September 13
September 13 is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years ). There are 109 days remaining in the year.
Events
533 - Belisarius and the Roman Empire defeat Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium .
604 - Pope Sabinianus is consecrated.
1440 - Gilles de Rais is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes .
1743 - England , Austria and Savoy -Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms .
1759 - 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
1788 - The United States Constitutional Convention sets the date for the first American presidential election, and New York City becomes the temporary capital of the US.
1791 - King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution
1813 - The British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland . Turning point in the War of 1812 .
1847 - American General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City in the Mexican-American War
1862 - Union soldiers find Robert E. Lee 's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland
1898 - Hannibal Williston Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film
1899 - Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
1906 - First airplane flight in Europe
1923 - Military coup in Spain - Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship
1940 - German bombs damage Buckingham Palace
1940 - Italy invades Egypt
1943 - Chiang Kai-shek elected president of the Republic of China
1948 - 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
1953 - Nikita Khrushchev 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 running of the New York City Marathon
1971 - State police and National Guardsmen storm New York 's Attica Prison to end a prison revolt. 42 people die in the assault.
1979 - South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognized outside South Africa)
1985 - The popular Super Mario Bros. video game is released by Nintendo .
1987 - Goiânia accident : A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia , Brazil , contaminating many people in the following weeks and leading some to die from radiation poisoning .
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 - Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords , an Israeli -Palestinian peace agreement initiated by Norway .
1994 - Ulysses probe passes the Sun 's south pole
1999 - Bomb explodes in Moscow , Russia . At least 119 people are killed.
2001 - Civilian airplane traffic in the U.S. , which had been grounded following the September 11, 2001 attacks , is allowed to resume.
2004 - The anime InuYasha finishes its run in Japan with episode 167.
Births
1739 - Grigori Potemkin , Russian statesman (d. 1791 )
1775 - Laura Secord , Canadian heroine of the War of 1812 (d. 1868 )
1802 - Arnold Ruge , German philosopher and political writer (d. 1880 )
1813 - John Sedgwick , Union Army general in the American Civil War (d. 1864 )
1819 - Clara Schumann , German pianist, composer (d. 1896 )
1825 - Rudolf Henneberg , German painter
1830 - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach , Austrian writer (d. 1916 )
1842 - Guglielmo Ciardi , Italian painter (d. 1917 )
1860 - John J. Pershing , American general (d. 1948 )
1863 - Arthur Henderson , British politician and union leader (d. 1935 )
1851 - Walter Reed , American physician, biologist (d. 1902 )
1842 - John H. Bankhead , United States Senator (d. 1920 )
1857 - Milton S. Hershey , chocolate entrepreneur and founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company (d. 1945 )
1857 - Michał Drzymała , famous Polish peasant fighting with German bureaucracy (d. 1937)
1863 - Arthur Henderson, British politician and union leader, Nobel Peace Prize 1934
1874 - Arnold Schoenberg , composer (d. 1951 )
1876 - Sherwood Anderson , writer (d. 1941 )
1877 - Wilhelm Filchner , German explorer (d. 1957 )
1885 - Wilhelm Blaschke , Austro-Hungarian geometer.
1886 - Sir Robert Robinson (scientist) |Robert Robinson]], Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1947 (d. 1975 )
1887 - Lavoslav Ruzicka , Croat chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939 (d. 1976 )
1893 - Larry Shields , jazz musician (d. 1953 )
1894 - J.B. Priestley , playwright, novelist (d. 1984 )
1894 - Julian Tuwim , Polish poet (d. 1953 )
1895 - Morris Kirksey , American athlete and rugby player (d. 1981 )
1903 - Claudette Colbert , actress (d. 1996 )
1911 - Bill Monroe , bluegrass and country music singer (Bluegrass band ) (d. 1996 )
1916 - Roald Dahl , writer (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ) (d. 1990 )
1918 - Dick Haymes , Argentinian vocalist (d. 1980 )
1917 - Robert Ward , composer (d. 1994 )
1922 - Charles Brown , American blues singer and pianist (d. 1999 )
1923 - Aurelio Fierro , Italian singer (d. 2005 )
1923 - Edouard Boubat , French photographer
1924 - Maurice Jarre , composer
1925 - Mel Torme , singer (d. 1999 )
1925 - Amilcar Salomón Zorilla , Peruvian painter
1929 - Nicolai Ghiaurov , Bulgarian opera singer (d. 2004 )
1932 - Barbara Bain , actress
1937 - Don Bluth , animator
1938 - Judith Martin ("Miss Manners"), etiquette writer
1939 - Richard Kiel , American actor
1941 - David Clayton-Thomas , singer ("Blood, Sweat & Tears ")
1941 - Tadao Ando , Japanese archictect
1944 - Jacqueline Bisset , actress
1944 - Peter Cetera , singer and bass guitarist (Chicago )
1945 - Noël Godin , Belgian humorist
1948 - Nell Carter , actress, singer (d. 2003 )
1950 - Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz , Polish politician
1952 - Randy Jones , musician (The Village People )
1952 - Don Was , singer, composer
195_ - Jean Smart , American television actress (Listed as 1959 but if you read the biography, it could not possibly be. She would have graduated university at 15.)
1961 - Dave Mustaine , musician (Megadeth )
1965 - Zak Starkey , British musician
1967 - Michael Johnson , American track and field athlete
1968 - Emma Sjöberg , Swedish supermodel and actress
1969 - Shane Warne , Australian cricketer
1971 - Goran Ivanisevic , Croat tennis player
1971 - Stella McCartney , British fashion designer
1973 - Christine Arron , track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for France
1977 - Fiona Apple , singer
1980 - Ben Savage , actor
1982 - Nenê , Brazilian NBA player
Deaths
81 - Roman Emperor Titus
1321 - Dante Alighieri , Italian poet
1438 - King Duarte of Portugal
1592 - Michel de Montaigne , French writer
1598 - King Philip II of Spain (b. 1527 )
1632 - Archduke Leopold V of Austria , regent of the Tyrol
1759 - British General James Wolfe
1806 - Charles James Fox , English politician (b. 1749 )
1872 - Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach , German philosopher (b. 1804 )
1881 - Ambrose Burnside , American Civil War general and politician (b. 1824 )
1885 - Friedrich Kiel , Austrian Romantic composer (b. 1821 )
1894 - Emmanuel Chabrier , French composer (b. 1841 )
1899 - Henry Bliss , businessman and the first automobile accident fatality in the U.S.
1912 - Maresuke Nogi , Japanese army general (b. 1849 )
1915 - Andrew L. Harris , American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b. 1835 )
1928 - Italo Svevo , Italian author
1941 - Elias Disney , father of Walt Disney
1949 - August Krogh , Danish teacher of zoophysiology , Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , 1920
1959 - Gilbert Adrian , Hollywood fashion designer
1973 - Betty Field , American actress (b. 1913 )
1977 - Leopold Stokowski , English conductor (b. 1882 )
1977 - Steve Biko , South African anti-apartheid activist
1987 - Mervyn LeRoy , film director
1996 - Tupac Shakur , American rap musician, actor and poet
1998 - George Wallace , American politician
1999 - Benjamin Bloom , American educational theorist (b. 1913 )
2001 - Dorothy McGuire , actress
2003 - Frank O'Bannon , governor of Indiana
Holidays and observances
Fiction
During the 1970s science fiction TV series Space: 1999 In the television series Sliders , the Mallory character invented sliding (travel between alternate realities) on September 13.
"Second Impact", a critical event in the popular anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion External links
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