September 13

September 13 is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years). There are 109 days remaining.

Births:

1876: Sherwood Anderson, writer
1894: J.B. Priestley, British playwright and novelist.
1911: Bill Monroe, country singer (Bluegrass Band)
1916: Roald Dahl, author of children's books (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
1918: Ray Charles, musician
1944: Peter Cetera, singer and bass guitarist (Chicago)
1952: Randy Jones, musician (The Village People)
1971: Goran Ivanisevic, tennis player

Deaths:

81: Roman Emperor Titus
1321: Dante Alighieri, writer (La Divina Commedia)
1598: Philip II, king of Spain, age 71
1971: Nikita Krushchev, leader of the Soviet Union (date of burial)
1996: Tupac Shakur, rap musician, age 25 (drive-by shooting)

Events:

1743: England, Austria and Savoye-Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.
1759: Battle on the Plains of Abraham: British defeat French near Montreal in the French and Indian War (known as Seven Years War in Europe).
1788: The United States Constitutional Convention sets the date for the first American presidential election on February 4, 1789. New York City becomes the temporary capital of the US.
1791: King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
1813: The British try but fail to capture Baltimore. Turning point in the War of 1812.
1847: American General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City in the American-Mexican War.
1898: Hannibal Williston Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film. Before this time photos were taken on glass plates, allowing only one copy of a picture to be made.
1899: First fatality in an automobile accident, in New York City.
1906: First airplane flight in Europe.
1940: German bombings destroy Buckingham Palace.
1940: Italy invades Egypt.
1943: Chiang Kai-shek elected president of China.
1943: Benito Mussolini, caught and deposed by Italian resistance forces, is rescued by Otto Skorzeny and brought to Adolf Hitler.
1948: Margaret Chase Smith is elected senator, and becomes the first woman to serve both in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
1953: Nikita Krushchev appointed secretary-general of the Soviet Union.
1956: The dyke around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
1968: Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
1970: First issue of the New York City Marathon.
1971: State police and Natonial Guardsmen storm Attica Prison near Buffalo, New York to end a prison revolt. 42 people die in the assault.
1979: South Africa grants independence to the homeland Venda (not recognized outside South Africa).
1988: Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere (based on barometric pressure).
1989: Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
1993: First Israeli-Palestinian agreement. The Palestines are granted limited self-government on the Gaza Strip and in Jericho.
1994: Ullyses passes the Sun's south pole.
1999: Bomb explodes in Moscow, Russia. At least 119 people are killed.

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