About September 13
September 13, 2020 is the 257th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 109 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 152 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 13
- 335 –Emperor Constantine the Great consecrated the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
- 533 –General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near Carthage, North Africa.
- 1213 –End of Battle of Muret, during the Albigensian Crusade to destroy the Cathar heresy.
- 1812 –War of 1812: A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
- 1814 –In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1847 –Mexican-American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American troops under General Winfield Scott capture Mexico City in the Mexican-American War.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee’s battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
- 1899 –Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
- 1914 –World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
- 1914 –World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
- 1923 –Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
- 1933 –Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
- 1935 –Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the International Railway (New York – Ontario).
- 1953 –Nikita Khrushchev is appointed secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1964 –South Vietnamese Generals Lam Van Phat and Duong Van Duc fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyen Khanh.
- 1971 –People’s Republic of China: Chairman Mao Zedong’s second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees the country via plane after the failure of alleged coup against Mao. The plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.
- 1987 –Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.
- 1988 –Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).
- 2007 –The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
- 2008 –Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
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