Notable Historical Events - 2013
2013 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
13 FARC members are killed by an airstrike by the Colombian military |
Jan 1 |
13 Boko Harem members are killed by Nigeria's military in Maiduguri |
Jan 1 |
60 people are killed and 200 are injured after a stampede following New Year celebrations |
Jan 1 |
18 people are killed and 16 wounded after a bus and mini-bus collision in Thiès, Senegal |
Jan 1 |
10 people are killed and 120 are injured in a stampede in Luanda, Angola |
Jan 1 |
US bi-partisan deal temporarily avoids the fiscal cliff |
Jan 1 |
Magnus Carlsen breaks Garry Kasparov's chess FIDE rating, reaching 2,861 |
Jan 2 |
Ray Lewis announces he will retire at the end of the playoffs |
Jan 3 |
27 Shiite pilgrims are killed and 60 are injured by a suicide bombing in Musayyib, Iraq |
Jan 4 |
9 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria |
Jan 4 |
8 people are killed by a gunman in Kawit, the Philippines |
Jan 4 |
6 people are killed a 2 are seriously injured after a snowmobile veers off a ski slope on Mt Cermis, Italy |
Jan 4 |
3 people are killed after a Beechcraft BE35 crashes into a house in Florida |
Jan 6 |
10 people are killed by a US drone attack in South Waziristan, Pakistan |
Jan 6 |
The NHL reaches an agreement to end a 113 day lockout |
Jan 7 |
Lionel Messi wins the FIFA Ballon d'Or for the third consecutive year |
Jan 8 |
130 wildfires across Australia's east coast force thousands to evacuate their homes |
Jan 8 |
2,130 prisoners held by the Syrian government are exchanged for 48 Iranians kidnapped by Syrian rebels |
Jan 8 |
Steve Nash records his 10,000th career assist against Houston |
Jan 10 |
81 people are killed and 120 are wounded by a twin bombing in Quetta, Pakistan |
Jan 10 |
39th People's Choice Awards: Robert Downey, Jr & Jennifer Lawrence win (Movie Star) and Nathan Fillion & Ellen Pompeo win (TV Drama) |
Jan 11 |
46 people are killed and 12 are missing after a landslide buries a village in the Yunnan province, China |
Jan 11 |
29 people are killed and 12 are injured after a bus veers off a mountain road in Doti, Nepal |
Jan 12 |
A failed attempt to rescue a French hostage in Bulo Marer, Somalia, results in 18 deaths |
Jan 12 |
Beijing's level of air pollution is declared to be at levels that are hazardous to human health |
Jan 12 |
"Mile High Miracle", trailing the Denver Broncos 35-28 with 1:09 remaining in the AFC Divisional Playoff Game, the Baltimore Ravens' quarterback Joe Flacco heaved a 70 yard touchdown pass to receiver Jacoby Jones to tie the game (the Ravens would win in overtime and go on to win the Super Bowl) |
Jan 13 |
Argo wins the Golden Globe awards for best drama and best director |
Jan 15 |
83 people are killed and 150 are injured in a rocket attack on Aleppo University, Syria |
Jan 15 |
19 Egyptian Army recruits are killed and 120 are injured in a train accident in Giza |
Jan 16 |
24 people are dead after three car bombs exploded in Idlib Governorate, Syria |
Jan 16 |
A four day occupation of an Algerian BP facility by Amenas militants begins, killing 48 hostages |
Jan 16 |
25 people are killed after an apartment block collapses in Alexandria, Egypt |
Jan 17 |
106 people are massacred by Syrian army forces in Homs |
Jan 17 |
33 people are killed by a series of bombs across Iraq |
Jan 17 |
4 people are killed and over 2,000 are evacuated after a massive flood hits Jakarta, Indonesia |
Jan 17 |
8 people are killed in a plane crash in Chiapas, Mexico |
Jan 17 |
Japan unveils plans to build the world's largest wind farm near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant |
Jan 19 |
4 climbers are killed by an avalanche in Glen Coe, Scotland |
Jan 19 |
Calcium deposits are discovered on Mars by NASA's Curiosity Rover |
Jan 19 |
The 2012-2013 NHL season begins after a 119-day lockout |
Jan 19 |
Lance Armstrong admits to doping in all seven of his Tour de France victories |
Jan 20 |
Austria votes to maintain compulsory military service in a referendum |
Jan 20 |
The San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens win the NFC and AFC championship games to reach Super Bowl XLVII |
Jan 21 |
30 people are killed in a car bombing in Salamiyeh, Syria |
Jan 21 |
41 people are injured after two trains collide in Vienna, Austria |
Jan 21 |
18 people are killed and 24 are injured after a bus falls down a ravine in Yungas, Bolivia |
Jan 21 |
1 person is killed and 15 are injured by a magnitude 5.9 earthquake in Indonesia |
Jan 21 |
Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Netherlands' Minister of Finance, becomes the President of the Euro Group |
Jan 22 |
A series of Baghdad car bombings kill 17 people |
Jan 22 |
The Bank of Japan doubles its inflation target to 2% and announces open-ended asset purchases for 2014 in the hope of ending deflation |
Jan 23 |
23 people are killed in a mosque suicide bombing in Tuz Khormato, Iraq |
Jan 23 |
18 people are killed in a market shooting in Damboa, Nigeria |
Jan 23 |
US armed forces overturns 1994 ban on women serving in combat |
Jan 24 |
17 people are killed and 34 are injured in a bus crash in Taperas, Bolivia |
Jan 24 |
A Japanese Coast guard ship engages a Taiwanese activist ship in the Senkaku Islands dispute |
Jan 24 |
Russian police kill 13 rebels in Vedeno District, Chechnya |
Jan 25 |
Tropical cyclone Oswald makes landfall in Queensland, Australia, causing mass flooding |
Jan 25 |
6 civilians and 1 police officer are shot dead and 456 people are injured during a nationwide protest against Egypt's 2011 revolution |
Jan 25 |
Islamist forces are driven out of Hombori by the Malian army |
Jan 25 |
8 people are killed by 2 car bombs in Golan Heights, Syria |
Jan 25 |
50 people are killed and 90 are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela |
Jan 25 |
Initial GDP figures for the fourth quarter of 2012 show the UK economy shrank by 0.3% raising fears of a triple dip recession |
Jan 26 |
30 people are killed during a violent protest in Port Said, Egypt |
Jan 26 |
10 people are killed and 20 are injured by a suicide bombing in Kunduz, Afghanistan |
Jan 26 |
The United States Sentencing Commission is hacked by Anonymous in response to the suicide of Aaron Swartz |
Jan 26 |
Miloš Zeman wins the Czech Republic's presidential election |
Jan 26 |
Victoria Azarenka defeats Li Na to win the women's singles at the 2013 Australian Open |
Jan 27 |
20 police officers have been killed in a series of bomb attacks in Kandahar, Afghanistan |
Jan 27 |
In Port Said, Egypt, protests result in 7 people being killed and 630 are injured |
Jan 27 |
11 people are killed and 32 are injured after a bus crashes down a ravine in Serta, Portugal |
Jan 27 |
7 people are killed and 3 are injured after a retaining wall collapses during a football match at the Ugur Sports Facility, Turkey |
Jan 27 |
Novak Djokovic defeats Andy Murray to wins his third consecutive men's singles title at the 2013 Australian Open |
Jan 27 |
Magnus Carlsen wins the 2013 Tata Steel Chess Tournament |
Jan 27 |
Spain defeats Denmark to win the 2013 World Men's Handball Championship |
Jan 27 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 62-35 |
Jan 28 |
10 people are killed and 11 are injured in after a freight train collides with a bus in Heihe City, China |
Jan 28 |
Iran's Pishgam rocket successfully completes a return trip of sending a monkey into space |
Jan 28 |
20 people are killed after a Bombardier CRJ200 airliner crashes outside Almaty, Kazakhstan |
Jan 28 |
John Kerry is voted to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton as the United States Secretary of State |
Jan 30 |
South Korea successfully launches its rocket Naro-1 which was carrying a scientific satellite |
Jan 31 |
300 people are injured in a train collision in Pretoria, South Africa |
Jan 31 |
36 people are killed and 126 are injured in an explosion at Torre Ejecutiva Pemex, Mexico |
Feb 1 |
The Nigerian Army bombs a Boko Haram camp, killing 18 people |
Feb 1 |
