Notable Historical Events on December 13th
December 13th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1294 |
Saint Celestine V abdicates the papacy after only five months; Celestine hoped to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit. |
1545 |
Council of Trent (19th ecumenical council) opened by Pope Paul III |
1570 |
Sweden/Denmark signs Peace of Stettin |
1572 |
Spanish army beats Geuzen fleet (confederacy of Calvinist Dutch nobles) under admiral Lumey |
1577 |
Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around world |
1621 |
Emperor Ferdinand II delegates 1st anti-Reformation decree |
1636 |
The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard. |
1642 |
Dutch explorer Abel Tasman sights the South Island of present day New Zealand; initially he calls it Staten Landt and changes it a year later to Nieuw Zeeland |
1643 |
English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire. |
1668 |
Jean Racine's "Britannicus" premieres in Paris |
1734 |
England & Russia sign trade agreement |
1742 |
Willem KH Friso tests his mothers potatoes |
1759 |
1st music store in America opens (Phila) |
1769 |
Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter |
1774 |
1st incident of American Revolution - 400 attack Ft William and Mary, New Hampshire |
1816 |
Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston |
1823 |
Gioacchino Rossini arrives in London |
1833 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port Deseado, Patagonia |
1861 |
Battle of Alleghany Summit, WV |
1862 |
Battle of Fredericksburg, VA (Marye's Heights) |
1864 |
Battle of Ft McAllister, GA |
1879 |
1st federal fish hatching steamer lauched (Wilmington Delaware) |
1889 |
Belgium rules on women/child labor law |
1895 |
1st complete execution of Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony |
1900 |
Battle at Nooitgedacht: generals The la Rey/Smuts beat Britten |
1901 |
Test debut of S F Barnes v Aust SCG, took 5-65 in 1st innings |
1902 |
British and German ships begin to bombard the Venezuelan forts after President Castro refuses to comply with an ultimatum demanding that he claims for damages caused during his takeover of the government in 1899; Castro asks US President Roosevelt to arbitrate |
1903 |
Italo Marcioni patents ice cream cone mound (NJ) |
1903 |
Wright Bros make 1st flight at Kittyhawk |
1906 |
German chancellor Bernhard von Bulow disbands the Parliament |
1907 |
George Gunn scores 119 on Test debut v Australia SCG |
1907 |
German emperor Wilhelm II visits Amsterdam |
1913 |
British foreign minister Sir Edward Grey proposes that southern Albania be divided between Greece and Albania with compensation to Greece in the Aegean islands |
1916 |
Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian & Italian troops in 24 hrs in Tyrol |
1916 |
Esme Stuart Lennox Robinsons premieres in Dublin |
1916 |
French chief of staff Joffre replaced by Nivelle |
1918 |
US army of occupation crosses Rhine, enters Germany |
1918 |
Wilson, becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as president (France) |
1919 |
Ross & Smith land in Australia from a flight from London |
1920 |
F Pease's interferometer at Mount Wilson Observatory is the first to measure the diameter of a star (Betelgeuse) |
1920 |
League of nations establishes Intl Court of Justice in The Hague |
1920 |
Netherland breaks contact with kingdom of Serbia, Croatia & Slavia |
1922 |
Charles Ebbets proposes putting numbers on players' sleeves or caps |
1924 |
KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions |
1928 |
Clip-on tie designed |
1928 |
George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres (NYC) |
1930 |
George Sisler's career ends when Boston Braves release him |
1930 |
Theodore Steeg forms French government |
1934 |
Mark Hellinger Theater (Warner Bros) opens at 237 W 51st St NYC |
1936 |
Final Boston Redskin NFL game, lose to Packers 21-6, move to Wash DC |
1936 |
Green Bay Packers win NFL championship |
1938 |
Los Angeles freezes at 28°F |
1939 |
Battle of the River Plate - 3 British cruisers vs German pocket battleship Graf Spee |
1941 |
German occupiers forbid National Front & Netherland Union |
