Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 13
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March 13: Fast of Esther in Judaism, Commonwealth Day (2006).
- 1781 - William Herschel (pictured) discovered the planet Uranus.
- 1881 - Tsar Alexander II of Russia was assassinated in a Nihilist plot by Ignacy Hryniewiecki.
- 1921 - Mongolia, under the Black Baron, proclaimed its independence from China.
- 1954 - Viet Minh forces under Vo Nguyen Giap unleashed a massive artillery barrage on the French military to begin the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the final battle in the First Indochina War.
- 1996 - Dunblane massacre: A spree killer in Dunblane, Scotland shot 16 children and a teacher at a primary school to their death and then committed suicide.
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