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History on the 13th of March

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13 Mar 1687 RELIGIOUS Father Eusebio Kino, 42, an Italian-born Jesuit in the service of Spain, began missionary labors in the American Southwest. In all, Kino established 25 Indian missions in the area now divided between northern Mexico and Arizona.
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13 Mar 1804 RELIGIOUS Birth of James W. Alexander, American Presbyterian clergyman and hymn writer. It was Alexander who, in 1830, rendered the English text of Paul Gerhardt's immortal German hymn, "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded."
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13 Mar 1868 RELIGIOUS Birth of Charles E. Cowman, American missionary pioneer. In 1901 he sailed to Japan with his wife Lettie (who later authored "Streams in the Desert"), where in 1910 they founded the Oriental Missionary Society.
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13 Mar 1904 RELIGIOUS "The Christ of the Andes", a bronze statue of Christ located on the Argentina-Chile border, was formally dedicated.
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13 Mar 1916 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt's son John was born. 
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13 Mar 1917 WW1 Begin of Samarrah Offensive
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13 Mar 1925 RELIGIOUS Tennessee Governor Austin Peay signed legislation prohibiting the teaching of evolution within the state's public school system. (A celebrated violation of this law led to the famous July Scopes Monkey Trial.)
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13 Mar 1932 WW2 A presidential election took place in Germany; Adolf Hitler received 30.1% of votes while Paul von Hindenburg received 49.6%. Since no one received 50% of votes, a second election would be required. 
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13 Mar 1933 WW2 Joseph Goebbels was named the Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, a cabinet-level position. 
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13 Mar 1933 WW2 He Yingqin was named the head of the Beiping Military Committee. 
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13 Mar 1933 WW2 US banks began to reopen after a week-long government-forced holiday. 
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13 Mar 1935 WW2 The US Marine Corps' Fleet Marine Force units completed the Fleet Landing Exercise No. 1 at Culebra, Puerto Rico. 
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13 Mar 1936 WW2 Adolf Hitler spoke publicly at Karlsruhe, Germany. 
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13 Mar 1936 WW2 Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin appointed Sir Thomas Inskip to coordinate the three defence services. Although he would have no department Inskip was only able to preside over meetings of the service Chiefs of Staffs and endorse their decisions. But by so doing he was able to obtain more money for the Navy and Air Force to purchase new equipment. 
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13 Mar 1938 WW2 A Soviet decree made the teaching of the Russian language a compulsory subject in all schools across the USSR. 
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13 Mar 1938 WW2 Austrian Chancellor Arthur Seyß-Inquart claimed that Austrian President Wilhelm Miklas had resigned his post and consolidated the power of the president in the position of the chancellor; in actuality, Miklas had refused to resign. Meanwhile, Kurt Schuschnigg's small Fatherland's Front, a Fascist political party created in 1934 from the Christian Social Party, which had advocated Austrian independence along Italian Fascist lines, was disbanded; the Party leaders were either arrested by the Nazis or fled into exile. Later on this date, Hitler visited his parents' grave, then visited his hometown of Braunau and then returned to Linz to give a speech. 
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13 Mar 1938 WW2 Japanese aircraft bombed Nanzheng Airfield in Shaanxi Province, China. 
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13 Mar 1939 WW2 At 1900 hours, Adolf Hitler once again demanded Jozef Tiso to declare Slovakian independence from Czechoslovakia; meanwhile, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop presented him reports of Hungarian troop movements on its border, hinting that Hungary, friendly to Germany, was ready to strike should the negotiations in Berlin, Germany fail. 
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13 Mar 1939 WW2 Throughout Germany, the Gestapo raided the offices of the patriotic Pan-German League. A number of its leaders were arrested, their offices sealed and the League compelled to close. 
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13 Mar 1939 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille was promoted to the rank of Fahnenjunker. 
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13 Mar 1940 WW2 At 0200 hours in Moscow (0100 hours Finland time) Finnish and Soviet representatives signed the Moscow Peace Treaty prepared on the previous day. Finnish President Kyösti Kallio noted that the treaty was "the most awful document I have ever had to sign." Ceasefire would take place at 1100 hours; both sides continued to bombard the other with ferocity until the ceasefire time came. 
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13 Mar 1940 WW2 British troops originally Norway-bound were disembarked from their transports without ever having left port. 
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13 Mar 1940 WW2 Punjabi nationalist Udham Singh assassinated the former British governor of Punjab Sir Michael O'Dwyer. 
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13 Mar 1940 WW2 The Fleet Landing Exercise No. 6 in the Caribbean Sea, participated by personnel of the US Navy and US Marine Corps, drew to a close. 
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13 Mar 1940 WW2 Simo Häyhä regained consciousness after being severely injured in the face in combat a week prior in Finland. 
