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Events on the year of 2013 in history

Events
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01 Jan 2013 At least 60 people are killed and 200 injured in a stampede after celebrations at Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
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02 Jan 2013 Barack Obama signs the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012.
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04 Jan 2013 A gunman kills eight people in a house-to-house rampage in Kawit, the Philippines.
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09 Jan 2013 A SeaStreak ferry traveling to lower Manhattan, New York City, crashes into the dock, injuring 85 people.
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10 Jan 2013 More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan.
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11 Jan 2013 One French soldier and 17 militants are killed in a failed attempt to free a French hostage in Bulo Marer, Somalia.
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15 Jan 2013 A train carrying Egyptian Army recruits derails near Giza, Greater Cairo, killing 19 and injuring 120 others.
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16 Jan 2013 An estimated 41 international workers are taken hostage in an attack in the town of In Aménas, Algeria.
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27 Jan 2013 Two hundred forty-two people die in a nightclub fire in the city of Santa Maria, Brazil.
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29 Jan 2013 A gunman kills a school bus driver and holds a 6-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker in Midland City, Alabama.
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29 Jan 2013 SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashes near the Kazakh city of Almaty, killing 21 people.
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30 Jan 2013 Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea.
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31 Jan 2013 An explosion at the Pemex Executive Tower in Mexico City kills at least 33 people and injures more than 100.
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01 Feb 2013 The Shard, the tallest building in the European Union, is opened to the public.
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06 Feb 2013 A 8.0 magnitude earthquake hits the Solomon Islands killing 10 people and injuring 17 others.
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07 Feb 2013 At least 51 people are killed in a crash involving a bus and truck in Zambia.
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08 Feb 2013 A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada.
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09 Feb 2013 A 6.9 magnitude earthquake strikes southwest Colombia causing major disruption to the region and injuring at least 15 people.
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10 Feb 2013 Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.
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13 Feb 2013 A plane crash kills five people and injures nine others in Donetsk, Ukraine.
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15 Feb 2013 A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14.
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16 Feb 2013 A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town in Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others.
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18 Feb 2013 Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million during a raid at Brussels Airport in Belgium.
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20 Feb 2013 The smallest extrasolar planet, Kepler-37b is discovered.
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21 Feb 2013 At least 17 people are dead and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad.
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26 Feb 2013 A hot air balloon crashes near Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 people.
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27 Feb 2013 Five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured in a shooting at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland.
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27 Feb 2013 At least 19 people are killed when a fire breaks out at an illegal market in Kolkata, India.
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28 Feb 2013 Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church becoming the first pope to do so since 1415.
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03 Mar 2013 A bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 45 people and injured 180 others in a predominately Shia Muslim area.
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13 Mar 2013 Pope Francis is elected, in the papal conclave, as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
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17 Mar 2013 The largest meteorite (since NASA started observing the Moon in 2005) hit the Moon.
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19 Mar 2013 A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.
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22 Mar 2013 At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand.
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27 Mar 2013 A 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes near Taipei, Taiwan, injuring 97 people.
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29 Mar 2013 A landslide kills 66 people in China's Tibet Autonomous Region near Lhasa.
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29 Mar 2013 At least 36 people are killed when a 16-floor building collapses in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
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03 Apr 2013 More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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04 Apr 2013 More than 70 people are killed in a building collapse in Thane, India.
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08 Apr 2013 The Islamic State of Iraq enters the Syrian Civil War and begins by declaring a merger with the Al-Nusra Front under the name Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham
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09 Apr 2013 At least 13 people are killed and another three injured after a man goes on a spree shooting in the Serbian village of Velika Ivanča.
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09 Apr 2013 A 6.1–magnitude earthquake strikes Iran killing 32 people and injuring over 850 people.
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12 Apr 2013 Two suicide bombers kill three Chadian soldiers and injure dozens of civilians at a market in Kidal, Mali.
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15 Apr 2013 Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others.
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16 Apr 2013 A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, killing at least 35 people and injuring 117 others.
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18 Apr 2013 A suicide bombing in a Baghdad cafe kills 27 people and injures another 65.
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19 Apr 2013 Boston Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is captured while hiding in a boat inside a backyard in Watertown, Massachusetts.
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20 Apr 2013 A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing more than 150 people and injuring thousands.
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22 Apr 2013 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrest and charge two men with plotting to disrupt a Toronto area train service in a plot claimed to be backed by Al-Qaeda elements.
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22 Apr 2013 Six people die in a shooting in Belgorod, Russia.
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23 Apr 2013 At least 28 are dead and more than 70 are injured as violence breaks out in Hawija, Iraq.
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24 Apr 2013 Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people.
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24 Apr 2013 A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others.
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29 Apr 2013 A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, injures 43 people.
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30 Apr 2013 Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicates and Willem-Alexander becomes King of the Netherlands.
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06 May 2013 Three women missing for more than a decade are found alive in the U.S. city of Cleveland, Ohio. Their captor, Ariel Castro, is taken into custody.
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10 May 2013 One World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.
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11 May 2013 Fifty-two people are killed in a bombing in Reyhanlı, Turkey.
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14 May 2013 Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declares a state of emergency in the northeast states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa due to the terrorist activities of Boko Haram.
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15 May 2013 An upsurge in violence in Iraq leaves more than 389 people dead over three days.
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17 May 2013 Two Metro-North commuter trains collide near Bridgeport, Connecticut injuring at least 72 people.
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20 May 2013 An EF5 tornado strikes the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others.
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23 May 2013 The Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington.
