About December 13

December 13, 2025 is the 347th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 18 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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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 66 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On December 13

  • 1294 –
    Saint Celestine V resigns the papacy after only five months; Celestine hoped to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit.
  • 1545 –
    Council of Trent begins.
  • 1642 –
    Abel Janszoon Tasman reaches New Zealand.
  • 1769 –
    Dartmouth College is founded by the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, with a Royal Charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal Governor John Wentworth.
  • 1809 –
    Dr. Ephraim McDowell performed the first ovariotomy, removing a 22 pound tumor.
  • 1867 –
    Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six.
  • 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.
  • 1959 –
    Archbishop Makarios becomes the first President of Cyprus.
  • 1962 –
    NASA Relay 1 launch, first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
  • 1967 –
    Constantine II of Greece attempts an unsuccessful counter-coup against the Regime of the Colonels
  • 1974 –
    Malta becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations
  • 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.
  • 1979 –
    The Canadian Government of Prime Minister Joe Clark is defeated in the House of Commons, prompting the 1980 Canadian election.
  • 1981 –
    General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland to prevent dismantling of the communist system by Solidarity.
  • 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.
  • 2003 –
    Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit (see Operation Red Dawn).

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