Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 13
This is a list of selected September 13 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Francis Scott Key -
Death of James Wolfe, by Benjamin West -
Yitzhak Rabin, Bill Clinton, and Yasser Arafat at the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords -
RAMAC -
Phineas Gage -
Elizabeth McCombs -
John Calvin
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 509 BC – The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill, the most important temple in Ancient Rome, was dedicated. | unreferenced section |
| 533 – Belisarius and his legions defeated Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimum near Carthage, and began the "Reconquest of the West" under Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I. | needs more footnotes |
| 1229 – Ögedei Khan, the third son of Genghis Khan, was proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire. | unreferenced section |
| 1437 – A Portuguese expeditionary force led by Henry the Navigator began an ultimately unsuccessful siege of Tangiers. | unreferenced section |
| 1808 – Finnish War: Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln defeated the Russians at the Battle of Jutas. | needs more footnotes; Jutas article is stub |
| 1814 – War of 1812: Fort McHenry in Baltimore's Inner Harbor was attacked by British forces during the Battle of Baltimore, inspiring Francis Scott Key to write "Defence of Fort McHenry", which later was used as the lyrics to the United States' national anthem. | Battle: unreferenced section; Key: refimprove section; Star-Spangled Banner: featured on March 3 |
| 1847 – Mexican–American War: Six teenagers known as Los Niños Héroes fought to their death defending the military academy at Castillo de Chapultepec in Mexico City during the Battle of Chapultepec. | unreferenced section |
| 1882 – The British Army overwhelmingly defeated the forces of the Ahmed ‘Urabi to end the Anglo-Egyptian War. | refimprove section |
| 1956 – IBM unveiled the 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control), the first commercial computer that used magnetic disk storage. | refimprove section |
| 1987 – A radioactive item was scavenged from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, leading to the deaths of four and serious contamination in 249 others. | refimprove section |
| 1993 – After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin formally signed the Oslo Peace Accords. | refimprove section |
| 2006 – Kimveer Gill shot 19 people for unknown reasons, killing one, at Dawson College in Montreal. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1759 – Seven Years' War: British forces defeated the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham near Quebec City, New France, though General James Wolfe was mortally wounded.
- 1848 – An explosion drove an iron rod through the head of railroad foreman Phineas Gage, making him an important early case of personality change after brain injury.
- 1964 – South Vietnamese Generals Lam Van Phat and Duong Van Duc staged a coup attempt after junta leader Nguyen Khanh demoted them.
- 1985 – Super Mario Bros., one of the best-selling and most influential video games of all time, was first released for the NES in Japan.
- 1988 – Hurricane Gilbert reached a minimum pressure of 888 mb (26.22 inHg) with sustained flight-level winds of 185 mph (295 km/h), making it the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record at the time.
- 2008 – Five synchronised bomb blasts took place within a span of few minutes in Delhi, India, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
- Born/died this day: Mary Brewster Hazelton (d. 1953)
Notes
- Hurricane Iniki appears on September 11, so Hurricane Gilbert should not appear in the same year
- Battle of North Point appears on September 12, so Battle of Baltimore/Francis Scott Key should not appear in the same year
September 13: Feast day of Saint John Chrysostom (Western Christianity)
- 1541 – After three years of exile, John Calvin returned to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine that came to be known as Calvinism.
- 1899 – An expedition led by Halford Mackinder made the first ascent of Mount Kenya (pictured), the second-highest mountain in Africa.
- 1933 – Elizabeth McCombs became the first woman elected to the Parliament of New Zealand.
- 1971 – Following a failed coup attempt, Mao Zedong's second-in-command Lin Biao died in a plane crash while attempting to flee the People's Republic of China.
- 2007 – The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, setting out the individual and collective rights of indigenous peoples, as well as their rights to culture, identity, language, employment, health, education and other issues.
Michel de Montaigne (d. 1592) · Marguerite LeHand (b. 1896) · Lili Elbe (d. 1931)