13 December

The 13t o December is the 347t day o the year (348t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 18 days bidin.

Events

1974: Malta

• 1642 - Abel Tasman reaches the Sooth Island o New Zealand.
• 1864 - Paraguay declares war on Brazil.
• 1941 - Warld War II: Hungary an Romanie declare war on the Unitit States.
• 1941 - A glacier breaks on Palcacocha Lake in the Peruvian Andes, killin 6,000 fowk.
• 1949 - The Knesset votes tae make Jerusalem the caipital o Israel.
• 1962 - NASA launches the "Relay 1" space probe.
• 1974 - Malta becomes a republic.
• 1982 - Wojciech Jaruzelski declares mairtial law in Poland.
• 1996 - Kofi Annan is chosen tae become the naxt Secretar-General o the Unitit Naitions.
• 2001 - An airmed attack is carried oot on Indie's pairlament.
• 2002 - The European Union annoonces that 10 new members are set tae jyn in 2004.
• 2003 - Saddam Hussein is captured near his hame toun o Tikrit bi American forces.
• 2016 - Govrenment forces take control o the Sirie ceety o Aleppo, efter a three-week offensive.
• 2019 - UK Leeberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson demits efter losin her seat tae the SNP's Amy Callaghan in the General Election.

Births

Dick Van Dyke

Taylor Swift

• 1521 - Pape Sixtus V (d. 1590)
• 1533 - Eric XIV o Swaden (d. 1577)
• 1553 - Henry IV o Fraunce (d. 1610)
• 1678 - Yongzheng Emperor o Cheenae (d. 1735)
• 1797 - Heinrich Heine, German writer (d. 1856)
• 1816 - Werner von Siemens, German inventor an industrialist (d. 1892)
• 1821 - Joseph Noel Paton, Scots penter (d. 1901)
• 1818 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady o the Unitit States (d. 1882)
• 1902 - Talcott Parsons, American sociologist (d. 1979)
• 1906 - Princess Marina o Greece an Denmark (d. 1968)
• 1920 - George P. Shultz, 60t Unitit States Secretar o State
• 1923 - Philip Warren Anderson, American pheesicist (d. 2020)
• 1925 - Dick Van Dyke, American actor
• 1929 - Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor
• 1945 - Herman Cain, American politeecian (d. 2020)
• 1953 - Ben Bernanke, American economist
• 1957 - Steve Buscemi, American actor an director
• 1967 - Jamie Foxx, American actor an muisicker
• 1971 - Leanne Wood, Welsh politeecian
• 1984 - Santi Cazorla, Spainyie fitbawer
• 1989 - Taylor Swift, American sangster an actress

Daiths

• 1124 - Pape Callixtus II (b. 1050)
• 1250 - Frederick II, Haly Roman Emperor (b. 1194)
• 1721 - Alexander Selkirk, Scots sailor (b. 1680)
• 1754 - Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1696)
• 1784 - Samuel Johnson, Inglis writer (b. 1709)
• 1930 - Fritz Pregl, Austrick-Slovenie chemist (b. 1869)
• 1935 - Victor Grignard, French chemist (b. 1871)
• 1944 - Wassily Kandinsky, Roushie penter (b. 1866)
• 1961 - Grandma Moses, American penter (b. 1860)
• 2016 - Thomas Schelling, American economist (b. 1921)
• 2016 - Alan Thicke, Canadian actor (b. 1947)

Halidays

Saunt Lucy's celebration in Swaden

• Saunt Lucy's Day (Scandinavie an Italy)
• Naitional Day (Saunt Lucia)
• Republic Day (Malta)