Historical Events in 2013

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• Jan 1 10 people are killed and 120 are injured in a stampede in Luanda, Angola
• Jan 1 13 Boko Harem members are killed by Nigeria’s military in Maiduguri
• Jan 1 13 FARC members are killed by an airstrike by the Colombian military

• Jan 1 18 people are killed and 16 wounded after a bus and mini-bus collision in Thiès, Senegal
• Jan 1 60 people are killed and 200 are injured after a stampede following New Year celebrations

• Jan 1 Phil Taylor claims his 16th and last PDC World Darts Championship title with a 7–4 victory over Dutchman Michael van Gerwen in the final in London
• Jan 1 US bi-partisan deal temporarily avoids the fiscal cliff
• Jan 3 27 Shiite pilgrims are killed and 60 are injured by a suicide bombing in Musayyib, Iraq
• Jan 4 6 Russian tourists are killed, and 2 are seriously injured when their snowmobile veers off a ski slope on Mount Cermis, Italy
• Jan 4 A Beechcraft BE35 airplane crashes into a house in Palm Coast, Florida, in faialed emergency landing, killing 3 in the plane, no one in the home was injured
• Jan 4 Car bomb kills 11 people, and injures 40 at a petrol station in Damascus, Syria
• Jan 4 Gunman kills 8 people in Kawit, Philippines
• Jan 6 10 people are killed by a US drone attack in South Waziristan, Pakistan
• Jan 6 The NHL reaches an agreement to end a 113 day lockout

• Jan 8 130 wildfires across Australia’s east coast force thousands to evacuate their homes
• Jan 8 2,130 prisoners held by the Syrian government are exchanged for 48 Iranians kidnapped by Syrian rebels

• Jan 10 81 people are killed and 120 are wounded by a twin bombing in Quetta, Pakistan
• Jan 11 29 people are killed and 12 are injured after a bus veers off a mountain road in Doti, Nepal
• Jan 11 46 people are killed and 12 are missing after a landslide buries a village in the Yunnan province, China
• Jan 12 "Mile High Miracle", In AFC Divisional Playoff Game Denver Broncos ahead of Baltimore Ravens 35-28 with 1:09 remaining, quarterback Joe Flacco heaves 70 yard touchdown pass to receiver Jacoby Jones to tie the game. Ravens win in overtime.
• Jan 12 A failed attempt to rescue a French hostage in Bulo Marer, Somalia, results in 18 deaths
• Jan 12 Beijing’s level of air pollution is declared to be at levels that are hazardous to human health

• Jan 15 19 Egyptian Army recruits are killed and 120 are injured in a train accident in Giza
• Jan 15 83 people are killed and 150 are injured in a rocket attack on Aleppo University, Syria
• Jan 16 24 people die after three car bombs exploded in Idlib Governorate, Syria
• Jan 16 25 people are killed after an apartment block collapses in Alexandria, Egypt
• Jan 16 A four day occupation of an Algerian BP facility by Amenas militants begins, killing 48 hostages
• Jan 17 106 people are massacred by Syrian army forces in Homs
• Jan 17 33 people are killed by a series of bombs across Iraq
• Jan 17 4 people are killed and over 2,000 are evacuated after a massive flood hits Jakarta, Indonesia
• Jan 17 8 people are killed in a plane crash in Chiapas, Mexico
• Jan 17 Japan unveils plans to build the world’s largest wind farm near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

• Jan 19 Calcium deposits are discovered on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity Rover
• Jan 19 Four climbers are killed by an avalanche in Glen Coe, Scotland

