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Events on the 13th of September in history

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13 Sep 0122 Building begins on Hadrian's Wall
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13 Sep 0335 Emperor Constantine the Great consecrated the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
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13 Sep 0379 Yax Nuun Ayiin I is coronated as 15 Ajaw of Tikal
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13 Sep 0509 The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
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13 Sep 0533 Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimum, near Carthage, North Africa.
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13 Sep 0585 Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia.
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13 Sep 0604 Sabinian begins his reign as Pope replacing Pope Gregory the Great
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13 Sep 0604 Sabinian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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13 Sep 1125 Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg crowned as German King Lotharius III
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13 Sep 1229 Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii: Mongolia.
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13 Sep 1437 Battle of Tangier: a Portuguese expeditionary force initiates a failed attempt to seize the Moroccan citadel of Tangier.
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13 Sep 1501 Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
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13 Sep 1504 Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built.
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13 Sep 1541 After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism.
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13 Sep 1549 Pope Paul III signs Council of Bologna
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13 Sep 1553 English Hugh Latimer arrested
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13 Sep 1556 Charles V and Maria of Hungary march into Spain
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13 Sep 1574 Turkish fleet recaptures Tunis
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13 Sep 1579 Breda forms Union of Utrecht
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13 Sep 1584 San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.
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13 Sep 1609 Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him – the Hudson River.
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13 Sep 1625 16 Rabbis (including Isiah Horowitz) are imprisoned in Jerusalem
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13 Sep 1625 Rabbi Isiah Horowith & 15 other rabbis arrested in Jerusalem
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13 Sep 1631 Admiral Tholen conquerors 30+ Spanish frigates
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13 Sep 1663 1st serious slave conspiracy in colonial America (Virginia)
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13 Sep 1743 Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.
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13 Sep 1751 England signs Austrian and Russian alliance
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13 Sep 1759 British beat French forces at Plains of Abrahams (Quebec)
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13 Sep 1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham: the British defeat the French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
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13 Sep 1759 Wolfe defeats Montcalm on Plains of Abraham; Canada becomes English
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13 Sep 1782 American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
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13 Sep 1787 Prussian army moves into Netherlands
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13 Sep 1788 New York City becomes 1st capital of US
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13 Sep 1788 The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital.
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13 Sep 1788 New York City becomes capital of the United States
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13 Sep 1789 1st loan to US Government (from NYC banks)
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13 Sep 1791 King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
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13 Sep 1800 Curacao in English hands (until Jan 1803)
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13 Sep 1808 Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.
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13 Sep 1812 War of 1812: A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
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13 Sep 1814 In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore. During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", which is later set to music and becomes the United States' national anthem.
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13 Sep 1843 The Greek Army rebels (OS date: September 3) against the autocratic rule of king Otto of Greece, demanding the granting of a constitution.
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13 Sep 1847 American-Mexican war: US General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City
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13 Sep 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.
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13 Sep 1848 Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives a 3-foot 7-inch (1.1 m) iron rod being driven through his head; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions.
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13 Sep 1849 1st US prize fight fatality (Tom McCoy)
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13 Sep 1850 First ascent of Piz Bernina, the highest summit of the eastern Alps.
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13 Sep 1858 Hamburg-US ship Austria catches fire and sinks, 471 die
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13 Sep 1861 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Florida
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13 Sep 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.
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13 Sep 1867 Gen E R S Canby orders SC courts to impanel blacks jurors
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13 Sep 1869 Jay Gould and James Fisk attempt to control US gold market
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13 Sep 1881 Lewis Latimer invents and patents electric lamp with a carbon filament
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13 Sep 1882 Battle at Count el-Kebir: British troops invade Egypt
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13 Sep 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War: The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought.
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13 Sep 1882 Britain invades Egypt
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13 Sep 1883 Cleveland Hugh Daily no-hits Philadelphia 1-0
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13 Sep 1883 Hugh Daily, a one-armed pitcher for Cleveland (Forest City), tosses 1-0 no-hitter against Philadelphia
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13 Sep 1898 20,000 Paris construction workers go on strike
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13 Sep 1898 Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
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13 Sep 1899 Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
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13 Sep 1899 Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m – 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
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13 Sep 1900 Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.
