So you want to have a drink but you aren't sure why? Here are some GREAT reasons to call your friends over and have a party.

March 13th


- Christian Feast Day
- Kasuga Matsuri (Kasuga Grand Shrine, Nara, Japan)

March 13th


- 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.
- 1997 - 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.
- 1962 - Lyman 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.
- 1957 - Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
- 1954 - Battle of ?i?n Biên Ph?: Viet Minh forces attack the French.
- 1943 - World War II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.
- 1943 - The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków. Hans Finke arrives in Auschwitz with 963 other prisoners. 473 are put to death in the gas chambers. 491 are assigned to slave labor.
- 1940 - The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends.
- 1938 - World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
- 1938 - Anschluss of Austria to the Third Reich.
- 1933 - Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a "bank holiday".
- 1930 - The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
- 1925 - Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
- 1921 - Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China.
- 1920 - The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
- 1900 - Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
- 1897 - San Diego State University is founded.
- 1884 - The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885.
- 1881 - Alexander 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.)
- 1865 - American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops.
- 1862 - American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers to return fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
- 1845 - Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
- 1809 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'état.
- 1781 - William Herschel discovers Uranus.
- 1639 - Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard.
- 1138 - Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.

March 13th


- 1999 - Wiktoria G?siewska, Polish actress
- 1989 - Holger Badstuber, German footballer
- 1989 - Harry Melling, British actor
- 1987 - Marco Andretti, American racecar driver (grandson of Mario Andretti, son of Michael Andretti)
- 1986 - Chiaki Kyan, Japanese gravure idol
- 1985 - Alcides, Brazilian football player
- 1985 - Emile Hirsch, American actor
- 1985 - Austin Scott, American football player
- 1984 - Rachael Bella, actress
- 1984 - Pieter Custers, Dutch athlete
- 1984 - Steve Darcis, Belgian tennis player
- 1984 - Noel Fisher, Canadian actor
- 1984 - Yuuka Nanri, Japanese seiy?
- 1984 - Marc Zwiebler, German badminton player
- 1983 - Kaitlin Sandeno, American swimmer
- 1982 - Jeremy Curl, British explorer
- 1982 - Nicole Ohlde, WNBA basketball player
- 1982 - Adam Thomson, New Zealand All Black rugby player
- 1981 - Stephen Maguire, Scottish snooker player
- 1981 - April Matson, American actress and singer
- 1980 - Caron Butler, American basketballer
- 1980 - Molly Stanton, American actress
- 1979 - Johan Santana, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1979 - Spanky G, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
- 1979 - Cedric Van Branteghem, Belgian athlete
- 1978 - Tom Danielson, American cyclist
- 1978 - Kenny Watson, American football player
- 1977 - Ed Sloan, American musician (Crossfade)
- 1977 - Momo Sylla, Guinean footballer
- 1977 - Kay Tse, Hong Kong singer
- 1976 - James Dewees, American musician
- 1976 - Troy Hudson, American basketball player
- 1976 - Danny Masterson, American actor
- 1974 - Thomas Enqvist, Swedish tennis player
- 1974 - Vampeta, Brazilian footballer
- 1973 - Edgar Davids, Dutch footballer
- 1973 - David Draiman, American musician and songwriter (Disturbed)
- 1973 - Bobby Jackson, American basketballer
- 1972 - Common, American rapper
- 1971 - Annabeth Gish, American actress
- 1971 - Robert Lanham, American author and satirist
- 1970 - Tim Story, American film director
- 1968 - Akira Nogami, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1967 - Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (d. 1994)
- 1964 - Will Clark, American baseball player
- 1964 - João Gordo, American musician (Ratos de Porão)
- 1963 - Fito Páez, Argentine musician and songwriter
- 1960 - Yuri Andrukhovych, Ukrainian writer, poet and political essayist
- 1960 - Adam Clayton, Irish bassist (U2)
- 1960 - Joe Ranft, American animator (d. 2005)
- 1959 - Kathy Hilton, socialite-Hilton Hotels, mother of Nicky Hilton and Paris Hilton
- 1958 - Linda Robson, English actress
- 1957 - John Hoeven, American politician, 31st governor of North Dakota
- 1957 - Steve Lake, American baseball player
- 1956 - Dana Delany, American actress
- 1955 - Bruno Conti, Italian footballer
- 1955 - Glenne Headly, American actress
