna Andrews wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship

1878 Oxford defeats Cambridge in their 1st golf match

1920 Wolfgang Kapp's coup attempt in Berlin fails

0483 St Felix III begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1987 John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering

1985 Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)

1912 Stanley Cup: Quebec Bulldogs sweep Moncton (NB) in 2 games

1954 Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu

1925 Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution

1961 Landslide in USSR, kills 145

1989 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown

1963 Indonesia & Netherlands recover diplomatic relations

1888 Great Blizzard of 1888 rages

1989 US space shuttle STS-29 launched

1772 Gotthold Lessing's "Emilia Calotti," premieres in Brunswick

1639 Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard

1560 Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli

1955 Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of Nepal

1797 Cherubini's opera "Med‚e," premieres in Paris

1960 White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number

1922 WRR-AM in Dallas TX begins radio transmissions

1958 Govt troops land in Sumatra Indonesia

1930 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory

1928 450 die in St Francisquito Valley Dam burst (Calif)

1982 Elaine Zayak, lands 6 triple jumps to win world skating championship

1922 NHL Championship: Ottawa Senators outscore Toronto St Pats, 5 to 4, in 2 games

1911 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (Ont), 7-4

1933 Josef G”bbels becomes German minister of Information & Propaganda

1961 Old type, black & white notes cease to be legal tender

1961 Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes pres of US Communist Party

1961 JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress

1138 German king Koenraad II von Hohenstaufen crowned

1929 Bradman scores 123 Aust v England at MCG, his 2nd Test Cricket ton

1852 Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the NY Lantern weekly

1992 FCC rules companies can own 30 AM & 30 FM stations (formerly 12)

1904 Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilian border dedicated

1990 Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada

1790 John Martin, 1st American-born actor, performs in Philadelphia

1969 Apollo 9 returns to Earth

1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris

1567 Battle at Oosterweel: Spanish troops destroy Geuzenleger

1980 Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto

1922 George Bernard Shaws "Back to Methusaleh V," premieres in NYC

1970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer

1918 1st NHL championship: Mont Canadiens beat Toronto Arenas, outscoring them 10-7 in a 2 game set

1915 Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit

1982 Ice Dance Championship at Copenhagen won by Torvill & Dean (GRB)

1735 1st US Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany

1943 Baseball approves official ball (with cork & balata)

1995 Hungarian Forint devalued 9%

1943 Frank Dixon wins Knights of Columbus mile (4:09.6)

1923 Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (NYC)

1911 Ivan Caryll's musical "Pink Lady," premieres in NYC

1935 Driving tests introduced in Great Britain

1887 Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs

1949 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman

1977 Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test

1994 Cuba Godding Jr (26) weds Sara Kapfer (26)

1942 Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army

1918 American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms

1988 14th People's Choice Awards: Fatal Attraction, Bill Cosby. win

1965 Beatles' "Eight Days a Week," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks

1865 US Confederate Congress calls on black slaves for field service

1924 German Republic day

1995 Anti fascist Kazachstan anti-parliament forms

1994 President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed

1656 Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam

1981 NCAA St Joseph's upsets top seed DePaul

1900 British troops occupy Bloemfontein, Orange-Free state

1994 Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed)

1921 Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China

1759 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1968 Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK

1941 A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand)

1963 2 Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska

1971 Live at Fillmore East recorded

1894 J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate

1945 Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman

1981 Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca

1951 2nd Dutch govt of Drees forms

1960 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship

1965 Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds

1634 Acad‚mie Fran‡aise opens

1964 Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack

1973 Syria adopts constitution

1975 Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year," premieres in NYC

1963 Hindemith & Wilder's opera "Long Christmas Dinner," premieres in NYC

1949 US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button

1943 Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight

1996 Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play

1960 NFL's Chicago Cardinals moves to St Louis

1980 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:13.60)

1962 Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty

1970 SF city employees begin 4-day strike

1956 NZ bowl out WI for 77 at Eden Park to score their 1st Test Cricket win

1967 Robert Anderson's "You Know I Can't Hear You ...," premieres in NYC

1984 Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird

1519 Cortez lands in M‚xico

1569 Battle of Jarnac, Count of Anjou defeats Huguenots

1970 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam

1948 10th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Baylor 58-42

1835 Charles Darwin departs Valparaiso for Andes crossing

1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die

1957 Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba

1992 Martina Navratilova & Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit

1986 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir

1947 19th Academy Awards - "Best Years of Lives," De Havilland, March win

1983 1st USFL overtime game-Birmingham Stallions beat Oakld Invaders 20-14

1996 Thomas Hamilton kills 16 kindergardeners, their teacher & himself

1781 Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really discovered Uranus)

1979 European Monetary System is established, ECU created

1677 Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000

1938 Anschluб-Austria annexed by Nazi Germany

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