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September 13 is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years ). There are 109 days remaining in the year.
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1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 Fiction 6 External links
Events 509 BC - The temple of Jupiter on Rome 's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
122 - The building of Hadrian's Wall begins.
533 - General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium , near Carthage , North Africa .
604 - Pope Sabinian is consecrated.
1440 - Gilles de Rais is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes .
1503 - Michelangelo begins work on his David .
1609 - Henry Hudson reaches the river that will later be named after him - the Hudson River .
1743 - Great Britain , Austria and Savoy -Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms (1743) .
1759 - Battle of the Plains of Abraham : British defeat French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War , known in the United States as the French and Indian War .
1788 - The United States Constitutional Convention sets the date for the country's first presidential election, and New York City becomes the temporary capital of the U.S. .
1791 - King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution .
1814 - The British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland . Turning point in the War of 1812 .
1814 - Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner
1847 - Mexican-American War : Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec . American General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City in the Mexican-American War .
1862 - American Civil War : Union soldiers find Robert E. Lee 's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland . It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam .
1882 - The important Battle of Tall al Kabir is fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War .
1898 - Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film .
1899 - Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
1900 - Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa , during the Philippine-American War .
1906 - First fixed-wing aircraft flight in Europe .
1914 - During World War I , South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia ) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station .
1922 - The temperature (in the shade) at Al 'Aziziyah , Libya reaches a world record 136.4 °F (58 °C).
1923 - Military coup in Spain - Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship .
1935 - Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the Great Gorge and International Railway .
1939 - Canada enters World War II .
1940 - World War II: German bombs damage Buckingham Palace .
1940 - World War II: Italy invades Egypt .
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.
1943 - Chiang Kai-shek elected president of the Republic of China .
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 .
1953 - Nikita Khrushchev appointed secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union .
1956 - The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
1956 - IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305 .
1965 - Baseball : Willie Mays becomes the fifth member of the 500 home run club with a home run at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas .
1968 - Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact .
1971 - State police and National Guardsmen storm New York 's Attica Prison to end a prison revolt. 42 people die in the assault.
1979 - South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognized outside South Africa ).
1985 - Nintendo releases Super Mario Bros.
1987 - Goiânia accident : A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia , Brazil , contaminating many people in the following weeks and leading some to die from radiation poisoning .
1988 - Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere (based on barometric pressure ).
1989 - Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa , led by Desmond Tutu .
1993 - Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords , an Israeli -Palestinian peace agreement initiated by Norway .
1993 - First episode of Late Night With Conan O'Brien airs in the United States of America .
1994 - Ulysses probe passes the Sun 's south pole.
1996 - Rapper Tupac Shakur dies in the hospital from gunshot wounds sustained September 7 .
1999 - Bomb explodes in Moscow , Russia . At least 119 people are killed.
2001 - Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 attacks .
2006 - At Dawson College (Montreal ), Kimveer Gill kills one student and wounds 19 others before committing suicide.
