December 13

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on December 13. From 1900 until now. December 13 is under the sign of Sagittarius. Famous birthdays on this day include Taylor Swift (1989), Amy Lee (1981) and Jamie Foxx (1967). Several movies were released around December 13 over the years, such as Doctor Zhivago in 1965 directed by David Lean and Two Women in 1960 directed by Vittorio De Sica.
But much more happened on December 13 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Roman festivals - Tellus was worshipped in the district Carinae at the Esquiline Hill, and a lectisternium or table was spread for Ceres.
R.C. Saints - memorial of Saint Lucy
Also see December 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
In the Julian calendar before the Gregorian reform, this was the shortest day and longest night, and widely celebrated as such
In the Irish calendar the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday following the Feast of Saint Lucy were observed as Quarter tense.
Malta - Republic Day (since 1974)
St. Lucia's Day in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.
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2018 Northern Mali conflict: Jihadists on motorcycles kill around 42 people in a series of attacks targeting Tuareg camps in Mali. (CBC News)
2017 Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen: At least 30 people are reported to have been killed in Saudi-led coalition air strikes on a rebel military police camp in Yemen's capital, Sanaa. (BBC)
2016 Botroseya Church bombing: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility for the Egyptian Coptic Church bombing in Cairo that claimed 25 lives on 11 December. (IBT)
2015 War in North-West Pakistan: At least 25 people are killed and dozens injured in a bombing at a second-hand clothes market in the city of Parachinar in the Kurram Valley. (Pakistan Tribune) (The News)
2014 Taliban insurgency: Gunmen assassinate Atiqullah Rawoofi, the head of the Secretariat of the Supreme Court of Afghanistan, in the outskirts of Kabul. (AP)Twenty-one people die in attacks across Afghanistan including two American soldiers. (AP via Washington Post)
2013 Syrian Civil War:: The European Union is criticized by Amnesty International for meager assistance of Syrian refugees. (Los Angeles Times)
2012 Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov confirms his country is working on mobilization plans to evacuate its citizens from Syria. In the statement, the Foreign Ministry acknowledges for the first time that the rebels might win as the Syrian government is losing control of more and more territory. (Reuters)
2011 Pakistan police rescues 50 boys from a dungeon in Karachi, Pakistan. Police reports say that the dungeon was equipped with shackles and hooks. The prisoners say they were beaten and threatened and that, if they had tried to escape, they would have been forced to join Jihad militants. (The Telegraph)
2010 A Liberian owned cargo vessel with 24 Filipino crew is seized by Somali pirates 550 nautical miles from the coast of India. (Xinhua)
2009 Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair states in an interview that he would have gone to war in Iraq even if he had known that it had no weapons of mass destruction. (The Times) (The Daily Telegraph)
2008 Leaders from China, Japan, and South Korea meet on the island of Kyūshū to discuss a response to the financial crisis. (BBC)
2007 Former US Senator George J. Mitchell publicly releases a report accusing 88 retired and active Major League Baseball players of anabolic steroid use.
2006 The Baiji, or Chinese River Dolphin, is announced as extinct.
2005 Conflict in Iraq:: Four American soldiers are killed following an IED attack in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. (AP)The U.S. ambassador issues a statement saying that the total number of abused prisoners found so far in jails run by the Shiite-led Interior Ministry is about 121. (AP)
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.
2003 Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit (see Operation Red Dawn).
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.
2001 U.S. President George W. Bush announces the United States' withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
2000 US Vice President Al Gore concedes defeat to Texas Governor George W. Bush in the presidential election.
1997 63rd Heisman Trophy Award: Charles Woodson, Michigan (CB).
1996 Free agent Roger Clemens signs with Toronto Blue Jays.
1995 Christopher Reeves released from physical rehab center
1994 American Eagle commuter plane crashes in North Carolina, killing 15.
1993 Dow Jones hits record 3764.43
1992 Show Off closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
1991 Ricky Pierce (Seattle SuperSonics) ends NBA free throw streak of 75 games.
1990 Peter Pan opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 45 performances
1989 Walter Davis (Denver Nuggets) ends NBA free throw streak of 53 games.
1988 Arafat addresses UN in Geneva
1987 Belgium Christian Democrats (CVP) lose parliamentary election.
1985 Test debut of Merv Hughes, Geoff Marsh and Bruce Reid (vs. India)
1984 Artificial heart recipient William Schroeder suffers first stroke.
1983 9,655 see highest-scoring NBA game: Detroit 186, Denver 184 (3 OT)
1982 Earthquake hits Northern Yemen; 2,000 die
1981 Polish government declares martial law, arrests Solidarity activists
1980 Perfectly Frank closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 16 performances
1979 Oklahoma! opens at Palace Theater NYC for 301 performances
1978 Susan B Anthony dollar, 1st US coin to honor a woman, issued
1977 Entire University of Evansville basketball team (14 players) die in plane crash.
1976 Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur, California.
1975 1st time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Richard Pryor hosts)
1974 Malta becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations
1973 MPLA / FNLA accord about combat against Portuguese Libya
1972 Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or ''Moonwalk'' of Apollo 17. This is the last manned mission to the moon of the 20th century.
1971 John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed
1970 Greg Chappell scores 108 on Test debut versus England at the WACA.
1968 Playland at Beach reopens
1967 Unsuccessful coup against Greek King Constantine II.
1966 1st battle for Bijlmer flats Amsterdam
1964 In El Paso, Texas, US President Lyndon Johnson and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-MTxico border.
1962 Relay 1 communication satellite launched.
1961 Beatles sign a formal agreement to be managed by Brian Epstein
1960 Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane.
1959 Archbishop Makarios becomes the first President of Cyprus.
1953 KOAM TV channel 7 in Pittsburg-Joplin, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 Future British Prime Minister Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher.
1950 James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial.
1949 AL votes down proposal to revive spitball
1947 Caribbean Carnival closes at International NYC after 11 performances
1944 Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138.
1943 150 US Marauders bomb Schiphol.
1942 Seyss-Inquart allows Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert to call himself Leader.
1941 U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier Ark Royal
1939 Battle at La Plata - 3 British cruisers vs. German Graf Spee
1938 The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.
1937 Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanjing : Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese.
1936 Final Boston Redskins NFL game, lose to Green Bay Packers 21-6, move to Washington DC.
1934 Mark Hellinger Theater (Warner Bros) opens at 237 W 51st St, New York City
1930 Theodore Steeg forms French government.
1928 Clip-on tie designed
1924 KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
1920 Netherlands breaks contact with kingdoms of Serbia, Croatia and Slavia.
1919 Ross and Smith land in Australia from a flight from London.
1918 US army of occupation crosses the Rhine, enters Germany.
1916 Esme Stuart Lennox Robinsons premieres in Dublin.
1913 Mona Lisa stolen in August 1911 returned to Louvre
1907 George Gunn scores 119 on Test debut versus Australia Sydney Cricket Ground.
1903 Italo Marcioni patents the ice cream cone (New Jersey).
1901 Test debut of S F Barnes versus Australia Sydney Cricket Ground, took 5-65 in first innings.
1900 Battle at Nooitgedacht: generals The la Rey / Smuts beat Britten
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