21 people are killed and 30 are wounded by a market suicide bombing in Hangu, Pakistan |
Feb 1 |
26 people are killed after a fireworks truck explodes and causes a highway to collapse in Henan, China |
Feb 1 |
Zenit-3SL, a Ukranian-Russian carrier rocket, fails 40 seconds after liftoff and crashes into the Pacific Ocean |
Feb 1 |
"House of Cards", starring Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood and Robin Wright as his wife, is released on Netflix |
Feb 2 |
23 people are killed and 8 are injured after militants attacked an army base in the Lakki Marwat District, Pakistan |
Feb 2 |
Shinzō Abe, Japan's Prime Minister, vows to defend the Senkaku Islands "at all costs" |
Feb 2 |
18 people are killed and 34 are injured after a bus catches fire after falling down a ravine in Gansu province, China |
Feb 3 |
33 people are killed by a suicide bombing by an explosive-packed truck in Kirkuk, Iraq |
Feb 3 |
Super Bowl XLVII: Baltimore Ravens beat San Francisco 49ers, 34-31 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome MVP: Joe Flacco, Baltimore, QB |
Feb 4 |
20 people are killed after an apartment building was struck by a rocket in Aleppo, Syria |
Feb 4 |
22 people are killed and 44 are injured after a suicide bombing in Taji, Iraq |
Feb 4 |
8 people are killed and 30 are injured after a bus collides with two vehicles and flips in Yucaipa, California |
Feb 4 |
22 people are killed and 24 are injured after a bus and a truck collide in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates |
Feb 4 |
Europol announces it will investigate over 680 football matches alleged to involve match fixing |
Feb 5 |
UK House of Commons votes in favour of same-sex marriage |
Feb 5 |
The US Postal Service announces the cessation of Saturday first-class mail delivery from August 2013 |
Feb 6 |
A magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurs off the Solomon Islands coast causing the death of nine people |
Feb 7 |
Eugène Delacroix's painting Liberty Leading the People is vandalized at the Louvre-Lens museum |
Feb 7 |
Azerbaijan launches its first satellite, Azerspace-1 |
Feb 8 |
16 people are killed and 27 are wounded by a market bombing in Kalaya, Pakistan |
Feb 8 |
100, 000 people march to demand justice for the atrocities of the Bangladesh Liberation War in Dhaka |
Feb 8 |
29 people are killed and 69 are injured in a series of Iraq bombings |
Feb 8 |
A massive blizzard begins in the US and Canada that resulted in 15 deaths, 5,300 cancelled flights, and loss of power for 900,000 people |
Feb 9 |
5 people are killed after Cessna plane crashes on a Brussels runway |
Feb 10 |
Nigeria defeat Burkina Faso 1-0 to win the football 2013 Africa Cup of Nations |
Feb 10 |
5 people are killed by a falling lifeboat from the cruise ship Thomson Majesty in the Canary islands |
Feb 10 |
66 British Academy Awards: Argo, Ben Affleck, Daniel Day-Lewis and Emmanuelle Riva win |
Feb 10 |
55th Grammy Awards: Somebody That I Used To Know (Goyte), We are Young (Fun), and Babel (Mumford & Sons) win |
Feb 10 |
36 people are killed and 39 are injured in a stampede at a train station in Allahabad, India |
Feb 11 |
Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation from February 28, the first pope to resign since 1415 |
Feb 11 |
18 coal miners are killed in an explosion in the Komi region, Russia |
Feb 12 |
North Korea confirms it has successfully tested a nuclear device that could be weaponized |
Feb 12 |
At a ceremony in Philadelphia, the NFL pays tribute to the life of the late Steve Sabol and his many contributions to the league |
Feb 13 |
16 Muslim insurgents are killed in an attack on a Narathiwat military base, Thailand |
Feb 13 |
10 civilians, including 3 children, are killed by a NATO airstrike in the Kunar Province, Afghanistan |
Feb 13 |
Sir Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, says he believes "a recovery is in sight" after fears raised about a triple dip recession |
Feb 14 |
A suicide bombing kills 4 police officer and injures 5 in Dagestan |
Feb 14 |
Oscar Pistorius, a South African amputee sprint runner, is charged with the murder of Reeva Steenkamp |
Feb 14 |
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, will be switched off for two years for upgrading |
Feb 14 |
The recession in the Eurozone economy deepens with a fall of 0.6% in GDP in the fourth quarter of 2012 |
Feb 14 |
Japan remains in recession as the economy shrinks by a further 0.1% |
Feb 15 |
Over 1,200 people are injured after a meteor breaks up over Chelyabinsk, Russia |
Feb 15 |
2012 DA14, an asteroid with a 50m diameter, comes within 27,700km from Earth |
Feb 16 |
Angelina Jolie undergoes a preventive double mastectomy after learning she had an 87% risk of developing breast cancer due to a defective BRCA1 gene |
Feb 16 |
84 people are killed and 190 are injured after a market bombing in Hazara Town, Pakistan |
Feb 16 |
Anthony Carmona is elected President of Trinidad and Tobago |
Feb 16 |
Lionel Messi scores his 14th consecutive goal in La Liga and his 300th goal in 365 appearances for Barcelona |
Feb 17 |
37 people are killed and 130 are injured in a series of Baghdad car bombings |
Feb 17 |
5 people are killed and 11 are injured after a gas explosion destroyed an apartment complex in Frenštát pod Radhoštěm, Czech Republic |
Feb 17 |
President Rafael Correa wins the Ecuadorian general election in a landslide victory |
Feb 17 |
Australia defeat the West Indies to win the women's 2013 Cricket World Cup |
Feb 18 |
15 people are killed by flooding and landslides in Indonesia |
Feb 18 |
$50 million worth of diamond is stolen in an armed robbery at Brussels Airport, Belgium |
Feb 19 |
12 people are killed and 11 are injured after a Yemeni Air Force plane crashes in Sana'a |
Feb 20 |
Estonia becomes the first country to establish a national system of fast chargers for electric cars |
Feb 20 |
Kepler-37b, the smallest known exoplanet, is discovered |
Feb 21 |
83 people are killed and 250 are injured in a series of bombing attacks in Damascus, Syria |
Feb 21 |
21 people are killed and 54 are injured in a bombing in Hyderabad, India |
Feb 22 |
29 people are killed and 150 are injured by by 3 Syrian army missiles in Aleppo |
Feb 22 |
13 Chadian soldiers and 65 Muslim insurgents are killed in conflict in Northern Mali |
Feb 22 |
The UK's credit rating is downgraded from AAA to AA1 by Moody's Investors Service |
Feb 22 |
The European Commission forecast for 2013 expects growth of 0.1% across the 27 members of the EU but a contraction of 0.3% in the Eurozone economy |
Feb 22 |
In its National Economic Report of Bermuda for 2012, the Bermudan Ministry of Finance expects GDP will decline by 0% to 1.5% in 2013 but five years of recession will end with "modest growth in 2014" |
Feb 22 |
The UK's AAA credit rating is downgraded by Moody's to AA+; the agency expects growth to "remain sluggish over the next few years" |
Feb 23 |
51 people are killed and 62 are injured in conflict between rival tribes in Darfur, Sudan |
Feb 23 |
33rd Golden Raspberry Awards: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 wins |
Feb 24 |
10 Chadian soldiers and 28 Muslim insurgents are killed in conflict in Adrar des Ifoghas, Mali |
Feb 24 |
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Feb 24 |
Nicos Anastasiades wins the Cypriot presidential election |
Feb 24 |
Raúl Castro is elected to a second term as the President of Cuba |
Feb 24 |
Jimmie Johnson wins the 2013 Daytona 500 |
Feb 25 |
Italy Common Good, a centre left alliance, wins the Italian general election |
Feb 25 |
Cuban President Raul Castro announces he will not seek another term in 2018 |
Feb 26 |
A flexible battery capable of being charged wirelessly and folded and stretched is developed |
Feb 26 |
A hot air balloon crashes in Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 tourists |
Feb 26 |
A rocket launched from the Gaza strip into Israel ends the ceasefire since November 2012 |
Feb 27 |
20 people are killed in a market fire in Calcutta, India |
Feb 27 |
