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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_13" title="March 13">March 13</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Day" title="Commonwealth Day">Commonwealth Day</a></b> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations" title="Commonwealth of Nations">Commonwealth of Nations</a> (2023)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1781" title="1781">1781</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Herschel" title="William Herschel">William Herschel</a> discovered the planet <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus" title="Uranus">Uranus</a></b> from the garden of his house in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath,_Somerset" title="Bath, Somerset">Bath</a>, England, initially considering it to be a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet" title="Comet">comet</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1845" title="1845">1845</a> – German composer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Mendelssohn" title="Felix Mendelssohn">Felix Mendelssohn</a>'s <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_Concerto_(Mendelssohn)" title="Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)">Violin Concerto</a></b> was performed for the first time.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943" title="1943">1943</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust" title="The Holocaust">The Holocaust</a>: Nazi troops began the final liquidation of the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w_Ghetto" title="Kraków Ghetto">Kraków Ghetto</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Government" title="General Government">German occupied Poland</a>, sending about 2,000 Jews to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w-P%C5%82asz%C3%B3w_concentration_camp" title="Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp">Płaszów labor camp</a>, with the remaining 5,000 either killed or sent to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp" title="Auschwitz concentration camp">Auschwitz</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988" title="1988">1988</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikan_Tunnel" title="Seikan Tunnel">Seikan Tunnel</a></b>, 53.85 km (33.46 mi) in length, opened between the cities of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakodate" title="Hakodate">Hakodate</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aomori" title="Aomori">Aomori</a>, Japan.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013" title="2013">2013</a> – Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_papal_conclave" title="2013 papal conclave">was elected</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis" title="Pope Francis">Pope Francis</a></b>, making him the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuits" title="Jesuits">Jesuit</a> pope, the first from the Americas, and the first from the Southern Hemisphere.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lambert" title="Daniel Lambert">Daniel Lambert</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1770); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Re%C5%9Fid_Pasha" title="Mustafa Reşid Pasha">Mustafa Reşid Pasha</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1800); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Renton" title="Helen Renton">Helen Renton</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1931)</p>
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