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March 1, 2013, Release of 21 and Over

March 1, 2013, Release of The Last Exorcism: Pt.2



March 1, 2013, Release of Jack: The Giant Slayer



March 1, 2013, Release of Stoker



March 1, 2013, Release of Phantom



March 1, 2013, SpaceX CRS-2: The SpaceX Falcon 9 supply rocket launches from Cape Canaveral SLC-40 as scheduled, but encounters problems once in orbit. (Los Angeles Times)

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March 1, 2013, 2013 Sequestration: A budget sequestration comes into effect today in the United States Government. (The Guardian)

March 1, 2013, An environmental study finds that 100 million sharks are killed by fishermen each year. (National Geographic)

March 3, 2013, Series Premiere of The Bible

March 3, 2013, Series Premiere of The Vikings

March 3, 2013, Series Premiere of Red Widow

March 3, 2013, Queen Elizabeth II is admitted to hospital for observation after experiencing symptoms of gastroenteritis. Buckingham Palace has described it as a "precaution". (BBC)

March 3, 2013, SpaceX CRS-2: The cargo ship SpaceX Dragon docks at the International Space Station after a brief delay. (CNet)

March 3, 2013, Lauren Silberman becomes the first woman to try out for the National Football League, but her attempt to make a team ends after two kicks with an injury. (USA Today)

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March 3, 2013, Following treatment, a girl child, born in the US state of Mississippi with the HIV/AIDS virus, is pronounced to be HIV negative. (CBS)

March 3, 2013, Scottish Cardinal Keith O'Brien, who resigned last week due to allegations of sexual impropriety, admitted his past sexual misconduct and apologized for it. (USA Today)

March 4, 2013, Release of Dido album Girl Who got Away

March 4, 2013, Queen Elizabeth II returns to Buckingham Palace after spending one night in hospital. (BBC)

March 4, 2013, Papal conclave, 2013: More than 100 Roman Catholic cardinals meet in Rome to start the process of selecting a successor to Pope Benedict XVI. (CNN)

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March 4, 2013, Forbes releases its annual list of the world's wealthiest people, with Carlos Slim topping the list. (USA Today)

March 4, 2013, Scientists announce they have directly measured the polarization of light, overcoming aspects of the uncertainty principle. (Science World Report)

March 4, 2013, A newly observed near-Earth asteroid 2013 EC passes Earth within the orbit of the Moon. (Universe Today)

March 5, 2013, Release of video game Tomb Raider

March 5, 2013, Release of video game MLB 2K13

March 5, 2013, Release of video game Sim City

March 5, 2013, The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches a record high after the release of better than expected economic data from the United States and Europe and the Chinese growth target. (AP via New Jersey Herald)

March 5, 2013, Death and state funeral of Hugo Chávez: President Chávez, re-elected to office just last year, loses his 21-month battle with cancer, dying at the age of 58. (Al Jazeera)

 

March 5, 2013, Image taken by the Cassini spacecraft from Saturn orbit shows Venus shining like a bright beacon through Saturn’s rings. (ESA)

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March 5, 2013, Scientists in the United States publish the most detailed scans of the human brain to date as part of a project to understand how the organ works. (BBC)

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March 6, 2013, The South Korean military states that it is prepared to respond if North Korea launches an attack as it threatened yesterday. (Reuters)

March 6, 2013, The European Commission fines Microsoft €561 million for failing to provide residents of the European Union with a selection of web browsers as an alternative to Internet Explorer. (BBC)
March 6, 2013, Papal conclave, 2013: The Brazilian Conference of Bishops (the largest such conference in the world) officially advises the cardinals of Brazil in the conclave explicitly to ask the mass media to print supportive articles on the Archbishop of São Paulo, Cardinal Odilo Scherer. (Rorate Caeli)
March 6, 2013, A newly discovered Y-chromosome haplogroup is thought to push back the time of Y-chromosomal Adam to 338,000 years ago. (New Scientist)

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March 7, 2013, Nuclear program of North Korea: North Korea threatens its enemies with the possibility of a pre-emptive nuclear strike, amplifying its threatening rhetoric. (Fox News)

