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On this day September 13

2013


Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead and about 20 civilians injured.

2008


Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston, and surrounding areas.

2008


Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.

2007


The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.

2001


Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.

1993


Israeli 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.

1989


Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.

1988


Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).

1987


Goiânia 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.

1985


Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.

1979


South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).

1971


Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees the People's Republic of China after the failure of an alleged coup. His plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.

1971


State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt.

1968


Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.

1964


South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh.

1962


An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi,

1956


The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.

1956


The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.

1953


Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

1948


Margaret 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.

1948


Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel orders the Army to move into Hyderabad to integrate it with the Indian Union.

1942


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.

1935


Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the International Railway (New York-Ontario).

1933


Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.

1923


Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.

1922


The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.

1914


World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.

1914


World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.

1906


First flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.

1900


Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.

1899


Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m - 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.

1899


Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.

1898


Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.

1882


Anglo-Egyptian War: The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought.

1862


American 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.

1848


Vermont 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 thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions.

1847


Mexican-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.

1843


The Greek Army rebels (OS date: September 3) against the autocratic rule of king Otto of Greece, demanding the granting of a constitution.

1814


In 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.

1812


War of 1812: A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.

1808


Finnish 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.

1791


King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.

1788


The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital.

1782


American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.

1759


Battle 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.

1743


Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.

1645


Battle of Philiphaugh Covenanters win the day over the royalists.

1609


Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him - the Hudson River.

1584


San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.

1541


After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism.

1504


Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built.

1501


Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.

1437


Battle of Tangier: a Portuguese expeditionary force initiates a failed attempt to seize the Moroccan citadel of Tangier.

1229


Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii: Mongolia.

533


Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimum, near Carthage, North Africa.

379


Yax Nuun Ahiin I is crowned as 15th Ajaw of Tikal

509 BC


The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.

585 BC


Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia.

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