17 Afghan militia are killed by Taliban insurgents in an attack in the Andar District |
Feb 27 |
Pope Benedict XVI presents his farewell address to Vatican City |
Feb 28 |
28 people are killed and 60 are injured after a series of bombings across Baghdad, Iraq |
Feb 28 |
35 people are killed in violent demonstrations across Bangladesh |
Feb 28 |
The brains of two rats have been successfully connected so that they share information |
Mar 1 |
The 2013 US budget sequestration comes into effect |
Mar 1 |
14 people are killed in the Lahad Datu standoff between Malaysian government and rebel forces |
Mar 3 |
45 people are killed by a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan |
Mar 3 |
A 2 year old US girl becomes the first child born with HIV to be cured |
Mar 4 |
40 Syrian soldiers are killed in an ambush in Western Iraq |
Mar 4 |
11 children are killed after a bus collides a truck in the Jalandhar district, India |
Mar 4 |
The Papal Conclave begins to select the successor of Pope Benedict XVI |
Mar 5 |
The Dow Jones surpasses its 2007 pre-financial crisis levels for the first time |
Mar 5 |
Venezuelan Vice-President Nicolás Maduro assumes the presidency after the death of Hugo Chavez |
Mar 5 |
Willcom announces the world's smallest mobile phone, weighing 32 grams |
Mar 6 |
Syrian rebels capture Ar-Raqqah, their first major city |
Mar 6 |
Microsoft is fined €561 by the Euro Commission for not providing alternative web browsers |
Mar 6 |
9 people die after a plane crashes after being ensnared in power lines in Peru |
Mar 7 |
Hilary Mantel is awarded the 2013 David Cohen Prize for literature |
Mar 7 |
UN Security Council approves further North Korean sanctions for its nuclear testing |
Mar 8 |
North Korea terminates all peace pacts with South Korea |
Mar 9 |
19 people are killed in two suicide bombings in Kabul, Afghanistan |
Mar 9 |
Asteroid 2013 ET comes within 960,000 km from the Earth's surface |
Mar 9 |
Bernard Hopkins defeats Tavoris Cloud to win IBF Light Heavyweight title |
Mar 10 |
Aung San Suu Kyi is re-elected leader of the Burmese National League for Democracy |
Mar 11 |
European Union bans the sale of cosmetics that have been tested on animals |
Mar 11 |
North Korea cuts the phone line with South Korea, breaching the 1953 armistice |
Mar 11 |
Falkland Islands' sovereignty referendum: 99.8% choose to remain an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom |
Mar 12 |
JOGMEC becomes the first to successfully extract methane hydrate from seabed deposits |
Mar 12 |
The 2013 Papal conclave begins with no new Pope elected on the first day |
Mar 13 |
10 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Kunduz province, Afghanistan |
Mar 13 |
The European Parliament rejects a European Union budget for the first time |
Mar 13 |
An Embraer 821 aeroplane crashes and kills 9 people in Para, Brazil |
Mar 13 |
North Korea shreds the Korean Armistice agreement |
Mar 13 |
Aleqa Hammond's Siumut party wins the Greenland parliamentary elections |
Mar 13 |
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio is elected as the new pope, taking the papal name Pope Francis |
Mar 14 |
25 people are killed and 50 are wounded by a series of car bombings in Baghdad, Iraq |
Mar 14 |
7 people are killed after gunmen storm a bar in Cancun, Mexico |
Mar 14 |
Xi Jinping is named as the new President of the People's Republic of China |
Mar 15 |
24 people die after a double decker bus veers of a pass in Cape Town, South Africa |
Mar 15 |
16 people are killed by a fireworks accident in Tlaxcala, Mexico |
Mar 15 |
Patrick Chan of Canada wins the men's 2013 World Figure Skating Championships |
Mar 16 |
A €10 billion Cyprus bailout plan will wipe out 10% of the citizens bank deposits |
Mar 16 |
24 Pakistani Army soldiers are killed after their bus falls down a ravine in Rawalpindi |
Mar 16 |
Kim Yu-Na of South Korea wins the women's 2013 World Figure Skating Championships |
Mar 17 |
10 people are killed by a car bombing in Basra, Iraq |
Mar 17 |
Toyo Ito wins the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize |
Mar 17 |
Pope Francis delivers his first Angelus prayer and blessing |
Mar 18 |
Explosions kill 25 people at a bus park in Kano, Nigeria |
Mar 18 |
A car bombing kills 10 people and injures 20 in Mogadishu, Somalia |
Mar 18 |
98 people are killed and 248 are injured across Iraq from a series of bombings and shootings |
Mar 19 |
27 people are killed and 14 are injured in a bus crash in Maharashtra, India |
Mar 19 |
16 people are killed by mudslides in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Mar 19 |
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity discovers further evidence of water-bearing minerals |
Mar 20 |
Pierre Deligne wins the 2013 Abel Prize in mathematics |
Mar 21 |
12 people are killed and 30 are injured by a car bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan |
Mar 21 |
42 people are killed and 84 are injured by a bombing in a mosque in Damascus, Syria |
Mar 21 |
At least 45 people drown and 60 are missing after a Nigerian boat sinks off the shore of Gabon |
Mar 21 |
24 people are killed and 100 are injured by a tornado and hail storm in southern China |
Mar 21 |
A barter dispute loses control and results in 10 people being killed, 20 injured, and 4 mosques being burnt to the ground in Myanmar |
Mar 21 |
The European Space Agency reveals new data that indicates that the universe is 13.82 billion years old |
Mar 21 |
Martin Gould defeats Ali Carter to win the snooker 2013 Championship League |
Mar 22 |
37 people are killed and 200 are injured in a refugee camp fire in Ban Mae, Thailand |
Mar 23 |
20 people are killed and 200 are injured by a tornado in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh |
Mar 23 |
The US Senate approves its first budget in four years by a margin of 50—49 |
Mar 24 |
17 soldiers are killed by a suicide bomber at a military checkpoint in North Waziristan, Pakistan |
Mar 24 |
25 people are killed by gunmen in a coordinated attack in Adamawa State, Nigeria |
Mar 24 |
A series of emergency meetings in Brussels undertaken to resolve Cyprus' financial situation |
Mar 24 |
Scotland defeats Sweden to win the 2013 World Women's Curling Championship |
Mar 25 |
Golfer Tiger Woods returns to his world number one ranking |
Mar 26 |
Ariana Grande's first single, "The Way", is released |
Mar 27 |
12 people are killed in the Philippines after a mini-tornado causes a boat to capsize |
Mar 28 |
143 rebels and 20 government troop are killed in conflict in Pibor County, Sudan |
Mar 28 |
15 students are killed and 7 are injured after a mortar strikes Damascus University |
Mar 28 |
Pope Francis becomes the first Pope to wash the feet of women in the Maundy Thursday service |
Mar 28 |
Banks in Cyprus re-open after having been closed for two weeks; the government agrees a 10 billion euro bailout deal with the EU and IMF |
Mar 29 |
10 people are killed and 31 are injured by a blast outside the US consulate in Pakistan |
Mar 29 |
23 people are killed by coordinated bombings on Shiite mosques in Iraq |
Mar 29 |
36 people are killed after a 16-floor building collapses in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
Mar 29 |
UN regulation of international arms trade is blocked by North Korea, Iran, and Syria |
Mar 29 |
Soyuz TMA-08M sets a new record of 6 hours in orbit before docking with the International Space Station |
Mar 29 |
American horse, Animal Kingdom, wins the 2013 Dubai World Cup |
Mar 30 |
North Korea declares it is at a state of war with South Korea |
Mar 30 |
Uhuru Kenyatta is declared the rightful winner of the Kenyan presidential election by the Supreme Court |
Mar 31 |
14 Boko Haram suspects are killed in a Nigerian Army raid |
Mar 31 |
11 people are killed in flooding at Port Louis, Mauritius |
Mar 31 |
2 people die from bird flu (type H7N9) in China |
Apr 1 |
9 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Tikrit, Iraq |
Apr 1 |
The world's first smelling TV screen is unveiled in Japan |
Apr 2 |
