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Historical Events on March 13

  • American Civil War

    1862

    American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.

  • Confederate States of America

    1865

    American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African-American troops.

  • Second Boer War

    1900

    Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.

  • Pluto

    1930

    The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.

  • Great Depression

    1933

    Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a "bank holiday".

  • The Holocaust

    1943

    The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.

  • Cuba

    1957

    Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.

  • Apollo program

    1969

    Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.

  • Pope Francis

    2013

    Pope Francis is elected, in the papal conclave, as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.

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