Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 13

On March 13:

St Nicephorus worshipped here: Hagia Sophia, Constantinople

• 874 - The bones of Saint Nicephorus were interred in Constantinople.
• 1639 - Harvard College was named for a clergyman.
• 1781 - William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.
• 1881 - Alexander II of Russia was killed in a Nihilist bombing.
• 1954 - Battle of Dien Bien Phu, last battle of the Indochina War, began.

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