Page 6: Historical Events In 2013

Jul 18   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.   

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

Jul 22   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.   

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

Jul 26   57 people are killed in a market bombing in Parachinar, Pakistan   

Jul 27   100 people are killed and 1500 injured in a crackdown against protesters in Cairo, Egypt.   

Jul 28   39 people are killed after a bus veers off a bridge in Avellino Province, Italy   

Jul 29   44 people are killed in a wave of car bombings in Iraq.   

Jul 30   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   

Aug 02   40 people are killed after an ammunition depot explodes in Homs, Syria.   

Aug 03   9 children are killed by a suicide bombing in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.   

Aug 04   Hassan Rouhani is inaugurated as the President of Iran   

Aug 05   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   

Aug 07   11 people are killed by a bombing in Karachi, Pakistan.   

Aug 08   28 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Quetta, Pakistan.   

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

Aug 10   6 people are killed after Paluweh volcano erupts in Indonesia   

Aug 11   22 people are killed by flash floods in Kabul, Pakistan   

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

Aug 14   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.   

Aug 16   61 people are killed after the ferry MV Thomas Aquinas sinks in the Philippines.   

Aug 17   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   

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

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

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

Aug 22   14 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Western Iraq   

Aug 23   50 people are killed in mosque bombings in Tripoli, Lebanon.   

Aug 24   4 people are killed in a helicopter crash in the Shetland Islands.   

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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)