December 13 Events 1294 - Saint Celestine V resigns the papacy after only five months to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit . 1545 - The Council of Trent begins. 1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets sail from Plymouth , England, on his round-the-world voyage. 1636 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians . This organization is recognized today as the founding of the National Guard of the United States . 1642 - Abel Tasman is the first recorded European to sight New Zealand. 1643 - English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire . 1758 - The English transport ship Duke William sinks in the North Atlantic, killing over 360 people. 1769 - Dartmouth College is founded by the Reverend Eleazar Wheelock , with a royal charter from King George III , on land donated by Royal governor John Wentworth . 1818 - Cyril VI of Constantinople resigns from his position as Ecumenical Patriarch. 1862 - American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg , Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats Union Major General Ambrose Burnside . 1867 - A Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell , London, killing six. 1928 - George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed. 1936 - An annular solar eclipse occurred and was visible from Australia, New Zealand on December 14th, and Oeno Island in Pitcairn Islands on December 13th. 1937 - Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: The city of Nanjing , defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi , falls to the Japanese . This is followed by the Nanking Massacre , in which Japanese troops rape and slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians. 1938 - The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg , Germany. 1939 - World War II: Battle of the River Plate: Captain Hans Langsdorff of the German Deutschland-class cruiser Admiral Graf Spee engages with Royal Navy cruisers, and. 1943 - World War II: The Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupying forces in Greece. 1949 - The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem . 1959 - Archbishop Makarios III becomes the first President of Cyprus . 1960 - While Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Brazil , his Imperial Bodyguard seizes the capital and proclaims him deposed and his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen , Emperor . 1962 - NASA launches Relay 1 , the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit. 1967 - Constantine II of Greece attempts an unsuccessful counter-coup against the Regime of the Colonels . 1968 - Brazilian President Artur da Costa e Silva issues AI-5 , enabling government by decree and suspending habeas corpus . 1972 - Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final extra-vehicular activity or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17 . To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon. 1974 - Malta becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations . 1977 - Air Indiana Flight 216 crashes near Evansville Regional Airport , killing 29, including the University of Evansville basketball team , support staff, and boosters of the team. 1981 - General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland , largely due to the actions by Solidarity . 1982 - The 6.0 North Yemen earthquake shakes southwestern Yemen with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII, killing 2,800, and injuring 1,500. 1988 - PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in Geneva , Switzerland, after United States authorities refused to grant him a visa to visit UN headquarters in New York. 1989 - The Troubles: Attack on Derryard checkpoint: The Provisional Irish Republican Army launches an attack on a British Army temporary vehicle checkpoint near Rosslea, Northern Ireland . Two British soldiers are killed and two others are wounded. 2001 - Sansad Bhavan , the building housing the Indian Parliament , is attacked by terrorists . Twelve people are killed, including the terrorists. 2002 - European Union enlargement: The EU announces that Cyprus , the Czech Republic , Estonia , Hungary , Latvia , Lithuania , Malta, Poland , Slovakia , and Slovenia will become members on May 1, 2004 . 2003 - Iraq War: Operation Red Dawn: Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit . 2007 - The Treaty of Lisbon is signed by members states of the European Union. 2011 - A murder–suicide in Liège , Belgium, kills six and wounds 125 people at a Christmas market . 