Births 1087 - John II Comnenus , Byzantine Emperor (d. 1143 )
1475 - Cesare Borgia , Italian aristocrat (d. 1507 )
1502 - John Leland , English antiquarian (d. 1552 )
1520 - William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley , English statesman (d. 1598 )
1604 - William Brereton , English soldier and politician (d. 1661 )
1739 - Grigori Potemkin , Russian statesman (d. 1791 )
1766 - Samuel Wilson , possible namesake of Uncle Sam (d. 1854 )
1775 - Laura Secord , Canadian war heroine (d. 1868 )
1802 - Arnold Ruge , German philosopher and writer (d. 1880 )
1813 - John Sedgwick , American Civil War general (d. 1864 )
1819 - Clara Schumann , German pianist and composer (d. 1896 )
1830 - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach , Austrian writer (d. 1916 )
1842 - John H. Bankhead , U.S. Senator (d. 1920 )
1851 - Walter Reed , American physician and biologist (d. 1902 )
1857 - Michał Drzymała , Polish peasant rebel (d. 1937 )
1857 - Milton S. Hershey , American confectioner (d. 1945 )
1860 - John J. Pershing , American general (d. 1948 )
1863 - Arthur Henderson , British politician and union leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1935 )
1873 - Constantin Carathéodory , Greek mathematician (d. 1950 )
1874 - Arnold Schoenberg , Austrian-born composer (d. 1951 )
1876 - Sherwood Anderson , American writer (d. 1941 )
1877 - Wilhelm Filchner , German explorer (d. 1957 )
1877 - Stanley Lord , captain of the SS Californian the night of the Titanic disaster (d. 1962 )
1882 - Ramón Grau , Cuban president (d. 1969 )
1885 - Wilhelm Blaschke , Austrian geometer (d. 1962 )
1886 - Sir Robert Robinson , British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1975 )
1886 - Amelie Beese , German aviator and sculptor. (d. 1925 )
1887 - Lavoslav Ruzicka , Croatian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976 )
1893 - Larry Shields , American musician (d. 1953 )
1894 - J.B. Priestley , English playwright and novelist (d. 1984 )
1894 - Julian Tuwim , Polish poet (d. 1953 )
1895 - Morris Kirksey , American rugby player (d. 1981 )
1899 - Corneliu Zelea Codreanu , leader of the Iron Guard (d. 1938 )
1903 - Claudette Colbert , French-born actress (d. 1996 )
1911 - Bill Monroe , American singer (d. 1996 )
1916 - Roald Dahl , British writer (d. 1990 )
1918 - Dick Haymes , Argentine vocalist (d. 1980 )
1917 - Robert Ward , American composer
1922 - Charles Brown , American singer and pianist (d. 1999 )
1923 - Edouard Boubat , French photographer (d. 1999 )
1924 - Scott Brady , American film actor (d. 1985 )
1924 - Maurice Jarre , French composer
1925 - Mel Tormé , American singer (d. 1999 )
1926 - Emile Francis , Canadian ice hockey player and executive
1929 - Nicolai Ghiaurov , Bulgarian opera singer (d. 2004 )
1931 - Barbara Bain , American actress
1936 - Stefano Delle Chiaie , Italian neo-Nazi
1937 - Don Bluth , American animator
1938 - Judith Martin , American etiquette writer
1939 - Richard Kiel , American actor
1940 - Óscar Arias , Costa Rican politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1941 - Tadao Ando , Japanese architect
1941 - Ahmet Necdet Sezer , 10th President of Turkey
1941 - David Clayton-Thomas , Canadian singer (Blood, Sweat & Tears )
1944 - Jacqueline Bisset , British actress
1944 - Peter Cetera , American musician (Chicago )
1945 - Noël Godin , Belgian humorist
1946 - Frank Marshall , American film producer
1948 - Nell Carter , American actress (d. 2003 )
1948 - Dimitri Nanopoulos , Greek physicist
1949 - Fred Sonic Smith , American musician (MC5 ) (d. 1994 )
1950 - Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz , Polish politician
1951 - Jean Smart , American actress
1951 - Linda Wong , Asian adult actress (d. 1987 )
1952 - Randy Jones , American musician (The Village People )
1952 - Raymond O'Connor , American actor
1952 - Don Was , American singer
1955 - Joe Morris , American musician
1961 - Dave Mustaine , American musician (Megadeth )
1961 - KK Null , Japanese musician
1965 - Zak Starkey , British musician
1966 - Maria Furtwängler , German physician