1941 |
Lawine battlers destroy Haaraz, Peru; about 3,000 die |
1941 |
U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal |
1942 |
Seyss-Inquart allows Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert to call himself Leader |
1942 |
Washington Redskins defeat Chic Bears 14-6, to win NFL title |
1943 |
150 US Marauders bomb Schiphol |
1944 |
Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138 |
1944 |
Norman Krasna's "Dear Ruth" premieres in NYC |
1946 |
Leon Blum elected French premier |
1947 |
"Caribbean Carnival" closes at International NYC after 11 perfs |
1947 |
Maine Turnpike opens to traffic |
1949 |
AL votes down proposal to revive spitball |
1949 |
Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capital to Jerusalem |
1950 |
"Let's Make an Opera" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 5 perfs |
1950 |
James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial |
1953 |
KOAM TV channel 7 in Pittsburg-Joplin, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield & $35,000 Robinson retires |
1959 |
Archbishop Makarios elected 1st president of Cyprus |
1960 |
Italy beats US in Davis cup (1st time in 24 years US not in finals) |
1960 |
Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane |
1961 |
Beatles sign a formal agreement to be managed by Brian Epstein |
1961 |
Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann |
1961 |
Jimmy Dean's Big Bad John album is country music 1st million $ seller |
1962 |
Relay 1 communication satellite launched |
1963 |
Capital records signs right of 1st refusal agreement with Beatles |
1964 |
Shirley Englehorn & Sam Snead wins Haig & Haig Mixed Foursome Golf |
1964 |
In El Paso, Tx, LBJ & Mexican Pres Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-Mexico border |
1965 |
Algerian president Boumedienne visits Moscow |
1966 |
1st US bombing of Hanoi |
1966 |
1st battle for Bijlmer flats Amsterdam |
1966 |
Test debut of Clive Lloyd, v India Bombay, 82 & 78 |
1966 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1967 |
United Soccer Association & Natl Pro Soccer League merge into NASL |
1967 |
Unsuccessful coup against Greek King Constantine II |
1967 |
San Diego, CA records snow at a zero elevation after temperatures plunge 19 degrees (F) in eight hours. |
1968 |
Playland at Beach reopens |
1968 |
Pres Da Costa e Silva disbands parliament/grabs power |
1969 |
Arlo Guthrie releases "Alice's Restaurant" |
1969 |
Billy Martin fired as Twins' manager |
1970 |
Greg Chappell scores 108 on Test debut v England at the WACA |
1970 |
Neil Simon's "Gingerbread Lady" premieres in NYC |
1971 |
John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed |
1973 |
MPLA/FNLA accord about combat against Portuguese Libya |
1973 |
World Football League grants 1st franchise (Detroit) |
1974 |
Jim "Catfish" Hunter wins free agent claim against A's owner Finley |
1974 |
Malta becomes a republic |
1975 |
1st time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Richard Pryor hosts) |
1975 |
Australian Conservatives & Liberals win parliamentary election |
1975 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA 14 Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament |
1975 |
Roy Fredericks hits 169 v Aust at WACA, hundred in 71 balls |
1975 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1976 |
Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur |
1976 |
Longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to SF 13h14m) |
1977 |
14 University of Evansville basketball players die in plane crash |
1979 |
"Oklahoma!" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 301 performances |
1979 |
Strikes against price increases in Gdansk Poland |
1979 |
Saudi Arabia raises marker crude price to $24 per barrel |
1980 |
"Perfectly Frank" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 16 perfs |
1981 |
70th Davis Cup: USA beats Argentina in Cincinnati (3-1) |
1981 |
Polish government declares martial law, arrests Solidarity activists |
1982 |
71st Australian Mens Tennis: Johan Kriek beats Steve Denton (63 63 62) |
1982 |
Earthquake hits Northern Yemen; 2,000 die |
1983 |
