December 13

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December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 18 days remaining.

Events

1545 - Council of Trent begins
1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage
1642 - Abel Janszoon Tasman reaches New Zealand
1862 - The Confederates win the Battle of Fredericksburg in the American Civil War
1937 - Battle of Nanjing concludes with the Japanese victory and the fall of the city which became the site of the Nanjing Massacre
1938 - 100 deportees from Sachsenhausen built the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg
1949 - The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem
1959 - Archbishop Makarios becomes the first President of Cyprus
1972 - A chartered Spanish airliner crashes on takeoff from the Canary Islands, killing 155
1974 - Malta becomes a republic
1977 - A United States government DC-3 crashes after takeoff at Evansville, Indiana, killing 29, including the University of Evansville basketball team
1978 - First Susan B. Anthony dollar enters circulation
1981 - General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland
1996 - Kofi Annan elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations
2000 - The so-called "Texas 7" escape from a Texas prison and go on a crime spree.
2002 - The European Union announces ten new members in Copenhagen: Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. The countries' membership will be effective May 1, 2004

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Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "December 13" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_13 December 13, 2003