Today's Holidays in March 13

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2016 — An explosion occurs in central Ankara, Turkey, with at least 37 people killed and 127 wounded. ↗
• 2016 — Three gunmen attack two hotels in the Ivory Coast town of Grand-Bassam, killing at least 18 people and injuring 33 others. ↗
• 2013 — Pope Francis is elected, in the papal conclave, as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church. ↗
• 2012 — 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. ↗
• 2008 — Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time. ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1994 — Gerard Deulofeu, Spanish footballer
• 1992 — Kaya Scodelario, English actress
• 1989 — Holger Badstuber, German footballer
• 1989 — Marko Marin, German footballer
• 1988 — Furdjel Narsingh, Dutch footballer