About September 13
September 13, 2023 is the 256th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 109 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 150 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 13
- 533 –General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near Carthage, North Africa.
- 1229 –Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii: Mongolia.
- 1584 –San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.
- 1609 –Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him – the Hudson River.
- 1759 –Battle of the Plains of Abraham: British defeat French near Quebec City in the Seven Years’ War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
- 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.
- 1850 –First ascent of Piz Bernina, the highest summit of the eastern Alps.
- 1882 –The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
- 1899 –Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m – 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
- 1900 –Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.
- 1906 –First flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
- 1914 –World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
- 1922 –The temperature at 'Aziziya, Libya reaches a world record 57.8 °C.
- 1933 –Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
- 1942 –World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson’s Ridge in the Guadalcanal campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Imperial Japanese Army with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
- 1979 –South Africa grants independence to the “homeland” of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
- 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.
- 1989 –Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
- 1993 –Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
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