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   Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation from February 28, the first pope to resign since 1415 in the year 2013.   

Feb 12   On this day in history north Korea confirms it has successfully tested a nuclear device that could be weaponized   

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

Feb 14   In the year 2013 a suicide bombing kills 4 police officer and injures 5 in Dagestan   

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

Feb 16   In the year 2013 84 people are killed and 190 are injured after a market bombing in Hazara Town, Pakistan   

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

Feb 18   15 people are killed by flooding and landslides in Indonesia on this day in history.   

Feb 19   In the year 2013 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 on this day in history.   

Feb 21   83 people are killed and 250 are injured in a series of bombing attacks in Damascus, Syria on this day in history.   

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

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

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 on this day in history.   

Feb 26   In the year 2013 a flexible battery capable of being charged wirelessly and folded and stretched is developed   

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

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

Mar 01   In the year 2013 the 2013 US budget sequestration comes into effect   

Mar 03   In the year 2013 45 people are killed by a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan   

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

Mar 05   The Dow Jones surpasses its 2007 pre-financial crisis levels for the first time on this day in history.   

Mar 06   On this day in history syrian rebels capture Ar-Raqqah, their first major city   

Mar 07   Hilary Mantel is awarded the 2013 David Cohen Prize for literature in the year 2013.   

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

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

Mar 10   On this day in history aung San Suu Kyi is re-elected leader of the Burmese National League for Democracy   

Mar 11   European Union bans the sale of cosmetics that have been tested on animals in the year 2013.   

Mar 12   In the year 2013 jOGMEC becomes the first to successfully extract methane hydrate from seabed deposits   

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

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   In the year 2013 24 people die after a double decker bus veers of a pass in Cape Town, South Africa   

Mar 16   A €10 billion Cyprus bailout plan will wipe out 10% of the citizens bank deposits on this day in history.   

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Feb 19   On this day in history death of armen Alchian, American economist (b. 1914)   

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

Mar 05   On this day in history death of hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (b. 1954)   

Mar 05   Paul Bearer, American professional wrestling manager (b. 1954) died on this day in history.   

Mar 07   On this day in history death of peter Banks, British guitarist (b. 1947)   

Mar 07   In the year 2013 death of damiano Damiani, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1922)   

Mar 23   Boris Berezovsky, Russian businessman (b. 1946) died in the year 2013.   

Mar 23   In the year 2013 death of joe Weider, Canadian-born American bodybuilder and publisher (b. 1920)