9 mutilated bodies are found in an SUV in Tamaulipas, Mexico |
Apr 2 |
7 people are killed in an attack on a power plant in Peshawar, Pakistan |
Apr 2 |
Eurozone unemployment reaches a high of 12% |
Apr 2 |
13 children are killed in a fire in a mosque in Yangon, Burma |
Apr 2 |
13 people are killed in a quarry accident, in Arusha, Tanzania |
Apr 2 |
4 more critical cases of bird flu (H7N9) are reported in China |
Apr 2 |
The UN General Assembly approves the first Arms Trade Treaty |
Apr 2 |
Uruguay passes legislation to legalize same-sex marriage |
Apr 3 |
46 people are killed and 100 are injured by a court-house suicide bombing in Farah, Afghanistan |
Apr 3 |
50 people are killed by flooding across Argentina |
Apr 3 |
24 people are killed after a bus plunges off a cliff in Papa New Guinea |
Apr 4 |
74 people are killed after an illegally constructed building collapses in Thane, India |
Apr 4 |
9 people have been killed on an axe-murdering rampage in Chhattisgarh state, India |
Apr 4 |
Poecilotheria rajaei, a giant tarantula with a 20cm leg span, is discovered in Sri Lanka |
Apr 5 |
Japan's Nikkei 225 reaches its highest level in five years |
Apr 5 |
60 people are killed in Nigeria after a bus collides with an oil tanker |
Apr 6 |
22 people are killed and 60 are injured by a suicide bombing at an election campaign tent in Baquba, Iraq |
Apr 6 |
11 people are killed in an attack on a village in Midlu, Nigeria |
Apr 6 |
Bayern Munich win their 23rd German Bundesliga title with 6 games to spare |
Apr 6 |
48th Academy of Country Music Awards: Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert & Jason Aldean wins |
Apr 7 |
15 people, including 9 children, are killed by an air strike on Aleppo by the Syrian Air Force |
Apr 7 |
Sweden wins the 2013 World Men's Curling Championship defeating Canada |
Apr 8 |
15 people are killed and 53 are wounded by a car bombing in Damascus |
Apr 8 |
163 people are killed and 50,000 are displaced after tribal violence erupts in Darfur, Sudan |
Apr 8 |
Filip Vujanović's election as President of Montenegro is confirmed by the electoral commission |
Apr 9 |
12 civilians and UN peacekeepers are killed in an ambush in Jonglei, Sudan |
Apr 9 |
37 people are killed and 850 are injured after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Iran |
Apr 9 |
13 people are killed and 3 are injured from a shooting spree in Velika Ivanča, Serbia |
Apr 9 |
The French Senate approves a bill for same-sex marriage |
Apr 10 |
Japan and Taiwan sign an agreement on fishing rights around the Senkaku Islands |
Apr 11 |
14 people are killed in clashes between drug traffickers and police in Michoacán, Mexico |
Apr 11 |
57 people are killed by the Syrian Army in Daraa Governorate, Syria |
Apr 11 |
Two women are beheaded for sorcery in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea |
Apr 11 |
Fossilized dinosaur eggs with embryos are discovered in China |
Apr 12 |
11 people are killed and 30 are injured in mosque attacks across Iraq |
Apr 12 |
A man-made 32-foot and 60 tonne monument that is dates around 2000 BC is discovered in the Sea of Galilee |
Apr 13 |
8 people are killed after a bomb explodes on a bus in Peshawar, Pakistan |
Apr 13 |
20 civilians are killed by the government bombing of Saraqib, Idlib |
Apr 14 |
20 people are killed in attacks in Mogadishu, Somalia |
Apr 14 |
33 people are killed after a bus tumbled off a cliff in Trujillo, Peru |
Apr 14 |
11 people are killed and 50 are injured after a hotel fire in Xiangyang, China |
Apr 14 |
77th Golf Masters Championship: Adam Scott wins, shooting a 279 |
Apr 14 |
Justin Trudeau, son of long-serving Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, is elected leader of the Liberal Party of Canada |
Apr 15 |
3 people are killed and 183 are injured after two explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon |
Apr 15 |
33 people are killed and 163 are injured in a wave of bombings across Iraq |
Apr 15 |
Nicolás Maduro is narrowly elected President of Venezuela |
Apr 16 |
37 people are killed by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Khash country, Iran |
Apr 16 |
16 people are killed after a gold mine collapses in Kyekyewere, Ghana |
Apr 17 |
5 people are killed in Wana, Pakistan, by a United States drone attack |
Apr 17 |
15 people are killed and 100 are injured after a fertilizer plant explodes in West, Texas |
Apr 17 |
North Korea blocks a South Korean supply delegation from the Kaesong joint industrial zone |
Apr 17 |
Same-sex marriage is legalized in New Zealand |
Apr 18 |
27 people are killed and 65 are injured in a cafe bombing in Baghdad, Iraq |
Apr 18 |
Two earth-like planets are discovered orbiting the star Kepler-62 |
Apr 19 |
Boston bombing suspects killed and captured in Boston after 4 days |
Apr 20 |
193 people are killed and 11,826 are injured after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes Lushan County, China |
Apr 20 |
5 snowboarders are killed by an avalanche in Loveland Pass, Colorado |
Apr 20 |
Giorgio Napolitano is re-elected President of Italy |
Apr 21 |
185 people are killed in a conflict between Islamic extremists and the Nigerian military |
Apr 21 |
Horacio Cartes is elected President of Paraguay |
Apr 21 |
Sebastian Vettel wins the 2013 Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix |
Apr 21 |
Tsegaye Kebede and Priscah Jeptoo win the 2013 London Marathon |
Apr 22 |
6 people are killed in a shooting rampage in Belgorod, Russia |
Apr 22 |
Manchester United defeat Aston Villa to claim the 2012/2013 English Premier League |
Apr 23 |
28 people are killed and 70 are injured during clashes between police and Sunni Muslims in Hawija, Iraq |
Apr 23 |
21 people are killed during violent unrest in Xinjiang, China |
Apr 23 |
A 1% flash crash hits the US stock market after a news agency was hacked and claimed injury to President Obama |
Apr 23 |
The French National Assembly passes an amended bill legalizing same-sex marriage |
Apr 23 |
West Indian cricketer, Chris Gayle, smashes the fastest century in history (30 balls) |
Apr 24 |
33 people are killed and 115 are injured after a magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Jalalabad, Afghanistan |
Apr 24 |
256 people are killed and 1,000 are injured after a building collapses Savar Upazila, Bangladesh |
Apr 25 |
The United Kingdom reopens its embassy in Somalia after 22 years |
Apr 25 |
Kansas City Chiefs select Eric Fisher as the first NFL draft pick |
Apr 25 |
38 people are killed in a psychiatric hospital fire in Ramensky, Russia |
Apr 26 |
30 people are killed after a bus crashes following a Taliban attack in southern Afghanistan |
Apr 27 |
10 people are killed and 25 are injured after a bomb attack in Karachi, Pakistan |
Apr 28 |
8 people are killed and dozens are injured after Taliban attacks on election candidates in Pakistan |
Apr 28 |
3 people are killed and 14 are injured after a gas explosions causes a building to collapse in Reims, France |
Apr 29 |
7 people are killed after a Boeing 747 crashes in Bagram, Afghanistan |
Apr 30 |
13 people are killed after a bomb explodes in Damascus |
Apr 30 |
Willem-Alexander becomes the first male Monarch of Netherlands in 123 years |
Apr 30 |
Apple offers the largest bond offering from a private company of 17 Billion |
Apr 30 |
Hannah Warren, who was born without a trachea, at 2, becomes the youngest patient to receive a stem cell bioengineered organ |
May 1 |
Insurgents kill 6 people in Pattani, Thailand |
May 1 |
15 people are killed by multiple bomb attacks across Iraq |
May 1 |
16 people are killed in a flash flood in Saudi Arabia |
May 1 |
A digital camera is created that can mimic insect compound eyes |
May 2 |
14 members of the Sons of Iraq are killed in attacks in Fallujah, Iraq |
May 2 |
100 people are killed by the Syrian Army in a raid on al-Bayda, Baniyas |
May 2 |
60 miners are killed after a gold mine collapses in Jebel Amir, North Darfur, Sudan |
May 2 |
Rhode Island becomes the tenth US state to legalize same-sex marriage |
May 3 |
