Historical Events In 2013

Jul 18   On this day in history detroit, Michigan, files for bankruptcy to become the largest US municipal bankruptcy at $18.5 Billion  

Jul 19   20 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Diyala, Iraq in the year 2013.  

Jul 21   On this day in history 15 Egyptian Army soldiers are killed after their bus crashes into a truck on the Mediterranean Coast Highway  

Jul 22   On this day in history 89 people are killed and 500 are injured by earthquakes in Gansu province, China  

Jul 23   19 people are killed and 22 are injure after a tour bus collides with a truck in Saraburi, Thailand on this day in history.  

Jul 24   22 are left dead after a conflict between the Knights Templar Cartel and Mexican police in Michoacan in the year 2013.  

Jul 26   On this day in history 57 people are killed in a market bombing in Parachinar, Pakistan  

Jul 27   100 people are killed and 1,500 injured in a crackdown against protesters in Cairo, Egypt in the year 2013.  

Jul 28   39 people are killed after a bus veers off a bridge in Avellino Province, Italy on this day in history.  

Jul 29   In the year 2013 44 people are killed in a wave of car bombings in Iraq  

Jul 30   In the year 2013 28 people are killed in a series of bombings in Kano, Nigeria  

Aug 01   Robert Mugabe continues to maintain power after winning 142 out of 210 seats in the Zimbabwean election on this day in history.  

Aug 02   In the year 2013 40 people are killed after an ammunition depot explodes in Homs, Syria  

Aug 03   On this day in history 9 children are killed by a suicide bombing in Jalalabad, Afghanistan  

Aug 04   Hassan Rouhani is inaugurated as the President of Iran on this day in history.  

Aug 05   On this day in history 160 people are killed by flash floods across Afghanistan and Pakistan  

Aug 06   18 people are killed and 55 are wounded by a car bomb explosion in Damascus, Syria on this day in history.  

Aug 07   11 people are killed by a bombing in Karachi, Pakistan on this day in history.  

Aug 08   28 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Quetta, Pakistan on this day in history.  

Aug 09   8 people are killed and 24 are injured after gunmen open fire on a Sunni mosque in Quetta, Pakistan in the year 2013.  

Aug 10   6 people are killed after Paluweh volcano erupts in Indonesia on this day in history.  

Aug 11   In the year 2013 22 people are killed by flash floods in Kabul, Pakistan  

Aug 12   On this day in history 8 people are killed and 25 are injured in a suicide bomb attack in Balad, Iraq  

Aug 14   In the year 2013 14 people are killed and 26 are injured by two roadside bombings in Baqubah, Iraq  

Aug 15   20 people are killed and 200 are injured in an explosion in Beirut in the year 2013.  

Aug 16   In the year 2013 61 people are killed after the ferry MV Thomas Aquinas sinks in the Philippines  

Aug 17   In the year 2013 15 civilians are killed by a Syrian warplane attack in Aleppo  

Aug 18   6 people are killed by a bomb blast on a bus in West Bengal, India in the year 2013.  

Aug 19   24 Egyptian policemen are killed in an attack in Rafah in the year 2013.  

Aug 20   9 Islamist militants are killed by Russian police in North Caucasus in the year 2013.  

Aug 21   37 people are killed and 16 are injured in a bus crash near Chin Swee Temple, Malaysia in the year 2013.  

Aug 22   In the year 2013 14 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Western Iraq  

Aug 23   In the year 2013 50 people are killed in mosque bombings in Tripoli, Lebanon  

Aug 24   In the year 2013 4 people are killed in a helicopter crash in the Shetland Islands  

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

Feb 19   Robert Coleman Richardson, American Nobel physicist (b. 1937) died on this day in history.  

Mar 05   Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (b. 1954) died in the year 2013.  

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

Mar 07   Peter Banks, British guitarist (b. 1947) died on this day in history.  

Mar 07   Damiano Damiani, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1922) died on this day in history.  

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

Mar 23   Joe Weider, Canadian-born American bodybuilder and publisher (b. 1920) died on this day in history.