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13 Mar 1940 WW2 Joachim von Ribbentrop informed the Italians that Adolf Hitler would like to push the date of the upcoming Brenner Pass meeting with Benito Mussolini up to on or about 18 Mar 1940. 
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13 Mar 1941 WW2 Germany repeated demands for Yugoslavia to join the Axis alliance. 
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13 Mar 1941 WW2 236 German bombers attacked Glasgow and Clydeside, Scotland, United Kingdom for the first time, targeting munitions factories and docks, sinking 3 cargo ships and damaging 2 destroyers. To the south, German bombers attacked Liverpool for the second night in a row, pushing total casualty to about 500. 
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13 Mar 1941 WW2 Adolf Hitler appointed Alfred Rosenberg the minister of the eastern occupied territories, while further conquests would be assigned to Heinrich Himmler. Hermann Göring was given the responsibility of exploiting the resources in conquered Soviet territory. 
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13 Mar 1941 WW2 Erwin Rommel moved his headquarter to Sirte, Libya. 
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13 Mar 1941 WW2 British sloop HMS Scarborough intercepted Norwegian whalers Star XIX and Star XXIV, which were captured on 15 Jan 1941 by German merchant raider Pinguin, 400 miles north of the Azores. Both whalers were scuttled by their German crews to prevent capture. 
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13 Mar 1941 WW2 Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weißenfeld was wounded in combat. 
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13 Mar 1942 WW2 German submarine U-126 damaged US ship Colabee 10 miles north of Cuba at 0441 hours, forcing her to run aground to prevent sinking; 23 were killed, 14 survived. Two hours later, at 0643 hours, U-404 sank Chilean freighter Tolten within 5 kilometers of Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States, killing 25 of 26 aboard. German submarine U-332 sank US schooner Albert F. Paul 100 kilometers east of the Bahamas at 0720 hours, killing the entire crew of 8. 330 miles off Palm Beach, Florida, United States, Italian Tazzoli sank British ship Daytonian; 1 was killed, 58 survived. At 1747 hours, U-332 struck again, sinking Yugoslavian ship Trepca; 4 were killed, 33 survived. 
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13 Mar 1942 WW2 USS Gar sank Japanese cargo ship Chichiubu Maru off Mikura Jima 100 miles south of Tokyo Bay, Japan with three of four torpedoes fired. 
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13 Mar 1942 WW2 Joseph Stilwell met with Harold Alexander. Stilwell's diary entry for the day noted that he was unimpressed with the British general. 
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13 Mar 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-164 sank Norwegian merchant ship Mabella 100 miles northeast of Madras, India. 
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13 Mar 1942 WW2 HMS Eagle completed engine repairs. 
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13 Mar 1942 WW2 Merchant ship Sevaples and Soviet anti-submarine whaler Stefa, both of which fell out of Allied convoy PQ-12 several days prior, found each other while at sea as Sevaples was being attacked by a German aircraft; Stefa shot down the German attacker. 
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13 Mar 1942 WW2 USS Permit sank the scuttled PT-32 of US Navy Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3 in Philippine waters. 
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13 Mar 1942 WW2 Five B-17 bombers of the US 40th Reconnaissance Squadron from Australia were launched to attack Rabaul, New Britain; only one arrived over the target to drop the bomb load, which caused little damage. 
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13 Mar 1942 WW2 Five Japanese Zero fighters strafed military installations at Port Moresby, Australian Papua. 
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13 Mar 1942 WW2 Overnight, 135 RAF bombers attacked Köln, Germany, killing 62 and wounding 84. 
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13 Mar 1942 WW2 German armed merchant cruiser Michel departed Vlissingen, the Netherlands in the evening, escorted by 9 minesweepers and 5 torpedo boats. 
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13 Mar 1942 WW2 Warrant Officer Nobuo Fujita, flying in a submarine-based (submarine I-25) E14Y aircraft, conducted a photographic reconnaissance mission over Auckland, New Zealand. 
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13 Mar 1942 WW2 1,200 sick prisoners from the hospital within Auschwitz I camp who were judged as not able to recover were transferred to the BIb sector of Birkenau camp, where they were killed. Their bodies were transported back to Auschwitz I to be cremated. 
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13 Mar 1942 WW2 In Poland, The Belzec Concentration Camp opened for operation with a transport of 6,000 Jews from Mielec, Poland. 
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13 Mar 1942 WW2 A major Soviet attack was launched out of Kerch Peninsula in Russia in an attempt to relieve the besieged city of Sevastopol. 
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13 Mar 1942 WW2 British submarine HMS Una sank Italian fishing boat Maria Immacolata with her deck gun 5 miles off Tunisia. 
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13 Mar 1943 WW2 I-168 departed Paramushiro, Kurile Islands for the Aleutian Islands. 
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13 Mar 1943 WW2 The Krakow Ghetto in Poland was liquidated. 