• Jan 19 The 2012-2013 NHL season begins after a 119-day lockout
• Jan 20 Austria votes to maintain compulsory military service in a referendum
• Jan 21 1 person is killed and 15 are injured by a magnitude 5.9 earthquake in Indonesia
• Jan 21 18 people are killed and 24 are injured after a bus falls down a ravine in Yungas, Bolivia
• Jan 21 30 people are killed in a car bombing in Salamiyeh, Syria
• Jan 21 41 people are injured after two trains collide in Vienna, Austria
• Jan 21 Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Netherlands’ Minister of Finance, becomes the President of the Euro Group
• Jan 22 A series of Baghdad car bombings kill 17 people
• Jan 22 The Bank of Japan doubles its inflation target to 2% and announces open-ended asset purchases for 2014 in the hope of ending deflation
• Jan 23 18 people are killed in a market shooting in Damboa, Nigeria
• Jan 23 23 people are killed in a mosque suicide bombing in Tuz Khormato, Iraq
• Jan 23 US armed forces overturns 1994 ban on women serving in combat
• Jan 24 17 people are killed and 34 are injured in a bus crash in Taperas, Bolivia
• Jan 24 A Japanese Coast guard ship engages a Taiwanese activist ship in the Senkaku Islands dispute
• Jan 24 Russian police kill 13 rebels in Vedeno District, Chechnya
• Jan 25 50 people are killed and 90 are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela
• Jan 25 6 civilians and 1 police officer are shot dead and 456 people are injured during a nationwide protest against Egypt’s 2011 revolution
• Jan 25 8 people are killed by 2 car bombs in Golan Heights, Syria
• Jan 25 Initial GDP figures for the fourth quarter of 2012 show the UK economy shrank by 0.3% raising fears of a triple dip recession
• Jan 25 Islamist forces are driven out of Hombori by the Malian army
• Jan 25 Tropical cyclone Oswald makes landfall in Queensland, Australia, causing mass flooding
• Jan 26 10 people are killed and 20 are injured by a suicide bombing in Kunduz, Afghanistan
• Jan 26 30 people are killed during a violent protest in Port Said, Egypt
• Jan 26 Miloš Zeman wins the Czech Republic’s presidential election
• Jan 26 The United States Sentencing Commission is hacked by Anonymous in response to the suicide of Aaron Swartz
• Jan 27 7 people are killed and 3 are injured when a retaining wall collapses during a football match at the Ugur Sports Facility, Turkey
• Jan 27 A bus crash into a ravine in Serta, Portugal, kills 11 people and injures an additional 32
• Jan 27 A series of bomb attacks in Kandahar, Afghanistan, kills 20 police officers
• Jan 27 In Port Said, Egypt, protests result in 7 people being killed and 630 are injured

• Jan 27 Spain defeats Denmark to win the 2013 World Men's Handball Championship
• Jan 27 The Kiss nightclub fire in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, ignited by pyrotechnics used by a performing rock band kills 245 people and injures at least 600 others; most of the deaths were from toxic smoke inhalation, the club was over capacity and had no fire exits
• Jan 28 10 people are killed and 11 are injured in after a freight train collides with a bus in Heihe City, China
• Jan 28 20 people are killed after a Bombardier CRJ200 airliner crashes outside Almaty, Kazakhstan
• Jan 28 Iran’s Pishgam rocket successfully completes a return trip of sending a monkey into space
• Jan 30 South Korea successfully launches its rocket Naro-1 which was carrying a scientific satellite

• Jan 31 300 people are injured in a train collision in Pretoria, South Africa
• Jan 31 36 people are killed and 126 are injured in an explosion at Torre Ejecutiva Pemex, Mexico

• Feb 1 21 people are killed and 30 are wounded by a market suicide bombing in Hangu, Pakistan
• Feb 1 26 people are killed after a fireworks truck explodes and causes a highway to collapse in Henan, China

• Feb 1 The Nigerian Army bombs a Boko Haram camp, killing 18 people
• Feb 1 Zenit-3SL, a Ukrainian-Russian carrier rocket, fails 40 seconds after liftoff and crashes into the Pacific Ocean
• Feb 2 18 people are killed and 34 are injured after a bus catches fire after falling down a ravine in Gansu province, China
• Feb 2 23 people are killed and 8 are injured after militants attacked an army base in the Lakki Marwat District, Pakistan

