more events on March 13
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1991
Exxon pays $1 billion in fines and costs for the clean-up of the Alaskan oil spill.
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1985
Upon the death of Konstantin Chernenko, Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the new leader of the Soviet Union.
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1981
The United States plans to send 15 Green Berets to El Salvador as military advisors.
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1974
Arab nations decide to end the oil embargo on the United States.
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The U.S. Senate votes 54-33 to restore the death penalty.
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1970
Cambodia orders Hanoi and Viet Cong troops to get out.
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1963
China invites Soviet Premiere Nikita Khrushchev to visit Beijing.
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1957
The FBI arrests Jimmy Hoffa on bribery charges.
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1951
Israel demands $1.5 billion in German reparations for the cost of caring for war refugees.
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1943
Japanese forces end their attack on the American troops on Hill 700 in Bougainville.
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1942
The U.S Army K9 Corps is established.
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Julia Flikke of the Nurse Corps becomes the first woman colonel in the U.S. Army.
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1941
Hitler issues an edict calling for an invasion of the Soviet Union.
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1940
Finland capitulates conditionally to Soviet terms, but maintains its independence.
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1935
A three-thousand-year-old archive is found in Jerusalem confirming biblical history.
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1918
Women are scheduled to march in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York due to a shortage of men.
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1915
The Germans repel a British Expeditionary Force attack at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in France.
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1900
George Seferis, Greek poet.
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1892
Janet Flanner, writer (“Letter from Paris”).
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1886
Albert William Stevens, balloonist and photographer.
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1881
Czar Alexander II is assassinated when a bomb is thrown at him near his palace.
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1868
The U.S. Senate begins the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson.
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1861
Jefferson Davis signs a bill authorizing slaves to be used as soldiers for the Confederacy.
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1855
Percival Lowell, astronomer who predicted the discovery of the planet Pluto.
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1798
Abigail Powers Fillmore, First Lady and wife of Millard Fillmore
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1793
Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
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1781
Astronomer William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus, which he names ‘Georgium Sidus,’ in honor of King George III.
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1777
Congress orders its European envoys to appeal to high-ranking foreign officers to send troops to reinforce the American army.
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1764
Charles Earl Grey, British Prime Minister
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1733
Joseph Priestly, scientist credited with the discovery of oxygen.
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1660
A statute is passed limiting the sale of slaves in the colony of Virginia.
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1615
Innocent XII, Roman Catholic Pope
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1519
Hernando Cortez lands in what will become Mexico.
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607
The 12th recorded passage of Halley’s Comet occurs.
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483
St. Felix begins his reign as Catholic Pope.