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Historical Events on March 13

  • Spanish conquest of Guatemala

    1697

    Nojpetén, capital of the last independent Maya kingdom, fell to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    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.

  • African-American

    1865

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

  • Orange Free State

    1900

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

  • Kraków Ghetto

    1943

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

  • Battle of Dien Bien Phu

    1954

    First Indochina War: Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp unleashed a massive artillery barrage on the French to begin the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, the climactic battle in the First Indochina War.

  • Museum of the Revolution (Cuba)

    1957

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

  • Apollo 9

    1969

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

  • Papal conclave, 2013

    2013

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

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