Aorun zhaoi, a Theropod dinosaur, dating from 161 million years ago, is discovered in China |
May 3 |
The Palmetto Playground in Brooklyn is renamed after Beastie Boys' rapper Adam Yauch |
May 4 |
5 US soldiers are killed by a bomb in Kandahar, Afghanistan |
May 4 |
77 people are killed by the Syrian Army in Baniyas |
May 4 |
Harper Lee files a lawsuit against a literary agent over the copyright of To Kill a Mockingbird |
May 4 |
39 people are killed at a funeral in Wukari, Nigeria |
May 4 |
Floyd Mayweather defeats Robert Guerrero to retain his WBC Welterweight title |
May 4 |
Juventus F.C. win their 29th Serie A football title |
May 4 |
139th Kentucky Derby: Joel Rosario aboard Orb wins in 2:02.89 |
May 5 |
10 people are killed in a church attack in Njilan, Nigeria |
May 5 |
5 people are killed after a limousine catches fire in Hayward, California |
May 6 |
10 people are killed and 26 people are injured after a wave of attacks across Iraq |
May 6 |
13 people are killed in clashes with Bangladeshi police in Dhaka |
May 6 |
15 people are killed and 50 are injured after a bomb detonates at a political rally in Pakistan |
May 6 |
Wal-Mart becomes the largest company by revenue on the Fortune 500 list |
May 6 |
The US Senate passes a bill enabling taxing of online sales |
May 7 |
55 people are killed by a Boko Haram attack in Nigeria |
May 7 |
The Dow Jones Industrial average and S&P 500 set record highs |
May 7 |
4 people are killed after the Mayon Volcano erupts in the Philippines |
May 7 |
20 people are killed and 36 are injured after a gas tanker explodes in Ecatepec de Morelos, Mexico |
May 7 |
8 people are killed and a dozen are injured after bear attacks in Orissa, India |
May 7 |
Jolly Nero, an Italian cargo ship, crashes into the port of Genoa, killing seven people |
May 7 |
Delaware becomes the 11th US State to legalize same-sex marriage |
May 8 |
33 people are killed after an overloaded bus falls into a river in Himachal Pradesh, India |
May 8 |
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi receives a four year prison sentence for fraud |
May 8 |
Sir Alex Ferguson announces his retirement as Manchester United's manager at the end of the season |
May 9 |
Everton Manager David Moyes is announced to become Sir Alex Ferguson's successor at Manchester United (he only lasted 10 months) |
May 10 |
Joe Sakic is hired by his former team, the Colorado Avalanche, as Executive Vice President of Hockey Operations |
May 10 |
Agnetha Faltskog releases a new album called "A" |
May 11 |
43 people are killed in two car bombings in Reyhanlı, Turkey |
May 11 |
Bayern Munich set a new Bundesliga points record of 91 |
May 11 |
Barcelona wins its fourth La Liga title in four years |
May 12 |
Pope Francis canonizes the 813 martyrs of Otranto as Saints |
May 12 |
Paris Saint-Germain win the Ligue 1 French football title |
May 13 |
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield departs the International Space Station to return to Earth |
May 14 |
Brazil becomes the 15th country to legalize same-sex marriage |
May 15 |
The Eurozone records a recession for the sixth straight quarter |
May 15 |
Chelsea defeats Benfica to win the UEFA Europa League |
May 16 |
Bill Gates becomes the world's richest man with $72.7 billion again after losing the position in 2008 |
May 16 |
Pope Francis calls for ethical financial reform to fight speculation |
May 16 |
Human stem cells are successfully cloned |
May 17 |
90 people are killed and 200 are injured after a series of bombings across Iraq |
May 18 |
RC Toulonnais defeat ASM Clermont Auvergne to win the rugby Heineken Cup final |
May 18 |
139th Preakness: Gary Stevens aboard Oxbow wins in 1:57.54 |
May 19 |
Sweden defeat Switzerland to win the 2013 World Ice Hockey Championship |
May 19 |
21st Billboard Music Awards: Taylor Swift, Red win |
May 20 |
133 people are killed and 283 are injured in a continued wave of insurgency in Iraq |
May 20 |
2 people are killed and 20 are injured after a hot air balloon crashes in Cappadocia, Turkey |
May 20 |
The Church of Scotland votes to allow openly gay men and women to be ministers |
May 20 |
Yahoo purchases Tumbler for $1.1 Billion |
May 21 |
Microsoft announces the release of Xbox One |
May 23 |
Patrick Roy is named head coach of the Colorado Avalanche, his former team where he won two Stanley Cups |
May 24 |
Rafael Correa is sworn into a third term as President of Ecuador |
May 25 |
17 children are killed by a gas cylinder explosion on a school bus in Gujrat, Pakistan |
May 25 |
Bayern Munich defeat Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in the UEFA Champions League Final |
May 25 |
Yuichiro Miura of Japan becomes the oldest person to climb Mount Everest at 80 |
May 26 |
The Mumbai Indians defeat the Chennai Super Kings to win the Indian 20/20 Premier League |
May 26 |
Golfer Matteo Manassero wins the BMW PGA Championship |
May 26 |
Indianapolis 500: Tony Kanaan wins in 2:40:03.4181 (301.644 km/h) |
May 27 |
75 people are killed and 200 are injured in a wave of bombings across Iraq |
May 27 |
The largest flag ever made at 5 tons with 44 miles of thread is unveiled in Romania |
Jun 1 |
Bayern Munich defeat VfB Stuttgart 3-2 to win the DFB-Pokal to become the first German treble-winning team |
Jun 3 |
20 people, including 10 children, are killed by a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan |
Jun 3 |
US extends sanctions against Iran through its automotive industry and currency |
Jun 3 |
119 people are killed in a poultry farm fire in Jilin Province, China |
Jun 5 |
44 people are killed by a lightning storm in Bihar, India |
Jun 5 |
Nawaz Sharif is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan |
Jun 5 |
47th Country Music Association Award: George Strait, Miranda Lambert & Blake Shelton wins |
Jun 5 |
47th CMT Music Awards: Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert & Blake Shelton wins |
Jun 6 |
Kevin Barry's City of Bohane wins the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award |
Jun 7 |
42 people are killed and 30 are injured after a bus catches fire in Xiamen, China |
Jun 7 |
18 people are killed and 14 are injured after a bus plunges off a mountain road in Himachel Pradesh, India |
Jun 8 |
Serena Williams defeats Maria Sharapova to win the French Open in tennis |
Jun 9 |
67th Tony Awards: Kinky Boots & Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike win |
Jun 9 |
Rafael Nadel defeats David Ferrer to win his eighth French Open title |
Jun 9 |
59th LPGA Championship won by Inbee Park |
Jun 10 |
70 people are killed as a series of bombs explode across Iraq |
Jun 12 |
Russia passes a law banning gay propaganda |
Jun 14 |
Hassan Rouhani is elected President of Iran |
Jun 14 |
Massive flooding occurs in northern India killing up to 10,000 people |
Jun 16 |
20 people are killed by a series of car bombings across Iraq |
Jun 16 |
Golfer, Justin Rose wins the 2013 US Open |
Jun 16 |
113th US Golf Open: Justin Rose shoots a 281 at Merion GC PA |
Jun 18 |
31 people are killed and 60 are injured by two suicide bombings in al-Qahira, Baghdad |
Jun 18 |
27 people are killed and 30 are injured by a suicide bomb in Sher Garh, Pakistan |
Jun 18 |
Russia passes a law banning foreign same-sex couples from adopting children |
Jun 19 |
48 people are killed by armed bandits in Zamfara State, Nigeria |
Jun 20 |
Miami heat defeat San Antonio Spurs to win the NBA Finals 4-3 |
Jun 20 |
LeBron James is named NBA finals MVP for the second straight year |
Jun 20 |
67th NBA Championship: Miami Heat beat San Antonio Spurs, 4 games to 3 |
Jun 21 |
15 people are killed and 20 are injured after a suicide bomber attacks a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan |
Jun 23 |
9 tourists and 1 tour guide are killed after gunmen storm a hotel near Nanga Parbat, Pakistan |
Jun 23 |
18 Romanians are killed and 32 are injured after a bus crash in Montenegro |
Jun 23 |
India defeats England to win the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy in cricket |
Jun 24 |
