Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 13

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• Pope Paul III
  Pope Paul III
• George Gershwin
  George Gershwin
• Ambrose Burnside
  Ambrose Burnside
• Baiji, or Chinese River Dolphin
  Baiji, or Chinese River Dolphin
• Saddam Hussein captured by U.S. forces
  Saddam Hussein captured by U.S. forces
• William Waller
  William Waller
• The Army of the Potomac crossing the Rappahannock during the Battle of Fredericksburg
  The Army of the Potomac crossing the Rappahannock during the Battle of Fredericksburg
• Baker-Berry Library, Dartmouth College
  Baker-Berry Library, Dartmouth College
• Haile Selassie
  Haile Selassie
• Wojciech Jaruzelski
  Wojciech Jaruzelski
• Beyoncé
  Beyoncé
• Jo Swinson
  Jo Swinson

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
; Saint Lucy's Day in Italy and Scandinavia	refimprove section
Republic Day in Malta (1974)	refimprove section
1545 – The Council of Trent, an ecumenical council convoked by [[Pope Paul III|Pope Template:Nowrap]] in response to the growth of Protestantism, opened in Trent, Bishopric of Trent (now in modern Italy).	refimprove
1577 – Sir Francis Drake left Plymouth, England, with five ships and 164 men on his round-the-world voyage.	unreferenced section
1636 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony organized three militia units, an act considered to be the founding of the United States National Guard.	refimprove section
1642 – Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European explorer to see New Zealand.	featured on November 24
1758 – While transporting Acadians from Prince Edward Island to France, the Duke William sank in the North Atlantic with the loss of over 360 lives, one of the greatest marine disasters in Canadian history.	refimprove section
1939 – Second World War: The Royal Navy cruisers HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles defeated the German Deutschland class cruiser Admiral Graf Spee off the estuary of the River Plate off the coast of Argentina and Uruguay.	refimprove section, outdated
1974 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese forces launched the Spring Offensive, which culminated in the collapse of South Vietnam five months later.	CN tags
1982 – An earthquake registering 6.2 Mw struck North Yemen, killing about 2,800 people.	Date not cited
2003 – Post-invasion Iraq: During Operation Red Dawn, American forces found former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein hiding in a spider hole and captured him.	refimprove
2006 – The baiji, a freshwater dolphin found only in the Yangtze River in China, was announced as functionally extinct by leaders of the Yangtze Freshwater Dolphin Expedition.	refimprove section
Samuel Johnson |d|1784|	refimprove section (list of works)
Heinrich Heine |b|1797|	Orange banner lede too short

Eligible

• 1809 – Napoleonic Wars: While transporting supplies to Guadeloupe, French commodore François Roquebert's expedition to the Caribbean captured the British frigate HMS Junon.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Union forces under Ambrose Burnside suffered severe casualties against entrenched Confederate defenders at the Battle of Fredericksburg in Virginia.
• 1928 – An American in Paris, a jazz-influenced orchestral piece by George Gershwin, premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York.
• 1960 – With Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, out of the country, four conspirators staged a coup attempt to install Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen on the throne.
• 1981 – Polish prime minister Wojciech Jaruzelski (pictured) declared martial law.
• 1991 – Croatian War of Independence: The Croatian Army retreated after the failure of Operation Whirlwind, destroying their tanks to avoid their capture.
• 2013 – Beyoncé (pictured) released her fifth studio album without any prior announcement or promotion; it sold 2.3 million copies before the end of the year.
• 2019 – Jo Swinson (pictured) steps down as Leader of the Liberal Democrats after losing her seat in the 2019 general election making her tenure the shortest in the party's history.
• Born/died: | Paul Speratus |b|1484| Francesco Bianchini |b|1662| Mary Todd Lincoln |b|1818| Emily Carr |b|1871| Athanasios Rhousopoulos |d|1898|Hans-Joachim Marseille |b|1919 | Larry Doby |b|1923| Dora Marsden |d|1960| Addie Viola Smith |d|1975

Notes

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill appears on December 11, so Dartmouth should not appear in the same year

December 13: Nanjing Massacre Memorial Day in China (1937) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1643 – First English Civil War: Roundhead forces under Sir William Waller led a successful surprise attack in Hampshire on a winter garrison of Cavalier infantry and cavalry.
• 1769 – Dartmouth College (campus pictured) was established by royal charter in present-day Hanover, New Hampshire.
• 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japanese forces, capturing the Chinese city of Nanjing, began committing numerous atrocities over the next several weeks, including looting, rape and the execution of prisoners of war and civilians.
• 1989 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army engaged in a fierce firefight with the King's Own Scottish Borderers at a vehicle checkpoint complex in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
• 2011 – A man threw grenades and fired a rifle at crowds in Liège, Belgium, causing 6 deaths and injuring more than 120 others, before killing himself.