9,655 see highest-scoring NBA game: Detroit 186, Denver 184 (3 OT) |
1983 |
Islander's Butch Goring scorings 4 goals against Oilers |
1983 |
KYA-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KOIT |
1983 |
Martha Layne Collins inaugurated as Kentucky's 1st female governor |
1984 |
Artificial heart recipient William Schroeder suffers 1st stroke |
1985 |
David Boon's 1st Test century, 123 v India at Adelaide |
1985 |
Test debut of Merv Hughes, Geoff Marsh & Bruce Reid (v India) |
1987 |
Belgium Christian Democrats (CVP) loses parliamentary election |
1987 |
Browns set club record for most points scored in a quarter, 28 |
1987 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1988 |
3 men end 29-hr all-466-station subway ride in NYC |
1988 |
Arafat addresses UN in Geneva |
1989 |
Walter Davis (Denver) ends NBA free throw streak of 53 games |
1989 |
The last issue of Gnistan (The Spark), the organ of the Solidaritetspartiet, is published in Sweden. |
1990 |
"Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 45 performances |
1990 |
Heavy earthquake strikes Sicily, 18 die |
1990 |
South African President De Klerk meets with Nelson Mandela to talk of end of apartheid |
1990 |
US Secretary of State Baker questions Iraq's seriousness about Middle East peace |
1991 |
Both Koreas sign an accord calling for reconcilliation |
1991 |
NY assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud |
1991 |
Ricky Pierce (Seattle) ends NBA free throw streak of 75 games |
1992 |
"Show Off" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances |
1992 |
Dawn Coe-Jone wins Pizza-La LPGA Match Play Golf Championship |
1992 |
FCC fines Infinity Broadcasting $600,000 |
1993 |
Deadline for Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza, they don't |
1993 |
Dow Jones hits record 3764.43 |
1993 |
Fire in textile factory in Fuzjou China, 60 killed |
1993 |
Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5), lands |
1994 |
American Eagle commuter plane crashes in NC, killing 15 |
1995 |
Christopher Reeves released from physical rehab center |
1995 |
US Federal Court votes that Cable companies must carry local stations |
1996 |
Free agent Roger Clemens signs with Toronto Blue Jays |
1996 |
Kofi Annan is elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations. |
1997 |
63rd Heisman Trophy Award: Charles Woodson, Michigan (CB) |
2000 |
The "Texas 7" escape from the John Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas later going on a crime spree and killing police officer Aubrey Hawkins |
2000 |
American Vice President Al Gore delivers his concession speech effectively ending his hopes of becoming the 43rd President of the United States. |
2001 |
the Indian Parliament Sansad is attacked by terrorists. 15 people are killed, including all the terrorists. |
2002 |
Enlargement of the European Union: The European Union announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members from May 1, 2004. |
2003 |
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit (see Operation Red Dawn). |
2004 |
Former Chilean dictator, General Augusto Pinochet is put under house arrest, after being sued under accusations over 9 kidnapping actions and manslaughter. The house arrest is lifted the same day on appeal. |
2006 |
The Baiji, or Chinese River Dolphin, announced as extinct. |
2007 |
The Mitchell Report is publicly released listing the names of 89 Major League Baseball players that have presumably used anabolic steroids and human growth hormones. Notable players to be named include Roger Clemens and Miguel Tejada. |
2012 |
A car bombing in Qatana, outside Damascus, kills 16 people and injures 12 |
2012 |
Japan scrambles fighter jets in response to a Chinese plane in the Senkaku Islands dispute |
2015 |
First women elected to office in Saudi Arabia |
2015 |
Explosion at bus stop kills 12 people in Pakistan |
2015 |
Fire kills 23 people at Russian psychiatric hospital |
2015 |
At least 87 killed in latest Burundi violence |
2015 |
Russia fires on Turkish ship to 'avoid collision' in Aegean Sea |
2016 |
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin End Election Recount Efforts |
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