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The
13t o September
is the 256t day o the year (257t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 109 days bidin.
Events
- 81
-
Domitian
becomes Roman Emperor.
- 604
-
Pape Sabinian
is electit.
- 1501
-
Michelangelo
stairts wirk on his statue
David
.
- 1584
- In Central
Spain
, the Real Sitio de San Lorenzo de
El Escorial
is completit.
- 1598
-
Philip III o Spain
becomes King.
- 1759
-
Battle
o the Plains o Abraham: British forces owercome French forces, tae have full control o'er
Canadae
.
- 1813
- The Isar Brig in
Munich
collapses, killin ower 100 fowk.
- 1847
-
Unitit States
forces owercome
Mexico
in the
Battle
o Chapultepec.
- 1848
- American railwey construction wirker
Phineas Gage
survives an accident whaur his heid is pierced wi an
airn
rod; his chynge o personality provides resairch on the effects o
harn
injury.
- 1850
- The
Swiss
Alpine
peak o
Piz Bernina
is climmed for the first time.
- 1882
- A British force owercome the airmy o Urabi Pasha in the
Battle
o Tel-el-Kebir, bounit forrit British ring ower
Egyp
.
- 1899
- Halford Mackinder leads the first successful expedeetion o
Kenyae
's
Moont Kenyae
,
Africae
's seicont-heichest peak.
- 1922
- At Al-Aziziyah,
Libyae
, a temperatur o 58 degrees Celsius is measured.
- 1923
-
Miguel Primo de Rivera
taks ower in a militar coup in
Spain
.
- 1928
- A
hurricane
kills 4,075 fowk in the
Caribbean
an the Eastren
Unitit States
.
- 1941
- Deadliest day in
Norse
shippin: In separate incidents, British torpedoes sink twa ships, killin a total o 211 fowk.
- 1948
-
Indie
troops enter the Princely State o
Hyderabad
.
- 1950
-
Wast Germany
haulds its first census, wi a population o 47.3 million.
- 1959
- The Soviet Luna 2 probe lands on
the Muin
.
- 1968
-
Albanie
leaves the
Warsaw Pact
.
- 1970
- The first
New York Ceety
marathon taks place.
- 1993
-
Yitzhak Rabin
an
Yasser Arafat
sign the Oslo Peace Accords for
Israel
an
Palestine
.
- 1999
- A bomb attack on a block o flats in
Moscow
kills 119 fowk.
- 2001
- Civilian air traffic ower the
Unitit States
is stairtit again, efter the
September 11 attacks
.
- 2001
-
Iain Duncan Smith
becomes leader o the British
Conservative Pairty
.
- 2004
-
Amelie Mauresmo
becomes the first Frenchwumman tae tap the warld raings for wumman's singles
tennis
.
- 2008
-
Iain Gray
becomes leader o the
Scots Labour Pairty
.
- 2008
- Bomb attacks in
Delhi
kill 30 fowk.
Births
- 1087
-
John II Komnenos
, Byzantine Emperor (d.
1143
)
- 1722
-
John Home
, Scots meenister, sodger an author (d.
1808
)
- 1796
-
James Finlay Weir Johnston
, Scots agricultural chemist an meeneralogist (d.
1855
)
- 1819
-
Clara Schumann
, German pianist an componer (d.
1896
)
- 1831
-
Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet
, Scots pheesicist (d.
1915
)
- 1856
-
Henry Halcro Johnston
, Scots botanist, medicinar an rugby union player (d.
1939
)
- 1857
-
Milton S. Hershey
, American confectioner (d.
1945
)
- 1863
-
Arthur Henderson
, Scots politeecian (d.
1935
)
- 1874
-
Arnold Schoenberg
, Austrick componer (d.
1951
)
- 1886
-
Robert Robinson
, Inglis organic chemist (d.
1975
)
- 1903
-
Claudette Colbert
, French actress (d.
1996
)
- 1916
-
Roald Dahl
, Welsh writer (d.
1990
)
- 1924
-
Maurice Jarre
, French componer an conductor (d.
2009
)
- 1938
-
John Smith
, Scots politeecian (d.
1994
)
- 1939
-
Richard Kiel
, American actor (d.
2014
)
- 1940
-
Oscar Arias
, umwhile
Preses
o
Costa Rica
- 1941
-
Ahmet Necdet Sezer
, 10t
Preses
o
Turkey
- 1944
-
Jacqueline Bisset
, Inglis actress
- 1944
-
Pat Stanton
, Scots fitbawer
- 1961
-
Dave Mustaine
, American muisicker, sangster, sangwriter, actor an author
- 1965
-
John MacKay
, Scots braidcast jurnalist
- 1969
-
Tyler Perry
, American actor, director, producer an writer
- 1969
-
Shane Warne
, Australie cricketer
- 1971
-
Goran Ivanisevic
, Croatie tennis player
- 1971
-
Stella McCartney
, Inglis fashion designer
- 1973
-
Fabio Cannavaro
, Italian fitbawer
- 1982
-
Alison Thewliss
, Scots politeecian
- 1989
-
Thomas Muller
, German fitbawer
- 1993
-
Niall Horan
, Erse sangster
- 1994
-
Calum Gallagher
, Scots fitbawer
Daiths
Halidays