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Events

• 1591 (435 years ago) At the 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.
• 1920 (106 years ago) The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
• 1940 (86 years ago) The Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union officially ends after the signing of the Moscow Peace Treaty.
• 1957 (69 years ago) Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
• 1969 (57 years ago) Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
• 1992 (34 years ago) The Mw 6.6 Erzincan earthquake strikes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe).
• 2016 (10 years ago) Three gunmen attack two hotels in the Ivory Coast town of Grand-Bassam, killing at least 19 people.
• 2020 (6 years ago) President Donald Trump declares the COVID-19 pandemic to be a national emergency in the United States.

Births

• 1615 (411 years ago) Innocent XII, pope of the Catholic Church (died 1700)
• 1741 (285 years ago) Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1790)
• 1781 (245 years ago) Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German painter and architect, designed the Konzerthaus Berlin (died 1841)
• 1855 (171 years ago) Percival Lowell, American astronomer and mathematician (died 1916)
• 1899 (127 years ago) John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1980)
• 1900 (126 years ago) Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971)
• 1942 (84 years ago) Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet and author (died 2008)
• 1950 (76 years ago) William H. Macy, American actor, director, and screenwriter

Deaths

• 1711 (315 years ago) Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (born 1636)
• 1881 (145 years ago) Alexander II of Russia,
• 1901 (125 years ago) Benjamin Harrison, American general and politician, 23rd President of the United States (born 1833)
• 1906 (120 years ago) Susan B. Anthony, American activist (born 1820)
• 1975 (51 years ago) Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav novelist, poet, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)
• 1996 (30 years ago) Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish director and screenwriter (born 1941)
• 2002 (24 years ago) Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher and scholar (born 1900)
• 2022 (4 years ago) William Hurt, American actor (born 1950)

All 297 events, births and deaths of March 13