Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 13
This is a list of selected September 13 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Mount Kenya
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 509 BC – The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill, the most important temple in Ancient Rome, was dedicated. | date not certain |
| 533 – Belisarius and his legions defeated Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimum near Carthage, and began the "Reconquest of the West" under Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I. | page numbers needed |
| 1229 – Ögedei Khan, the third son of Genghis Khan, was proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire. | unreferenced section |
| 1437 – A Portuguese expeditionary force led by Henry the Navigator began an ultimately unsuccessful siege of Tangiers. | unreferenced section |
| 1808 – Finnish War: Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln defeated the Russians at the Battle of Jutas. | Georg: refimprove; Jutas: stub |
| 1847 – Mexican–American War: Six teenagers known as Los Niños Héroes fought to their death defending the military academy at Castillo de Chapultepec in Mexico City during the Battle of Chapultepec. | unreferenced section |
| 1882 – The British Army overwhelmingly defeated the forces of the Ahmed ‘Urabi to end the Anglo-Egyptian War. | refimprove |
| 1899 – An expedition led by Halford Mackinder made the first ascent of Mount Kenya, the second-highest mountain in Africa. | page numbers needed |
| 1937 – Chicago Public Schools began delivering lessons via radio amid to a polio outbreak, marking the first large-scale use of radio broadcasts for distance education. | scheduled for DYK 2021 |
| 1956 – IBM unveiled the 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control), the first commercial computer that used magnetic disk storage. | refimprove section |
| 1971 – Following a failed coup attempt, Mao Zedong's second-in-command Lin Biao died in a plane crash while attempting to flee the People's Republic of China. | single source section |
| 1987 – A radioactive item was scavenged from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, leading to the deaths of four and serious contamination in 249 others. | refimprove section |
| 1993 – After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin formally signed the Oslo Peace Accords. | refimprove section |
| 2006 – Kimveer Gill shot 19 people for unknown reasons, killing one, at Dawson College in Montreal. | refimprove section |
| 2007 – The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, setting out the individual and collective rights of indigenous peoples, as well as their rights to culture, identity, language, employment, health, education and other issues. | undue weight |
Eligible
- 1759 – Seven Years' War: British forces won the Battle of the Plains of Abraham near Quebec City, New France, despite General James Wolfe being mortally wounded.
- 1848 – An explosion drove an iron rod through the head of railroad foreman Phineas Gage, making him an important early case of personality change after brain injury.
- 1964 – South Vietnamese generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức staged a coup attempt after being demoted by junta leader Nguyễn Khánh.
- 1985 – Super Mario Bros., one of the most influential and best-selling video games of all time, was first released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in Japan.
- 1988 – Hurricane Gilbert reached a minimum pressure of 888 mb (26.22 inHg) with sustained flight-level winds of 185 mph (295 km/h), making it the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record at the time.
- 1993 – Nirvana released their third and final studio album, In Utero, which went on to sell more than 15 million copies.
- Born/died this day: | Kavad I |d|531| Michel de Montaigne |d|1592| Hezqeyas |d|1813| Lucy Goode Brooks |b|1818| Clara Schumann |b|1819| Petros Voulgaris |b|1883| Emmanuel Chabrier |d|1894| Marguerite LeHand |b|1896| Lili Elbe |d|1931| Mary Brewster Hazelton |d|1953| Fiona Apple |b|1977| Helen Filarski |d|2014
Notes
- Hurricane Iniki appears on September 11, so Hurricane Gilbert should not appear in the same year
- Battle of North Point appears on September 12, so Battle of Baltimore/Francis Scott Key should not appear in the same year
September 13: Feast day of Saint John Chrysostom (Western Christianity)
Model of Luna 2
- 1541 – After three years of exile, John Calvin returned to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine later known as Calvinism.
- 1814 – War of 1812: Fort McHenry in Baltimore's Inner Harbor was attacked by British forces during the Battle of Baltimore, inspiring Francis Scott Key to write "Defence of Fort McHenry", later used as the lyrics to the United States national anthem.
- 1914 – World War I: The French army repulsed a German assault against their positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.
- 1959 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 (model pictured) impacted the Moon, becoming the first spacecraft to reach another celestial body.
- 1971 – The Attica Prison riot ended when New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller ordered the storming of the prison, in which 38 people died by gunfire.
- 2008 – Five bomb blasts took place in Delhi, India, killing at least 20 people as part of a series of attacks perpetrated by the Indian Mujahideen.
- William Birdwood (b. 1865)
- Claude-Hélène Perrot (b. 1928)
- Luiz Gushiken (d. 2013)
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