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March 7, 2013, Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is convicted of arranging an illegal wiretap and is sentenced to a year in jail. (BBC)
March 7, 2013, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, alleged spokesman for al-Qaeda and said to be the son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, is captured in Jordan and faces criminal charges in the United States. (Star Tribune)
March 7, 2013, In the United States, Senator Rand Paul ends a 13-hour filibuster to block voting on the nomination of John O. Brennan as the Director of the CIA, questioning Barack Obama and his administration's use of drones, and the stated legal justification for hypothetical lethal use within the United States targeting against noncombatants. Attorney General Eric Holder states that combat drones would not be used to target and kill, without due process, Americans not engaged in combat on American soil. (Fox News)

March 8, 2013, Release of Dead Man Down

 

March 8, 2013, Release of OZ: The Great and Powerful

March 8, 2013, The Vatican announces that the 2013 papal conclave to select a new pope will begin on March 12. (The Washington Post)



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March 8, 2013, Following the state funeral of former President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez, Vice President Nicolás Maduro is officially sworn in as Interim President. (BBC)



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March 8, 2013, North Korea ends all peace pacts with South Korea and closes the main Panmunjom border crossing inside the Korean Demilitarized Zone. North Korean generals affirm they are aiming their long range missiles at the U.S. mainland in retaliation for the recently approved U.N. sanctions. (BBC)

March 8, 2013, Former Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond is set to be paid about £2m ($3m) in July, a year after he left the bank following its Libor interest rate fixing scandal. (News24)
March 8, 2013, Russian scientists announce they have found a wholly new type of bacteria in the mysterious subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica. (RIA Novosti)

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March 9, 2013, An Egyptian court reaffirms the death sentence for 21 soccer fans for their role in the Port Said Stadium riot and sentenced two security officers to 15 years in jail for negligence. (New York Times)

March 10, 2013, Roman Catholic Cardinals meet in Rome in a conclave to appoint a successor to Pope Benedict XVI. (AP)
  

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March 10, 2013, Daylight saving time goes into effect across the United States (except Arizona and Hawaii) and Canada (except Saskatchewan). (CNN)
 
March 11, 2013, Release of Bon Jovi album What about Now

March 11, 2013, North Korea breaks the 1953 armistice with South Korea and cuts the phone line between the two countries. North Korean officials say that the army is ready to attack at any given order. (BBC)

March 11, 2013, Residents of the Falkland Islands begin voting in a two day sovereignty referendum on whether the islands should remain a British overseas territory. (BBC)



March 11, 2013, Three minor earthquakes strike Southern California, United States. (Fox News)

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March 11, 2013, More than 2,800 dead pigs are found rotting in the Huangpu River that supplies Shanghai, China, with drinking water. (Christian Science Monitor)
March 11, 2013, A study of mummies concludes that heart disease was common among ancient people. (ABC News)
March 11, 2013, Former Mayor of Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick is convicted on corruption charges. (The Guardian)
March 11, 2013, The astronomers announce that the newly discovered double star system WISE 1049-5319 is the third-closest neighbor to the Solar System. (Ars Technica)
March 11, 2013, The astrobiologists say that algae-like structures inside a Polonnaruwa meteorit, that fell on 29 December 2012 in Sri Lanka, are clear evidence of panspermia, the idea that life exists throughout the Universe. (MIT Technology Review)

March 12, 2013, Release of video game God of War: Ascension

March 12, 2013, Release of video game Starcraft II: Heart of Swarms

March 12, 2013, Release of David Bowie album The Next Day

March 12, 2013, Papal conclave, 2013: Roman Catholic Cardinals meet in Rome in a conclave to appoint a successor to Pope Benedict XVI. (AP)

  
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Black smoke rises from the Vatican's Sistine Chapel, signalling that Roman Catholic Cardinals had not elected a new pope in the first vote of their secret conclave. (BBC)

 

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March 12, 2013, A U.S. judge entered a plea of not guilty on behalf of alleged Aurora theatre gunman James Eagan Holmes, after his lawyers said they were not ready to enter a plea. (AFP via News24)

March 12, 2013, NASA holds a media conference to announce new discoveries about Mars made by the Curiosity rover. It was found that the planet could have once supported life. (Space.com)

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March 12, 2013, The Better Business Bureau expels the Los Angeles chapter, the nation's largest chapter, over a pay-to-play scheme. (Los Angeles Times)
March 12, 2013, Private equity firm Apollo Global Management announces that it has purchased the rights to Twinkies and other Hostess Brands snacks and hopes to have the treats back on grocery shelves by summer. (Chicago Tribune)
March 12, 2013, Former New York City police officer Gilberto Valle is found guilty of plotting to kidnap, kill, and eat women. (BBC)
March 12, 2013, The "mysterious life form" detecting last week in Lake Vostok, Antarctica, turns out to be a false positive resulting from contamination. (Science World Report)

