On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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More girls than boys have been going to college for years now, but at one set of prestigious public schools in New York City, it’s the girls who are lagging.
Comedians based in New York see a boon if reports that “The Tonight Show” will return to the city prove true.
Chinua Achebe examined colonialism and masculinity with a sensitive understanding about how culture functions and what it means.
While Harvard captured its first-ever N.C.A.A. tournament victory, over New Mexico, top-seeded Gonzaga barely scraped by with a six-point win over No. 16 Southern University.
In its first trip to the N.C.A.A. tournament, 15th-seeded Florida Gulf Coast defeated Georgetown, a perennial power and No. 2 seed.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 20, 2013, covering March 23, 2013.
Luke Bryan
Jimi Hendrix
Bruno Mars
Mumford & Sons
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
2013Boris Berezovsky, Russian-born Soviet-British mathematician and businessman (born 1946)[†]
Boris Abramovich Berezovsky, also known as Platon Elenin, was a Russian business oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He had the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.
2013Onofre Corpuz, Filipino economist, historian, and academic (born 1926)[†]
Onofre Dizon Corpuz ONS was a Filipino academic, economist, and historian. He served as the Secretary of Education of the Philippines from 1968 to 1971 and was the 13th president of the University of the Philippines System from 1975 to 1979. Dr. Corpuz was later named Minister of Education under the parliamentary system wherein he was also member of the now defunct Batasang Pambansa from 1979 to 1983.
2013Virgil Trucks, American baseball player and coach (born 1917)[†]
Virgil Oliver "Fire" Trucks was an American Major League Baseball pitcher with the Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Browns, Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Athletics and New York Yankees between 1941 and 1958. He batted and threw right-handed.
2013Joe Weider, Canadian-American bodybuilder and publisher, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (born 1919)[†]
Josef Weider was a Canadian bodybuilder and entrepreneur who co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilders (IFBB) alongside his brother Ben Weider. He was also the creator of Mr. Olympia, Ms. Olympia, and the Masters Olympia bodybuilding contests. He was the publisher of various bodybuilding and fitness-related magazines, most notably Muscle & Fitness, Flex, Men's Fitness, and Shape, and the manufacturer of a line of fitness equipment and fitness supplements. In 2014, he was inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]