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13 Sep 1906 First flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
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13 Sep 1906 1st airplane flight in Europe
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13 Sep 1907 Interprovincial Rugby Football union (Big Four) forms with Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders and Montreal Foot Ball
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13 Sep 1909 Ty Cobb clinches AL HR title with his 9th HR (all inside-the-park)
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13 Sep 1910 Regina Rugby Club forms
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13 Sep 1914 World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
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13 Sep 1914 World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
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13 Sep 1918 Train accident at Weesp Neth, kills 42
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13 Sep 1922 The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
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13 Sep 1922 136.4
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13 Sep 1923 Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
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13 Sep 1924 19th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Philadelphia (5-0)
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13 Sep 1925 1st US University for Blacks, Xavier University, opens in New Orleans
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13 Sep 1925 Brooklyn Dodger Dazzy Vance no-hits Phillies, 10-1
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13 Sep 1927 Yanks clinch pennant, Ruth hits 2 HRs (52 en route to 60)
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13 Sep 1927 Waite Hoyt became the only 20 game winner of the 1927 Yankees
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13 Sep 1928 KOH-AM in Reno NV begins radio transmissions
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13 Sep 1930 50th US Mens Tennis: J H Doeg beats Francis Shields (10-8 16 64 16-14)
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13 Sep 1930 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 20,000m (1:04:38.4)
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13 Sep 1930 Tommy Armour wins PGA golf tournament
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13 Sep 1931 Captain G H Stainworth flies world speed record (655 km/h)
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13 Sep 1931 Right-radical coup of Dr Pfrimer fails in Austria
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13 Sep 1932 New York Yankees clinch their 7th AL pennant
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13 Sep 1933 Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
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13 Sep 1934 Judge Landis sells World Series broadcast rights to Ford for $100,000
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13 Sep 1935 Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the International Railway (New York–Ontario).
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13 Sep 1936 Cleve Bob Feller strikes out then record 17 in a game (vs Phila A's)
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13 Sep 1939 Igor Stravinsky invents 1st helicopter
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13 Sep 1940 Buckingham Palace destroyed by German bombs
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13 Sep 1940 Italian troops under Marshal Graziani attack Egypt
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13 Sep 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.
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13 Sep 1942 Cubs shortstop Leonard Merullo makes 4 errors in 1 inning
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13 Sep 1942 German forces attack Stalingrad
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13 Sep 1943 German counter attack at Salerno
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13 Sep 1943 Having been Generalissimo since 1928, Chiang Kai-shek elected President
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13 Sep 1943 The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe.
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13 Sep 1943 Chiang Kai-shek became president of China
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13 Sep 1944 30th Infantry division of US 1st Army frees Margraten
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13 Sep 1944 Last transport out camp Westerbork to Bergen Belsen
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13 Sep 1944 US 28th Infantry division opens assault on Siegfried line / Westwall
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13 Sep 1946 Boston Red Sox clinch AL pennant
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13 Sep 1947 WPVI TV channel 6 in Philadelphia, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
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13 Sep 1948 Deputy Primer Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel ordered the Army to move into the Hyderabad to integrate it with Indian Union.