March 13, 2013, Papal conclave, 2013: White smoke rises indicating that a new Pope has been chosen. (New York Times)

  
-Cardinal Bergoglio from Argentina is elected as the new pope, taking the papal name 'Francis'. He is the first pope from the Americas and the first Jesuit pope. (CTVNEWS)

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March 13, 2013, The European Southern Observatory's ALMA telescope begins service Chile's Atacama Desert. (The telegraph)

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March 13, 2013, North Korea confirms that it has shredded the 60-year-old armistice that ended the Korean War, and warns that the next step will be an act of "merciless" military retaliation. (AFP via News24)

March 14, 2013, Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider express confidence that a particle discovered in July 2012 is a Higgs boson. (BBC)

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March 15, 2013, Release of The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

March 15, 2013, Release of  The Call



March 15, 2013, Release of Justin Timberlake album 20/20

March 15, 2013, The Vatican denies claims that Pope Francis failed to speak out against human rights abuses during military dictatorship in Argentina. (BBC)

March 15, 2013, North Korea launches short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan. (NKnews)

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March 15, 2013, American rapper Lil Wayne has a seizure in Los Angeles, California. (CNN)
March 15, 2013, Scientists working on the Lazarus Project announce that they have successfully rejuvenated cells of Rheobatrachus silus, a species of frog extinct since 1983 (Science 2.0)

March 16, 2013, A deal is reached between Cyprus and the EC-ECB-IMF troika. The terms of the €10 billion "bailout" package cause widespread anger among Cypriots who queue from early morning to withdraw their savings as it emerges that up to 10% of each citizen's deposits are to be wiped out to raise billions. (RTÉ News)

March 16, 2013, The United States will spend $1 billion to deploy additional ground-based missile interceptors on the West Coast as part of efforts to enhance the nation's ability to defend itself from attack by North Korea. (CNN)



March 16, 2013, Giving his first audience at the Vatican, Pope Francis tells journalists he wants "a poor Church, for the poor". (BBC)





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March 17, 2013, Thousands of people gather in Rome's Saint Peter's Square to hear Pope Francis deliver his first Angelus prayer and blessing. (BBC)

March 17, 2013, Two members of the Steubenville High School football team have been found guilty of raping a sixteen-year-old girl in a highly publicised case in the U.S. town of Steubenville, Ohio. (Sky News Australia)

March 17, 2013, Greek soccer player Giorgos Katidis is banned from his national team for life after giving a Nazi style salute while celebrating a goal in the topflight league. (Daily Mail)



March 17, 2013, New data suggests that the Mariana Trench is home to a large amount of bacterial life forms. (Live Science)

March 18, 2013, Series Premiere of Bates Motel

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March 18, 2013, Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner appeals to Pope Francis for assistance in settling Argentina's dispute over the Falkland Islands with the United Kingdom. (BBC)

March 18, 2013, James Seevakumaran, a 30-year-old student at the University of Central Florida, pulls the fire alarm and plans to attack the school. Instead, after brandishing a gun at another student, he commits suicide in his dorm in Orlando, Florida, United States. The entire campus is evacuated when improvised explosive devices are found in the room. (Los Angeles Times)

March 18, 2013, The United States FBI states that they know who carried out greatest art heist in American history at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. (Fox News)

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March 19, 2013, Series Premeire of Splash

March 19, 2013, Release of video game Gears of War: Judgement

March 19, 2013, Release of video game The Walking Dead: Basic Survival

March 19, 2013, Hundreds of thousands of people attend the papal inauguration ceremony for Pope Francis in Rome's Saint Peter's Square. (BBC)



March 19, 2013, NASA publishes LRO images of the two craters on the Moon, where twin GRAIL probes ended their gravity-mapping mission in December 2012. (NASA)



March 19, 2013, 2012–2013 Cypriot financial crisis: Cypriot lawmakers overwhelmingly reject the EC–ECB–IMF troika plan to tax all bank deposits. (BBC)

