SomeFacts | September 13

On this day - September 13

Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his ...

The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill ...

533 — Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the ...

1229 — Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe ...

1437 — Battle of Tangier: a Portuguese expeditionary force initiates ...

1609 — Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after ...

1645 — Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Scottish Royalists are defeated by ...

1743 — Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the ...

1759 — Battle of the Plains of Abraham: the British defeat the French ...

1782 — American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the ...

1788 — The Congress of the Confederation sets the date for the first ...

1791 — King Louis XVI accepts the new French constitution.

1807 — Beethoven's Mass in C major, Op. 86, is premiered, ...

1808 — Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under ...

1812 — War of 1812: A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ...

1814 — In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to ...

1843 — The Greek Army rebels (OS date: September 3) against the ...

1847 — Mexican–American War: Six teenage military cadets known as ...

1848 — Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives an iron rod ...

1862 — American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. ...

1880 — The Basuto Gun War breaks out after the Basuto launch a ...

1882 — Anglo-Egyptian War: The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought.

1898 — Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.

1899 — Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of ...

1900 — Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the ...

1906 — The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight ...

1922 — The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of ...

1923 — Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera ...

1933 — Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New ...

1942 — World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge ...

1944 — World War II: Start of the Battle of Meligalas between the ...

1948 — Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and ...

1948 — Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel orders the ...

1953 — Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the ...

1956 — The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.

1956 — The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer ...

1962 — An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit ...

1964 — Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd of 20,000 West ...

1964 — South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức fail ...

1968 — Cold War: Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.

1971 — Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor ...

1971 — State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's ...

1979 — South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" ...

1982 — Spantax Flight 995 crashes at Málaga Airport during a rejected ...

1985 — Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which ...

1986 — A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes Kalamata, Greece with a ...

1987 — Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an ...

1988 — Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the ...

1989 — Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond ...

1993 — Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with ...

1997 — A German Air Force Tupolev Tu-154 and a United States Air ...

2001 — Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after ...

2007 — The McLaren F1 team are found guilty of possessing ...

2007 — The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted ...

2008 — Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in ...

2013 — Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in ...