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Today in History

Friday, 13 March 2026

2008

Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time.

2005

Terry Ratzmann shoots and kills six members of the Living Church of God and the minister at Sheraton Inn in Brookfield, Wisconsin before killing himself.

2003

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

1997

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

The Phoenix lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.

1996

Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 kindergarten children and 1 teacher are shot dead by a spree killer, Thomas Watt Hamilton who then committed suicide.

1992

An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.

1991

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

1979

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

1969

Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.

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