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The 13t o September is the 256t day o the year (257t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 109 days bidin.
Events
1584 : El Escorial
1759 : Daith o General James Wolfe in the Battle o the Plains o Abraham
1899 : Moont Kenyae
1993 : Signin o the Oslo Accords
81 - Domitian becomes Roman Emperor.
604 - Pape Sabinian is electit.
1501 - Michelangelo stairts wirk on his statue David .
1584 - In Central Spain , the Real Sitio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial is completit.
1598 - Philip III o Spain becomes King.
1759 - Battle o the Plains o Abraham: British forces owercome French forces, tae have full control o'er Canadae .
1813 - The Isar Brig in Munich collapses, killin ower 100 fowk.
1847 - Unitit States forces owercome Mexico in the Battle o Chapultepec.
1848 - American railwey construction wirker Phineas Gage survives an accident whaur his heid is pierced wi an airn rod; his chynge o personality provides resairch on the effects o harn injury.
1850 - The Swiss Alpine peak o Piz Bernina is climmed for the first time.
1882 - A British force owercome the airmy o Urabi Pasha in the Battle o Tel-el-Kebir, bounit forrit British ring ower Egyp .
1899 - Halford Mackinder leads the first successful expedeetion o Kenyae 's Moont Kenyae , Africae 's seicont-heichest peak.
1922 - At Al-Aziziyah, Libyae , a temperatur o 58 degrees Celsius is measured.
1923 - Miguel Primo de Rivera taks ower in a militar coup in Spain .
1928 - A hurricane kills 4,075 fowk in the Caribbean an the Eastren Unitit States .
1941 - Deadliest day in Norse shippin: In separate incidents, British torpedoes sink twa ships, killin a total o 211 fowk.
1948 - Indie troops enter the Princely State o Hyderabad .
1950 - Wast Germany haulds its first census, wi a population o 47.3 million.
1959 - The Soviet Luna 2 probe lands on the Muin .
1968 - Albanie leaves the Warsaw Pact .
1970 - The first New York Ceety marathon taks place.
1993 - Yitzhak Rabin an Yasser Arafat sign the Oslo Peace Accords for Israel an Palestine .
1999 - A bomb attack on a block o flats in Moscow kills 119 fowk.
2001 - Civilian air traffic ower the Unitit States is stairtit again, efter the September 11 attacks .
2001 - Iain Duncan Smith becomes leader o the British Conservative Pairty .
2004 - Amélie Mauresmo becomes the first Frenchwumman tae tap the warld raings for wumman's singles tennis .
2008 - Iain Gray becomes leader o the Scots Labour Pairty .
2008 - Bomb attacks in Delhi kill 30 fowk.
Births
Clara Schumann
Roald Dahl
1087 - John II Komnenos , Byzantine Emperor (d. 1143 )
1722 - John Home , Scots meenister, sodger an author (d. 1808 )
1796 - James Finlay Weir Johnston , Scots agricultural chemist an meeneralogist (d. 1855 )
1819 - Clara Schumann , German pianist an componer (d. 1896 )
1831 - Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet , Scots pheesicist (d. 1915 )
1856 - Henry Halcro Johnston , Scots botanist, medicinar an rugby union player (d. 1939 )
1857 - Milton S. Hershey , American confectioner (d. 1945 )
1863 - Arthur Henderson , Scots politeecian (d. 1935 )
1874 - Arnold Schoenberg , Austrick componer (d. 1951 )
1886 - Robert Robinson , Inglis organic chemist (d. 1975 )
1903 - Claudette Colbert , French actress (d. 1996 )
1916 - Roald Dahl , Welsh writer (d. 1990 )
1924 - Maurice Jarre , French componer an conductor (d. 2009 )
1938 - John Smith , Scots politeecian (d. 1994 )
1939 - Richard Kiel , American actor (d. 2014 )
1940 - Óscar Arias , umwhile Preses o Costa Rica
1941 - Ahmet Necdet Sezer , 10t Preses o Turkey
1944 - Jacqueline Bisset , Inglis actress
1944 - Pat Stanton , Scots fitbawer
1961 - Dave Mustaine , American muisicker, sangster, sangwriter, actor an author
1965 - John MacKay , Scots braidcast jurnalist
1969 - Tyler Perry , American actor, director, producer an writer
1969 - Shane Warne , Australie cricketer
1971 - Goran Ivanisevic , Croatie tennis player
1971 - Stella McCartney , Inglis fashion designer
1973 - Fabio Cannavaro , Italian fitbawer
1982 - Alison Thewliss , Scots politeecian
1989 - Thomas Müller , German fitbawer
1993 - Niall Horan , Erse sangster
1994 - Calum Gallagher , Scots fitbawer
Daiths
Halidays