Page 2: Historical Events In 2013

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

Feb 11   Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation from February 28, the inaugural pope to resign since 1415   

Feb 12   North Korea confirms it has successfully tested a nuclear device that could be weaponized   

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

Feb 14   A suicide bombing results in the deaths of 4 police officer and injures 5 in Dagestan.   

Feb 15   Over 1200 people are injured after a meteor breaks up over Chelyabinsk, Russia.   

Feb 16   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.   

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

Feb 19   12 people are killed and 11 are injured after a Yemeni Air Force plane crashes in Sana'a.   

Feb 20   Estonia is recorded as becoming the inaugural country to establish a national system of fast chargers for electric cars.   

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

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

Feb 23   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   

Feb 25   In this year, Italy Common Good, a centre left alliance, claims the Italian general election.   

Feb 26   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   

Feb 28   28 people are killed and 60 are injured after a series of bombings across Baghdad, Iraq.   

Mar 01   The 2013 US budget sequestration comes into effect.   

Mar 03   45 people are killed by a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan   

Mar 04   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 inaugural time   

Mar 06   Syrian rebels capture Ar-Raqqah, their inaugural major city.   

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

Mar 08   North Korea terminates all peace pacts with South Korea.   

Mar 09   19 people are killed in two suicide bombings in Kabul, Afghanistan.   

Mar 10   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.   

Mar 12   JOGMEC is recorded as becoming the inaugural to successfully extract methane hydrate from seabed deposits   

Mar 13   10 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Kunduz province, Afghanistan   

Mar 14   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   

Mar 16   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)   

Feb 19   Robert coleman richardson: American nobel physicist (b. 1937)   

Mar 05   Hugo ch�vez: President of venezuela (b. 1954)   

Mar 05   Paul bearer: American professional wrestling manager (b. 1954)   

Mar 07   Peter banks: British guitarist (b. 1947)   

Mar 07   Damiano damiani: Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1922)   

Mar 23   Boris berezovsky: Russian businessman (b. 1946)   

Mar 23   Joe weider: Canadian-born american bodybuilder and publisher (b. 1920)