The Chicago Blackhawks defeat the Boston Bruins to win the NHL Stanly Cup Finals |
Jun 25 |
37 people are killed after a gold mine collapses in the Central African Republic |
Jun 26 |
20 people are killed after a rescue helicopter crashes in Uttarakhand |
Jun 26 |
Kevin Rudd defeats Julia Gillard in a leadership battle to become Australian Prime Minister |
Jun 27 |
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj is re-elected President of Mongolia |
Jun 28 |
Jay Onrait and Dan O'Toole's final "Sportscentre" broadcast on TSN |
Jun 30 |
30 people are killed after a fuel truck explodes in Kampala, Uganda |
Jun 30 |
19 fire fighters are killed controlling a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona |
Jul 1 |
Demonstrations occur across Egypt with 15 million people calling for the resignation of their President, Mohammed Morsi |
Jul 1 |
47 people are killed and 90 are wounded in two bomb blasts in Pakistan |
Jul 1 |
Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union |
Jul 2 |
16 people are killed and 200 are injured in protest clashes at Cairo University against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi |
Jul 3 |
Egypt's president, Mohammed Morsi, is deposed by the military with Adly Mansour appointed interim president |
Jul 4 |
12 people are killed and 60 are injured in a wave of shootings across Chicago |
Jul 5 |
15 people are killed by a bomb attack on a Shia mosque in Baghdad, Iraq |
Jul 6 |
42 people are killed in an attack on a boarding school in Mamudo, Nigeria |
Jul 6 |
14 people are killed after a train runs over a rickshaw in Sheikhupura, Pakistan |
Jul 6 |
42 people are killed and 5 missing after a freight train carrying crude oil derailed and set of fires in Lac-Megantic, Quebec |
Jul 6 |
3 people are killed and 181 are injured after a Boeing 777 crash lands at San Francisco Airport |
Jul 6 |
Bob and Mike Bryan defeat Ivan Dogic and Marcelo Melo to win the men's doubles tennis final at Wimbledon |
Jul 6 |
The British Lions defeat Australia 41-16 to win their first rugby Test series since 1997 |
Jul 6 |
120th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Marion Bartoli beats Sabine Lisicki (6-1 6-4) |
Jul 7 |
10 people are killed after an air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska |
Jul 7 |
127th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Andy Murray beats Novak Djokovic (6-4 7-5 6-4) becoming the first British man to win a Wimbledon tennis title since 1936 |
Jul 8 |
42 people have been killed and hundreds injured after the Egyptian army raids a sit in protest in Cairo |
Jul 8 |
A dozen people are killed and injured after a hotel collapses in Hyderbad, India |
Jul 10 |
40 people are buried in landslides in Sichuan Province, China |
Jul 11 |
30 people are killed in a wave of bomb and gun attacks across Iraq |
Jul 12 |
8 people are killed after a commuter train derails in Paris |
Jul 13 |
18 people are killed and 40 are injured after a gravel truck collides with a bus in Podolsk, Russia |
Jul 13 |
Ten people are killed after a bus crash in Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Jul 15 |
13 people are killed by a car bomb in Deir Atiyah, Syria |
Jul 15 |
18 people are killed and 47 are injured in a riot following a boxing match in Indonesia |
Jul 16 |
27 children are killed and 25 are hospitalized after eating lunch contaminated with insecticide in India |
Jul 16 |
84th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-0 at Citi Field, New York |
Jul 17 |
7 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria |
Jul 17 |
58 people are killed in floods in Sichuan Province, China |
Jul 17 |
21st ESPY Awards: LeBron James, Serena Williams win |
Jul 17 |
U2 singer Bono is made a Commandeur of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres |
Jul 18 |
Detroit, Michigan, files for bankruptcy to become the largest US municipal bankruptcy at $18.5 Billion |
Jul 19 |
20 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Diyala, Iraq |
Jul 21 |
15 Egyptian Army soldiers are killed after their bus crashes into a truck on the Mediterranean Coast Highway |
Jul 21 |
12 people are killed in a clash between two Muslim families in Lanao del Sur, Philippines |
Jul 21 |
142nd British Golf Open: Phil Mickelson shoots a 281 at Muirfield Golf Links |
Jul 22 |
89 people are killed and 500 are injured by earthquakes in Gansu province, China |
Jul 22 |
Mike Babcock is named head coach of Team Canada for the second team, this time for the 2014 Winter Olympics (they would repeat as gold medalists) |
Jul 23 |
19 people are killed and 22 are injured after a tour bus collides with a truck in Saraburi, Thailand |
Jul 24 |
22 are left dead after a conflict between the Knights Templar Cartel and Mexican police in Michoacan |
Jul 24 |
80 people are killed and 140 are injured after a high-speed train derails in Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
Jul 26 |
57 people are killed in a market bombing in Parachinar, Pakistan |
Jul 27 |
100 people are killed and 1,500 injured in a crackdown against protesters in Cairo, Egypt |
Jul 27 |
1,000 inmates escape from a prison in Benghazi, Libya |
Jul 27 |
First Przewalski's horse (whose wild populations were believed extinct in 1969) is born via artificial insemination at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute as part of a worldwide effort to rebuild the wild herds |
Jul 28 |
39 people are killed after a bus veers off a bridge in Avellino Province, Italy |
Jul 29 |
44 people are killed in a wave of car bombings in Iraq |
Jul 29 |
300 prisoners are freed after a Taliban attack in Dera Ismal Khan, Pakistan |
Jul 29 |
€103 million of diamonds is stolen from the Carton Intercontinental Hotel, Cannes, France |
Jul 30 |
28 people are killed in a series of bombings in Kano, Nigeria |
Jul 30 |
134 people are killed in tribal conflicts in Darfyr, Sudan |
Jul 30 |
9 children are killed and 20 are injured after a school bus collides with a truck in Hanumangarh, India |
Jul 30 |
Mamnoon Hussain is elected President of Pakistan |
Aug 1 |
Robert Mugabe continues to maintain power after winning 142 out of 210 seats in the Zimbabwean election |
Aug 2 |
40 people are killed after an ammunition depot explodes in Homs, Syria |
Aug 3 |
9 children are killed by a suicide bombing in Jalalabad, Afghanistan |
Aug 3 |
80 people are killed in a wave of insurgency across Iraq |
Aug 3 |
The Chiefs defeat the Brumbies to win the Super 15 Rugby Final |
Aug 4 |
Hassan Rouhani is inaugurated as the President of Iran |
Aug 5 |
160 people are killed by flash floods across Afghanistan and Pakistan |
Aug 5 |
The world's first bovine stem cell lab-grown burger is eaten in London |
Aug 5 |
Alex Rodriquez, New York Yankee MLB player, is banned for 211 games for using human growth hormones |
Aug 6 |
18 people are killed and 55 are wounded by a car bomb explosion in Damascus, Syria |
Aug 6 |
25 people are killed and 60 are wounded by a series of car bombs in Baghdad, Iraq |
Aug 6 |
1 person is killed and 4 are injured after a hot air balloon crash in Montbovon, Sweden |
Aug 6 |
An alleged chemical weapons attack on Damascus, Syria, is claimed by Syrian rebels |
Aug 7 |
11 people are killed by a bombing in Karachi, Pakistan |
Aug 8 |
28 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Quetta, Pakistan |
Aug 8 |
14 people are killed by a bomb explosion in Nangarhar, Afghanistan |
Aug 8 |
4 people are killed and 4 are wounded in a shooting spree in Dallas, Texas |
Aug 9 |
8 people are killed and 24 are injured after gunmen open fire on a Sunni mosque in Quetta, Pakistan |
Aug 10 |
6 people are killed after Paluweh volcano erupts in Indonesia |
Aug 10 |
16 Royal Guardsmen are killed in a bus accident in Al Hoceima, Morocco |
Aug 11 |
22 people are killed by flash floods in Kabul, Pakistan |
Aug 11 |
2 people are killed and 30 are injured after a coach crash in southern France |
Aug 11 |
95th PGA Championship: Jason Dufner shoots a 270 at Oak Hill Country Club |
Aug 12 |
