September 13Birthdays & History

On this day: September 13 in history

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1. 585 BCLucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia.Europe
2. 509 BCThe Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.Europe
3. 531Khosrow I becomes king of the Sassanid Empire following the death of his father Kavad I. He starts negotiations with the Byzantine Empire to end the Iberian War.Europe
4. 533Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimum, near Carthage, North Africa.EuropeAfrica
5. 604Consecration of pope Sabinian following the death of pope Gregory I earlier that year.Europe
6. 1229Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii: Mongolia.Asia
7. 1437Battle of Tangier: a Portuguese expeditionary force initiates a failed attempt to seize the Moroccan citadel of Tangier.EuropeAfrica
8. 1500Pedro Álvares Cabral and his Portuguese fleet arrive in Calicut, having crossed both the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.Europe
9. 1609Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him – the Hudson River.North America
10. 1645Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Scottish Royalists are defeated by Covenanters at the Battle of Philiphaugh.Europe
11. 1743Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.Europe
12. 1759Battle of the Plains of Abraham: the British defeat the French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.EuropeNorth America
13. 1782American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.North AmericaEurope
14. 1788The Congress of the Confederation sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital.North America
15. 1791King Louis XVI accepts the new French constitution.Europe
16. 1807Beethoven's Mass in C major, Op. 86, is premiered, commissioned by Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy, and displeasing him.Europe
17. 1808Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.Europe
18. 1812War of 1812: A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.North America
19. 1814In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore. During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", which is later set to music and becomes the United States' national anthem.EuropeNorth America
20. 1843The Greek Army rebels (OS date: September 3) against the autocratic rule of king Otto of Greece, demanding the granting of a constitution.Europe
21. 1847Mexican–American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American troops under General Winfield Scott capture Mexico City in the Mexican–American War.Latin AmericaNorth America
22. 1848Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives an iron rod 1+1⁄4 inches (3.2 cm) in diameter being driven through his brain; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate discussion of the nature of the brain and its functions.North America
23. 1862American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.North America
24. 1880The Basuto Gun War breaks out after the Basuto launch a rebellion against the Cape Colony.Africa
25. 1882Anglo-Egyptian War: English forces defeat the Egyptian army in the battle of Tel el-Kebir.Middle EastEurope
26. 1898Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.North America
27. 1899Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m – 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.Africa
28. 1900Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.AsiaNorth America
29. 1906The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.Europe
30. 1922The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.Middle East
31. 1923Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.Europe
32. 1933Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.Oceania
33. 1942World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeat attacks by the Japanese with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.OceaniaNorth AmericaAsia
34. 1944World War II: Start of the Battle of Meligalas between the Greek Resistance forces of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) and the collaborationist security battalions.Europe
35. 1948Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel orders the Army to move into Hyderabad to integrate it with the Indian Union.Asia
36. 1948Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.North America
37. 1953Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.Europe
38. 1956The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.North America
39. 1956The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.Europe
40. 1962An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.North AmericaAfrica
41. 1964Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd of 20,000 West Berliners on Sunday, in Waldbühne.Europe
42. 1964South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh.Asia
43. 1968Cold War: Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.Europe
44. 1971Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees China after the failure of an alleged coup. His plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.Asia
45. 1971State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt, which claimed 43 lives.North America
46. 1979South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).Africa
47. 1982Spantax Flight 995 crashes at Málaga Airport during a rejected takeoff, killing 50 of the 394 people on board.Europe
48. 1985Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.Asia
49. 1986A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes Kalamata, Greece with a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing at least 20 and causing heavy damage in the city.Europe
50. 1987Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.Latin America
51. 1988Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).Latin AmericaNorth America
52. 1989Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.Africa
53. 1993Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.Middle EastNorth AmericaEurope
54. 1997A German Air Force Tupolev Tu-154 and a United States Air Force Lockheed C-141 Starlifter collide in mid-air near Namibia, killing 33.EuropeNorth AmericaAfrica
55. 2001Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.North America
56. 2007The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.World
57. 2007The McLaren F1 team are found guilty of possessing confidential information from the Ferrari team, fined $100 million, and excluded from the constructors' championship standings.Europe
58. 2008Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.Asia
59. 2013Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead and about 20 civilians injured.North AmericaAsia

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