What happend on 13th March

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2003

Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old upright-walking human footprints have been found in Italy.

1997

In Phoenix, Arizona, Arizona, the Phoenix Lights, one of the most widely witnessed UFO sightings, take place.

1997

India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.

1996

The Dunblane Massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 children and 1 adult teacher are shot dead by a spree killer who then commits suicide.

1993

The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern U.S., bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba to Québec.

1992

In eastern Turkey, an earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500.

1991

The United States Justice Department announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.

1988

I. King Jordan becomes the first Deaf president of Gallaudet University after the Deaf President Now demonstrations.

1979

The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'etat in Grenada.

1971

In New York City, Rock group The Allman Brothers Band record a concert that will be released as their classic live album At Fillmore East