What Day Of The Week Was March 13?

Friday March 13, 2026
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

March 13: Day of the Week

March 13, 2026 is the 72nd day of the year 2026 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 293 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Kin'yōbi.

Here’s the March calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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March 13 by the Numbers

  • 29 days since March 13
  • 0 year, 1 month, and 1 day ago
  • 1 month since then
  • March 13 is in the 11th week of the year 2026 (ISO 8601)
  • 4 weeks ago
  • The year 2026 is not a leap year

March 13 Historical Event(s)

1639Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard. 1881Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.) 1897San Diego State University is founded. 1900Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State. 1920The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin. 1925Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution. 1962Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks upon Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The proposal is scrapped and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position. 1964American Kitty Genovese is murdered, reportedly in view of neighbors who did nothing to help her, prompting research into the bystander effect. 1969Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module. 1992An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.

Who were born on March 13?

1884Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist (d. 1941) 1899Jan Lechoń, Polish poet (d. 1956) 1899John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1980) 1900Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (d. 1981) 1921Al Jaffee, American cartoonist 1945Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko, Russian mathematician 1964João Gordo, American musician (Ratos de Porão) 1978Kenny Watson, American football player 1979Cedric Van Branteghem, Belgian athlete 1999Wiktoria Gąsiewska, Polish actress

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