1900, 13 March - Anglo-Boer War: Bloemfontein
General Lord Roberts, with almost 34,000 troops, takes control of Bloemfontein following a night-time flit by the opposing Boer forces.
1967, 13 March
Moïse Kapenda Tshombe is sentenced to death in absentia (he has left for exile in Spain) by Mobutu's government in the Congo.
