About December 13
December 13, 2024 is the 348th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 18 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 47 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 13
- 1545 –Council of Trent begins.
- 1577 –Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.
- 1642 –Abel Janszoon Tasman reaches New Zealand.
- 1643 –English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire.
- 1867 –Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six.
- 1937 –Nanjing Massacre. Japanese troops begin carrying out several weeks of raping and killing of civilians and suspected Chinese resistance after the fall of Nanjing.
- 1937 –Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanjing – Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese.
- 1938 –The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.
- 1939 –World War II: Battle of the River Plate – Captain Hans Langsdorff of the German Deutschland class cruiser (pocket battleship) Admiral Graf Spee engages with Royal Navy cruisers HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles.
- 1941 –World War II: Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States.
- 1943 –World War II: The Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupying forces in Greece.
- 1949 –The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem.
- 1959 –Archbishop Makarios becomes the first President of Cyprus.
- 1967 –Constantine II of Greece attempts an unsuccessful counter-coup against the Regime of the Colonels
- 1977 –A DC-3 aircraft chartered from the Indianapolis-based National Jet crashes near Evansville Regional Airport, killing 29, including the University of Evansville basketball team, support staff and boosters of the team.
- 1988 –Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat gives a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in the Swiss city of Geneva after the United States authorities refused to give him a visa to enter New York.
- 2001 –The Indian Parliament Sansad is attacked by terrorists. 15 people are killed, including all the terrorists.
- 2001 –The King of Perlis has has sweared and signed the proclamation of the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong,thus became the de jure 12th Yang Di-Pertuan Agong,the head of state of Malaysia.He replaced the Sultan of Selangor,whose died in office for five years.
- 2002 –Enlargement of the European Union: The European Union announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members from May 1, 2004.
- 2003 –Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit (see Operation Red Dawn).
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