September 13th Events |
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September 13th, 2006 (September 13 2006) | Event | At Dawson College (Montreal), Kimveer Gill kills one student and wounds 19 others before committing suicide. | |
September 13th, 2001 (September 13 2001) | Event | Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 attacks. | |
September 13th, 1999 (September 13 1999) | Event | Bomb explodes in Moscow, Russia. At least 119 people are killed. | |
September 13th, 1994 (September 13 1994) | Event | Ulysses probe passes the Sun s south pole. | |
September 13th, 1993 (September 13 1993) | Event | Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords, an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement initiated by Norway. | |
September 13th, 1993 (September 13 1993) | Event | Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy. | Yitzhak Rabin Quotes |
September 13th, 1989 (September 13 1989) | Event | Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu. | Desmond Tutu Quotes |
September 13th, 1988 (September 13 1988) | Event | Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere (based on barometric pressure). | |
September 13th, 1987 (September 13 1987) | Event | Goiania accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiania, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and leading some to die from radiation poisoning. | |
September 13th, 1985 (September 13 1985) | Event | Japan Super Mario Bros. released for the Nintendo Entertainment System. | |
September 13th, 1979 (September 13 1979) | Event | South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa). | |
September 13th, 1971 (September 13 1971) | Event | State police and National Guardsmen storm New York s Attica Prison to end a prison revolt. 42 people die in the assault. | |
September 13th, 1968 (September 13 1968) | Event | Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact. | |
September 13th, 1956 (September 13 1956) | Event | The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed. | |
September 13th, 1956 (September 13 1956) | Event | IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305. | |
September 13th, 1953 (September 13 1953) | Event | Nikita Khrushchev appointed secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. | Nikita Khrushchev Quotes |
September 13th, 1948 (September 13 1948) | Event | Margaret Chase Smith is elected senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate. | Margaret Chase Smith Quotes |
September 13th, 1943 (September 13 1943) | Event | Chiang Kai-shek elected president of the Republic of China. | |
September 13th, 1943 (September 13 1943) | Event | The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe. | |
September 13th, 1942 (September 13 1942) | Event | World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson s Ridge in the Guadalcanal campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Imperial Japanese Army with heavy losses for the Japanese forces. | |
September 13th, 1940 (September 13 1940) | Event | World War II: German bombs damage Buckingham Palace. | |
September 13th, 1940 (September 13 1940) | Event | World War II: Italy invades Egypt. | |
September 13th, 1935 (September 13 1935) | Event | Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the Great Gorge and International Railway. | |
September 13th, 1923 (September 13 1923) | Event | Military coup in SpainMiguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship. | |
September 13th, 1922 (September 13 1922) | Event | The temperature (in the shade) at Al Aziziyah, Libya reaches a world record 57.7øC (135.9øF). | |
September 13th, 1914 (September 13 1914) | Event | During World War I, South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station. | |
September 13th, 1906 (September 13 1906) | Event | First fixed-wing aircraft flight in Europe. | |
September 13th, 1900 (September 13 1900) | Event | Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War. | |
September 13th, 1899 (September 13 1899) | Event | Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident. | |
September 13th, 1899 (September 13 1899) | Event | Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199m17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya. | |
September 13th, 1898 (September 13 1898) | Event | Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film. | |
September 13th, 1882 (September 13 1882) | Event | The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War. | |
September 13th, 1862 (September 13 1862) | Event | American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee s battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Marylandied in It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam. | |
September 13th, 1847 (September 13 1847) | Event | Mexican-American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Ninos Heroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City in the Mexican-American War. | |
September 13th, 1814 (September 13 1814) | Event | The British fail to capture Baltimore, Marylandied in Turning point in the War of 1812. | |
September 13th, 1814 (September 13 1814) | Event | Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner | Francis Scott Key Quotes |
September 13th, 1791 (September 13 1791) | Event | King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution. | |
September 13th, 1788 (September 13 1788) | Event | The United States Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the country s first presidential election, and New York City becomes the temporary capital of the U.S.. | |
September 13th, 1759 (September 13 1759) | Event | Battle of the Plains of Abraham: British defeat French near Quebec City in the Seven Years War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War. | Abraham Quotes |
September 13th, 1743 (September 13 1743) | Event | Great Britain, Austria and Savoy-Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms (1743). | |
September 13th, 1609 (September 13 1609) | Event | Henry Hudson reached the river that would later be named after himthe Hudson River. | |
September 13th, 1504 (September 13 1504) | Event | Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built. | |
September 13th, 1503 (September 13 1503) | Event | Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David. | |
September 13th, 1440 (September 13 1440) | Event | Gilles de Rais is finally taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes. | |
September 13th, 1224 (September 13 1224) | Event | Francis of Assisi is afflicted with stigmata. | Francis of Assisi Quotes |
September 13th, 0533 (September 13 0533) | Event | General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near Carthage, North Africa. | |
September 13th, 0509 (September 13 0509) | Event | The temple of Jupiter on Rome s Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September. | |
September 13th, 0122 (September 13 0122) | Event | The building of Hadrian s Wall begins. | |