Year 1759
Battle of the Plains of Abraham: the British defeat the French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
SEPTEMBER 13
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13 September: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 13 September.
Year 1788
New York became the federal capital of the United States.
Year 1898
Hannibal Goodwin patented celluloid photographic film.
Year 1922
The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
Year 1948
Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabh Bhai Patel ordered the army to move into Hyderabad to integrate it with the Indian Union.
Year 1985
Super Mario Bros. was released in Japan for the NES, which started the Super Mario series of platforming games.
Year 1985
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced in Geneva that AIDS was then a worldwide epidemic.
Year 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.
Year 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.
Year 2008
Delhi, India, was hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
Born 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.
Born 1860
John Pershing, American general who commanded the US Expeditionary force in Europe in World War I.
Born 1865
William Birdwood, Indian-English field marshal.
Born 1886
Robert Robinson, English chemist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
Born 1890
Antony Noghes, French Monegasque businessman, founded the Monaco Grand Prix.
Born 1916
Roald Dahl, British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot, and screenwriter.
Born 1928
Robert Indiana, American painter and sculptor (d. 2018)
Born 1959
Rajeev Shukla, Indian politician.
Born 1967
Michael Johnson, American runner famous for his upright style, who won double Olympic gold in Atlanta 1996.
Born 1969
Shane Warne, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster.
Born 1976
Ro Khanna, American politician.
Born 1980
Viren Rasquinha, Indian field hockey player.
Born 1995
Shubham Khajuria, Indian cricketer
Remembrance
81 AD: Titus, Roman emperor.
Died 1592
Michel de Montaigne, French essayist and diarist.
Died 1598
The Habsburg King Philip II of Spain, The World’s most powerful ruler.
Died 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.
Died 1929
Jatin Das, an Indian independence activist and revolutionary.
Died 1973
Sajjad Zaheer, Indian poet and philosopher (b. 1905)
Died 1975
Mudicondan Venkatarama Iyer, Indian singer and musicologist (b. 1897)
Died 2003
Frank O'Bannon, American publisher, lawyer, and politician, 47th Governor of Indiana (b. 1930)
Died 2004
Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-invented the birth-control pill.
Died 2012
Ranganath Misra, Indian lawyer, and jurist, 21st Chief Justice of India.