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09-13-2010, 12:29 AM
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This Date in History - September 13th
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* 509 BC The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
* 122 The building of Hadrian's Wall begins.
* 533 General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near Carthage, North Africa.
* 1213 Ending of Battle of Muret, during the Albigensian Crusade to destroy the Cathar heresy.
* 1440 Gilles de Rais is finally taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.
* 1503 Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
* 1504 Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built.
* 1584 San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.
* 1609 Henry Hudson reached the river that would later be named after him the Hudson River.
* 1743 Great Britain, Austria and Savoy-Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms (1743).
* 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' Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the country's first presidential election, and New York City becomes the temporary capital of the U.S..
* 1791 King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
* 1808 Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Dφbeln beat the Russians, making von Dφbeln a Swedish war hero.
* 1812 War of 1812: A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
* 1814 The British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland. Turning point in the War of 1812.
* 1814 Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner
* 1847 Mexican-American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niρos Hιroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City in the Mexican-American War.
* 1848 Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage incredibly survives a 3-foot-plus iron rod being driven through his head; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions.
* 1850 First ascent of Piz Bernina, the highest summit of the eastern Alps.
* 1862 American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
* 1882 The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
* 1898 Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
* 1899 Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
* 1899 Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199m 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
* 1900 Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.
* 1906 First fixed-wing aircraft flight in Europe.
* 1914 World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
* 1914 World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
* 1922 The temperature (in the shade) at Al 'Aziziyah, Libya reaches a world record 57.8°C (136.04°F).
* 1922 The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
* 1923 Military coup in Spain Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
* 1933 Elizabeth McCombs is the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
* 1935 Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the International Railway (New York Ontario).
* 1940 World War II: German bombs damage Buckingham Palace.
* 1942 World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Imperial Japanese Army with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
* 1943 Chiang Kai-shek elected president of the Republic of China.
* 1943 The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe.
* 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 Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
* 1956 The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
* 1956 IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.
* 1964 South Vietnamese Generals Lam Van Phat and Duong Van Duc failed in a coup attempt against General Nguyen Khanh.
* 1968 Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
* 1971 State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to end a prison revolt.
* 1971 People's Republic of China, Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao fled the country via a plane after the failure of alleged coup against the supreme leader, the plane crashed in Mongolia, killing all aboard.
* 1979 South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
* 1987 Goiβnia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiβnia, 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, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (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 agreement initiated by Norway.
* 1993 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
* 1994 Ulysses probe passes the Sun's south pole.
* 2001 Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
* 2007 The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted.
* 2008 Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston and surrounding areas.
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This Date in History - September 13th
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* 509 BC The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
* 122 The building of Hadrian's Wall begins.
* 533 General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near Carthage, North Africa.
* 1213 Ending of Battle of Muret, during the Albigensian Crusade to destroy the Cathar heresy.
* 1440 Gilles de Rais is finally taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.
* 1503 Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
* 1504 Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built.
* 1584 San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.
* 1609 Henry Hudson reached the river that would later be named after him the Hudson River.
* 1743 Great Britain, Austria and Savoy-Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms (1743).
* 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' Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the country's first presidential election, and New York City becomes the temporary capital of the U.S..
* 1791 King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
* 1808 Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Dφbeln beat the Russians, making von Dφbeln a Swedish war hero.
* 1812 War of 1812: A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
* 1814 The British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland. Turning point in the War of 1812.
* 1814 Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner
* 1847 Mexican-American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niρos Hιroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City in the Mexican-American War.
* 1848 Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage incredibly survives a 3-foot-plus iron rod being driven through his head; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions.
* 1850 First ascent of Piz Bernina, the highest summit of the eastern Alps.
* 1862 American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
* 1882 The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
* 1898 Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
* 1899 Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
* 1899 Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199m 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
* 1900 Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.
* 1906 First fixed-wing aircraft flight in Europe.
* 1914 World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
* 1914 World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
* 1922 The temperature (in the shade) at Al 'Aziziyah, Libya reaches a world record 57.8°C (136.04°F).
* 1922 The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
* 1923 Military coup in Spain Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
* 1933 Elizabeth McCombs is the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
* 1935 Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the International Railway (New York Ontario).
* 1940 World War II: German bombs damage Buckingham Palace.
* 1942 World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Imperial Japanese Army with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
* 1943 Chiang Kai-shek elected president of the Republic of China.
* 1943 The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe.
* 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 Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
* 1956 The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
* 1956 IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.
* 1964 South Vietnamese Generals Lam Van Phat and Duong Van Duc failed in a coup attempt against General Nguyen Khanh.
* 1968 Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
* 1971 State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to end a prison revolt.
* 1971 People's Republic of China, Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao fled the country via a plane after the failure of alleged coup against the supreme leader, the plane crashed in Mongolia, killing all aboard.
* 1979 South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
* 1987 Goiβnia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiβnia, 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, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (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 agreement initiated by Norway.
* 1993 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
* 1994 Ulysses probe passes the Sun's south pole.
* 2001 Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
* 2007 The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted.
* 2008 Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston and surrounding areas.
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