Historical Events In 2013

Feb 10   Nigeria defeat Burkina Faso 1-0 to win the football 2013 Africa Cup of Nations on this day in history.   

Feb 11   Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation from February 28, the first pope to resign since 1415 on this day in history.   

Feb 12   North Korea confirms it has successfully tested a nuclear device that could be weaponized in the year 2013.   

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

Feb 14   A suicide bombing kills 4 police officer and injures 5 in Dagestan on this day in history.   

Feb 15   On this day in history over 1,200 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 on this day in history.   

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   12 people are killed and 11 are injured after a Yemeni Air Force plane crashes in Sana'a in the year 2013.   

Feb 20   Estonia becomes the first country to establish a national system of fast chargers for electric cars in the year 2013.   

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

Feb 22   In the year 2013 29 people are killed and 150 are injured by by 3 Syrian army missiles in Aleppo   

Feb 23   On this day in history 51 people are killed and 62 are injured in conflict between rival tribes in Darfur, Sudan   

Feb 24   In the year 2013 10 Chadian soldiers and 28 Muslim insurgents are killed in conflict in Adrar des Ifoghas, Mali   

Feb 25   In the year 2013 italy Common Good, a centre left alliance, wins the Italian general election   

Feb 26   A flexible battery capable of being charged wirelessly and folded and stretched is developed in the year 2013.   

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

Feb 28   In the year 2013 28 people are killed and 60 are injured after a series of bombings across Baghdad, Iraq   

Mar 01   On this day in history the 2013 US budget sequestration comes into effect   

Mar 03   45 people are killed by a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan on this day in history.   

Mar 04   On this day in history 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   Syrian rebels capture Ar-Raqqah, their first major city on this day in history.   

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   In the year 2013 19 people are killed in two suicide bombings in Kabul, Afghanistan   

Mar 10   In the year 2013 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 on this day in history.   

Mar 12   JOGMEC becomes the first to successfully extract methane hydrate from seabed deposits on this day in history.   

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

Mar 16   On this day in history 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) died on this day in history.   

Feb 19   Robert Coleman Richardson, American Nobel physicist (b. 1937) died in the year 2013.   

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   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 on this day in history.   

Mar 23   On this day in history death of joe Weider, Canadian-born American bodybuilder and publisher (b. 1920)