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December 13

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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1 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 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.

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