Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index September 13 is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years). There are 109 days remaining in the year. Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays 5 Fiction Events 533 - Belisarius and the Roman Empire defeat Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium. 1743 - England, Austria and Savoy-Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms. 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 first American presidential election, and New York City becomes the temporary capital of the US. 1791 - King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution 1813 - The British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland. Turning point in the War of 1812. 1862 - Union soldiers find Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland 1847 - American General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City in the Mexican-American War 1898 - Hannibal Williston Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film 1899 - Henry Bliss is the first fatality in an automobile accident, in New York City 1906 - First airplane flight in Europe 1940 - German bombs damage Buckingham Palace 1940 - Italy invades Egypt 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 Soviet Union 1956 - The dyke around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed 1968 - Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact 1970 - First running of the New York City Marathon 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) 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 1990 - Andrei Chikatilo is charged with the murders of 53 people in Rostov, Russia 1993 - First Israeli-Palestinian agreement. The Palestinians are granted limited self-government on the Gaza Strip and in Jericho 1994 - Ulysses spacecraft passes the Sun's south pole 1999 - Bomb explodes in Moscow, Russia. At least 119 people are killed. Births 1819 - Clara Schumann, pianist, composer 1860 - John Pershing, American general († 1948) 1841 - Walter Reed, physician, biologist († 1902) 1857 - Milton S. Hershey, chocolate entrepreneur and founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company († 1945) 1874 - Arnold Schoenberg, composer († 1951) 1876 - Sherwood Anderson, writer († 1941) 1894 - J.B. Priestley, playwright, novelist († 1984) 1903 - Claudette Colbert, actress († 1996) 1911 - Bill Monroe, bluegrass and country music singer (Bluegrass Band) († 1996) 1916 - Roald Dahl, writer (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) († 1990) 1917 - Robert Ward, composer 1924 - Maurice Jarre, composer 1925 - Mel Torme, singer († 1999) 1932 - Barbara Bain, actress 1938 - Don Bluth, animator 1938 - Judith Martin ("Miss Manners"), etiquette writer 1941 - David Clayton-Thomas, singer ("Blood Sweat and Tears") 1944 - Peter Cetera, singer and bass guitarist (Chicago) 1944 - Jacqueline Bisset, actress 1948 - Nell Carter, actress, singer 1952 - Randy Jones, musician (The Village People) 1952 - Don Was, singer, composer 1967 - Michael Johnson, Olympic Games gold medalist in track and field 1971 - Goran Ivanisevic, Croatian tennis player 1977 - Fiona Apple, singer 1980 - Ben Savage, actor 1982 - Nenę, Brazilian NBA player Deaths 81 - Roman Emperor Titus 1321 - Dante Alighieri, writer (La Divina Commedia) 1438 - King Duarte of Portugal 1598 - King Philip II of Spain 1759 - British General James Wolfe, at Battle of the Plains of Abraham 1899 - Henry Bliss, first person killed by an automobile 1959 - Gilbert Adrian, Hollywood fashion designer 1987 - Mervyn LeRoy, film director 1977 - Leopold Stokowski, conductor 1996 - Tupac Shakur, rap musician 1998 - George Wallace, American politician 2001 - Dorothy McGuire, actress 2003 - Frank O'Bannon, governor of Indiana Holidays Programmer's day - (except for leap years). Fiction During the 1970s science fiction TV series Space: 1999, September 13th, 1999 was the day when the Moon broke away its orbit around the Earth and began its voyage across the Universe, taking the inhabitants of Moon Base Alpha with it. In the television series 'Sliders', the Mallory character inventing sliding (travel between alternate realities) on September 13. September 12 · September 14 · August 13 · October 13 · more historical anniversaries See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December - more historical anniversaries This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.