Historical Events in 2013 (Part 4)

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• Sep 15 Japan switches off its last working nuclear reactor
• Sep 16 12 people are killed after a gunman opens fire at a naval yard in Washington, D.C.
• 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 17 TV comedy "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" starring Andy Samberg and an ensemble cast premieres in the US on Fox
• Sep 20 46 soldiers are killed in army-base attacks in Shabwah Governorate, Yemen
• Sep 20 Alex Rodriquez sets new MLB record with 24 Grand Slam home runs for the New York Yankees
• Sep 20 Grand Theft Auto becomes the fastest entertainment product to reach $1 Billion in sales
• Sep 20 Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise is boarded by Russian military
• Sep 21 100 people are killed in a series of attacks across Iraq
• Sep 21 59 people are killed and 175 wounded in a shopping mall gun battle in Nairobi, Kenya
• 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 "The Goldbergs" by Adam F. Goldberg premieres in the US on ABC
• Sep 24 515 people are killed by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Balochistan, Pakistan

• Sep 27 19 people are killed and 45 are injured in a bus bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan
• Sep 27 60 people are killed after a building collapses in Mumbai, India
• Sep 27 7 people are killed in mosque bombings in Baghdad, Iraq
• Sep 27 At least 22 people are killed after a refugee ship capsizes off the island of Java

• Sep 28 27 villagers are killed by Boko Harem in northeast Nigeria
• Sep 28 Hawthorn defeats Fremantle to win the 2013 Australian Rules Premiership
• Sep 29 16 people are killed by a Syrian Army air strike that hit a secondary school in Raqqa, Syria
• Sep 29 42 people are killed by Boko Harem in a college attack in Gujba, Nigeria
• Sep 30 54 people are killed by a series of car bombs in Baghdad, Iraq
• Oct 1 A partial United States federal government shutdown occurs as a result of political disagreements over operational spending
• Oct 2 8 people are killed and 14 are injured after an accident involving an SUV, church bus, and tractor trailer in Jefferson County, Tennessee
• Oct 3 13 people are killed after a passenger plane crashes in Lagos, Nigeria
• Oct 3 325 people are killed after a migrant ship catches fire and shipwrecks of the coast of Lampedusa, Italy

• Oct 4 German singer Helene Fischer releases "Farbenspiel", most successful album ever by a German female artist, over 2.4 million sold
• Oct 5 New Zealand beats South Africa, 38-27 in Johannesburg to retain the Rugby Championship with an undefeated record; All Black flanker Liam Messam crosses for 2 tries

• Oct 6 53 people are killed in political clashes in Egypt
• Oct 7 James Rothman, Randy Schekman and  Thomas C. Südhof win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on transport systems in cells
• Oct 7 Mulatu Teshome becomes president of Ethiopia
• Oct 8 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 9 60 people are killed in clashes between militias and Seleka rebels in the Central African Republic
• Oct 9 Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel win the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on multiscale models for complex chemical systems
• 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 11 27 people are killed after a migrant boat sinks in the Channel of Sicily
• Oct 11 The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons wins the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize
• Oct 12 15 people are killed by a series of explosions in a fireworks factory in Vietnam
• Oct 12 50 people are killed after a truck veers off of a cliff in La Convencion Province, Peru
• Oct 12 Timothy Bradley defeats Juan Manuel Márquez to win the WBA Welterweight boxing title
• Oct 13 109 people are killed in a stampede on a bridge in Datia district, Madhya Pradesh, India
• Oct 14 Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert Shiller win the 2013  Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on asset prices

• Oct 16 18 people are killed after Typhoon Wipha strikes Japan
• Oct 16 21 people are killed after a minibus hits a land mine in Nawa, Syria
• Oct 16 49 people are killed after Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes in the Mekong River, Laos
• Oct 16 The United States ends its 16-day government shut down and avoids default in a Bi-partisan deal in the Senate
• Oct 17 59 people are killed in a wave of attacks on Shia Muslims in Iraq
• Oct 18 Saudi Arabia becomes the first country to turn down a seat on the UN Security Council in protest over Syria
• Oct 19 11 people are killed after a plane crashes in Namur, Belgium
• Oct 19 16 people are killed and 30 are wounded by a suicide bombing Beledweyne, Somalia
• Oct 20 30 people are killed by a suicide truck bomber in Hama, Syria
• Oct 20 37 people are killed in a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq
• Oct 20 78 people are killed by cattle raiders in Jonglei, Sudan

• Oct 22 "Lego Marvel Super Heroes" first released in North America for some formats including Xbox and Wii - Lego's best-selling video game

• Oct 22 22 security force personal are killed in attacks on military checkpoints in Anbar Province, Iraq
• Oct 22 37 Boko Harem Islamist militants are killed by air and ground strikes in Nigeria
• Oct 25 74 Boko Harem members killed in a coordinated assault in Borno State, Nigeria
• Oct 27 18 people are killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan
• Oct 27 38 people are killed in a series of car bombings in Bagdhad, Iraq

• Oct 27 Giorgi Margvelashvili wins the Georgian Presidential election in a landslide victory
• Oct 30 44 people are killed after a bus catches fire in Mahbubnagar, India

