more events on September 13
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2008
Hurricane Ike makes landfall in Texas; it had already been the most costly storm in Cuba’s history and becomes the third costliest in the US.
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Five synchronized bomb blasts occur in crowded locations of Delhi, India, killing at least 30 people and injuring more than 100; four other bombs are defused.
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2007
UN adopts non-binding Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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1993
The Oslo Accords, granting limited Palestinian autonomy, are signed by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House.
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1988
Hurricane Gilbert becomes the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere, based on barometric pressure. Hurricane Wilma will break that record in 2005.
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1980
Ben Savage, actor (Boy Meets World TV series).
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1976
The United States announces it will veto Vietnam’s UN bid.
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1973
Mahima Chaudhry, Indian actress, model; Bollywood Movie Award for Dhadkan (2001).
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1967
Michael Johnson, Olympic sprinter; won four Olympic gold medals and eight World Championship gold medals.
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1961
An unmanned Mercury capsule is orbited and recovered by NASA in a test.
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1951
In Korea, U.S. Army troops begin their assault in Heartbreak Ridge. The month-long struggle will cost 3,700 casualties.
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1948
Nell Carter, singer and actress; won Tony and Emmy awards (Ain’t Misbehaving).
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1945
Iran demands the withdrawal of Allied forces.
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1944
Peter Cetera, singer, songwriter, musician, producer; member of the band Chicago before embarking on solo career (“After All,” “Hard to Say I’m Sorry”).
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1938
Judith Martin, journalist and author best known as “Miss Manners” for her syndicated newspaper column on etiquette.
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1926
Andrew Brimmer, economist; first African American to serve as governor of the Federal Reserve System (1966-74).
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1925
Melvin “Mel” Torme, jazz singer, musician, composer and arranger (“The Christmas Song,” AKA “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire”); nicknamed the “Velvet Fog.”.
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1922
Tony “Charles” Brown, blues singer and musician (*Merry Christmas Baby”).
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1918
U.S. and French forces take St. Mihiel, France in America’s first action as a standing army.
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1911
Roald Dahl, writer, best known for his children’s books such as James and the Giant Peach.
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Bill Monroe, musician, the Father of Bluegrass.
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1905
U.S. warships head to Nicaragua on behalf of American William Albers, who was accused of evading tobacco taxes.
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1903
Claudette Colbert, actress who won an Oscar for It Happened One Night.
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1894
John B. Priestley, British novelist and playwright.
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1886
Alain Locke, writer and first African-American Rhodes scholar.
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1863
Franz von Hipper, German naval commander at the Battle of Jutland in World War I.
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The Loudoun County Rangers route a company of Confederate cavalry at Catoctin Mountain in Virginia.
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1862
Union troops in Frederick, Maryland, discover General Robert E. Lee‘s attack plans for the invasion of Maryland wrapped around a pack of cigars. They give the plans to General George B. McClellan who sends the Army of the Potomac to confront Lee but only after a delay of more than half a day.
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1860
John J. Pershing, “Black Jack” who led the campaign against Pancho Villa in Mexico and Commanded the American Expeditionary Force in France during World War I.
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1851
Walter Reed, U.S. Army doctor, discovered a cure for yellow fever.
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1847
Milton Hershey, founder of the famous candy company.
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1846
General Winfield Scott takes Chapultepec, removing the last obstacle to U.S. troops moving on Mexico City.
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1789
Guardsmen in Orleans, France, open fire on rioters trying to loot bakeries, killing 90.
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1788
The Constitutional Convention authorizes the first federal election resolving that electors in all the states will be appointed on January 7, 1789.
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1782
The British fortress at Gibraltar comes under attack by French and Spanish forces.
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1774
Anne Robert Turgot, the new controller of finances, urges the king of France to restore the free circulation of grain in the kingdom.
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1759
British troops defeat the French on the plains of Abraham, in Quebec.
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1564
On the verge of attacking Pedro Menendez’s Spanish settlement at San Agostin, Florida, Jean Ribault’s French fleet is scattered by a devastating storm.
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1549
Pope Paul III closes the first session of the Council of Bologna.
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1515
King Francis of France defeats the Swiss army under Cardinal Matthaus Schiner at Marignano, northern Italy.