Historical Events In 2013

Feb 10   Nigeria defeat Burkina Faso 1-0 to win the football 2013 Africa Cup of Nations in the year 2013.  

Feb 11   In the year 2013 pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation from February 28, the first pope to resign since 1415  

Feb 12   North Korea confirms it has successfully tested a nuclear device that could be weaponized on this day in history.  

Feb 13   16 Muslim insurgents are killed in an attack on a Narathiwat military base, Thailand on this day in history.  

Feb 14   A suicide bombing kills 4 police officer and injures 5 in Dagestan on this day in history.  

Feb 15   Over 1,200 people are injured after a meteor breaks up over Chelyabinsk, Russia on this day in history.  

Feb 16   84 people are killed and 190 are injured after a market bombing in Hazara Town, Pakistan on this day in history.  

Feb 17   In the year 2013 37 people are killed and 130 are injured in a series of Baghdad car bombings  

Feb 18   15 people are killed by flooding and landslides in Indonesia in the year 2013.  

Feb 19   On this day in history 12 people are killed and 11 are injured after a Yemeni Air Force plane crashes in Sana'a  

Feb 20   Estonia becomes the first country to establish a national system of fast chargers for electric cars in the year 2013.  

Feb 21   83 people are killed and 250 are injured in a series of bombing attacks in Damascus, Syria in the year 2013.  

Feb 22   29 people are killed and 150 are injured by by 3 Syrian army missiles in Aleppo on this day in history.  

Feb 23   51 people are killed and 62 are injured in conflict between rival tribes in Darfur, Sudan in the year 2013.  

Feb 24   10 Chadian soldiers and 28 Muslim insurgents are killed in conflict in Adrar des Ifoghas, Mali in the year 2013.  

Feb 25   Italy Common Good, a centre left alliance, wins the Italian general election in the year 2013.  

Feb 26   A flexible battery capable of being charged wirelessly and folded and stretched is developed in the year 2013.  

Feb 27   20 people are killed in a market fire in Calcutta, India in the year 2013.  

Feb 28   28 people are killed and 60 are injured after a series of bombings across Baghdad, Iraq on this day in history.  

Mar 01   On this day in history the 2013 US budget sequestration comes into effect  

Mar 03   45 people are killed by a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan on this day in history.  

Mar 04   40 Syrian soldiers are killed in an ambush in Western Iraq in the year 2013.  

Mar 05   The Dow Jones surpasses its 2007 pre-financial crisis levels for the first time in the year 2013.  

Mar 06   Syrian rebels capture Ar-Raqqah, their first major city in the year 2013.  

Mar 07   Hilary Mantel is awarded the 2013 David Cohen Prize for literature on this day in history.  

Mar 08   On this day in history north Korea terminates all peace pacts with South Korea  

Mar 09   On this day in history 19 people are killed in two suicide bombings in Kabul, Afghanistan  

Mar 10   In the year 2013 aung San Suu Kyi is re-elected leader of the Burmese National League for Democracy  

Mar 11   On this day in history european Union bans the sale of cosmetics that have been tested on animals  

Mar 12   On this day in history jOGMEC becomes the first to successfully extract methane hydrate from seabed deposits  

Mar 13   10 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Kunduz province, Afghanistan on this day in history.  

Mar 14   In the year 2013 25 people are killed and 50 are wounded by a series of car bombings in Baghdad, Iraq  

Mar 15   24 people die after a double decker bus veers of a pass in Cape Town, South Africa on this day in history.  

Mar 16   In the year 2013 a €10 billion Cyprus bailout plan will wipe out 10% of the citizens bank deposits  

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Feb 19   Armen Alchian, American economist (b. 1914) died on this day in history.  

Feb 19   In the year 2013 death of robert Coleman Richardson, American Nobel physicist (b. 1937)  

Mar 05   In the year 2013 death of hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (b. 1954)  

Mar 05   Paul Bearer, American professional wrestling manager (b. 1954) died in the year 2013.  

Mar 07   Peter Banks, British guitarist (b. 1947) died in the year 2013.  

Mar 07   Damiano Damiani, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1922) died in the year 2013.  

Mar 23   Boris Berezovsky, Russian businessman (b. 1946) died on this day in history.  

Mar 23   On this day in history death of joe Weider, Canadian-born American bodybuilder and publisher (b. 1920)