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13 Mar 1943 WW2 A celebration took place at the main rail station of Krakow, Poland, featuring the 2,000th transport of workers from Poland to Germany; the one-millionth forced laborer was "honored". 
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13 Mar 1943 WW2 In Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Japanese troops ended their assault on American forces at Hill 700. 
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13 Mar 1943 WW2 Chinese troops pushed Japanese troops back across the Yangtze River. 
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13 Mar 1943 WW2 A plot to assassinate Hitler during a flight from Smolensk, Russia to Rastenburg, Germany failed. 
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13 Mar 1943 WW2 In Burma, the No. 3 Column of the Northern Group of the Chindits was attacked by Japanese forces whose conservative probing attacks failed to eliminate the numerically inferior Allied irregulars. 
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13 Mar 1943 WW2 Adolf Hitler visited Günther von Kluge's field headquarters. Anti-Hitler conspirators spoke to Kluge beforehand, but they could not convince Kluge to take action to arrest Hitler. Without Kluge's help, the conspirators acted on their own, sneaking fused bombs disguised as brandy bottles aboard Hitler's aircraft, which took off for Berlin, Germany after dinner. The bombs failed to explode, and the conspirators had to take the risk, successfully, to retrieve the bottles before they were discovered. 
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13 Mar 1943 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze made a troop transport run to Kolombangara, New Georgia, Solomon Islands. 
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13 Mar 1943 WW2 Pilots of US Marine Aircraft Group 21 arrived at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands by passenger aircraft. 
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13 Mar 1943 WW2 Nachi arrived at Paramushiro (Paramushir), Kurile Islands. 
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13 Mar 1943 WW2 USS Sunfish sank Japanese cargo ship Kosei Maru off Tokara Islands, Japan in the East China Sea, hitting her with 3 torpedoes. 
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13 Mar 1943 WW2 USS Grayback fired six torpedoes at a Japanese transport and a destroyer in the South Pacific, sinking the transport with two hits. 
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13 Mar 1943 WW2 USS Wahoo attacked a Japanese ship in the East China Sea; the torpedo missed. 
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13 Mar 1943 WW2 Richard Sutherland once again presented the Elkton II plan for operations in the Pacific to the US Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, United States. The plan continued to be treated coldly by the JCS, as it did not wish to devote additional resources to the Pacific theater of war. 
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13 Mar 1944 WW2 USS Cod arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her second war patrol. 
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13 Mar 1944 WW2 Italy and the Soviet Union resumed diplomatic relations. 
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13 Mar 1944 WW2 The governments of the United States and the United Kingdom demanded Sweden to stop selling ball bearings to Germany. 
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13 Mar 1944 WW2 US Eighth Air Force commander James Doolittle was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. 
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13 Mar 1944 WW2 Lieutenant General Geoffrey Scoones realized the Japanese attack on Tiddim, Burma was a part of a major offensive, and retracted his previous order, allowing troops at Tiddim to fall back. 
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13 Mar 1944 WW2 American ships and British RAF aircraft sank German submarine U-575 in the Atlantic Ocean. 
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13 Mar 1944 WW2 Australian troops captured Bogodjim, New Guinea. 
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13 Mar 1944 WW2 The Jewish ghetto of Kraków, Poland was closed down; as its residents were deported to the newly built Plaszów labor camp, 2,000 died en route. 
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13 Mar 1944 WW2 Soviet troops captured Kherson, Ukraine. 
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13 Mar 1944 WW2 USS Whale arrived at Midway Atoll. 
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13 Mar 1945 WW2 Operation Undertone: US 3rd and 7th Armies advanced toward Rhine River. 
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13 Mar 1945 WW2 274 US aircraft bombed and destroyed 8.1 square miles of Osaka, Japan. 
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13 Mar 1945 WW2 Heinrich Himmler abandoned his command with Army Group Vistula; he would later claim that it was due to sickness. 
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13 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Tunny conducted a special reconnaissance mission off the Ryukyu Islands in preparation of the invasion of Okinawa, Japan. 
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13 Mar 1945 WW2 A British No. 617 Squadron RAF Lancaster bomber test-dropped a 22,000-lb Grand Slam bomb. 
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13 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Franklin arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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13 Mar 1945 WW2 RAF Wellington bombers of No. 40 Squadron attacked Trevisio, Italy with 4,000 lb "cookie" bombs. 
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13 Mar 1946 WW2 Submarine R-1 was sold to Macey O. Smith of Miami, Florida, United States for scrap. 
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13 Mar 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru departed Rabaul, New Britain. 
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13 Mar 1947 WW2 USS Sennet completed her participated in the Operation Highjump Antarctic expedition. 
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13 Mar 1948 WW2 Fieberling was decommissioned from service. 
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13 Mar 1949 WW2 Henri Giraud passed away. 
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