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13 Sep 1948 Margaret Chase Smith is elected senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
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13 Sep 1948 Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress
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13 Sep 1949 Ladies Pro Golf Association of America formed in New York City
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13 Sep 1951 St. Louis Cardinals beat the New York Giants 6-4 (rescheduled from 9 / 12) then at night lose to Boston Braves 2-0
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13 Sep 1952 Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected President of Mexico
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13 Sep 1953 Nikita Khrushchev appointed 1st Secretary General of the USSR
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13 Sep 1953 Pitcher Bob Trice is 1st black to play on Philadelphia Athletics
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13 Sep 1953 Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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13 Sep 1954 Reds Ted Kluszewski scores a run in record 17 consecutive games
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13 Sep 1954 WPBN TV channel 7 in Traverse City, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
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13 Sep 1956 Dike around Dutch polder Eastern Flevoland closes
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13 Sep 1956 The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
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13 Sep 1956 The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
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13 Sep 1958 Braves Warren Spahn is 1st lefty to win 20 or more games 9 times
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13 Sep 1958 Queen Juliana christens passenger ship Rotterdam
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13 Sep 1959 73rd US Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Christine Truman (61 64)
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13 Sep 1959 79th US Mens Tennis: Neale Fraser beats Alejandro Olmedo (63 57 62 64)
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13 Sep 1959 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open
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13 Sep 1959 USSR's Luna 2 becomes 1st probe to contact another celestial body
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13 Sep 1960 Dutch 1st Chamber condemns soccer-law
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13 Sep 1961 "Car 54 Where are You?" premieres on TV
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13 Sep 1961 Battles between UN and Katanga troops in Congo
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13 Sep 1961 "Car 54 Where are You?" premiers on TV
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13 Sep 1961 Unmanned Mercury-Atlas 4 launched into Earth orbit
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13 Sep 1963 Barbra Striesand and Elliot Gould marry
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13 Sep 1963 "The Outer Limits" premiers
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13 Sep 1964 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council opens in Rome
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13 Sep 1964 78th US Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Carole Graebner (61 60)
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13 Sep 1964 84th US Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Frederick S Stolle (64 62 64)
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13 Sep 1964 St. Louis is 1st NL to score runs in every game since 1923, win 15-2
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13 Sep 1964 WKEF TV channel 22 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
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13 Sep 1964 South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh.
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13 Sep 1965 Beatles release "Yesterday"
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13 Sep 1965 Beatles win 1st Grammy, for Best Group of 1964
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13 Sep 1965 Beatles release "Yesterday"
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13 Sep 1965 Today Show's 1st totally color broadcast
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13 Sep 1965 Willie Mays hits his 500th HR
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13 Sep 1966 Johannes Balthazar Vorster sworn in as Premier of South Africa
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13 Sep 1968 Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
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13 Sep 1969 Baltimore Orioles, win earliest AL Eastern division title
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13 Sep 1969 Bobby Bonds is baseballs 4th 30-HR, 30-steal player
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13 Sep 1970 1st NYC Marathon won by Gary Muhrcke in 2:31:38
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13 Sep 1970 84th US Womens Tennis: M Smith Court beats Rosemary Casals (62 26 61)
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13 Sep 1970 90th US Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Tony Roche (26 64 76 63)
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13 Sep 1970 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open
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13 Sep 1970 Palestine guerillas conquer Irbid Jordania
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13 Sep 1970 IBM announces System 370 computer
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13 Sep 1971 11 guards and 31 prisoners die in take over at Attica State Prison
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13 Sep 1971 WIIQ TV channel 41 in Demopolis, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
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13 Sep 1971 State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt.
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13 Sep 1971 Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees the People's Republic of China after the failure of an alleged coup. His plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.
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13 Sep 1971 9 hostages & 28 prisoners die in take over at Attica State Prison
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13 Sep 1971 Frank Robinson hits his 500th HR
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13 Sep 1971 World Hockey Association formed
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13 Sep 1972 1st TV broadcast of "Waltons" on CBS
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13 Sep 1973 Syrian / Israeli dogfight over Mediterranean Sea
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13 Sep 1973 ABC announces it obtained TV rights for the 1976 Olympics
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13 Sep 1973 Congress passes & sends a bill to Nixon to lift football's blackout
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13 Sep 1974 1st broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC-TV
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13 Sep 1974 Phillies set NL record, using 27 players in a game, St Louis uses 24, tying record of 51. Phils win 7-3 in 17
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13 Sep 1976 2nd Enterprise, approach & lands test (ALT) flight (5m28s)
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13 Sep 1977 General Motors introduces 1st US diesel auto (Oldsmobile 88)
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13 Sep 1977 1st TV viewer discretion warning-Soap
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13 Sep 1977 2nd test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
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13 Sep 1978 1st flight of McDonnell Douglas F-18A Hornet
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13 Sep 1978 New York Yanks win to gain sole possession of 1st place from 14 games back
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13 Sep 1979 China PR performs nuclear test
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13 Sep 1979 South Africa grants Venda independence (Not recognized out of South Africa)
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13 Sep 1979 South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
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13 Sep 1980 1st United Negro College Fund
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13 Sep 1981 33rd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Hill St. Blue, Judd Hirsh and Isabel Sanford wins
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13 Sep 1981 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
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13 Sep 1981 33rd Emmy Awards (Hill Street Blues big winner)
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13 Sep 1981 April Moon sets women's handbow distance record of 1,039 yds & 13"
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13 Sep 1981 Atlanta Falcons tie record of 31 points in 4th quarter (vs Green Bay)
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13 Sep 1981 John McEnroe beats Bj
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13 Sep 1982 50 die in Spantax Airlines DC-10 on takeoff from Malaga, Spain
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13 Sep 1982 Joe Lefevre gets 6 hits in one baseball game
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13 Sep 1983 Dan Quisenberry record 39th season save
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13 Sep 1983 US mint strikes 1st gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle)
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13 Sep 1984 Simon Peres forms Israeli government with Likoed
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13 Sep 1984 STS 41-G launch vehicle moves to launch pad
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13 Sep 1985 2nd MTV Awards: Bruce Springsteen
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13 Sep 1985 Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.
