What happened on September 13? There are more than 312 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About September 13
September 13 is the 257th day of the year 2024. There are 109 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday. This day falls under the 37th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Hebron, Nebraska 68370 sunrise will occur at 07:08 AM and sunset will occur at 07:43 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Virgo. The modern birthstone for this month is Sapphire while the mystical birthstone is Agate.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 138 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For September 13
- 509 BCThe Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome’s Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
- 585 BCLucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia.
- 122Construction of Hadrian’s Wall begins.
- 335Emperor Constantine the Great consecrated the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
- 533General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near Carthage, North Africa.
- 1213End of Battle of Muret, during the Albigensian Crusade to destroy the Cathar heresy.
- 1229Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii: Mongolia.
- 1501Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
- 1504Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built.
- 1541After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism.
- 1584San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.
- 1609Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him – the Hudson River.
- 1743Great Britain, Austria and Savoy-Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.
- 1759Battle of the Plains of Abraham: British defeat French near Quebec City in the Seven Years’ War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
- 1782American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful “grand assault” during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
- 1788The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country’s temporary capital.
- 1791King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
- 1808Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.
- 1812War of 1812: A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
- 1814In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1843The Greek Army rebels (OS date: September 3) against the autocratic rule of king Otto of Greece, demanding the granting of a constitution.
- 1847Mexican-American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American troops under General Winfield Scott capture Mexico City in the Mexican-American War.
- 1848Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives a 3 ft-plus iron rod being driven through his head; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions.
- 1850First ascent of Piz Bernina, the highest summit of the eastern Alps.
- 1862American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee’s battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
- 1882The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
- 1898Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
- 1899Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
- 1899Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m – 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
- 1900Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.
- 1906First flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
- 1914World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
- 1914World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
- 1922The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
- 1922The temperature at 'Aziziya, Libya reaches a world record 57.8 °C.
- 1923Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
- 1933Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
- 1935Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the International Railway (New York – Ontario).
- 1942World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson’s Ridge in the Guadalcanal campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Imperial Japanese Army with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
- 1943The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe.
- 1948Deputy Primer Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel ordered the Army to move into the Hyderabad to integrate it with Indian Union.
- 1948Margaret Chase Smith is elected senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
- 1953Nikita Khrushchev is appointed secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1956IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.
- 1956The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
- 1964South Vietnamese Generals Lam Van Phat and Duong Van Duc fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyen Khanh.
- 1968Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
- 1971People’s Republic of China: Chairman Mao Zedong’s second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees the country via plane after the failure of alleged coup against Mao. The plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.
- 1971State police and National Guardsmen storm New York’s Attica Prison to end a prison revolt.
