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  • Evansville, Indiana, U.S.
    Saturday Sep 13, 1884
    Hot Dog

    An early use of the term hot dog in reference to sausage-meat

    Evansville, Indiana, U.S.
    Saturday Sep 13, 1884

    An early use of the term hot dog in reference to sausage-meat appears in the Evansville (Indiana) Daily Courier (September 14, 1884): even the innocent 'wienerworst' man will be barred from dispensing hot dog on the street corner.




  • Shandong, China
    Thursday Sep 13, 1894
    First Sino-Japanese War

    Arriving near The Shandong Peninsula

    Shandong, China
    Thursday Sep 13, 1894

    Initially, Admiral Ding wanted to send the transports under a light escort with only a few ships, while the main force of the Beiyang Fleet would locate and operate directly against Combined Fleet in order to prevent the Japanese from intercepting the convoy. But the appearance of the Japanese cruisers Yoshino and Naniwa on a reconnaissance sortie near Weihaiwei thwarted these plans. The Chinese had mistaken them for the main Japanese fleet. Consequently, on September 12, the entire Beiyang Fleet departed Dalian heading for Weihaiwei, arriving near the Shandong Peninsula the next day.




  • Turkey (then Ottoman Empire)
    Monday Sep 13, 1915
    Armenian Genocide

    Temporary Law of Expropriation and Confiscation

    Turkey (then Ottoman Empire)
    Monday Sep 13, 1915

    The Tehcir Law brought some measures regarding the property of the deportees, and on 13 September 1915, the Ottoman parliament passed the "Temporary Law of Expropriation and Confiscation," stating that all property, including land, livestock, and homes belonging to Armenians, was to be confiscated by the authorities.




  • Santa Ana, California, U.S.
    Friday Sep 13, 1935
    Howard Hughes: The Aviator

    Setting records

    Santa Ana, California, U.S.
    Friday Sep 13, 1935

    On September 13, 1935, Hughes, flying the H-1, set the landplane airspeed record of 352 mph (566 km/h) over his test course near Santa Ana, California (Giuseppe Motta reached 362 mph in 1929 and George Stainforth reached 407.5 mph in 1931, both in seaplanes). This was the last time in history that the world airspeed record was set in an aircraft built by a private individual.




  • Hotel Campo Imperatore, Italy
    Monday Sep 13, 1943
    World War II

    Benito Mussolini rescued

    Hotel Campo Imperatore, Italy
    Monday Sep 13, 1943

    German special forces then rescued Mussolini, who then soon established a new client state in German-occupied Italy named the Italian Social Republic, causing an Italian civil war.




  • French Indochina (Now Vietnam)
    Thursday Sep 13, 1945
    First Indochina War

    A Franco-British task force

    French Indochina (Now Vietnam)
    Thursday Sep 13, 1945

    On September 13, 1945, a Franco-British task force landed in Java, main island of the Dutch East Indies (for which independence was being sought by Sukarno), and Saigon, capital of Cochinchina (southern part of French Indochina), both being occupied by the Japanese and ruled by Field Marshal Hisaichi Terauchi, Commander-in-Chief of Japan's Southern Expeditionary Army Group based in Saigon.




  • U.S.
    Friday Sep 13, 1946
    Marilyn Monroe

    1st Divorce

    U.S.
    Friday Sep 13, 1946

    In September 1946, she divorced Dougherty, who was against her having a career.


  • Yanggu County, Gangwon Province, South Korea
    Thursday Sep 13, 1951
    Korean War

    The Battle of Heartbreak Ridge

    Yanggu County, Gangwon Province, South Korea
    Thursday Sep 13, 1951

    The Battle of Heartbreak Ridge , also known as the Battle of Wendengli , was a month-long battle in the Korean War which took place between 13 September and 15 October 1951. After withdrawing from Bloody Ridge, the Korean People's Army (KPA) set up new positions just 1,500 yards (1,400 m) away on a 7-mile (11 km) long hill mass. If anything, the defenses were even more formidable here than on Bloody Ridge. The Battle of Heartbreak Ridge was one of several major engagements in the hills of North Korea a few miles north of the 38th Parallel (the pre-war boundary between North and South Korea), near Chorwon. For the Chinese, this battle is often confused with the Battle of Triangle Hill, which occurred a year later.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Thursday Sep 13, 1962
    Neil Armstrong

    Joining the NASA Astronaut Corps as part of "The New Nine"

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Thursday Sep 13, 1962

    NASA's Director of Flight Crew Operations, Deke Slayton, called Armstrong on September 13, 1962, and asked whether he would be interested in joining the NASA Astronaut Corps as part of what the press dubbed "the New Nine"; without hesitation, Armstrong said yes.