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25 May 2013 Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India.
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30 May 2013 Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage.
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31 May 2013 The asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries.
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03 Jun 2013 The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.
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08 Jun 2013 The Wedding of Princess Madeleine of Sweden and Christopher O'Neill takes place in Stockholm, Sweden.
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23 Jun 2013 Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.
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24 Jun 2013 Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is found guilty of abusing his power and having sex with an underage prostitute, and is sentenced to seven years in prison.
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25 Jun 2013 Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani becomes the 8th Emir of Qatar.
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26 Jun 2013 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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26 Jun 2013 Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injuring 21 others.
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26 Jun 2013 Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani became Prime Minister of Qatar.
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27 Jun 2013 NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.
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01 Jul 2013 Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.
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01 Jul 2013 The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) begins its operative peacekeeping mandate in Mali.
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01 Jul 2013 Neptune's moon S/2004 N 1 is discovered.
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02 Jul 2013 The International Astronomical Union names Pluto's fourth and fifth moons, Kerberos and Styx.
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03 Jul 2013 2013 Egyptian coup d'état: President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi is overthrown by the military after four days of protests all over the country calling for Morsi's resignation, to which he didn't respond. President of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt Adly Mansour is declared acting president.
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04 Jul 2013 The Death of Hung Chung-chiu: A Republic of China Army corporal dies under suspicious circumstances while serving a detention sentence during his enlisted service.
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13 Jul 2013 George Zimmerman is found not guilty in the shooting of Trayvon Martin.
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16 Jul 2013 As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India.
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18 Jul 2013 The Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
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14 Aug 2013 Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.
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15 Aug 2013 At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video.
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15 Aug 2013 The Smithsonian announces the discovery of the olinguito, the first new carnivoran species found in the Americas in 35 years.
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16 Aug 2013 The ferry St. Thomas Aquinas collides with a cargo ship and sinks at Cebu, Philippines, killing 61 people and 59 others missing.
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02 Sep 2013 The new eastern span of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opened to traffic, being the widest bridge in the world.
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08 Sep 2013 Eleven people are killed in a train collision in Iași County, Romania.
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11 Sep 2013 A 400 km long human chain called Catalan Way is organized by the Assemblea Nacional Catalana for the independence of Catalonia
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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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16 Sep 2013 A gunman kills twelve people at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.
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18 Sep 2013 Cygnus Orb-D1 is launched into space.
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21 Sep 2013 al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, killing at least 67 people.
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22 Sep 2013 At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a church in Peshawar, Pakistan.
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24 Sep 2013 A 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes southern Pakistan, killing more than 327 people.
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29 Sep 2013 Over 42 people are killed by members of Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture in Gujba, Nigeria.
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01 Oct 2013 The U.S. federal government shuts down non-essential services after it is unable to pass a budget measure.
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03 Oct 2013 At least 134 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa.
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03 Oct 2013 The Gambia withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
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12 Oct 2013 Fifty-one people are killed after a truck veers off a cliff in La Convención Province in Peru.
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13 Oct 2013 A stampede breaks out on a bridge near the Ratangarh Mata Temple in Datia district, Madhya Pradesh, India during the Hindu festival Navratri, killing 115 people and injuring more than 110.
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15 Oct 2013 A 7.2-magnitude earthquake strikes the Philippines, resulting in more than 215 deaths.
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16 Oct 2013 Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people.
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19 Oct 2013 At least 105 people were injured in a train crash at the Once railway station in Buenos Aires.
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21 Oct 2013 Record smog closes schools, roadways, and the airport in Harbin, China.
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22 Oct 2013 The Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to legalize same-sex marriage with the Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013
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28 Oct 2013 Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers just outside the Forbidden City in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China.
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29 Oct 2013 Turkey opens a sea tunnel connecting Europe and Asia across the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul.
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30 Oct 2013 45 people die after a bus fuel tank catches fire in the Indian city of Mahbubnagar.
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03 Nov 2013 A solar eclipse sweeps across Africa, Europe and the Eastern United States.
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05 Nov 2013 India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.
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28 Nov 2013 A 5.6 earthquake in Iran kills seven people and injures 45 others.
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29 Nov 2013 LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 crashes in Namibia, killing 33 people.
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01 Dec 2013 China launches Yutu or Jade Rabbit, its first lunar rover, as part of the Chang'e 3 lunar exploration mission.
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01 Dec 2013 A derailment of a Metro-North Railroad train near Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx, New York City kills four and injures 61.
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04 Dec 2013 Xavier Bettel becomes Luxembourg's first openly gay Prime Minister.
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05 Dec 2013 Militants attack a Defense Ministry compound in Sana'a, Yemen, killing at least 56 people and injuring 200 others.
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08 Dec 2013 Riots break out in Singapore after a fatal accident in Little India.
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09 Dec 2013 At least seven are dead and 63 are injured following a train accident near Bintaro, Indonesia.
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14 Dec 2013 A reported coup attempt in South Sudan leads to continued fighting and hundreds of casualties.
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16 Dec 2013 A bus falls from an elevated highway in the Philippines capital Manila killing at least 18 people with 20 injured.
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17 Dec 2013 The anti-corruption operation in Turkey begins with high profile detainments.
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20 Dec 2013 China successfully launches the Bolivian Túpac Katari 1 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
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29 Dec 2013 A suicide bomb attack at the Volgograd-1 railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd kills at least 18 people and wounds 40 others.
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30 Dec 2013 More than 100 people are killed when anti-government forces attack key buildings in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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