2018 - A high-speed train crashes in Ankara , Turkey, killing at least nine people and injuring 84.Births 1272 - King Frederick III of Sicily 1363 - Jean Gerson , chancellor of the University of Paris 1476 - Lucy Brocadelli , Dominican tertiary and stigmatic 1484 - Paul Speratus , German Lutheran 1491 - Martín de Azpilcueta , Spanish theologian and economist 1499 - Justus Menius , German Lutheran pastor 1521 - Pope Sixtus V 1533 - Eric XIV of Sweden 1553 - Henry IV of France 1560 - Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully , 2nd Prime Minister of France 1585 - William Drummond of Hawthornden , Scottish poet 1640 - Robert Plot , English chemist and academic 1662 - Francesco Bianchini , Italian astronomer and philosopher 1678 - Yongzheng Emperor of China 1720 - Carlo Gozzi , Italian playwright 1724 - Franz Aepinus , German astronomer and philosopher 1769 - James Scarlett Abinger , English judge 1780 - Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner , German chemist, invented the Döbereiner's lamp 1784 - Archduke Louis of Austria 1797 - Heinrich Heine , German journalist , poet, and critic 1804 - Joseph Howe , Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Premier of Nova Scotia 1814 - Ana Néri , Brazilian nurse and philanthropist 1816 - Werner von Siemens , German engineer and businessman, founded Siemens 1818 - Mary Todd Lincoln , 16th First Lady of the United States 1830 - Mathilde Fibiger , Danish feminist, novelist and telegraphist 1836 - Franz von Lenbach , German painter and academic 1854 - Herman Bavinck , Dutch philosopher, theologian, and academic 1856 - Svetozar Boroević , Croatian-Austrian field marshal 1860 - Lucien Guitry , French actor 1864 - Emil Seidel , American woodcarver and politician, 36th Mayor of Milwaukee 1867 - Kristian Birkeland , Norwegian physicist and author 1870 - Edward LeSaint , American actor and director 1871 - Emily Carr , Canadian painter and author 1874 - Josef Lhévinne , Russian pianist and educator 1882 - Jane Edna Hunter , African-American social worker 1883 - Belle da Costa Greene , American librarian and bibliographer 1884 - Aimilios Veakis , Greek actor, director, and playwright 1885 - Annie Dale Biddle Andrews , American mathematician 1887 - George Pólya , Hungarian-American mathematician and academic 1887 - Alvin C. York, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient 1897 - Albert Aalbers , Dutch architect, designed the Savoy Homann Bidakara Hotel 1897 - Drew Pearson , American journalist and author 1900 - Jonel Perlea , Romanian-American conductor and educator 1901 - Olev Roomet , Estonian singer, violinist, and bagpipe player 1902 - Panagiotis Kanellopoulos , Greek philosopher and politician, 138th Prime Minister of Greece 1902 - Talcott Parsons , American sociologist and academic 1903 - Ella Baker , American activist 1903 - Carlos Montoya , Spanish guitarist and composer 1905 - Ann Barzel , American writer and dance critic 1906 - Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark 1906 - Laurens van der Post , South African-English soldier and author 1908 - Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira , Brazilian historian and activist 1908 - Van Heflin , American actor 1908 - Elizabeth Alexander , British geologist, academic, and physicist 1911 - Trygve Haavelmo , Norwegian economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate 1911 - Kenneth Patchen , American poet and painter 1912 - Luiz Gonzaga , Brazilian singer-songwriter and accordion player 1913 - Arnold Brown , English-Canadian missionary, 11th General of The Salvation Army 1914 - Alan Bullock , English historian and author 1914 - Larry Noble , English comedian and actor 1915 - B. J. Vorster, South African lawyer and politician, 4th State President of South Africa 1916 - Archie Moore , American boxer 1916 - Leonard Weisgard , American author and illustrator 1918 - Bill Vukovich , Serbian-American race car driver 1919 - Hans-Joachim Marseille , German captain and pilot 1920 - George P. Shultz, American economist and politician, 60th United States Secretary of State 1921 - Turgut Demirağ , Turkish film producer, director and screenwriter 1923 - Philip Warren Anderson , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1923 - Terence Beckett , English businessman 1923 - Edward Bede Clancy , Australian cardinal 1923 - Larry Doby , American baseball player and manager 1925 - Dick Van Dyke , American actor, singer, and dancer 1926 - Carl Erskine , American major-league baseball player 1926 - George Rhoden , Jamaican runner 1927 - James Wright , American poet and academic 1929 - Christopher Plummer , Canadian actor and producer 1930 - Robert Prosky , American actor 1933 - Doug Mohns , Canadian-American ice hockey player 1934 - Richard D. Zanuck, American film producer 1934 - Antoinette Rodez Schiesler , American chemist 1935 - Joe Christopher , Virgin Islander baseball player 1935 - Kenneth Hall , American football player 1935 - Lindy McDaniel , American baseball player 1935 - Türkan Saylan , Turkish physician and academic 1935 - Arthur Summons , Australian rugby player 1936 - Prince Karim al-Husayn Shāh, Aga Khan IV , Swiss-English businessman 1936 - J. C. Martin, American baseball player and sportscaster 1937 - Rob Houwer , Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter 1937 - Ulf G. Lindén, Swedish businessman 1938 - Gus Johnson , American basketball player 1938 - Tom Shaw , American golfer 1940 - Sanjaya Lall , Indian economist and academic 1941 - John Davidson , American actor and game show host 1942 - Howard Brenton , English playwright and screenwriter 1942 - Anna Eshoo , American lawyer and politician 1943 - Ferguson Jenkins , Canadian baseball and basketball player 1943 - Marti Webb , British actress and singer 1944 - Hwang Jang-lee , Japanese-South Korean martial artist and actor 1945 - Herman Cain , American businessman and political activist 1948 - Jeff Baxter , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer 1948 - Lillian Board , South African-English sprinter 1948 - Ted Nugent , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor 1948 - Brian Wilson , Scottish journalist and politician, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs 1949 - Robert Lindsay , English actor and singer 1949 - R. A. MacAvoy, American computer programmer and author 1949 - Randy Owen , American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist 1949 - Tom Verlaine , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1950 - Linda Bellos , English businesswoman and politician 1950 - Wendie Malick , American actress, model and comedian 1950 - Julia Slingo , English meteorologist and academic 1950 - Tom Vilsack , American lawyer and politician, 30th United States Secretary of Agriculture 1952 - Junkyard Dog , American football player and wrestler 1952 - John Francome , English jockey and sportscaster 1952 - Larry Kenon , American basketball player 1952 - Jean Rouaud , French author 1953 - Berton Averre , American guitarist and songwriter 1953 - Ben Bernanke , American economist and academic 1953 - Bill Castro , Dominican baseball player and coach 1953 - Jim Davidson , English comedian, actor, and television host 1953 - Bob Gainey , Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager 1953 - Thomas Kurzhals , German keyboard player and songwriter 1954 - John Anderson , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1954 - Steve Forbert , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1954 - Harsh Vardhan , Indian otolaryngologist and politician, Indian Minister of Science and Technology 1955 - Joseph Mahmoud , Moroccan-French runner 1956 - Dale Berra , American baseball player 1956 - Phil Hubbard , American basketball player and coach 1956 - Jean-Marie Messier , French businessman 1957 - Steve Buscemi , American actor and director 1957 - Eric Marienthal , American saxophonist 1959 - Heino Enden , Estonian basketball player and coach 1959 - Staffan William-Olsson , Swedish guitarist and composer 1960 - Richard Dent , American football player 1961 - Harry Gregson-Williams , English composer, conductor, and producer 1961 - Irene Sáez , Venezuelan model and politician, Governor of Nueva Esparta 1961 - Gary Zimmerman , American football player 1962 - Roger Ilegems , Belgian cyclist 1962 - Jamie Raskin , American lawyer, academic, and politician 1962 - Rex Ryan , American football player and coach 1962 - Rob Ryan , American football player and coach 1964 - hide , Japanese recording artist, the former lead guitarist of X Japan 1966 - Mike Tirico , American sportscaster 1967 - Jamie Foxx , American actor, singer, songwriter, producer, and comedian 1967 - Bo Pelini , American football player and coach 1969 - Sergei Fedorov , Russian ice hockey player and manager 1970 - Tonja Buford-Bailey , American hurdler and coach 1970 - Eoin Jess , Scottish footballer 1970 - Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner , Austrian mountaineer 1971 - Naomi Long , Northern Irish engineer and politician, 54th Lord Mayor of Belfast 1971 - Park Jin-young , South Korean singer-songwriter, producer, and record executive 1971 - Scott Sattler , Australian rugby league player and sportscaster 1971 - Leanne Wood , Welsh academic and politician 1972 - Chris Grant , Australian footballer 1972 - James Murdoch , Australian-American businessman, son of Rupert Murdoch 1974 - Sara Cox , English broadcaster 1975 - Bates Battaglia , American ice hockey player 1975 - Tom DeLonge , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1975 - Kostas Kiassos , Greek