September 13

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

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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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