- 1979South Africa grants independence to the “homeland” of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
- 1987Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.
- 1988Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).
- 1989Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
- 1993Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
- 1994Ulysses probe passes the Sun’s south pole.
- 2001Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
- 2007The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
- 2008Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
- 2008Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston and surrounding areas.
Who Were Born On September 13?
- 64Julia Flavia, daughter of Roman Emperor Titus (d. 91)
- 678K‘inich Ahkal Mo’Naab' III, Ruler of Palenque (d. 730)
- 786Al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph (d. 833)
- 1087John II Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1143)
- 1475Cesare Borgia, Italian aristocrat (d. 1507)
- 1502John Leland, English antiquarian (d. 1552)
- 1521William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman (d. 1598)
- 1601Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish Baroque painter (d. 1678)
- 1604William Brereton, English soldier and politician (d. 1661)
- 1676Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans, Duchess of Lorraine (d. 1741)
- 1694Yeongjo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1776)
- 1766Samuel Wilson, possible namesake of Uncle Sam (d. 1854)
- 1775Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (d. 1868)
- 1802Arnold Ruge, German philosopher and writer (d. 1880)
- 1813John Sedgwick, American Civil War general (d. 1864)
- 1819Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (d. 1896)
- 1830Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (d. 1916)
- 1842John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (d. 1920)
- 1851Walter Reed, American physician and biologist (d. 1902)
- 1857Michał Drzymała, Polish peasant rebel (d. 1937)
- 1857Milton S. Hershey, American confectioner (d. 1945)
- 1860John J. Pershing, American general (d. 1948)
- 1863Arthur Henderson, British politician and union leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1935)
- 1865William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, British general (d. 1951)
- 1873Constantin Carathéodory, Greek mathematician (d. 1950)
- 1874Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian-born composer (d. 1951)
- 1874Henry Fountain Ashurst, American politician (d. 1962)
- 1876Sherwood Anderson, American writer (d. 1941)
- 1877Stanley Lord, captain of the SS Californian the night of the Titanic disaster (d. 1962)
- 1877Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer (d. 1957)
- 1880Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer (d. 1958)
- 1882Ramón Grau, Cuban president (d. 1969)
- 1885Wilhelm Blaschke, Austrian geometer (d. 1962)
- 1886Amelie Beese, German aviator and sculptor. (d. 1925)
- 1886Sir Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1975)
- 1887Lavoslav Ružička, Croatian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
- 1893Larry Shields, American musician (d. 1953)
- 1894J.B. Priestley, English playwright and novelist (d. 1984)
- 1894Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (d. 1953)
- 1895Morris Kirksey, American rugby player (d. 1981)
- 1898Roger Désormière, French conductor (d. 1963)
- 1899Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, leader of the Iron Guard (d. 1938)
- 1903Claudette Colbert, American actress (d. 1996)
- 1904Gladys George, American stage and screen actress (d. 1954)
- 1908Karolos Koun, Greek theater director (d. 1987)
- 1908Sicco Mansholt, Dutch statesmand (d.1995)
- 1909Frits Thors, Dutch newscaster
- 1909Ray Bowden, English footballer (d. 1998)
- 1910Stefanos Natsinas, Greek politician (d. 1976)
- 1911Bill Monroe, American musician (d. 1996)
- 1914Leonard Feather, British jazz pianist, composer, journalist (d. 1994)
- 1916Roald Dahl, British writer (d. 1990)
- 1917Robert Ward, American composer
- 1918Dick Haymes, Argentine singer and actor (d. 1980)
- 1919Mary Midgley, American philosopher
- 1922Charles Brown, American singer and pianist (d. 1999)
- 1922Yma Sumac, Peruvian singer (d. 2008)
- 1923Edouard Boubat, French photographer (d. 1999)
- 1924Harold Blair, Australian tenor, Aboriginal activist (d. 1976)
- 1924Maurice Jarre, French composer (d. 2009)
- 1924Norman Alden, American actor
- 1924Scott Brady, American film actor (d. 1985)
- 1925Mel Tormé, American singer (d. 1999)
- 1926Emile Francis, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
- 1927Tzannis Tzannetakis, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2010)
- 1929Nicolai Ghiaurov, Bulgarian opera singer (d. 2004)
- 1930Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron, British printing millionaire
- 1931Barbara Bain, American actress
- 1931Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, Australian Olympic athlete, Governor of South Australia
- 1931Robert Bédard, Canadian tennis player
- 1933Donald Mackay, Australian anti-drugs campaigner (d. 1977)
- 1933Eileen Fulton, American actress
- 1936Joe E. Tata, American actor
- 1936Stefano Delle Chiaie, Italian neo-Nazi
- 1937Don Bluth, American animator
- 1938John Smith, Labour Party Leader 1992 – 1994 (d. 1994)
