About December 13
December 13, 2022 is the 347th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 18 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 40 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 13
- 1545 –Council of Trent begins.
- 1577 –Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.
- 1642 –Abel Janszoon Tasman reaches New Zealand.
- 1643 –English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire.
- 1769 –Dartmouth College is founded by the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, with a Royal Charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal Governor John Wentworth.
- 1809 –Dr. Ephraim McDowell performed the first ovariotomy, removing a 22 pound tumor.
- 1862 –American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats the Union Major General Ambrose E. Burnside.
- 1938 –The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.
- 1941 –World War II: Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States.
- 1959 –Archbishop Makarios becomes the first President of Cyprus.
- 1960 –While Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard seizes the capital and proclaim him deposed and his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, Emperor.
- 1967 –Constantine II of Greece attempts an unsuccessful counter-coup against the Regime of the Colonels
- 1974 –Malta becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations
- 1981 –General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland to prevent dismantling of the communist system by Solidarity.
- 1989 –Attack on Derryard checkpoint: The Provisional Irish Republican Army launch an attack on a British Army nonpermanent vehicle checkpoint near Rosslea, Northern Ireland. Two British soldiers are killed and one badly wounded.
- 2000 –Al Gore concedes the U.S. presidential election to George W. Bush.
- 2000 –The “Texas 7” escape from the John Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas and go on a robbery spree, during which police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot and killed.
- 2001 –The King of Perlis has has sweared and signed the proclamation of the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong,thus became the de jure 12th Yang Di-Pertuan Agong,the head of state of Malaysia.He replaced the Sultan of Selangor,whose died in office for five years.
- 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).
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