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September 13 Historical Events
The following events took place on September 13. The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 61 events. Showing 31 - 60.
- 1906First flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
- 1914World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
- 1914World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
- 1922The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
- 1923Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
- 1933Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
- 1935Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the International Railway (New York–Ontario).
- 1942World 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.
- 1943The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe.
- 1948Deputy Primer Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel ordered the Army to move into Hyderabad to integrate it with the Indian Union.
- 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.
- 1953Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1956The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
- 1956The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
- 1964South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh.
- 1968Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
- 1971State police and National Guardsmen storm New York’s Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt.
- 1971Chairman 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.
- 1979South Africa grants independence to the “homeland” of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
- 1985Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.
- 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.
- 1988Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).
- 1989Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
- 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.
- 1994Ulysses probe passes the Sun’s south pole.
- 2001Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.
- 2006Kimveer Gill kills one student and injures 19 more in the Dawson College shooting.
- 2007The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
- 2008Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
- 2008Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston and surrounding areas.
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