  • California, United States
    Saturday Sep 13, 1969
    River Phoenix

    Phoenix's parents marriage

    California, United States
    Saturday Sep 13, 1969

    They married on September 13, 1969, less than a year after meeting.


  • East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)
    Sunday Sep 13, 1970
    Disasters with highest death tolls

    1970 Bhola Cyclone

    East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)
    Sunday Sep 13, 1970

    The 1970 Bhola cyclone was a devastating tropical cyclone that struck East Pakistan and India's West Bengal on November 3, 1970. It remains the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded and one of the deadliest natural disasters. At least 500,000 people lost their lives in the storm, primarily as a result of the storm surge that flooded much of the low-lying islands of the Ganges Delta. This cyclone was the sixth cyclonic storm of the 1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, and also the season's strongest.


  • Vienna, Austria
    Friday Sep 13, 1974
    1973 oil crisis

    Study of supply and demand in relation to possible production controls

    Vienna, Austria
    Friday Sep 13, 1974

    OPEC instructs its Secretary-General to "carry out a study of supply and demand in relation to possible production controls."


  • Lithuania
    Tuesday Sep 13, 1983
    Nuclear Power

    Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant

    Lithuania
    Tuesday Sep 13, 1983

    The Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant is a decommissioned two-unit RBMK-1500 nuclear power station in Visaginas Municipality, Lithuania. It was named after the nearby city of Ignalina. Due to the plant's similarities to the infamous Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in both reactors.


  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Wednesday Sep 13, 1995
    Bosnian War

    Operation Sana

    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Wednesday Sep 13, 1995

    At the same time, the ARBiH engaged the VRS further to the north in Operation Sana and captured several towns, including Bosanska Krupa, Bosanski Petrovac, Ključ and Sanski Most.


  • Nokia Theatre, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Monday Sep 13, 2010
    Lady Gaga

    2010 MTV awards

    Nokia Theatre, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Monday Sep 13, 2010

    At the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, she won eight awards from 13 nominations, including Video of the Year for "Bad Romance". She was the most nominated artist for a single year, and the first female to receive two nominations for Video of the Year at the same ceremony.


  • Singapore
    Wednesday Sep 13, 2017
    Halimah Yacob

    The President of Singapore

    Singapore
    Wednesday Sep 13, 2017

    On 13 September 2017, she was returned President-elect in a walkover, as no other presidential candidate was issued the Certificate of Eligibility. She was sworn in the following day, becoming the first female president in the country's history.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Wednesday Sep 13, 2017
    Reddit

    Reddit announced was no longer open source

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Wednesday Sep 13, 2017

    Reddit announces that its main code repositories, backing its desktop and mobile websites, are no longer open source.


  • Geneva, Switzerland
    Monday Sep 13, 2021
    United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

    Rebeca Grynspan Mayufis

    Geneva, Switzerland
    Monday Sep 13, 2021

    Rebeca Grynspan Mayufis has been serving as Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) since 13 September 2021.


  • Alexandria, Egypt
    Sunday Sep 13, 285 BC
    07:23:00 AM
    Ptolemaic Kingdom

    Ptolemy shared rule ith his son Ptolemy II

    Alexandria, Egypt
    Sunday Sep 13, 285 BC
    07:23:00 AM

    Feeling the kingdom was now secure, Ptolemy shared rule with his son Ptolemy II by Queen Berenice in 285 BC.


  • Rotterdam
    Monday Sep 13, 1751

    Henry Kobell Birth

    Rotterdam
    Monday Sep 13, 1751

    Dutch painter and cartoonist Henry Kobell was born in the Netherlands.


  • Menotomy
    Saturday Sep 13, 1766

    Samuel Wilson Birth

    Menotomy
    Saturday Sep 13, 1766

    Samuel Wilson was born in Menotomy, Province of Massachusetts Bay, in 1766.


  • Quebec
    Thursday Sep 13, 1759

    James Wolfe's death

    Quebec
    Thursday Sep 13, 1759

    The British Army officer who defeated the French in Canada and captured Quebec, James Wolfe, died at the age of 32.


  • Great Barrington
    Wednesday Sep 13, 1775

    Laura Secord Birth

    Great Barrington
    Wednesday Sep 13, 1775

    The Canadian war hero Laura Secord was born in Massachusetts Bay in 1775.


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