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March 19, 2013, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity extends evidence of water-bearing minerals when studying the rock Tintina. (BBC)
March 19, 2013, In baseball, the Dominican Republic wins the 2013 World Baseball Classic defeating Puerto Rico 3–0 in the final. (MLB)

  March 20, 2013, President of the United States Barack Obama begins a four day visit to the Middle East, visiting Palestine and Israel. (BBC)

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March 20, 2013, Scientists debate the possibility that the Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in September 1977, may have left the Solar System. (BBC)

March 21, 2013, The European Space Agency releases the Planck space observatory's first all-sky map of the cosmic microwave background, the most accurate ever created. It determines that the Universe is older than expected, at 13.82 billion years old. (BBC)

March 21, 2013, The suspect wanted in connection with the shooting death of prison chief Tom Clements in Colorado, is believed to be the man that was killed in a shootout with deputies in Montague County, Texas, United States. A deputy was seriously injured in the shootout. (CNN)

March 22, 2013, Release of Olympus Has Fallen

March 22, 2013, Release of  Spring Breakers




March 22, 2013, Release of The Croods



March 22, 2013, Release of  Admission



March 22, 2013, Release of Love and Honor



March 22, 2013, Release of Depeche Mode album Delta Machine

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March 22, 2013, A shooting at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia, United States kills three people, including the suspected shooter. (WTOP)
March 22, 2013, Two new species of lizards are discovered in the Andes Mountains in Peru. (TopNews Arab Emirates)

 March 23, 2013, Series Premiere of Monsters vs Aliens

March 23, 2013, Newly elected Pope Francis meets his predecessor, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI for lunch at the Castel Gandolfo, the first time the two are meeting since the change of guard. (CNN)

March 23, 2013, 2012–2013 Cypriot financial crisis: The Cyprus Parliament approves three bills that aim to raise enough money to qualify the country for a broader bailout package and stave off financial collapse. (Al Jazeera)



March 23, 2013, Exiled Russian business oligarch Boris Berezovsky is found dead at his home in Surrey, England. (BBC)



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March 23, 2013, US President Barack Obama concludes his visit to the Middle East with a trip to the famous ruins of the ancient city of Petra in Jordan. (BBC)
March 23, 2013, The US Senate approves its first budget in four years by a margin of 50–49. (Fox News)
March 24, 2013, 2012–2013 Cypriot financial crisis: Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades begins a series of emergency meetings in Brussels in a last-ditch attempt to finalize a bailout. (BBC)

March 25, 2013, American professional golfer Tiger Woods returns to World Number One with victory at the 2013 Arnold Palmer Invitational. (ESPN)

March 25, 2013, 2012–2013 Cypriot financial crisis: Cyprus reportedly reaches an outline bank bailout deal with international lenders including the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. (Reuters via The Sydney Morning Herald)

-Eurozone finance ministers approve the deal, which includes a radical downsizing of the island's Russian-fueled financial sector. (Reuters)

March 25, 2013, South Korea signs a new military plan with the United States to counter a possible incursion or a limited attack from North Korea. (BBC)

March 26, 2013, Release of video game Army of Two: Devil's Cartel

March 26, 2013, Release of video game Bioshock: Infinite

March 26, 2013, Release of video game Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14

March 26, 2013, Release of Will i am album #willpower

March 26, 2013, Release of  Lil Wayne album I am not a Human Being Pt.2

March 26, 2013, Release of Sevendust album Black out The Sun

March 26, 2013, Release of Strokes album Comedown Machine

March 26, 2013, 2012–2013 Cypriot financial crisis: Cyprus's Ministry of Finance says banks will remain shut until Thursday to give regulators time to guard against a run on deposits, and that big depositors in Cypriot banks can lose up to 40% of their funds, while depositors with less than 100,000 euros in their accounts will not be affected by bailout plans. (BBC)



March 26, 2013, Italy's Court of Cassation overturns the acquittals of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in the murder of Meredith Kercher and orders a retrial. However, Knox, who returned home immediately upon release, is not expected to be there as the U.S. tends not to extradite its citizens to face legal action. (The Journal)

March 26, 2013, North Korea issues a new threat to strike targets on the United States mainland, Hawaii and Guam, as well as South Korea, days after a new US–South Korea military pact. (AFP via Channel NewsAsia)

