Template:On this day/March 13

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

March 13:

• 1887 – General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, World War II Medal of Honor recipient and 18th Commandant of the Marine Corps, is born in Charlottesville. He attended the University of Virginia and was commissioned as a second lieutenant on January 22, 1909. He later became the first active-duty Marine to attain the rank of four-star general.
• 1948 – George P. Inge dies (aged 89). A prominent African American merchant on West Main Street, he stated his aim "to live an upright life and do all I can to better the condition of my fellow man who may not be so well favored."