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Notable anniversaries in history for today: March 13
- 80th: 1944 - USSR recognizes Italian Badoglio government.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Robin Duke in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; comedienne (Saturday Night Live, SCTV, Club Paradise).
- 70th: 1954 - Milwaukee Braves' Bobby Thomson breaks his ankle, he is replaced by Hank Aaron.
- 70th: 1954 - Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Will Clark in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; infielder (Texas Rangers).
- 60th: 1964 - Kitty Genovese stabbed to death in Queens, New York; 40 neighbors look on.
- 60th: 1964 - Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of André Batista Santos "Vampeta"; (Brazilian) soccer player (PSV).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Corinna Broiz in Garberville, Colorado; lightweight judoka (Olympics-1996).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Thomas Enqvist in Stockholm, Sweden; tennis star (1991 Wimbledon junior boys).
- 50th: 1974 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris, France.
- 50th: 1974 - Glenn Turner scores twin tons for New Zealand's first win against Australia.
- 50th: 1974 - Howard Saint John, actor (Investigator, Dr Lewis - Hank), dies at age 68.
- 50th: 1974 - Janos Prohaska, actor (Andy Williams Show), dies at age 52.
- 40th: 1984 - Western Australia beats Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield.
- 40th: 1984 - Dick Whitington, journalist/cricket player (South Australia and AIF bat), dies.
- 40th: 1984 - Last day of first-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird.
- 30th: 1994 - 33.3 percent of Austria votes for ultra-right FPÖ.
- 30th: 1994 - Danny Barker, US banjo player/guitarist (Bourbon St Black), dies at age 85.
- 30th: 1994 - Donna Andrews wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship.
- 30th: 1994 - Tanker Nassia and freighter Shipbroker (both Cypriot-flagged) collide in the Bosphorus waterway off Turkey, killing 29 crewmen, leaking crude oil.
- 30th: 1994 - President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed.
- 30th: 1994 - Sandra Paretti, romantic novelist, dies at age 59.
- 30th: 1994 - Birth of Louis Spencer, Viscount Althorp.
- 15th: 2009 - The Galeras volcano in southern Colombia erupts, blanketing the area with ash, forcing evacuation of 3000 people.
- 10th: 2014 - Death of Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, 3rd President of Sierra Leone (born 1932).
- 5th: 2019 - A winter storm completes its intensification over the Southern Rocky Mountains region, becoming a powerful cyclone and triggering severe blizzard conditions across much of the Southwestern and Central United States.
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