• Feb 3 33 people are killed by a suicide bombing by an explosive-packed truck in Kirkuk, Iraq
• Feb 3 Super Bowl XLVII, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, New Orleans, LA: Baltimore Ravens beat San Francisco 49ers, 34-31; MVP: Joe Flacco, Baltimore, QB
• Feb 4 20 people are killed after an apartment building was struck by a rocket in Aleppo, Syria
• Feb 4 22 people are killed and 24 are injured after a bus and a truck collide in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
• Feb 4 22 people are killed and 44 are injured after a suicide bombing in Taji, Iraq
• Feb 4 8 people are killed and 30 are injured after a bus collides with two vehicles and flips in Yucaipa, California
• Feb 4 Europol announces it will investigate over 680 football matches alleged to involve match fixing
• Feb 4 Paris, France annuls 213-year-old law banning women from wearing trousers
• Feb 5 UK House of Commons votes in favour of same-sex marriage
• Feb 6 9 people are killed as an 8.0 magnitude 8.0 earthquake strikes off the Solomon Islands coast
• Feb 7 Adam Ondra completes the first ascent of La Dura Dura in Spain, his second 9b+ (5.15c) after Change
• Feb 7 Azerbaijan launches its first satellite, Azerspace-1
• Feb 7 Eugène Delacroix's painting "Liberty Leading the People" is vandalized at the Louvre-Lens museum, Northern France
• Feb 8 100, 000 people march to demand justice for the atrocities of the Bangladesh Liberation War in Dhaka
• Feb 8 16 people are killed and 27 are wounded by a market bombing in Kalaya, Pakistan
• Feb 8 29 people are killed and 69 are injured in a series of Iraq bombings
• Feb 8 A massive blizzard begins in the US and Canada that resulted in 15 deaths, 5,300 cancelled flights, and loss of power for 900,000 people
• Feb 9 5 people are killed after Cessna plane crashes on a Brussels runway
• Feb 9 Adam Ondra completes the second ascent of the 9b (5.15b) route, Fight or flight
• Feb 10 36 people are killed and 39 are injured in a stampede at a train station in Allahabad, India
• Feb 10 5 people are killed by a falling lifeboat from the cruise ship Thomson Majesty in the Canary islands
• Feb 10 55th Grammy Awards: "Somebody That I Used To Know" (Goyte); "We Are Young" (fun); and "Babel" (Mumford & Sons) win

• Feb 10 Nigeria defeat Burkina Faso 1-0 to win the football 2013 Africa Cup of Nations
• Feb 11 18 coal miners are killed in an explosion in the Komi region, Russia

• Feb 12 North Korea allegedly conducts its third nuclear test, saying it was a nuclear device that could be weaponized
• Feb 13 10 civilians, including 3 children, are killed by a NATO airstrike in the Kunar Province, Afghanistan
• Feb 13 16 Muslim insurgents are killed in an attack on a Narathiwat military base, Thailand
• Feb 13 Sir Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, says he believes "a recovery is in sight" after fears raised about a triple dip recession
• Feb 14 A suicide bombing kills 4 police officer and injures 5 in Dagestan
• Feb 14 Japan remains in recession as the economy shrinks by a further 0.1%
• Feb 14 Oscar Pistorius, a South African amputee sprinter, is charged with the murder of Reeva Steenkamp
• Feb 14 The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, will be switched off for two years for upgrading
• Feb 14 The recession in the Eurozone economy deepens with a fall of 0.6% in GDP in the fourth quarter of 2012
• Feb 15 2012 DA14, an asteroid with a 50m diameter, comes within 27,700km of Earth the same day as the Chelyabinsk meteor hits Siberia
• Feb 15 Chelyabinsk meteor breaks up over Chelyabinsk, Russia, injuring over 1,200 people, with 26 to 33 times energy of Hiroshima bomb
• Feb 16 84 people are killed and 190 are injured after a market bombing in Hazara Town, Pakistan

• Feb 16 Anthony Carmona is elected President of Trinidad and Tobago
• Feb 16 Lionel Messi scores his 14th consecutive goal in La Liga and his 300th goal in 365 appearances for Barcelona
• Feb 17 37 people are killed and 130 are injured in a series of Baghdad car bombings
• Feb 17 5 people are killed and 11 are injured after a gas explosion destroyed an apartment complex in Frenštát pod Radhoštěm, Czech Republic
• Feb 17 President Rafael Correa wins the Ecuadorian general election in a landslide victory
• Feb 18 $50 million worth of diamonds is stolen in an armed robbery at Brussels Airport, Belgium
• Feb 18 15 people are killed by flooding and landslides in Indonesia
• Feb 19 12 people are killed and 11 are injured after a Yemeni Air Force plane crashes in Sana'a
• Feb 20 Estonia becomes the first country to establish a national system of fast chargers for electric cars
• Feb 20 Kepler-37b, the smallest known exoplanet, is discovered
• Feb 21 21 people are killed and 54 are injured in a bombing in Hyderabad, India
• Feb 21 83 people are killed and 250 are injured in a series of bombing attacks in Damascus, Syria
• Feb 22 13 Chadian soldiers and 65 Muslim insurgents are killed in conflict in Northern Mali
• Feb 22 29 people are killed and 150 are injured by 3 Syrian army missiles in Aleppo
• Feb 22 The European Commission forecast for 2013 expects growth of 0.1% across the 27 members of the EU but a contraction of 0.3% in the Eurozone economy
• Feb 22 The UK's AAA credit rating is downgraded by Moody's Investors Service to AA+; the agency expects growth to "remain sluggish over the next few years"
• Feb 23 51 people are killed and 62 are injured in conflict between rival tribes in Darfur, Sudan
• Feb 24 10 Chadian soldiers and 28 Muslim insurgents are killed in conflict in Adrar des Ifoghas, Mali
• Feb 24 55th Daytona 500: Jimmie Johnson wins 2nd Great American Race; Danica Patrick first female to start from pole position; also best-ever finish by a woman at Daytona (8th)