8 people are killed and 25 are injured in a suicide bomb attack in Balad, Iraq |
Aug 12 |
30 people are killed by gunmen in northeast Nigeria |
Aug 12 |
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta is elected President of Mali |
Aug 12 |
Whitey Bulger is found guilty on 31 of 32 counts, and is found to have been involved in 11 murders |
Aug 14 |
14 people are killed and 26 are injured by two roadside bombings in Baqubah, Iraq |
Aug 14 |
638 people are killed in violent clashes between police and protesters across Egypt |
Aug 15 |
20 people are killed and 200 are injured in an explosion in Beirut |
Aug 16 |
61 people are killed after the ferry MV Thomas Aquinas sinks in the Philippines |
Aug 17 |
15 civilians are killed by a Syrian warplane attack in Aleppo |
Aug 17 |
18 people are killed in conflict between Boko Harem and Nigerian military |
Aug 18 |
6 people are killed by a bomb blast on a bus in West Bengal, India |
Aug 19 |
24 Egyptian policemen are killed in an attack in Rafah |
Aug 19 |
37 pilgrims are killed in a train accident in India |
Aug 19 |
91 people are killed by floods across China |
Aug 20 |
9 Islamist militants are killed by Russian police in North Caucasus |
Aug 21 |
37 people are killed and 16 are injured in a bus crash near Chin Swee Temple, Malaysia |
Aug 21 |
21 people are killed in flash floods in Qinghai province, China |
Aug 22 |
14 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Western Iraq |
Aug 23 |
50 people are killed in mosque bombings in Tripoli, Lebanon |
Aug 23 |
26 people are killed and 55 are injured by a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq |
Aug 23 |
UN inspectors are stopped by Syrian government from investigating a reported site of a chemical massacre |
Aug 24 |
4 people are killed in a helicopter crash in the Shetland Islands |
Aug 24 |
30 people are killed in a gang battle involving flame throwers in Palmasola prison, Bolivia |
Aug 25 |
41 people are killed in a wave of bomb attacks across Iraq |
Aug 25 |
4 people are killed and 25 are injured after a train derails in Tabasco, Mexico |
Aug 25 |
30th MTV Awards: Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift & Bruno Mars wins |
Aug 26 |
25,000 applicants to the University of Liberia fail their university entrance examination |
Aug 28 |
China and Russia walk out of a UN Security Council meeting after the US pushes for immediate action against Syria's use of chemical weapons |
Aug 28 |
51 people are killed in a series of bombings across Iraq |
Aug 29 |
41 people are killed and 33 are injured in a bus accident in Kenya |
Aug 30 |
15 people are killed by a liquid ammonia leak at a cold storage plant in Shanghai, China |
Sep 3 |
15 militants are killed by an Egyptian Army helicopter in Sinai Peninsula |
Sep 3 |
Microsoft purchases Nokia for $7.2 Billion |
Sep 6 |
20 people are killed by Islamist militants in villages in northeast Nigeria |
Sep 7 |
14 Syrian rebels and 2 civilians are killed by heavy government shelling of Damascus |
Sep 7 |
15 people are killed by a restaurant car bombing by Al-Shabaab in Mogadishu, Somalia |
Sep 7 |
Tony Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Australia after a Liberal-National Coalitions wins the election |
Sep 8 |
11 people are killed and 18 are injured after a gunfire attack in Guatemala City |
Sep 8 |
11 people are killed after a minibus collides with a train in Lasi, Romania |
Sep 8 |
6 people are killed and 9 are injured after a minibus collides with a car in Jakarta, Indonesia |
Sep 8 |
Sebastian Vettel wins the 2013 Italian Formula One Grand Prix |
Sep 8 |
Serena Williams wins her fifth Women's Singles US Open title |
Sep 9 |
60 people are killed in conflict between rebels and loyalists in the Central African Republic |
Sep 9 |
18 people are killed in conflict between government and Boko Harem troops in Borno State, Nigeria |
Sep 9 |
44 people are killed and 45 are injured after a bus crashes into a ravine in Northern Guatemala |
Sep 9 |
Erna Solberg is elected Prime Minister of Norway after a centre-right coalition wins a majority in their elections |
Sep 9 |
Rafael Nadal defeats Novak Djokovic to win the 2013 US Tennis Open |
Sep 10 |
16 people are killed after a series of bomb attacks across Iraq |
Sep 10 |
3 people are killed after a Canadian Coast Guard helicopter crashes in the Artic Ocean |
Sep 11 |
12 Alawite sect members are killed by rebel fighters in central Syria |
Sep 13 |
30 people are killed by a mosque bombing attack in Baghdad, Iraq |
Sep 13 |
9 people are killed after massive floods in Galati County, Romania |
Sep 15 |
21 people are killed in a series of bombings in Baghdad and Shia provinces, Iraq |
Sep 15 |
27 people are killed after a coal mine collapses in Afghanistan |
Sep 15 |
Japan switches off its last working nuclear reactor |
Sep 15 |
Edi Rama is elected Prime Minister of Albania |
Sep 16 |
21 people are killed by Hurricane Ingrid in Mexico |
Sep 16 |
12 people are killed after a gunman opens fire at a naval yard in Washington DC |
Sep 16 |
Paul Kagame wins the Rwandan presidency in a landslide |
Sep 17 |
6 people are killed after a train and double-decker bus collide in Ottawa, Canada |
Sep 20 |
46 soldiers are killed in army-base attacks in Shabwah Governorate, Yemen |
Sep 20 |
Grand Theft Auto becomes the fastest entertainment product to reach $1 Billion in sales |
Sep 20 |
Greenpeace ship Artic Sunrise is boarded by Russian military |
Sep 20 |
Alex Rodriquez sets new MLB record with 24 Grand Slam home runs for the New York Yankees |
Sep 21 |
6 people are killed in military and insurgent conflict in Zamboanga City, Philippines |
Sep 21 |
100 people are killed in a series of attacks across Iraq |
Sep 21 |
59 people are killed and 175 wounded in a shopping mall gun battle in Nairobi, Kenya |
Sep 22 |
78 people are killed in a church suicide bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan |
Sep 22 |
65th Prime time Emmy Awards: Breaking Bad and Modern Family win |
Sep 22 |
Angela Merkel and the Christian Democrats win a third term with their best result since 1990 in German Federal elections |
Sep 23 |
25 people are killed after Typhoon Usagi passes Hong Kong and China |
Sep 24 |
515 people are killed by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Balochistan, Pakistan |
Sep 25 |
Oracle Team USA defeats Team New Zealand 9-8 to win the America's Cup |
Sep 27 |
7 people are killed in mosque bombings in Baghdad, Iraq |
Sep 27 |
19 people are killed and 45 are injured in a bus bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan |
Sep 27 |
At least 22 people are killed after a refugee ship capsizes off the island of Java |
Sep 27 |
60 people are killed after a building collapses in Mumbai, India |
Sep 28 |
27 villagers are killed by Boko Harem in northeast Nigeria |
Sep 28 |
Hawthorn defeats Fremantle to win the 2013 Australian Rules Premiership |
Sep 29 |
42 people are killed by Boko Harem in a college attack in Gujba, Nigeria |
Sep 29 |
16 people are killed by a Syrian Army air strike that hit a secondary school in Raqqa, Syria |
Sep 30 |
54 people are killed by a series of car bombs in Baghdad, Iraq |
Oct 1 |
A partial United States federal government shutdown occurs as a result of political disagreements over operational spending |
Oct 2 |
8 people are killed and 14 are injured after an accident involving an SUV, church bus, and tractor trailer in Jefferson County, Tennessee |
Oct 3 |
325 people are killed after a migrant ship catches fire and shipwrecks of the coast of Lampedusa, Italy |
Oct 3 |
13 people are killed after a passenger plane crashes in Lagos, Nigeria |
Oct 5 |
Wladimir Klitschko defeats Alexander Povetkin to retain his WBA Heavyweight Championship |
Oct 6 |
53 people are killed in political clashes in Egypt |
Oct 7 |
Mulatu Teshome becomes president of Ethiopia |
Oct 7 |
James Rothman, Randy Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on transport systems in cells |
Oct 8 |
Peter Higgs and François Englert win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the origin of the mass of subatomic particles |
