
December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 18 days remaining. ==Events== *1545 - Council of Trent begins *1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage *1642 - Abel Janszoon Tasman reaches New Zealand. *1643 - English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire. *1862 - American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, the Army of Northern Virginia under Confederate States of America General Robert E. Lee defeats the Union Army Army of the Potomac under Major General Ambrose E. Burnside. *1937 - Battle of Nanjing concludes with the Japanese victory and the fall of the Nanjing which became the site of the Nanjing Massacre *1938 - 100 deportees from Sachsenhausen build the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg *1939 - The Battle of the River Plate, the first major naval battle of World War II, begins. *1949 - The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem *1959 - Archbishop Makarios becomes the first President of Cyprus *1972 - A chartered Spanish airliner crashes on takeoff from the Canary Islands, killing 155 *1974 - Malta becomes a republic *1977 - A United States government DC-3 crashes after takeoff at Evansville, Indiana, killing 29, including the University of Evansville basketball team *1978 - The first Susan B. Anthony dollar enters circulation *1981 - General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland in Poland *1996 - Kofi Annan elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations. *2000 - The Texas 7 escape from a Texas prison and go on a crime spree. *2001 - Parliament of India attacked by armed militants. Attempt foiled. *2002 - The European Union announces the addition of ten new members in Copenhagen: Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. The countries' membership became effective May 1, 2004. *2003 - Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit. *2004 - A moderate 5,4 Richter Scale earthquake is felt all over Portugal, with its epicenter in the Atlantic Ocean, southwest of São Vicente's Cape (Algarve), with no losses reported. *2004 - Former Chile dictator, General Pinochet is put under house arrest, after being sued under accusations over 9 kidnapping actions and manslaughter during the Operation Condor. The same day, the house arrest is lifted by efforts of an appeal presented by Pinochet lawyers. *2004 - Scott Peterson (convicted murderer) is sentenced to the death penalty in the murder case of his wife, Laci Peterson, and unborn son, Connor. ==Births== *1521 - Pope Sixtus V, religious leader (d. 1590) *1533 - King Eric XIV of Sweden (d. 1577) *1553 - King Henry IV of France (d. 1610) *1797 - Heinrich Heine, German poet (d. 1856) *1798 - Joseph Walker, explorer *1813 - David Spangler Kaufman, American politician, first Jewish United States House of Representatives from Texas (d. 1851) *1816 - Werner von Siemens, German engineer, inventor and industrialist (d. 1892) *1818 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (d. 1882) *1829 - Hugo von Ziemssen, physicist (d. 1902) *1836 - Franz von Lenbach, painter (d. 1904) *1854 - Thomas Watson, telephone pioneer *1864 - Emil Seidel, politician, mayor of Milwaukee, Socialist vice-presidential candidate (d. 1947) *1874 - Josef Lhévinne, pianist (d. 1944) *1887 - George Polya, mathematician (d. 1985) *1887 - Alvin York, U.S. soldier of World War I, known as 'Sergeant York' (d. 1964) *1897 - Drew Pearson, journalist, political columnist (d. 1969) *1903 - Carlos Montoya, guitarist (d. 1993) *1906 - Her Royal Highness Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (d. 1968) *1906 - Laurens van der Post, South African author (d. 1996) *1910 - Van Heflin, actor (d. 1971) *1911 - Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter (d. 1972) *1913 - Archie Moore, world champion boxing (d. 1998) *1915 - Curd Jurgens, actor (d. 1982) *1915 - Ross Macdonald, author (d. 1983) *1923 - Larry Doby, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 2003) *1925 - Dick Van Dyke, actor, comedian *1926 - George Rhoden, Jamaican athlete *1927 - Christopher Plummer, actor *1934 - Richard D. Zanuck, American motion picture producer *1943 - Ferguson Jenkins, Baseball Hall of Famer *1948 - Ted Nugent, musician *1948 - Brian Wilson (politician) *1950 - Tom Vilsack, Governor of Iowa *1953 - Bob Gainey, Hockey Hall of Famer *1957 - Steve Buscemi, actor *1957 - Jean-Marie Messier, French businessman *1958 - Lynn-Holly Johnson U.S Figure Skater and actress ''For Your Eyes Only'' *1961 - Harry Gregson-Williams, film composer *1967 - Jamie Foxx, actor *1974 - Nicholas McCarthy, guitarist Franz Ferdinand (band) *1975 - Tom Delonge Guitarist - blink-182 *1981 - Amy Lee, Evanescence frontwoman ==Deaths== *1048 - Al-Biruni, Persian mathematician (b. 973) *1124 - Pope Callixtus II *1204 - Maimonides, Spanish Jewish philosopher (b. 1135) *1250 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1194) *1466 - Donatello, Italian artist (b. 1386) *1565 - Konrad von Gesner, naturalist (b. 1516) *1784 - Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (b. 1709) *1863 - Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German writer (b. 1813) *1881 - August Senoa, Croatian writer (b. 1838) *1930 - Fritz Pregl, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869) *1935 - Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871) *1944 - Wassily Kandinsky, Russian artist (b. 1866) *1961 - Grandma Moses, American artist (b. 1860) *2001 - Leonardo Mondadori, publisher *2001 - Chuck Schuldiner, musician *2002 - Zal Yanofsky, American musican (Lovin' Spoonful) *2003 - William V. Roth, Jr., U.S. Senator from Delaware *2004 - David Wheeler, computer scientist (b. 1927) *2004 - Andre Rodgers, Major League Baseball player (b. 1934) *2004 - Alex Soria, guitarist (the Nils) (b. 1965) ==Holidays and observances== * Republic Day in Malta (1974) *Catholicism - Saint Lucy's day. *In the Irish calendar the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday following the Feast of Saint Lucy were observed as Quarter tense. *Saint_Lucy Day in Sweden == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/13 BBC: On This Day] ---- December 12 - December 14 - November 13 - January 13 -- historical anniversaries bs:Decembar 13 la:13 Decembris
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December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 18 days remaining. ==Events== *1545 - Council of Trent begins *1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage *1642 - Abel Janszoon Tasman reaches New Zealand. *1643 - English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire. *1862 - American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, the Army of Northern Virginia under Confederate States of America General Robert E. Lee defeats the Union Army Army of the Potomac under Major General Ambrose E. Burnside. *1937 - Battle of Nanjing concludes with the Japanese victory and the fall of the Nanjing which became the site of the Nanjing Massacre *1938 - 100 deportees from Sachsenhausen build the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg *1939 - The Battle of the River Plate, the first major naval battle of World War II, begins. *1949 - The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem *1959 - Archbishop Makarios becomes the first President of Cyprus *1972 - A chartered Spanish airliner crashes on takeoff from the Canary Islands, killing 155 *1974 - Malta becomes a republic *1977 - A United States government DC-3 crashes after takeoff at Evansville, Indiana, killing 29, including the University of Evansville basketball team *1978 - The first Susan B. Anthony dollar enters circulation *1981 - General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland in Poland *1996 - Kofi Annan elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations. *2000 - The Texas 7 escape from a Texas prison and go on a crime spree. *2001 - Parliament of India attacked by armed militants. Attempt foiled. *2002 - The European Union announces the addition of ten new members in Copenhagen: Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. The countries' membership became effective May 1, 2004. *2003 - Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit. *2004 - A moderate 5,4 Richter Scale earthquake is felt all over Portugal, with its epicenter in the Atlantic Ocean, southwest of São Vicente's Cape (Algarve), with no losses reported. *2004 - Former