1967 - Michael Johnson , American athlete
1967 - Tim 'Ripper' Owens , American singer (Iced Earth , ex-Judas Priest )
1968 - Emma Sjöberg , Swedish model
1968 - Bernie Williams , Puerto Rican baseball player
1969 - Shane Warne , Australian cricketer
1970 - Jason Scott Sadofsky , American programmer
1971 - Goran Ivanišević , Croatian tennis player
1971 - Stella McCartney , English activist
1973 - Christine Arron , French runner
1973 - Fabio Cannavaro , Italian footballer
1973 - Kelly Chen , Chinese singer
1973 - Marcelinho Paulista , Brazilian footballer
1974 - Craig Rivet , Canadian ice hockey player
1974 - Keith Murray , American rapper
1975 - Joe Don Rooney , American musician (Rascal Flatts )
1976 - Giorgos Koltzos , Greek footballer
1976 - Craig McMillan , New Zealand cricketer
1976 - José Théodore , Canadian ice hockey player
1977 - Fiona Apple , American singer
1978 - Megan Henning , American actress
1978 - Darren Kenton , English footballer
1979 - Geike Arnaert , Belgian singer (Hooverphonic )
1979 - Ivan Miljković , Serbian volleyball player
1980 - Han Chae Young , South Korean actress
1980 - Daisuke Matsuzaka , Japanese baseball player
1980 - Evangelos Nastos , Greek footballer
1980 - Viren Rasquinha , Indian field hockey player
1980 - Ben Savage , American actor
1980 - Teppei Teranishi , American guitarist (Thrice )
1981 - Koldo Fernández , Spanish cyclist
1982 - Nenê , Brazilian basketball player
1983 - James Bourne , English musician
1987 - Luke Fitzgerald , Irish rugby union International
Deaths 81 - Titus , Roman emperor (b. 39 )
1321 - Dante Alighieri , Italian poet (b. 1265 )
1438 - Duarte , King of Portugal (b. 1391 )
1506 - Andrea Mantegna , Italian painter
1557 - John Cheke , English classical scholar and statesman (b. 1514 )
1592 - Michel de Montaigne , French writer (b. 1533 )
1598 - Philip II , King of Spain (b. 1526 )
1632 - Leopold V , regent of the Tyrol (b. 1586 )
1759 - James Wolfe , British general (b. 1727 )
1766 - Benjamin Heath , English classical scholar (b. 1704 )
1806 - Charles James Fox , English politician (b. 1749 )
1808 - Saverio Bettinelli , Italian writer (b. 1718 )
1847 - Nicolas Oudinot , French marshal (b. 1767 )
1872 - Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach , German philosopher (b. 1804 )
1881 - Ambrose Burnside , American Civil War general and politician (b. 1824 )
1885 - Friedrich Kiel , Austrian composer (b. 1821 )
1894 - Emmanuel Chabrier , French composer (b. 1841 )
1904 - Raden Ayu Kartini , Indonesian national heroine (b. 1879 )
1905 - René Goblet , French politician (b. 1828 )
1912 - Maresuke Nogi , Japanese general (b. 1849 )
1915 - Andrew L. Harris , American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b. 1835 )
1928 - Italo Svevo , Italian author (b. 1861 )
1946 - Eugene Lanceray , Russian painter (b. 1875 )
1949 - August Krogh , Danish zoophysiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874 )
1965 - Jean B. Fletcher , American architect (b. 1915 )
1973 - Betty Field , American actress (b. 1913 )
1977 - Leopold Stokowski , English conductor (b. 1882 )
1987 - Mervyn LeRoy , American film director (b. 1900 )
1991 - Joe Pasternak , American film director (b. 1901 )
1996 - Tupac Shakur (2Pac), American rapper and actor (b. 1971 )
1998 - Harry Lumley , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926 )
1998 - George Wallace , American politician (b. 1919 )
1999 - Benjamin Bloom , American educational theorist (b. 1913 )
2001 - Dorothy McGuire , American actress (b. 1916 )
2003 - Frank O'Bannon , Governor of Indiana (b. 1930 )
2003 - Harvey Gardner , American actor
2004 - Luis E. Miramontes , Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (b. 1925 )
2005 - Toni Fritsch , Austrian soccer and American football player (b. 1945 )
2005 - Julio César Turbay Ayala , Colombian politician (b. 1916 )
2006 - Anastasia Rebecca de Sousa , victim of Dawson College shooting (b. 1988 )
2006 - Kimveer Gill , Dawson College shooter (suicide ) (b. 1981 )
2006 - Ann Richards , 46th Governor of Texas (b. 1933 )
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