Wikipedia: September 13

September 13 is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years). There are 109 days remaining.

Births:

1876: [Sherwood Anderson]?, writer
1894: J.B. Priestley, British playwright and novelist.
1911: [Bill Monroe]?, country singer ([Bluegrass Band]?)
1916: [Roald Dahl]?, author of children's books (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
1918: [Ray Charles]?, musician
1944: [Peter Cetera]?, singer and bass guitarist (Chicago)
1952: [Randy Jones]?, musician (The Village People)
1971: [Goran Ivanisevic]?, tennis player

Deaths:

81: Roman Emperor Titus
1321?: Dante Alighieri, writer (La Divina Commedia)
1598: [Philip II]?, king of Spain, age 71
1971: [Nikita Krushchev]?, leader of the Soviet Union (date of burial)
1996: Tupac Shakur, rap musician, age 25 (drive-by shooting)

Events:

1743: England, Austria and Savoye?-Sardinia? sign the [Treaty of Worms]?.
1759: Battle on the [Plains of Abraham]?: British defeat French near Montreal in the [French and Indian War]? (known as Seven Years War in Europe).
1788: The United States [Constitutional Convention]? sets the date for the first American presidential election on February 4, 1789. New York City becomes the temporary capital of the US.
1791: King [Louis XVI]? of France accepts the new constitution.
1813: The British try but fail to capture Baltimore?. Turning point in the [War of 1812]?.
1847: American General [Winfield Scott]? captures Mexico City in the [American-Mexican War]?.
1898: [Hannibal Williston Goodwin]? patents celluloid? photographic film. Before this time photos were taken on glass plates, allowing only one copy of a picture to be made.
1899: First fatality in an automobile accident, in New York City.
1906: First airplane flight in Europe.
1940: German bombings destroy Buckingham Palace.
1940: Italy invades Egypt.
1943: Chiang Kai-shek elected president of China.
1943: Benito Mussolini, caught and deposed by Italian resistance forces, is rescued by [Otto Skorzeny]? and brought to Adolf Hitler.
1948: [Margaret Chase Smith]? is elected senator, and becomes the first woman to serve both in the [House of Representatives]? and the Senate?.
1953: [Nikita Krushchev]? 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 issue of the [New York City Marathon]?.
1971: State police and Natonial Guardsmen storm Attica Prison near Buffalo, New York to end a prison revolt. 42 people die in the assault.
1979: South Africa grants independence to the homeland 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.
1993: First Israeli-Palestinian agreement. The Palestines? are granted limited self-government on the Gaza Strip and in Jericho.
1994: Ullyses? passes the Sun's south pole.
1999: Bomb explodes in Moscow, Russia. At least 119 people are killed.

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