• Feb 24 Nicos Anastasiades wins the Cypriot presidential election

• Feb 25 Cuban President Raúl Castro announces he will not seek another term in 2018
• Feb 25 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
• Feb 26 A hot air balloon crashes in Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 tourists
• Feb 26 A rocket launched from the Gaza strip into Israel ends the ceasefire since November 2012
• Feb 27 17 Afghan militia are killed by Taliban insurgents in an attack in the Andar District
• Feb 27 20 people are killed in a market fire in Calcutta, India
• Feb 27 Pope Benedict XVI presents his farewell address to Vatican City
• Feb 28 28 people are killed and 60 are injured after a series of bombings across Baghdad, Iraq
• Feb 28 35 people are killed in violent demonstrations across Bangladesh
• Feb 28 The brains of two rats successfully connected so that they share information
• Mar 1 14 people are killed in the Lahad Datu standoff between Malaysian government and rebel forces
• Mar 1 The 2013 US budget sequestration comes into effect
• Mar 3 45 people are killed by a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan
• Mar 3 A 2-year-old US girl becomes the first child born with HIV to be cured
• Mar 4 11 children are killed after a bus collides a truck in the Jalandhar district, India
• Mar 4 40 Syrian soldiers are killed in an ambush in Western Iraq

• Mar 4 The Papal Conclave begins to select the successor of Pope Benedict XVI
• Mar 5 The Dow Jones surpasses its 2007 pre-financial crisis levels for the first time

• Mar 5 Willcom announces the world’s smallest mobile phone, weighing 32 grams
• Mar 6 9 people die after a plane crashes after being ensnared in power lines in Peru
• Mar 6 Microsoft is fined €561M ($731M USD) by the Euro Commission for failing to respect an antitrust settlement to provide options to chose an alternative web browser
• Mar 6 Syrian rebels capture Ar-Raqqah, their first major city
• Mar 7 Hilary Mantel is awarded the 2013 David Cohen Prize for literature
• Mar 7 UN Security Council approves further North Korean sanctions for its nuclear testing
• Mar 8 North Korea terminates all peace pacts with South Korea
• Mar 9 19 people are killed in two suicide bombings in Kabul, Afghanistan
• Mar 9 Asteroid 2013 ET comes within 960,000 km from the Earth’s surface
• Mar 9 Bernard Hopkins defeats Tavoris Cloud to win IBF light heavyweight title

• Mar 11 European Union bans the sale of cosmetics that have been tested on animals
• Mar 11 Falkland Islands’ sovereignty referendum: 99.8% choose to remain an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom

• Mar 11 North Korea cuts the phone line with South Korea, breaching the 1953 armistice
• Mar 12 "The Flick", a play by Annie Baker opens off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in New York (Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2014) [1]
• Mar 12 JOGMEC becomes the first to successfully extract methane hydrate from seabed deposits
• Mar 12 The 2013 Papal conclave begins with no new Pope elected on the first day
• Mar 13 10 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Kunduz province, Afghanistan
• Mar 13 Aleqa Hammond’s Siumut party wins the Greenland parliamentary elections
• Mar 13 An Embraer 821 aeroplane crashes and kills 9 people in Para, Brazil

• Mar 13 North Korea shreds the Korean Armistice agreement
• Mar 13 The European Parliament rejects a European Union budget for the first time
• Mar 14 25 people are killed and 50 are wounded by a series of car bombings in Baghdad, Iraq
• Mar 14 7 people are killed after gunmen storm a bar in Cancun, Mexico

• Mar 15 16 people are killed by a fireworks accident in Tlaxcala, Mexico

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