Wikipedia: September 13

September 13
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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.
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.
1862 - Union soldiers find Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland
1847 - American General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City in the Mexican-American War
1898 - Hannibal Williston Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film
1899 - Henry Bliss is the first fatality in an automobile accident, in New York City
1906 - First airplane flight in Europe
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)
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
1990 - Andrei Chikatilo is charged with the murders of 53 people in Rostov, Russia
1993 - First Israeli-Palestinian agreement. The Palestinians are granted limited self-government on the Gaza Strip and in Jericho
1994 - Ulysses spacecraft passes the Sun's south pole
1999 - Bomb explodes in Moscow, Russia. At least 119 people are killed.

Births

1819 - Clara Schumann, pianist, composer
1860 - John Pershing, American general († 1948)
1841 - Walter Reed, physician, biologist († 1902)
1857 - Milton S. Hershey, chocolate entrepreneur and founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company († 1945)
1874 - Arnold Schoenberg, composer († 1951)
1876 - Sherwood Anderson, writer († 1941)
1887 - Lavoslav Ruzicka, ,cemist , Ctoatia, Nobel Prize, 1939 († 1976)
1894 - J.B. Priestley, playwright, novelist († 1984)
1903 - Claudette Colbert, actress († 1996)
1911 - Bill Monroe, bluegrass and country music singer (Bluegrass Band) († 1996)
1916 - Roald Dahl, writer (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) († 1990)
1917 - Robert Ward, composer
1924 - Maurice Jarre, composer
1925 - Mel Torme, singer († 1999)
1932 - Barbara Bain, actress
1938 - Don Bluth, animator
1938 - Judith Martin ("Miss Manners"), etiquette writer
1941 - David Clayton-Thomas, singer ("Blood Sweat and Tears")
1944 - Peter Cetera, singer and bass guitarist (Chicago)
1944 - Jacqueline Bisset, actress
1948 - Nell Carter, actress, singer
1952 - Randy Jones, musician (The Village People)
1952 - Don Was, singer, composer
1967 - Michael Johnson, Olympic Games gold medalist in track and field
1971 - Goran Ivanisevic, Croatian tennis player
1977 - Fiona Apple, singer
1980 - Ben Savage, actor
1982 - Nenê, Brazilian NBA player

Deaths

81 - Roman Emperor Titus
1321 - Dante Alighieri, writer (La Divina Commedia)
1438 - King Duarte of Portugal
1598 - King Philip II of Spain
1759 - British General James Wolfe, at Battle of the Plains of Abraham
1899 - Henry Bliss, first person killed by an automobile
1959 - Gilbert Adrian, Hollywood fashion designer
1987 - Mervyn LeRoy, film director
1977 - Leopold Stokowski, conductor
1996 - Tupac Shakur, rap musician
1998 - George Wallace, American politician
2001 - Dorothy McGuire, actress
2003 - Frank O'Bannon, governor of Indiana

Holidays

Programmer's day - (except for leap years).

Fiction

During the 1970s science fiction TV series Space: 1999, September 13, 1999, was the day when the Moon broke away its orbit around the Earth and began its voyage across the Universe, taking the inhabitants of Moon Base Alpha with it.
In the television series Sliders, the Mallory character invented sliding (travel between alternate realities) on September 13.

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