- 1953 - Deborah Raffin, American actress
- 1952 - Wolfgang Rihm, German composer
- 1951 - Fred Berry, American actor and dancer (d. 2003)
- 1950 - Charles Krauthammer, American political commentator
- 1950 - William H. Macy, American actor
- 1949 - Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese racing driver (d. 1974)
- 1949 - Julia Migenes, American soprano
- 1948 - Robert S. Woods, American actor
- 1947 - Beat Richner, Swiss physician and cellist
- 1946 - Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli soldier (d. 1976)
- 1945 - Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko, Russian mathematician
- 1943 - André Téchiné, French film director and screenwriter
- 1942 - Scatman John, (real name John Larkin) American singer (d. 1999)
- 1942 - Dave Cutler, American software engineer
- 1942 - Geoffrey Hayes, English television presenter and actor
- 1941 - Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian prominent poet and writer of prose (d. 2008)
- 1939 - Neil Sedaka, American singer and songwriter
- 1938 - Erma Franklin, American singer (d. 2002)
- 1938 - Tochinoumi Teruyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 49th Yokozuna
- 1936 - Nana Meskhidze, Georgian artist-painter (d. 1997)
- 1935 - Leslie Parrish, American actress
- 1935 - Michael Walzer, American philosopher
- 1934 - Barry Hughart, American author
- 1933 - Mike Stoller, American songwriter
- 1930 - Jan Howard, American singer
- 1929 - Peter Breck, American actor
- 1929 - Joseph Mascolo, American actor
- 1927 - Robert Denning, American interior designer (d. 2005)
- 1926 - Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (d. 2003)
- 1925 - Roy Haynes, American jazz drummer
- 1923 - William F. Bolger, 65th Postmaster General of the United States (d. 1989)
- 1923 - Dimitrios Ioannidis, Greek military officer who was involved in the Greek military junta
- 1921 - Al Jaffee, American cartoonist
- 1914 - Edward O'Hare, American pilot (d. 1943)
- 1914 - W.O. Mitchell, Canadian writer (d. 1998)
- 1913 - William Casey, American CIA director (d. 1987)
- 1913 - Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (d. 1985)
- 1913 - Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer (d. 2009)
- 1911 - L. Ron Hubbard, American science fiction author and founder of Scientology (d. 1986)
- 1910 - Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
- 1910 - Sammy Kaye, American musician (d. 1987)
- 1908 - Walter Annenberg, American publisher and philanthropist (d. 2002)
- 1907 - Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian of religions and writer (d. 1986)
- 1900 - Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (d. 1981)
- 1900 - Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
- 1899 - John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1980)
- 1899 - Jan Lecho?, Polish poet (d. 1956)
- 1898 - Henry Hathaway, American film director and producer (d. 1985)
- 1897 - Dan Gordon, American animator (d. 1969)
- 1890 - Fritz Busch, German conductor (d. 1951)
- 1886 - Home Run Baker, Hall of Fame third baseman (d.1963)
- 1884 - Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist (d. 1941)
- 1883 - Enrico Toselli, Italian (Florentine) composer and pianist(d. 1926)
- 1870 - Albert Meyer, member of the Swiss Federal Council in the 1930s (d. 1953)
- 1864 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (d. 1941)
- 1860 - Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (d. 1903)
- 1855 - Percival Lowell, American astronomer (d. 1916)
- 1855 - B. H. Roberts, Mormon leader, historian, and politician (d. 1933)
- 1825 - Hans Gude, Norwegian romanticist landscape painter (d. 1903)
- 1815 - James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist (d. 1911)
- 1798 - Abigail Fillmore, First Lady of the United States (d. 1853)
- 1782 - Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish nobility (d.1863)
- 1781 - Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German architect (d. 1841)
- 1777 - Charles Lot Church, Nova Scotia politician (d. 1864)
- 1770 - Daniel Lambert, Englishman famous for his obesity (d. 1809)
- 1764 - Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1845)
- 1763 - Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (d. 1815)
- 1753 - Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, great heiress and wife of Philippe Égalité (d. 1821)
- 1741 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1790)
- 1733 - Joseph Priestley, English scientist and minister (d. 1804)
- 1720 - Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer (d. 1793)
- 1719 - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (d. 1797)
- 1700 - Michel Blavet, French flutist (d. 1768)
- 1683 - John Theophilus Desaguliers, French-British philosopher (d. 1744)
- 1615 - Pope Innocent XII (d. 1700)
- 1372 - Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, brother of Charles VI of France (d. 1407)