Historical Events - September 13

1788 – New York became the federal capital of the United States.

1898  – Hannibal Goodwin patented celluloid photographic film.

1922 – The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.

1948 – Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabh Bhai Patel ordered the army to move into Hyderabad to integrate it with the Indian Union. 

1985  – Super Mario Bros. was released in Japan for the NES, which started the Super Mario series of platforming games.

1985 – The World Health Organization (WHO) announced in Geneva that AIDS was then a worldwide epidemic.

1989  – South Africa’s biggest anti-apartheid demonstration in 30 years took place today in Cape Town. 20,000 people of all races marched to the City Hall in protest of the police killings of 23 protesters during the whites’ only election last week.

1993  – In a historic ceremony on the lawn of the White House, Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasir Arafat have signed a peace accord after months of secret negotiation.

2008  – Delhi, India, was hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.

Famous Birthdays– September 13

1857 – Milton Snavely Hershey, an American chocolate manufacturer who built the World’s largest chocolate factory to make his Hershey Bars and established the Hershey Foundation, in which his wealth was used for educational purposes.

1860 – John Pershing, American general who commanded the US Expeditionary force in Europe in World War I.

1865 – William Birdwood, Indian-English field marshal.

1886 – Robert Robinson, English chemist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.

1890 – Antony Noghes, French Monegasque businessman, founded the Monaco Grand Prix.

1916 – Roald Dahl, British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot, and screenwriter.

1959 – Rajeev Shukla, Indian politician.

1967 – Michael Johnson, American runner famous for his upright style, who won double Olympic gold in Atlanta 1996.

1969 – Shane Warne, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster.

1976 – Ro Khanna, American politician.

1980 – Viren Rasquinha, Indian field hockey player.

Death Anniversaries – September 13

81 AD – Titus, Roman emperor.

1592 – Michel de Montaigne, French essayist and diarist.

1598 – The Habsburg King Philip II of Spain, The World’s most powerful ruler.

1806 – Charles James Fox, English statesman. He was taken ill and dies at home in London, just as he was about to introduce a bill abolishing slavery. 

1929 – Jatin Das, an Indian independence activist and revolutionary.

2004 – Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-invented the birth-control pill.

2012 – Ranganath Misra, Indian lawyer, and jurist, 21st Chief Justice of India.