Page 7: Historical Events In 2013

Aug 25   41 people are killed in a wave of bomb attacks across Iraq   

Aug 26   25000 applicants to the University of Liberia fail their university entrance examination.   

Aug 28   China and Russia walk out of a UN Security Council meeting after the US pushes for immediate action against Syria's use of chemical weapons   

Aug 29   41 people are killed and 33 are injured in a bus accident in Kenya   

Sep 03   15 militants are killed by an Egyptian Army helicopter in Sinai Peninsula.   

Sep 06   20 people are killed by Islamist militants in villages in northeast Nigeria   

Sep 07   14 Syrian rebels and 2 civilians are killed by heavy government shelling of Damascus   

Sep 08   11 people are killed and 18 are injured after a gunfire attack in Guatemala City   

Sep 09   60 people are killed in conflict between rebels and loyalists in the Central African Republic.   

Sep 10   16 people are killed after a series of bomb attacks across Iraq   

Sep 11   12 Alawite sect members are killed by rebel fighters in central Syria   

Sep 13   30 people are killed by a mosque bombing attack in Baghdad, Iraq   

Sep 15   21 people are killed in a series of bombings in Baghdad and Shia provinces, Iraq.   

Sep 16   21 people are killed by Hurricane Ingrid in Mexico.   

Sep 17   6 people are killed after a train and double-decker bus collide in Ottawa, Canada.   

Sep 20   46 soldiers are killed in army-base attacks in Shabwah Governorate, Yemen   

Sep 21   6 people are killed in military and insurgent conflict in Zamboanga City, Philippines.   

Sep 22   78 people are killed in a church suicide bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan   

Sep 23   25 people are killed after Typhoon Usagi passes Hong Kong and China   

Sep 24   515 people are killed by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Balochistan, Pakistan.   

Sep 25   Oracle Team USA defeats Team New Zealand 9-8 to win the America's Cup.   

Sep 27   7 people are killed in mosque bombings in Baghdad, Iraq   

Sep 28   27 villagers are killed by Boko Harem in northeast Nigeria   

Sep 29   42 people are killed by Boko Harem in a college attack in Gujba, Nigeria.   

Oct 03   325 people are killed after a migrant ship catches fire and shipwrecks of the coast of Lampedusa, Italy   

Oct 05   Wladimir Klitschko defeats Alexander Povetkin to retain his WBA Heavyweight Championship.   

Oct 06   53 people are killed in political clashes in Egypt.   

Oct 07   Mulatu Teshome is recorded as becoming president of Ethiopia.   

Oct 08   Peter Higgs and François Englert win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the origin of the mass of subatomic particles.   

Oct 09   60 people are killed in clashes between militias and Seleka rebels in the Central African Republic.   

Oct 10   Alice Munro is awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for literature   

Oct 11   10 people are killed and a hospital fire in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan   

Oct 12   50 people are killed after a truck veers of a cliff in  La Convencion Province, Peru   

Oct 13   109 people are killed in a stampede on a bridge in  Datia district, Madhya Pradesh, India.   

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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)