footballer 1975 - Matthew LeCroy , American baseball player and coach 1975 - Bahar Mert , Turkish volleyball player 1976 - Josh Fogg , American baseball player 1976 - Søren Friis , Danish footballer 1976 - Radosław Sobolewski , Polish footballer 1976 - Rama Yade , Senegalese-French politician 1977 - Sascha Kindred , German-English swimmer 1978 - Kaspars Kambala , Latvian basketball player 1978 - B.J. Penn, American mixed martial artist and wrestler 1979 - Matjaž Smodiš , Slovenian basketball player 1979 - Luke Steele , Australian singer-songwriter and musician 1980 - Patrik Antonius , Finnish tennis player, coach, and poker player 1980 - Ryan France , English footballer 1980 - Danil Haustov , Estonian swimmer 1981 - Amy Lee , American singer-songwriter and pianist 1981 - Mathis Bailey , American-Canadian novelist and fiction writer 1982 - Dan Hamhuis , Canadian ice hockey player 1982 - Ayumi Kinoshita , Japanese actress and model 1982 - Ricky Nolasco , American baseball player 1982 - Tuka Rocha , Brazilian race car driver 1982 - Koutaro Tanaka , Japanese actor 1982 - Dominik Werling , German footballer 1983 - Matt Deis , American bass player and songwriter 1983 - Otylia Jędrzejczak , Polish swimmer 1983 - Janeth Jepkosgei , Kenyan runner 1984 - Santi Cazorla , Spanish footballer 1984 - Hanna-Maria Seppälä , Finnish swimmer 1985 - Michael Bumpus , American football player 1985 - Laurence Leboeuf , Canadian actress 1985 - Alby Mathewson , New Zealand rugby player 1986 - Mathieu Gnanligo , Beninese sprinter 1988 - Rickie Fowler , American golfer 1988 - Olly Lancashire , English footballer 1988 - James Tamou , New Zealand-Australian rugby league player 1989 - Hellen Onsando Obiri , Kenyan runner 1989 - Ben Ridge , Australian rugby league player 1989 - Taylor Swift , American singer-songwriter, record producer and actress 1991 - Sénah Mango , Togolese footballer 1991 - Aaron Telitz , American race car driver 1996 - Gleyber Torres , Venezuelan baseball playerDeaths 558 - Childebert I , Frankish king 769 - Du Hongjian , Chinese politician 838 - Pepin I of Aquitaine 859 - Angilbert II , archbishop of Milan 1124 - Pope Callixtus II 1126 - Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria 1204 - Maimonides , Spanish rabbi and philosopher 1250 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor 1272 - Bertold of Regensburg , German preacher 1404 - Albert I, Duke of Bavaria 1466 - Donatello , Italian painter and sculptor 1516 - Johannes Trithemius , German cryptographer and historian 1521 - Manuel I of Portugal 1557 - Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia , Italian mathematician and engineer 1565 - Conrad Gessner , Swiss botanist and physician 1621 - Katarina Stenbock , queen of Gustav I of Sweden 1671 - Antonio Grassi , Italian Roman Catholic priest 1716 - Charles de La Fosse , French painter 1721 - Alexander Selkirk , Scottish sailor 1729 - Anthony Collins , English philosopher and author 1754 - Mahmud I , Ottoman sultan 1758 - Noël Doiron , Canadian Acadia leader 1769 - Christian Fürchtegott Gellert , German poet and hymn-writer 1783 - Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin , Swedish astronomer and demographer 1784 - Samuel Johnson , English poet and lexicographer 1814 - Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne , Belgian-Austrian field marshal 1837 - Herman of Alaska , Russian missionary and saint 1849 - Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg , German botanist and entomologist 1862 - Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb , American general, lawyer, and politician 1863 - Christian Friedrich Hebbel , German poet and playwright 1868 - Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius , German botanist and explorer 1881 - August Šenoa , Croatian author and poet 1883 - Victor de Laprade , French poet and critic 1893 - Georg August Rudolph , German lawyer and politician, 3rd Mayor of Marburg 1895 - Ányos Jedlik , Hungarian physicist and engineer 1908 - Augustus Le Plongeon , French photographer and historian 1919 - Woldemar Voigt , German physicist and academic 1922 - Arthur Wesley Dow , American painter and photographer 1922 - Hannes Hafstein , Icelandic poet and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland 1924 - Samuel Gompers , English-born American labor leader, founded the American Federation of Labor 1927 - Mehmet Nadir , Turkish mathematician and academic 1930 - Fritz Pregl , Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate 1931 - Gustave Le Bon , French psychologist, sociologist, and anthropologist 1932 - Georgios Jakobides , Greek painter and sculptor 1935 - Victor Grignard , French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1942 - Wlodimir Ledóchowski , Austrian-Polish religious leader, 26th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus 1942 - Robert Robinson Taylor , American architect 1944 - Wassily Kandinsky , Russian-French painter and theorist 1945 - Irma Grese , German concentration camp guard 1945 - Josef Kramer , German concentration camp commandant 1945 - Elisabeth Volkenrath , Polish-German concentration camp supervisor 1947 - Henry James , American lawyer and author 1947 - Nicholas Roerich , Russian archaeologist, painter, and philosopher 1950 - Abraham Wald , Hungarian mathematician and academic 1954 - John Raymond Hubbell , American director and composer 1955 - Egas Moniz , Portuguese psychiatrist and neurosurgeon, Nobel Prize laureate 1960 - Dora Marsden , English author and activist 1961 - Grandma Moses , American painter 1962 - Harry Barris , American singer-songwriter and pianist 1969 - Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Philippines 1973 - Henry Green , English author 1974 - Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu , Egyptian-Turkish journalist, author, and politician 1975 - Cyril Delevanti , English-American actor 1977 - Oğuz Atay , Turkish engineer and author 1979 - Jon Hall , American actor and director 1979 - Behçet Necatigil , Turkish author, poet and translator 1983 - Alexander Schmemann , Estonian-American priest and theologian 1983 - Nichita Stănescu , Romanian poet and critic 1986 - Heather Angel , British-American actress 1986 - Ella Baker, American activist 1986 - Smita Patil , Indian actress and journalist 1992 - K. C. Irving, Canadian businessman 1992 - Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney , American businessman and philanthropist 1993 - Vanessa Duriès , French author 1995 - Ann Nolan Clark , American author and educator 1996 - Edward Blishen , English author and educator 1997 - Don E. Fehrenbacher, American historian, author, and academic 1998 - Lew Grade , Ukrainian-born British impresario and media proprietor 1998 - Richard Thomas , Royal Naval Officer 1998 - Wade Watts , civil rights activist 2001 - Michael Bradshaw , British-Canadian actor 2001 - Chuck Schuldiner , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 2002 - Zal Yanovsky , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist 2003 - Māris Čaklais , Latvian poet and journalist 2003 - William V. Roth, Jr., American lawyer and politician 2004 - Andre Rodgers , Bahamian baseball player 2004 - David Wheeler , English computer scientist and academic 2005 - Stanley Williams , American gang leader, co-founded the Crips 2006 - Lamar Hunt , American businessman, co-founded the American Football League and World Championship Tennis 2007 - Mark Partridge , Rhodesian lawyer and politician 2007 - Floyd Red Crow Westerman , American actor and activist 2008 - John Drake , New Zealand rugby player and journalist 2010 - James Dibble , Australian journalist 2010 - Richard Holbrooke , American journalist and diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to the United Nations 2010 - Enrique Morente , Spanish singer-songwriter 2011 - T. J. Bass, American physician and author 2011 - Kabir Chowdhury , Bangladeshi author and academic 2011 - Russell Hoban , American author and illustrator 2012 - Ian Black , Scottish footballer 2013 - Marcel Cellier , Swiss organist and producer 2013 - Vivian Kellogg , American baseball player and manager 2013 - Kim Kuk-tae , North Korean politician 2013 - Harvey Littleton , American glass artist and educator 2014 - Ernst Albrecht , German economist and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Lower Saxony 2014 - William E. May, American theologian and academic 2014 - Phil Stern , American photographer 2014 - Taitetsu Unno , Japanese scholar and author 2015 - Benedict Anderson , Chinese-American political scientist and academic 2015 - John Bannon , Australian academic and politician, 39th Premier of South Australia 2015 - Peter Ryan , Australian journalist and author 2016 - Thomas Schelling , American economist and educator 2016 - David Strangway , Canadian geophysicist and university administrator 2016 - Alan Thicke , Canadian-American actor and composer 2017 - Warrel Dane , American singer 2018 - Noah Klieger , Israeli journalist and Holocaust survivorHolidays and observances Acadian Remembrance Day Christian feast day: *Antiochus of Sulcis * Judoc * Lucy , and its related observances: **National Day, celebrates the independence of Saint Lucia from United Kingdom in 1979. **Saint Lucy's Day. * Odile of Alsace * December 13 Martial Law Victims Remembrance Day Nanking Massacre Memorial Day Nusantara Day Republic Day Sailor's Day
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