13th September anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1601
  • Belgium
  • "Birth of Jan Brueghel the Younger, Belgian artist." more
  • 1766
  • United States
  • "Birth of Samuel Wilson, the man whose sobriquet 'Uncle Sam' became synonymous with US Army property." more
  • 1775
  • Canada
  • "Birth of Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine who on June 22, 1813 walked 20 miles to warn the British of an impending attack." more
  • 1819
  • Germany
  • "Birth of Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer." more
  • 1894
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of J B Priestley, English writer." more
• event
  • 335
  • Turkey
  • The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem was consecrated by Constantine the Great. more
  • 1501
  • Italy
  • "Michelangelo starts work on his statue of David, which he completed three years later." more
  • 1644
  • Battle of Aberdeen
  • 1645
  • Battle of Philiphaugh
  • 1774
  • Cook arrives on Easter Island
  • 1862
  • United States
  • Start of the Battle of Harpers Ferry in the American Civil War which resulted in the largest Union surrender of the war. more
  • 1898
  • United States
  • Rev Hannibal Goodwin was granted a patent for celluloid photographic film. more
  • 1899
  • United States
  • "Henry Bliss was knocked down by an electric powered taxicab and died the following day, thus becoming the first person killed in a motor accident in the US."
  • 1933
  • New Zealand
  • "The first woman, Elizabeth McCombs, was elected to the New Zealand Parliament" more
  • 1949
  • The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) was founded in New York
  • 1956
  • United States
  • "The first commercial computer to use disc storage, the IBM 305 RAMAC, was introduced." more
  • 1956
  • Little Richard recorded the song 'Tutti Frutti' in Los Angeles - with cleaned-up lyrics compared with his original stage version
  • 1957
  • "Agatha Christie's 'The Mousetrap' became Britain's longest running play with its 1,998th performance (now well over 20,000)"
  • 1979
  • The first episode of the TV show Benson was broadcast in the USA
  • 1988
  • Hurricane Gilbert killed 318 people and caused $5.5 billion of damage in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico over a nine-day period.
  • 1989
  • "South African Anglican bishop Desmond Tutu led an anti-apartheid peace march through central Cape Town. 30,000 people took part"
  • 1989
  • Customers of Citibank received an extra £2 billion in Britains biggest ever banking computer error. 99.3% of the money was later returned
• Death
  • 1506
  • "Death of Andrea Mantegna, Italian Renaissance artist"
  • 1759
  • "Gen James Woolfe killed at Quebec, but won the battle giving Britain North America"
  • 1806
  • "Death of Charles James Fox, English politician, Britain's first foreign secretary"
  • 1944
  • France
  • "Death of Noor Inayat Khan GC, SOE radio operator working in occupied France. Betrayed, she withstood torture and was eventually executed at Dachau." more
  • 1944
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of William Heath Robinson, British cartoonist." more