Oct 9 |
60 people are killed in clashes between militias and Seleka rebels in the Central African Republic |
Oct 9 |
Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel win the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on multiscale models for complex chemical systems |
Oct 10 |
Alice Munro is awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for literature |
Oct 11 |
10 people are killed and a hospital fire in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan |
Oct 11 |
27 people are killed after a migrant boat sinks in the Channel of Sicily |
Oct 11 |
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons wins the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize |
Oct 12 |
50 people are killed after a truck veers of a cliff in La Convencion Province, Peru |
Oct 12 |
15 people are killed by a series of explosions in a fireworks factory in Vietnam |
Oct 12 |
Timothy Bradley defeats Juan Manuel Márquez to win the WBA Welterweight boxing title |
Oct 13 |
109 people are killed in a stampede on a bridge in Datia district, Madhya Pradesh, India |
Oct 14 |
Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert Shiller win the 2013 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on asset prices |
Oct 16 |
21 people are killed after a minibus hits a land mine in Nawa, Syria |
Oct 16 |
The United States ends its 16-day government shut down and avoids default in a Bi-partisan deal in the Senate |
Oct 16 |
49 people are killed after Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes in the Mekong River, Laos |
Oct 16 |
18 people are killed after Typhoon Wipha strikes Japan |
Oct 17 |
59 people are killed in a wave of attacks on Shia Muslims in Iraq |
Oct 18 |
Saudi Arabia becomes the first country to turn down a seat on the UN Security Council in protest over Syria |
Oct 19 |
16 people are killed and 30 are wounded by a suicide bombing Beledweyne, Somalia |
Oct 19 |
11 people are killed after a plane crashes in Namur, Belgium |
Oct 20 |
30 people are killed by a suicide truck bomber in Hama, Syria |
Oct 20 |
37 people are killed in a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq |
Oct 20 |
78 people are killed by cattle raiders in Jonglei, Sudan |
Oct 22 |
37 Boko Harem Islamist militants are killed by air and ground strikes in Nigeria |
Oct 22 |
22 security force personal are killed in attacks on military checkpoints in Anbar Province, Iraq |
Oct 23 |
Boston Red Sox defeat St Louis Cardinals in game 1 of the MLB 2013 World Series |
Oct 24 |
St Louis Cardinals defeat Boston Red Sox to tie the MLB 2013 World Series 1-1 |
Oct 25 |
74 Boko Harem members killed in a coordinated assault in Borno State, Nigeria |
Oct 26 |
St Louis Cardinals defeat Boston Red Sox to lead the MLB 2013 World Series 2-1 |
Oct 27 |
38 people are killed in a series of car bombings in Bagdhad, Iraq |
Oct 27 |
18 people are killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan |
Oct 27 |
Giorgi Margvelashvili wins the Georgian Presidential election in a landslide victory |
Oct 30 |
44 people are killed after a bus catches fire in Mahbubnagar, India |
Oct 30 |
The Boston Red Sox defeat the St Louis Cardinals in game 6 to win the MLB 2013 World Series |
Nov 3 |
8 people are killed and 10 are injured after a turboprop plane crashes in northern Bolivia |
Nov 3 |
6 people are killed after an overcrowded ferry sinks in Pattaya, Thailand |
Nov 3 |
Bobby Orr's autobiography "Orr: My Story" debuts at the #8 position on The New York Times best seller list for nonfiction |
Nov 5 |
4 people are killed after a 4-story building under construction collapses in Lagos, Nigeria |
Nov 6 |
8 people are killed and 50 are injured by a suicide bombing in Damascus, Syria |
Nov 6 |
15 people are killed after a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq |
Nov 8 |
11 people are killed in a car park bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia |
Nov 8 |
At least 6,000 people are killed after Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest storm recorded at landfall, makes landfall in the Philippines |
Nov 8 |
27th Soul Train Music Awards: Miguel, Tamar Braxton win |
Nov 9 |
8 people are killed by a gunman in Cali, Columbia |
Nov 9 |
María Gabriela Isler, a 25yo Venezuelan, is crowned Miss Universe 2013 |
Nov 10 |
Spaniard Marc Márquez wins the 2013 MotoGP World Championship to become its youngest ever winner at 20 |
Nov 11 |
4 people are killed and 8 are injured after a building catches fire in Mumbai, India |
Nov 11 |
100 people are killed in a tropical cyclone in the Puntland region, Somalia |
Nov 14 |
Boston gangster Whitey Bulger is sentenced to two consecutive life terms plus five years for his crimes |
Nov 15 |
5 people are killed and 10 are injured after a train derails in Nashik, India |
Nov 15 |
Sony launches the Playstation Four, selling one million units on the first day |
Nov 17 |
102nd Davis Cup: Czech Republic beats Serbia in Belgrade (3-2) |
Nov 17 |
Sebastian Vettel wins a record breaking eighth consecutive Formula One race in the 2013 United States Grand Prix |
Nov 17 |
50 people are killed after a Boeing 737 aircraft crashes in Kazan, Russia |
Nov 17 |
Abdulla Yameen becomes the President of the Maldives |
Nov 17 |
Giorgi Margvelashvili becomes the President of Georgia |
Nov 17 |
Jimmie Johnson wins the NASCAR Sprint Cup for the sixth time |
Nov 18 |
20 people are killed after a train collides with a minibus in Cairo, Egypt |
Nov 19 |
23 people are killed by a suicide bombing attack on the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon |
Nov 21 |
31 people are killed by a truck bomb in northeaster Iraq |
Nov 21 |
The Alabama parole board grants posthumous pardons to three members of the Scottsboro boys |
Nov 21 |
54 people are killed after the roof of a supermarket collapses in Riga, Latvia |
Nov 22 |
Norwegian, Magnus Carlsen defeats Viswanathan Anand to win the 2013 World Chess Championship |
Nov 23 |
Filipino Manny Pacquiao defeats American Brandon Rios to win the World Boxing Organization International Welterweight title |
Nov 24 |
40th American Music Award: Taylor Swift & Justin Timberlake win |
Nov 24 |
101st CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan Roughriders defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 45-23 |
Nov 25 |
17 people are killed and 37 are wounded in a cafe bombing in Baghdad, Iraq |
Nov 26 |
Due to a street tirade captured on video, Alec Baldwin's show "Up Late with Alec Baldwin" is cancelled after only five episodes |
Nov 27 |
Tiger Woods is named PGA Tour's player of the year for the 11th time |
Nov 27 |
Greece becomes the first developed market to be demoted into an emerging market by the MSCI index |
Nov 27 |
"Frozen", the highest-grossing animated film of all time, starring Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell, is released |
Nov 30 |
Australia defeats New Zealand to win the Rugby League World Cup |
Dec 2 |
China launches its first moon rover mission |
Dec 4 |
Xavier Bettel becomes Luxenberg's first openly gay Prime Minister |
Dec 5 |
52 people are killed and 167 are injured in a militant attack on a defense ministry compound in Sana'a, Yemen |
Dec 6 |
Pope Francis gives his ascent to a proposal to create a permanent post on the Pontifical Commission on cases of sin and sexual abuse of minors |
Dec 6 |
A 2-year old boy dies from Ebola in Meliandou, Guinea |
Dec 9 |
Mike Ditka's #89 jersey is retired by the Chicago Bears |
Dec 10 |
Mary Barra of General Motors becomes the first female CEO of a major automotive company |
Dec 10 |
Uruguay becomes the first country to legalize the growth, sale, and use of marijuana |
Dec 11 |
Pope Francis is named Time magazine's person of the year |
Dec 11 |
20 people are killed by the bubonic plague in a small Madagascan village |
Dec 12 |
The United States announces sanctions on the two dozen companies who assisted Iran with their nuclear program |
Dec 15 |
Michelle Bachelet is elected President of Chile |