• Nov 2 Masahiro Tanaka's record streak of 30 consecutive starts without a loss ends when the Rakuten Golden Eagles' ace is beaten, 4-2, by the Yomiuri Giants in Game 6 of the Japan Baseball Series
• Nov 3 6 people are killed after an overcrowded ferry sinks in Pattaya, Thailand
• Nov 3 8 people are killed and 10 are injured after a turboprop plane crashes in northern Bolivia

• Nov 3 New York City Marathon: Geoffrey Mutai becomes first repeat winner in 15 years in slow 2:08:24; fellow Kenyan Priscah Jeptoo wins women's race in 2:25:07

• Nov 5 4 people are killed after a 4-story building under construction collapses in Lagos, Nigeria
• Nov 5 Bill de Blasio is elected New York City Mayor
• Nov 6 15 people are killed after a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq
• Nov 6 8 people are killed and 50 are injured by a suicide bombing in Damascus, Syria
• Nov 8 11 people are killed in a car park bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia
• Nov 8 At least 6,000 people are killed after Typhoon Haiyan, tied with Typhoon Meranti as being the strongest storm ever recorded at landfall, hits the Philippines
• Nov 9 8 people are killed by a gunman in Cali, Columbia
• Nov 10 Spaniard Marc Márquez wins the 2013 MotoGP World Championship to become its youngest ever winner at 20

• Nov 11 100 people are killed in a tropical cyclone in the Puntland region, Somalia
• Nov 11 4 people are killed and 8 are injured after a building catches fire in Mumbai, India

• Nov 15 5 people are killed and 10 are injured after a train derails in Nashik, India
• Nov 15 Sony launches the Playstation Four, selling one million units on the first day

• Nov 17 50 people are killed after a Boeing 737 aircraft crashes in Kazan, Russia
• Nov 17 Abdulla Yameen becomes the President of the Maldives
• Nov 17 German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel wins record 8th consecutive Formula 1 race with victory in United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas
• Nov 17 Giorgi Margvelashvili becomes the President of Georgia
• Nov 18 20 people are killed after a train collides with a minibus in Cairo, Egypt
• Nov 19 23 people are killed by a suicide bombing attack on the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon

• Nov 21 31 people are killed by a truck bomb in northeaster Iraq
• Nov 21 54 people are killed after the roof of a supermarket collapses in Riga, Latvia
• Nov 21 The Alabama parole board grants posthumous pardons to three members of the Scottsboro boys

• Nov 23 "The Day of the Doctor" 50th anniversary episode of "Doctor Who" screens on BBC One, 1st episode to feature 12th Doctor Peter Capaldi

• Nov 24 German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel wins season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix; his record 9th straight GP victory; record equalling 13th consecutive GP win; 4th straight World Drivers Championship
• Nov 25 17 people are killed and 37 are wounded in a cafe bombing in Baghdad, Iraq

• Nov 27 Greece becomes the first developed market to be demoted into an emerging market by the MSCI index

• Dec 2 China launches its first moon rover mission
• Dec 4 Mosconi Cup nine-ball pool, Las Vegas, Nevada: 4 consecutive titles for Europe after an 11-2 thrashing of US; MVP: Niels Feijen (Netherlands)
• Dec 4 Xavier Bettel becomes Luxenberg's first openly gay Prime Minister
• Dec 5 52 people are killed and 167 are injured in a militant attack on a defense ministry compound in Sana'a, Yemen
• Dec 6 A 2-year old boy dies from Ebola in Meliandou, Guinea

• Dec 9 MLB pitcher Roy Halladay announces his retirement due to persistent back injury
• Dec 10 Mary Barra of General Motors becomes the first female CEO of a major automotive company
• Dec 10 Uruguay becomes the first country to legalize the growth, sale, and use of marijuana
• Dec 11 20 people are killed by the bubonic plague in a small Madagascan village
• Dec 11 Pope Francis is named Time magazine's person of the year
• Dec 12 The United States announces sanctions on the two dozen companies who assisted Iran with their nuclear program

• Dec 15 China successfully lands its moon rover on the moon

• Dec 16 21 people are killed and 20 are injured after a bus falls from an elevated highway in Manila, Philippines
• Dec 16 79th Heisman Trophy Award: Jameis Winston, Florida State (QB)
• Dec 17 Angela Merkel is elected Chancellor of Germany for a third term
• Dec 17 Australia wins the 3rd test to take win the 2013-14 Ashes test cricket series
• Dec 19 81 people are injured after part of the ceiling caved in at London's Apollo Theatre

• Dec 27 29 people are killed after a bus plunged off the Huay Tong Bridge, Thailand
• Dec 28 Chris Weidman defeats Anderson Silva to retain the UFC Middleweight Championship
• Dec 28 Early signs of Ebola epidemic: 2-year-old child in Guinea dies of an unidentified hemorrhagic fever; mother, sister and grandmother soon follow
• Dec 29 16 people are killed and 40 are wounded by a suicide bomb attack at Volgograd-1 railway station, Russia

• Dec 29 Chaparrastique volcano erupts in El Salvador
• Dec 29 Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says barrel bombs on Aleppo have killed 517 people since 15th December
• Dec 30 15 people are killed in a trolley-bus bomb attack in Voglograd, Russia

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