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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 begins1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth , on his round-the-world voyage1642 - Abel Janszoon Tasman reaches New Zealand 1643 - The Battle of Alton during the English Civil War1862 - 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 1939 - The Battle of the River Plate , the first major naval battle of World War II , began.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 1551974 - Malta becomes a republic1977 - A United States government DC-3 crashes after takeoff at Evansville, Indiana , killing 29, including the University of Evansville basketball team1978 - First Susan B. Anthony dollar enters circulation1981 - General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland 1996 - Kofi Annan elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations .2000 - The Texas 7 escape from a Texas prison and go on a crime spree.2001 - Parliament of India attacked by armed militants. Attempt foiled.2002 - The European Union announces the addition of ten new members in Copenhagen : Cyprus , the Czech Republic , Estonia , Hungary , Lithuania , Malta , Poland , Slovakia and Slovenia . The countries' membership became effective May 1 , 2004 .2003 - Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit .2004 - A moderate 5,4 Richter Scale earthquake is felt all over Portugal , with it's epicenter in the Atlantic Ocean , southwest of São Vicente's Cape (Algarve ), with no losses reported.2004 - Former Chilean dictator , General Augusto Pinochet is put under house-arrest, after being sued under accusations over 9 kidnapping actions and manslaughter during the Operation Condor . The same day, the house-arrest is lifted by efforts of an appeal presented by Pinochet's lawyers.2004 - Scott Peterson was sentenced to the death penalty in the murder case of his wife, Laci Peterson, and unborn son, Connor.
Births 1521 - Pope Sixtus V , religious leader (d. 1590 )1533 - King Eric XIV of Sweden (d. 1577 )1553 - King Henry IV of France (d. 1610 )1797 - Heinrich Heine, poet (d. 1856 )1798 - Joseph Walker , explorer1813 - David Spangler Kaufman , American politician, first Jewish Congressman from Texas (d. 1851 )1816 - Werner von Siemens , engineer, inventor and industrialist (d. 1892 )1818 - Mary Todd Lincoln , First Lady of the United States (d. 1882 )1829 - Hugo von Ziemssen, physicist (d. 1902 )1836 - Franz von Lenbach , painter (d. 1904 )1854 - Thomas Watson , telephone pioneer1864 - Emil Seidel , politician, mayor of Milwaukee, Socialist vice-presidential candidate (d. 1947 )1874 - Josef Lhévinne , pianist (d. 1944 )1887 - George Polya , mathematician (d. 1985 )1887 - Alvin York , U.S. soldier of World War I, known as 'Sergeant York' (d. 1964 ) 1897 - Drew Pearson , journalist, political columnist (d. 1969 )1903 - Carlos Montoya , guitarist (d. 1993 )1906 - Her Royal Highness Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (d. 1968 )1906 - Laurens van der Post , South African author (d. 1996 ) 1910 - Van Heflin , actor (d. 1971 )1911 - Kenneth Patchen , American poet and painter (d. 1972 )1913 - Archie Moore , world champion boxer (d. 1998 )1915 - Curd Jürgens , actor (d. 1982 )1915 - Ross Macdonald , author (d. 1983 ) 1923 - Larry Doby , Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 2003 )1925 - Dick Van Dyke , actor, comedian1926 - George Rhoden , Jamaican athlete1927 - Christopher Plummer , actor1934 - Richard D. Zanuck , American motion picture producer1943 - Ferguson Jenkins , Baseball Hall of Famer 1948 - Ted Nugent , musician1948 - Brian Wilson (politician) 1950 - Tom Vilsack , Governor of Iowa 1953 - Bob Gainey , Hockey Hall of Famer 1957 - Steve Buscemi , actor1957 - Jean-Marie Messier, French businessman 1958 - Lynn-Holly Johnson U.S Figure Skater and actress For Your Eyes Only 1961 - Harry Gregson-Williams , film composer 1967 - Jamie Foxx , actor1975 - Tom Delonge Guitarist - blink-182 1981 - Amy Lee , Evanescence frontwoman1981 - Arielle Zibrak, musical genius
Deaths 1124 - Pope Callixtus II 1204 - Maimonides , sephardi philosopher (b. 1135 )1312 or 1313 - John Parricida of Habsburg (b. 1290 )1565 - Konrad von Gesner , naturalist (b. 1516 )1784 - Samuel Johnson , essayist1881 - August Senoa , Croat writer (b. 1838 )1944 - Wassily Kandinsky , artist (b. 1866 )1961 - Grandma Moses , artist (b. 1860 )2001 - Leonardo Mondadori, publisher2001 - Chuck Schuldiner , musician 2002 - Zal Yanofsky , member of Lovin' Spoonful music group2003 - William V. Roth, Jr. , United States Senator from Delaware2004 - David Wheeler , Computer Scientist (b. 1927 )2004 - Andre Rodgers , Major League Baseball player (b. 1934 )
Holidays and observances December 12 - December 14 - November 13 - January 13 -- listing of all days
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