History Events on March 13
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History Events on March 13
The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
#United_States_Department_of_Justice
In 1991
At least 28 people are killed in a bus crash in a motorway tunnel near the town of Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais.
#Sierre_coach_crash
In 2012
The Mw? 6.7 Erzincan earthquake strikes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). At least 498 were killed in this strike-slip event on the North Anatolian Fault.
#1992_Erzincan_earthquake
In 1992
The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.
#Seikan_Tunnel
In 1988
American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African-American troops.
#Confederate_States_of_America
In 1865
The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints have been found in Italy.
#Nature_(journal)
In 2003
Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
#Felix_Mendelssohn
In 1845
The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War, commences.
#Battle_of_Oosterweel
In 1567
The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'état in Grenada.
#New_Jewel_Movement
In 1979
Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him (this is the Gregorian date; it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia).
#Alexander_II_of_Russia
In 1881
Pope Francis is elected, in the papal conclave, as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
#Pope_Francis
In 2013
Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a "bank holiday".
#Great_Depression
In 1933
India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
#Missionaries_of_Charity
In 1997
An explosion occurs in central Ankara, Turkey, with at least 37 people killed and 127 wounded.
#March_2016_Ankara_bombing
In 2016
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