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This day in history: 13 September

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431 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 13 September.
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2013: Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead and about 20 civilians injured.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Aimé (Amatus)

Christian feast day: Amé (Amatus) of Remiremont

Christian feast day: Blessed María López de Rivas Martínez

Christian feast day: Feast of the Cross (Assyrian Church of the East)

Christian feast day: John Chrysostom

Christian feast day: Marcellinus of Carthage

Christian feast day: Maurilius (Maurille) of Angers

Christian feast day: Nectarius of Autun

Christian feast day: September 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Venerius the Hermit

Christian feast day: Wulfthryth (Wilfrida) of Wilton

Day of the Programmer, during a non-leap year. (Russia)

Events

2013Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead and about 20 civilians injured.

2008Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.

2007The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.

2007The McLaren F1 team are found guilty of possessing confidential information from the Ferrari team, fined $100 million, and excluded from the constructors' championship standings.

2001Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.

1997A German Air Force Tupolev Tu-154 and a United States Air Force Lockheed C-141 Starlifter collide in mid-air near Namibia, killing 33.

1993Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.

1989Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.

1988Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).

1987Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.

1986A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes Kalamata, Greece with a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing at least 20 and causing heavy damage in the city.

1985Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.

1982Spantax Flight 995 crashes at Málaga Airport during a rejected takeoff, killing 50 of the 394 people on board.

1979South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).

1971Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees China after the failure of an alleged coup. His plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.

1971State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt, which claimed 43 lives.

1968Cold War: Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.

1964Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd of 20,000 West Berliners on Sunday, in Waldbühne.

1964South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh.

1962An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.

1956The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.

1956The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.

1953Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

1948Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel orders the Army to move into Hyderabad to integrate it with the Indian Union.

1948Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.

1944World War II: Start of the Battle of Meligalas between the Greek Resistance forces of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) and the collaborationist security battalions.

1942World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeat attacks by the Japanese with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.

1933Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.

1923Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.

1922The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.

1906The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.

1900Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.

1899Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m – 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.

1898Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.

1882Anglo-Egyptian War: English forces defeat the Egyptian army in the battle of Tel el-Kebir.

1880The Basuto Gun War breaks out after the Basuto launch a rebellion against the Cape Colony.

1862American 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.

1848Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives an iron rod 1+1⁄4 inches (3.2 cm) in diameter being driven through his brain; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate discussion of the nature of the brain and its functio

1847Mexican–American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American troops under General Winfield Scott capture Mexico City in the Mexican–American War.

1843The Greek Army rebels (OS date: September 3) against the autocratic rule of king Otto of Greece, demanding the granting of a constitution.

Born on this day

1999Yeonjun, South Korean singer, songwriter and dancer

1998Satoshi, Moldovan rapper and singer-songwriter

1996Adrian Kempe, Swedish ice hockey player

1996Lili Reinhart, American actress

1995Jerry Tollbring, Swedish handball player

1995Joca, Portuguese footballer

1994Anna Karolína Schmiedlová, Slovak tennis player

1994Cameron Munster, Australian rugby league player

1994Leonor Andrade, Portuguese singer

1994Sepp Kuss, American professional cyclist

1993Alice Merton, Irish-Canadian singer and songwriter

1993Niall Horan, Irish singer

1992Darren Waller, American football player

1991Ksenia Afanasyeva, Russian gymnast

1990Aoi Nakabeppu, Japanese model and actress

1990Craig Cunningham, Canadian ice hockey player

1990Luciano Narsingh, Dutch footballer

1989Elysée Irié Bi Séhi, Ivorian footballer

1989Jon Mannah, Australian rugby league player (died 2013)

1989Kenny Edwards, New Zealand rugby league player

1989Thomas Müller, German footballer

1989William Owusu, Ghanaian footballer

1988Keith Treacy, Irish footballer

1988Luis Rentería, Panamanian footballer (died 2014)

1987Edenilson Bergonsi, Brazilian footballer

1987Jonathan de Guzmán, Canadian-Dutch footballer

1987Luke Fitzgerald, Irish rugby player

1987Tsvetana Pironkova, Bulgarian tennis player

1986Derek Hardman, American football player

1986Kamui Kobayashi, Japanese race car driver

1986Sean Williams, American basketball player

1986Steve Colpaert, Belgian footballer

1985David Jordan, English singer-songwriter

1985Tom Learoyd-Lahrs, Australian rugby league player

1984Baron Corbin, American wrestler

1984Nabil Abou-Harb, American director, producer, and screenwriter

1983Eduard Ratnikov, Estonian footballer

1983James Bourne, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1983Molly Crabapple, American illustrator and journalist

1983Ryan Del Monte, Canadian ice hockey player

Died on this day

2024Lex Marinos, Australian actor (born 1949)

2024Mary McFadden, American fashion designer (born 1938)

2024Pravin Gordhan, South African politician (born 1949)

2024Wolfgang Gerhardt, German politician (born 1943)

2022Jean-Luc Godard, French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic (born 1930)

2019Eddie Money, American musician (born 1949)

2017Pete Domenici, American politician, senator of New Mexico (born 1932)

2016Jonathan Riley-Smith, British historian (born 1938)

2015Brian Close, English cricketer and coach (born 1931)

2015Erma Bergmann, American baseball player (born 1924)

2015Moses Malone, American basketball player and sportscaster (born 1955)

2015Vivinho, Brazilian footballer (born 1961)

2014Benjamin Adekunle, Nigerian general (born 1936)

2014Frank Torre, American baseball player and manager (born 1931)

2014Helen Filarski, American baseball player (born 1924)

2014Milan Galić, Serbian footballer (born 1938)

2013Luiz Gushiken, Brazilian trade union leader and politician (born 1950)

2013Olusegun Agagu, Nigerian politician, 15th Governor of Ondo State (born 1948)

2013Rick Casares, American football player (born 1931)

2013Robert J. Behnke, American biologist and academic (born 1929)

2012Edgar Metcalfe, English-Australian actor and director (born 1933)

2012Lehri, (Actual name:Safirullah Siddiqui), Pakistani comedian and an actor in the Urdu film industry of Pakistan (born 1929)

2012Peter Lougheed, Canadian football player, lawyer, and politician, 10th Premier of Alberta (born 1928)

2012Ranganath Misra, Indian lawyer and jurist, 21st Chief Justice of India (born 1926)

2012William Duckworth, American composer and author (born 1943)

2011Walter Bonatti, Italian mountaineer and journalist (born 1930)

2009Paul Burke, American actor (born 1926)

2007Whakahuihui Vercoe, New Zealand archbishop (born 1928)

2006Ann Richards, American educator and politician, 45th Governor of Texas (born 1933)

2005Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian lawyer and politician, 25th President of Colombia (born 1916)

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“Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.”

Zen proverb

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