Chile dictator, General Pinochet is put under house arrest, after being sued under accusations over 9 kidnapping actions and manslaughter during the Operation Condor. The same day, the house arrest is lifted by efforts of an appeal presented by Pinochet lawyers. *2004 - Scott Peterson (convicted murderer) is sentenced to the death penalty in the murder case of his wife, Laci Peterson, and unborn son, Connor. ==Births== *1521 - Pope Sixtus V, religious leader (d. 1590) *1533 - King Eric XIV of Sweden (d. 1577) *1553 - King Henry IV of France (d. 1610) *1797 - Heinrich Heine, German poet (d. 1856) *1798 - Joseph Walker, explorer *1813 - David Spangler Kaufman, American politician, first Jewish United States House of Representatives from Texas (d. 1851) *1816 - Werner von Siemens, German engineer, inventor and industrialist (d. 1892) *1818 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (d. 1882) *1829 - Hugo von Ziemssen, physicist (d. 1902) *1836 - Franz von Lenbach, painter (d. 1904) *1854 - Thomas Watson, telephone pioneer *1864 - Emil Seidel, politician, mayor of Milwaukee, Socialist vice-presidential candidate (d. 1947) *1874 - Josef Lhévinne, pianist (d. 1944) *1887 - George Polya, mathematician (d. 1985) *1887 - Alvin York, U.S. soldier of World War I, known as 'Sergeant York' (d. 1964) *1897 - Drew Pearson, journalist, political columnist (d. 1969) *1903 - Carlos Montoya, guitarist (d. 1993) *1906 - Her Royal Highness Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (d. 1968) *1906 - Laurens van der Post, South African author (d. 1996) *1910 - Van Heflin, actor (d. 1971) *1911 - Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter (d. 1972) *1913 - Archie Moore, world champion boxing (d. 1998) *1915 - Curd Jurgens, actor (d. 1982) *1915 - Ross Macdonald, author (d. 1983) *1923 - Larry Doby, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 2003) *1925 - Dick Van Dyke, actor, comedian *1926 - George Rhoden, Jamaican athlete *1927 - Christopher Plummer, actor *1934 - Richard D. Zanuck, American motion picture producer *1943 - Ferguson Jenkins, Baseball Hall of Famer *1948 - Ted Nugent, musician *1948 - Brian Wilson (politician) *1950 - Tom Vilsack, Governor of Iowa *1953 - Bob Gainey, Hockey Hall of Famer *1957 - Steve Buscemi, actor *1957 - Jean-Marie Messier, French businessman *1958 - Lynn-Holly Johnson U.S Figure Skater and actress ''For Your Eyes Only'' *1961 - Harry Gregson-Williams, film composer *1967 - Jamie Foxx, actor *1974 - Nicholas McCarthy, guitarist Franz Ferdinand (band) *1975 - Tom Delonge Guitarist - blink-182 *1981 - Amy Lee, Evanescence frontwoman ==Deaths== *1048 - Al-Biruni, Persian mathematician (b. 973) *1124 - Pope Callixtus II *1204 - Maimonides, Spanish Jewish philosopher (b. 1135) *1250 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1194) *1466 - Donatello, Italian artist (b. 1386) *1565 - Konrad von Gesner, naturalist (b. 1516) *1784 - Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (b. 1709) *1863 - Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German writer (b. 1813) *1881 - August Senoa, Croatian writer (b. 1838) *1930 - Fritz Pregl, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869) *1935 - Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871) *1944 - Wassily Kandinsky, Russian artist (b. 1866) *1961 - Grandma Moses, American artist (b. 1860) *2001 - Leonardo Mondadori, publisher *2001 - Chuck Schuldiner, musician *2002 - Zal Yanofsky, American musican (Lovin' Spoonful) *2003 - William V. Roth, Jr., U.S. Senator from Delaware *2004 - David Wheeler, computer scientist (b. 1927) *2004 - Andre Rodgers, Major League Baseball player (b. 1934) *2004 - Alex Soria, guitarist (the Nils) (b. 1965) ==Holidays and observances== * Republic Day in Malta (1974) *Catholicism - Saint Lucy's day. *In the Irish calendar the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday following the Feast of Saint Lucy were observed as Quarter tense. *Saint_Lucy Day in Sweden == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/13 BBC: On This Day] ---- December 12 - December 14 - November 13 - January 13 -- historical anniversaries bs:Decembar 13 la:13 Decembris
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