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March 26, 2013, Leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa meet in Durban for the 2013 BRICS summit. (BBC)
March 26, 2013, T-Mobile USA removes the contract requirement from its mobile phone payment plans, becoming the first of the four major national wireless carriers in the U.S. to do so. (The New York Times)
March 26, 2013, A post-mortem examination finds Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky's death was "consistent with hanging", after the examination found nothing to indicate a violent struggle or involvement of another party. (BBC)
March 26, 2013, The United States Supreme Court weighs the case of a California constitutional amendment banning same-sex unions, passed after gay marriage became legal there. (BBC)

March 27, 2013, Release of Trance

March 27, 2013, A row between a spam-fighting group and hosting firm sparks retaliatory attacks, flooding core infrastructure of the Internet, in what security experts are describing as the biggest cyberattack in history. (BBC)



March 27, 2013, North Korea renews war threats against South Korea and the United States, saying conditions "for a simmering nuclear war" have been created on the Korean peninsula. The country also says it is cutting a military hotline, which facilitates the travel of South Korean workers to a joint industrial complex in Kaesong. (Al Jazeera)



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March 27, 2013, The Rolling Stones are to headline Glastonbury Festival 2013 in Pilton, Somerset, it has been announced. (The Guardian)

March 28, 2013, As part of the Maundy Thursday service Pope Francis washes the feet of prisoners at a juvenile detention centre in Rome. (BBC)

March 28, 2013, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting New details about the school shooting are revealed, showing that the massacre was less than 300 seconds long. (USA Today)



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March 28, 2013, 2012–2013 Cypriot financial crisis: Security tightens in Cyprus as banks prepare to reopen after nearly two weeks, following a controversial international bailout that was negotiated with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. (BBC)
 March 28, 2013, American researchers at Stanford University build a transistor out of DNA and RNA molecules. (Discovery News)
March 28, 2013, A judge allows South African sprint runner Oscar Pistorius to travel abroad to compete in games if he complies with certain conditions (The Guardian)

March 29, 2013, Release of GI Joe: Retaliation

March 29, 2013, Release of Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Consouler



March 29, 2013, Release of The Host



March 29, 2013, Release of The Place Beyond the Pines

March 29, 2013, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un orders preparations for strategic rocket strikes on the US mainland at an overnight meeting with top army commanders, in response to the use of nuclear-capable B-2 Stealth Bombers in joint US-South Korea military drills. China appeals for calm on all sides. (Channel NewsAsia)

March 29, 2013, Scientists announce that a green meteorite found in Morocco may have originated on Mercury, which, if proven, would be the first known meteorite from that planet. (Space.com)

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March 29, 2013, 2012–2013 Cypriot financial crisis:Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades says the island has no intention of abandoning the Euro, despite the tough conditions imposed by its 10 billion euro bailout deal with the European Union and International Monetary Fund. (BBC)
March 29, 2013, A Soyuz spacecraft docks with the International Space Station after being in orbit for less than six hours, setting a record, in a test conducted to reduce the time crew members have to spend in the ferry craft. (CBS News)
March 29, 2013, A United States Navy SEAL is killed in a training accident. (USA Today)
March 30, 2013, North Korea declares it is in a state of war with South Korea, and will conduct any further dealings under "wartime regulations". Russia urges calm on both sides. North Korea threatens to shut down the industrial plant in Kaesong, on the border with South Korea. (Reuters)

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March 30, 2013, Musical innovator and fourteen-time Grammy Award winning producer Phil Ramone dies at age 79. (Washington Post)
March 30, 2013, A judge dismisses the majority of the lawsuit charges against a group of American banks related to the Libor scandal. (USA Today)
March 30, 2013, Famous panda Mei Xiang is artificially inseminated after natural breeding failed to occur. (Reuters)
March 31, 2013, Christians across the globe celebrate Easter, Christianity's most sacred holiday. (Washington Post)

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March 31, 2013, North Korea vows to retain and improve its nuclear arsenal, and to additionally develop a civilian nuclear power program. (SKY News)
March 31, 2013, An Exxon Mobil crude oil pipeline ruptures near the town of Mayflower in the U.S. state of Arkansas, spilling thousands of barrels of oil. (Al Jazeera)
March 31, 2013, Roadrunner, once the world's fastest supercomputer, is decommissioned. (CNET)
March 31, 2013, University of Louisville basketball player Kevin Ware breaks his right leg during a game at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was taken to Methodist Hospital of Indianapolis. (Bleacher Report via CNN)