- 1938Judith Martin, American etiquette writer
- 1939Arleen Auger, American soprano (d. 1993)
- 1939Joel-Peter Witkin, American photographer
- 1939Richard Kiel, American actor
- 1940Óscar Arias, Costa Rican politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1940Kerry Stokes, Australian billionaire businessman
- 1941Ahmet Necdet Sezer, 10th President of Turkey
- 1941David Clayton-Thomas, Canadian singer (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
- 1941Tadao Ando, Japanese architect
- 1942Michel Côté, Canadian politician
- 1944Carol Barnes, British newsreader (d. 2009)
- 1944Jacqueline Bisset, British actress
- 1944Leslie Harvey, Scottish rock guitarist (d.1972)
- 1944Midget Farrelly, Australian surfer
- 1944Peter Cetera, American musician (Chicago)
- 1945Andres Küng, Swedish-Estonian politician, journalist (d. 2002)
- 1945Noël Godin, Belgian humorist
- 1946Frank Marshall, American film producer
- 1948Dimitri Nanopoulos, Greek physicist
- 1948Nell Carter, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1948Sitiveni Rabuka, Fijian revolutionary and politician
- 1949Fred “Sonic” Smith, American guitarist (MC5) (d. 1994)
- 1949John W. Henry, American businessman and Liverpool F.C owner
- 1950Jacky Robert, French-born American chef
- 1950Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Polish politician
- 1951Jean Smart, American actress
- 1952Don Was, American singer
- 1952Randy Jones, American musician (Village People)
- 1952Raymond O'Connor, American actor
- 1954Steve Kilbey, English musician (The Church)
- 1955Joe Morris, American musician
- 1956Alain Ducasse, French/Monégasque chef
- 1956Anne Geddes, Australian photographer
- 1957John G. Trueschler, American politician
- 1957Judy Blumberg, American ice dancer
- 1957Vinny Appice, American musician (Black Sabbath, Dio, Heaven and Hell)
- 1958Bobby Davro, British Comedian
- 1958Paweł Przytocki, Polish conductor
- 1960Greg Baldwin, American voice actor
- 1961Dave Mustaine, American musician (Metallica, Megadeth)
- 1961Fiona, American rock music singer and actress
- 1961KK Null, Japanese musician
- 1961Peter Roskam, American politician
- 1962Tõnu Õnnepalu, Estonian poet and author
- 1963Theodoros Roussopoulos, Greek politician
- 1964Tavis Smiley, American talk show host, journalist and author
- 1965Annie Duke, American poker player
- 1965Jeffrey Ross, American comedian
- 1965Zak Starkey, British musician
- 1966Louis Mandylor, Australian actor
- 1966Maria Furtwängler, German physician
- 1967Michael Johnson, American athlete
- 1967Stephen Perkins, American percussionist/drummer (Jane’s Addiction)
- 1967Tim “Ripper” Owens, American singer (Iced Earth, ex-Judas Priest)
- 1968Bernie Williams, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1968Brad Johnson, American football player
- 1968Emma Sjöberg, Swedish model
- 1969Ilka Knickenberg, German actress
- 1969Shane Warne, Australian cricketer
- 1969Tyler Perry, American actor and filmmaker
- 1970Jason Scott Sadofsky, American programmer
- 1970Louise Lombard, British actress
- 1970Martín Herrera, former Argentine footballer
- 1970Yuki Matsuoka, Japanese voice actress
- 1971Goran Ivanišević, Croatian tennis player
- 1971Manabu Namiki, Japanese composer
- 1971Stella McCartney, English fashion designer
- 1973Christine Arron, French runner
- 1973Fabio Cannavaro, Italian footballer
- 1973Kelly Chen, Chinese singer
- 1973Mahima Chaudhry, Indian actress
- 1974Éric Lapointe, Canadian football player
- 1974Craig Rivet, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1974Keith Murray, American rapper
- 1974Travis Knight, American basketball player
- 1975Akihiro Asai, Japanese racing driver
- 1975Joe Don Rooney, American musician (Rascal Flatts)
- 1976Craig McMillan, New Zealand cricketer
- 1976José Théodore, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1977Daisuke Tsuda, Japanese singer (Maximum the Hormone)
- 1977Fiona Apple, American singer
- 1977Ivan De Battista, Maltese actor and singer
- 1978Megan Henning, American actress
- 1978Peter Sunde, Scandinavian entrepreneur
- 1979Geike Arnaert, Belgian singer (Hooverphonic)
- 1979Ivan Miljković, Serbian volleyball player
- 1980Ben Savage, American actor
- 1980Daisuke Matsuzaka, Japanese baseball player
- 1980Evangelos Nastos, Greek footballer
- 1980Han Chae Young, South Korean actress and model
- 1980Viren Rasquinha, Indian hockey player
- 1981Angelina Love, Canadian professional wrestler
- 1981August, American pornographic actress
- 1981Koldo Fernández, Spanish cyclist
- 1982Lloyd Dyer, English footballer
- 1982Miha Zupan, Slovenian basketball player
- 1982Nenê, Brazilian basketball player
- 1983James Bourne, English musician
- 1984Nabil Abou-Harb, American filmmaker
- 1985David Jordan, English singer-songwriter
- 1985Emi Suzuki, Japanese model
- 1986Brian Visser, American footballer
- 1986Derek Hardman, American football player
- 1986Kamui Kobayashi, Japanese racing driver
- 1986Sean Williams, American basketball player
- 1987Edenilson Bergonsi, Brazilian footballer
- 1987G.NA, Canadian/South Korean singer
- 1987Luke Fitzgerald, Irish rugby union footballer
- 1987Tsvetana Pironkova, Bulgarian tennis player
- 1988Keith Treacy, Irish footballer
- 1989Thomas Müller, German footballer
- 1993Niall Horan, Member of British/Irish boy band One Direction
Who Died On September 13?
