13 December

The 13t o December is the 347t day o the year (348t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 18 days bidin.

 Events 
 1642 - Abel Tasman reaches the Sooth Island o New Zealand.
 1864 - Paraguay declares war on Brazil.
 1941 - Warld War II: Hungary an Romanie declare war on the Unitit States.
 1941 - A glacier breaks on Palcacocha Lake in the Peruvian Andes, killin 6,000 fowk.
 1949 - The Knesset votes tae make Jerusalem the caipital o Israel.
 1962 - NASA launches the "Relay 1" space probe.
 1974 - Malta becomes a republic.
 1982 - Wojciech Jaruzelski declares mairtial law in Poland.
 1996 - Kofi Annan is chosen tae become the naxt Secretar-General o the Unitit Naitions.
 2001 - An airmed attack is carried oot on Indie's pairlament.
 2002 - The European Union annoonces that 10 new members are set tae jyn in 2004.
 2003 - Saddam Hussein is captured near his hame toun o Tikrit bi American forces.
 2016 - Govrenment forces take control o the Sirie ceety o Aleppo, efter a three-week offensive.
 2019 - UK Leeberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson demits efter losin her seat tae the SNP's Amy Callaghan in the General Election.

 Births 
 1521 - Pape Sixtus V (d. 1590)
 1533 - Eric XIV o Swaden (d. 1577)
 1553 - Henry IV o Fraunce (d. 1610)
 1678 - Yongzheng Emperor o Cheenae (d. 1735)
 1797 - Heinrich Heine, German writer (d. 1856)
 1816 - Werner von Siemens, German inventor an industrialist (d. 1892)
 1821 - Joseph Noel Paton, Scots penter (d. 1901)
 1818 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady o the Unitit States (d. 1882)
 1902 - Talcott Parsons, American sociologist (d. 1979)
 1906 - Princess Marina o Greece an Denmark (d. 1968)
 1920 - George P. Shultz, 60t Unitit States Secretar o State
 1923 - Philip Warren Anderson, American pheesicist (d. 2020)
 1925 - Dick Van Dyke, American actor
 1929 - Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor
 1945 - Herman Cain, American politeecian (d. 2020)
 1953 - Ben Bernanke, American economist
 1957 - Steve Buscemi, American actor an director
 1967 - Jamie Foxx, American actor an muisicker
 1971 - Leanne Wood, Welsh politeecian
 1984 - Santi Cazorla, Spainyie fitbawer
 1989 - Taylor Swift, American sangster an actress

 Daiths 
 1124 - Pape Callixtus II (b. 1050)
 1250 - Frederick II, Haly Roman Emperor (b. 1194)
 1721 - Alexander Selkirk, Scots sailor (b. 1680)
 1754 - Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1696)
 1784 - Samuel Johnson, Inglis writer (b. 1709)
 1930 - Fritz Pregl, Austrick-Slovenie chemist (b. 1869)
 1935 - Victor Grignard, French chemist (b. 1871)
 1944 - Wassily Kandinsky, Roushie penter (b. 1866)
 1961 - Grandma Moses, American penter (b. 1860)
 2016 - Thomas Schelling, American economist (b. 1921)
 2016 - Alan Thicke, Canadian actor (b. 1947)

 Halidays 
 Saunt Lucy's Day (Scandinavie an Italy)
 Naitional Day (Saunt Lucia)
 Republic Day (Malta)

Category:Days o the year