Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 13

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  Francis Scott Key
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  Death of James Wolfe, by Benjamin West
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  Yitzhak Rabin, Bill Clinton, and Yasser Arafat at the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords
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  RAMAC
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  Phineas Gage with the rod that pierced his skull
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  Elizabeth McCombs
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  Model of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus
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  Mount Kenya
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  John Calvin

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Blurb	Reason
Feast day of Saint John Chrysostom (Western Christianity)	Referencing issues
533 – Belisarius and his legions defeated Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimum near Carthage, and began the "Reconquest of the West" under Eastern Roman Emperor Template:Nowrap.	page numbers needed
1229 – Ögedei Khan, the third son of Genghis Khan, was proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire.	unreferenced section
1437 – A Portuguese expeditionary force led by Henry the Navigator began an ultimately unsuccessful siege of Tangiers.	unreferenced section
1808 – Finnish War: Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln defeated the Russians at the Battle of Jutas.	Georg: refimprove; Jutas: stub
1847 – Mexican–American War: Six teenagers known as Los Niños Héroes fought to their death defending the military academy at Castillo de Chapultepec in Mexico City during the Battle of Chapultepec.	unreferenced section
1882 – The British Army overwhelmingly defeated the forces of the Ahmed Urabi to end the Anglo-Egyptian War.	refimprove
1899 – An expedition led by Halford Mackinder made the first ascent of Mount Kenya, the second-highest mountain in Africa.	page numbers needed
1956 – IBM unveiled the [[IBM 305 RAMAC|Template:Nowrap]] (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control), the first commercial computer that used magnetic disk storage.	refimprove section
1971 – The Attica Prison riot ended when New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller ordered the storming of the prison, in which 38 people died by gunfire.	Pop culture problems
1987 – A radioactive item was scavenged from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, leading to the deaths of four and serious contamination in 249 others.	refimprove section
1993 – After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin formally signed the Oslo Peace Accords.	refimprove section
2006 – Kimveer Gill shot 19 people for unknown reasons, killing one, at Dawson College in Montreal.	refimprove section
2007 – The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, setting out the individual and collective rights of indigenous peoples, as well as their rights to culture, identity, language, employment, health, education and other issues.	undue weight
Michel de Montaigne |d|1592|	Orange "update needed" banner
Walter Reed |b|1851|	Five CN tags

Eligible

• 1541 – After three years of exile, French theologian John Calvin (pictured) returned to Geneva to reform the church under a system of Christian theology later known as Calvinism.
• 1914 – World War I: The French army repulsed a German assault against their positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.
• 1985 – Super Mario Bros., one of the most influential and best-selling video games in history, was first released in Japan for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
• 1988 – Hurricane Gilbert reached a minimum pressure of 888 mb (26.22 inHg) with sustained flight-level winds of 185 mph (295 km/h), making it the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record at the time.
• 1993 – Nirvana released their third and final studio album, In Utero, which went on to sell more than 15 million copies.

• 509 BC – According to Roman tradition, the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus (depicted), the most important temple in ancient Rome, was dedicated.
• 1567 – The siege of Inabayama Castle, the final battle in Oda Nobunaga's campaign to conquer Mino Province, began; it culminated in a decisive victory for Nobunaga.
• 1848 – An explosion drove an iron rod through the head of railroad foreman Phineas Gage; his survival and recovery influenced 19th-century discussion of psychology and neuroscience.
• 1919 – The Boston police strike ended after four days of rule by the state militia, the deaths of nine people, and accusations that striking officers were "agents of Lenin".
• 1937 – Chicago Public Schools began delivering lessons via radio amid to a polio outbreak, marking the first large-scale use of radio broadcasts for distance education.
• 1964 – South Vietnamese generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức staged a coup attempt after being demoted by junta leader Nguyễn Khánh.
• 2005 – A software bug caused a simulated pandemic in the online video game World of Warcraft, serving as a model for epidemiologists to understand how human interaction influences disease outbreaks.
• Born/died this day: | Kavad I |d|531| Laura Secord |b|1775| Lucy Goode Brooks |b|1818| Clara Schumann |b|1819| William Birdwood |b|1865| Arnold Schoenberg |b|1874| Petros Voulgaris |b|1883| Emmanuel Chabrier |d|1894| Marguerite LeHand |b|1896| Pat Collins |b|1896| Claude-Hélène Perrot |b|1928| Richard Tice |b|1964| Fiona Apple |b|1977| Thomas Müller |b|1989| Jordan Bardella |b|1995| Luiz Gushiken |d|2013| Helen Filarski |d|2014|

Notes

• Hurricane Iniki appears on September 11, so Hurricane Gilbert should not appear in the same year
• Battle of North Point appears on September 12, so Battle of Baltimore/Francis Scott Key should not appear in the same year

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• 1759 – French and Indian War: British forces won the Battle of the Plains of Abraham near Quebec City, despite General James Wolfe being mortally wounded.
• 1814 – War of 1812: Fort McHenry in Baltimore's Inner Harbor was attacked by British forces during the Battle of Baltimore, inspiring Francis Scott Key to write "Defence of Fort McHenry", later used as the lyrics to the United States national anthem.
• 1959 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 (model pictured) struck the Moon, the first spacecraft to reach another celestial body.
• 1971 – Following a failed coup attempt, Mao Zedong's second-in-command Lin Biao died in a plane crash while attempting to flee China.
• 2008 – Five bomb blasts took place in Delhi, India, killing at least 20 people as part of a series of attacks perpetrated by the Indian Mujahideen.