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December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 16 days remaining.
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- 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 concluded with the Japanese victory and the fall of the city which became the site of extreme atrocities for the following 3 months.
- 1949 - Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem
- 1959 - Archbishop Makarios[?] becomes first President of Cyprus
- 1974 - Malta becomes a republic
- 1978 - First Susan B. Anthony dollar
- 1981 - General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland
- 1996 - Kofi Annan chosen as Secretary General of the United Nations.
- 2000 - The so-called "Texas 7[?]" escape from a Texas prison and go on a crime spree.
- 1521 - Pope Sixtus V, religious leader
- 1553 - King Henry IV of France (+ 1610)
- 1797 - Heinrich Heine, poet (+ 1856)
- 1798 - Joseph Walker[?], explorer
- 1816 - Werner von Siemens, ingenieur, inventor and industrialist (+ 1892)
- 1818 - Mary Todd Lincoln[?], First Lady (+ 1882)
- 1829 - Hugo von Ziemssen[?], physicist (+ 1902)
- 1836 - Franz von Lenbach[?], painter (+ 1904)
- 1854 - Thomas Watson[?], telephone pioneer
- 1886 - Diego Rivera, artist, muralist (+ 1957)
- 1887 - George Polya, mathematician
- 1897 - Drew Pearson[?], journalist, political columnist (+ 1969)
- 1903 - Carlos Montoya, guitarist (+ 1993)
- 1910 - Van Heflin[?], actor (+ 1971)
- 1913 - Archie Moore, world champion boxer (+ 1998)
- 1915 - Curd Jürgens[?], actor (+ 1982)
- 1915 - Ross Macdonald[?], author (+ 1983)
- 1923 - Larry Doby, Baseball Hall of Famer
- 1925 - Dick Van Dyke[?], actor, comedian
- 1927 - Christopher Plummer[?], actor
- 1943 - Ferguson Jenkins, Baseball Hall of Famer
- 1948 - Ted Nugent, musician
- 1950 - Tom Vilsack Governor of Iowa
- 1565 - Konrad von Gesner, naturalist
- 1944 - Wassily Kandinsky, artist
- 1961 - Grandma Moses, artist
- Catholicism - Saint Lucy's day
See Also:
December 12 - December 14 - November 13 - January 13 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
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