- 81Titus, Roman emperor (b. 39)
- 1506Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter
- 1557John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (b. 1514)
- 1592Michel de Montaigne, French writer (b. 1533)
- 1598Philip II, King of Spain (b. 1526)
- 1624Ketevan of Kakheti, Christian martyr, Queen of Kakheti in Georgia (b. 1565)
- 1632Archduke Leopold V of Austria, regent of the Tirol (b. 1586)
- 1759James Wolfe, British general (b. 1727)
- 1766Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (b. 1704)
- 1800Claude Martin, French then British General (b. 1735)
- 1806Charles James Fox, English politician (b. 1749)
- 1808Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (b. 1718)
- 1813Hezqeyas of Ethiopia, deposed Emperor of Ethiopia
- 1847Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (b. 1767)
- 1872Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach, German philosopher (b. 1804)
- 1881Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general and politician (b. 1824)
- 1885Friedrich Kiel, Austrian composer (b. 1821)
- 1894Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (b. 1841)
- 1905René Goblet, French politician (b. 1828)
- 1910Rajanikanta Sen, Bengali poet and music composer (b. 1865)
- 1912Joseph Furphy, Australian novelist (as “Tom Collins”; b. 1843)
- 1912Maresuke Nogi, Japanese general (b. 1849)
- 1915Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b. 1835)
- 1915Stefanos Granitsas, Greek writer and journalist (b. 1880)
- 1916Mary the elephant, large elephant,hanged for stepping on her trainer.
- 1928Italo Svevo, Italian author (b. 1861)
- 1941Elias Disney, Canadian father of Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney (b. 1859)
- 1944W. Heath Robinson, English cartoonist and illustrator (b. 1872)
- 1946Amon Göth, commandant of Nazi concentration camp (b. 1908)
- 1946Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter (b. 1875)
- 1946William Watt, Premier of Victoria, Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives (b. 1871)
- 1949August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
- 1960Leo Weiner, Hungarian composer and music educator (b. 1885)
- 1965Jean B. Fletcher, American architect (b. 1915)
- 1967Sir Robert George, British RAF officer and Governor of South Australia (b. 1896)
- 1971Lin Biao, Chinese Marshal and political leader.(b.1907)
- 1973Betty Field, American actress (b. 1913)
- 1976Albert Tessier, French Canadian priest, historian and film maker (b. 1895)
- 1976Armand Mondou, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1905)
- 1977Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (b. 1882)
- 1985Dane Rudhyar, French-US author, composer, astrologer (b. 1895)
- 1987Mervyn LeRoy, American film director (b. 1900)
- 1991Joe Pasternak, American film director (b. 1901)
- 1991Metin Oktay, Turkish football player (b. 1936)
- 1991Robert Irving, British conductor (b. 1913)
- 1993Carl Voss, American ice hockey player (b. 1907)
- 1996Tupac Shakur, aka 2Pac, American rapper and actor (b. 1971)
- 1997Georges Guétary, French singer and actor (b. 1915)
- 1997Georgios Mitsibonas, Greek footballer (b. 1962)
- 1998George Wallace, American politician (b. 1919)
- 1998Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
- 1998Sir Frank Renouf, New Zealand business tycoon (b. 1918)
- 1999Benjamin Bloom, American educational theorist (b. 1913)
- 2000Betty Jeffrey, Australian nurse, World War II Japanese prisoner (b. 1908)
- 2001Dorothy McGuire, American actress (b. 1916)
- 2001Jaroslav Drobný, Czech-Egyptian-British tennis player (b. 1921)
- 2002George Stanley, Canadian historian, author and public servant (b. 1907)
- 2003Frank O'Bannon, Governor of Indiana (b. 1930)
- 2004Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (b. 1925)
- 2005Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian politician (b. 1916)
- 2005Toni Fritsch, Austrian football and American football player (b. 1945)
- 2006Ann Richards, 46th Governor of Texas (b. 1933)
- 2007Clare Oliver, Australian cancer activist (b. 1981)
- 2007Whakahuihui Vercoe, New Zealand clergyman (b. 1928)
- 2009Paul Burke, American actor (b. 1926)
- 2011DJ Mehdi, French hip hop and electro producer (b. 1977)
- 2011Walter Bonatti, Italian climber (b. 1930)
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