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13 Sep 1985 John Williams introduces the new Today Show theme
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13 Sep 1986 Kellye Cash (Tenn), 21, crowned 60th Miss America 1987
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13 Sep 1986 Bert Blyleven gives up a record 44 HRs in a season
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13 Sep 1986 Kellye Cash (Miss Tennessee) crowned Miss America
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13 Sep 1987 Cesium-137 stolen from abandoned hospital in Rio de Janeiro
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13 Sep 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.
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13 Sep 1987 Paul Lynch of Great Britain does 32,573 push-ups in 24 hours
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13 Sep 1988 9 hard / software manufacturers announce EISA computer bus in New York
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13 Sep 1988 Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).
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13 Sep 1988 10th time, 4 players hit baseball major-league record grand slams
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13 Sep 1988 Hurricane Gilbert becomes strongest (26.13 barometer) hurricane in Western Hemisphere
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13 Sep 1989 "Les Miserables, " opens at Fisher Theatre, Detroit
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13 Sep 1989 Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa
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13 Sep 1989 Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
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13 Sep 1989 Fay Vincent named baseball commissioner
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13 Sep 1990 Commuter train at Johannesburg South Africa attacked, 36 die
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13 Sep 1990 Robert E Nederlander appointed New York Yankee managing general partner
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13 Sep 1990 Iraqi troops storm the residence of French ambassador in Kuwait
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13 Sep 1990 Senate Judiciary Com opens hearing on confirmation of David Souter
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13 Sep 1991 Joe Carter is 1st to have 3 consecutive 100-RBI seasons with 3 differ teams
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13 Sep 1991 Joe Coleman 3rd 100 RBI season in a row 3 teams (Cleve, SD & Toronto)
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13 Sep 1991 Kim Zmeskal is 1st American to win a medal at World Gymnastics Championships, she wins the gold with 39.848 pts
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13 Sep 1991 A 55 ton concrete beam falls in Montreal's Olympic Stadium
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13 Sep 1992 112th US Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Pete Sampras (36 64 76 62)
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13 Sep 1992 Nancy Lopez wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship
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13 Sep 1992 New York Giants trailing Dallas Cowboys 34-0 in 3rd, lose 34-28
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13 Sep 1992 Steffan Edberg beats Pete Sampress to win US Open
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13 Sep 1993 Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Peres and PLO-Abu Mazen sign peace accord
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13 Sep 1993 Junxia Cheek runs ladies world record 3000m (8:06.11)
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13 Sep 1993 Queens New York begins required recycling
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13 Sep 1993 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
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13 Sep 1994 George Burns, undergoes surgery to drain fluid from his brain
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13 Sep 1994 Space probe Ulyssus passes south pole of Sun
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13 Sep 1994 Ulysses probe passes the Sun's south pole.
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13 Sep 1996 Phil Simmons scores 171 and takes 6-14 for Leics vs. Durham
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13 Sep 1997 Katherine Shindle (Ill), 24, crowned 71st Miss America 1998
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13 Sep 1998 112th US Womens Tennis
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13 Sep 1998 SAFECO Golf Classic
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13 Sep 2001 Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.
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13 Sep 2006 Kimveer Gill kills one student and injures 19 more in the Dawson College shooting.
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13 Sep 2007 The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
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13 Sep 2008 Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
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13 Sep 2008 Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston and surrounding areas.
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13 Sep 2013 Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead and about 20 civilians injured.
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