Historical Events on September 13.

1. 1788, 13th September – New York became the federal capital of the United States.

2. 1898, 13th September – Hannibal Goodwin patented celluloid photographic film.

3. 1922, 13th September – The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.

4. 1948, 13th September – Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabh Bhai Patel ordered the army to move into Hyderabad to integrate it with the Indian Union. 

5. 1985, 13th September – Super Mario Bros. was released in Japan for the NES, which started the Super Mario series of platforming games.

6. 1985, 13th September – The World Health Organization (WHO) announced in Geneva that AIDS was then a worldwide epidemic.

7. 1989, 13th September – South Africa’s biggest anti-apartheid demonstration in 30 years took place today in Cape Town. 20,000 people of all races marched to the City Hall in protest of the police killings of 23 protesters during the whites’ only election last week.

8. 1993, 13th September – In a historic ceremony on the lawn of the White House, Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasir Arafat have signed a peace accord after months of secret negotiation.

9. 2008, 13th September – Delhi, India, was hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on September 13.

1. 1857 – Milton Snavely Hershey, an American chocolate manufacturer who built the World’s largest chocolate factory to make his Hershey Bars and established the Hershey Foundation, in which his wealth was used for educational purposes.

2. 1860 – John Pershing, American general who commanded the US Expeditionary force in Europe in World War I.

3. 1865 – William Birdwood, Indian-English field marshal.

4. 1886 – Robert Robinson, English chemist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.

5. 1890 – Antony Noghes, French Monegasque businessman, founded the Monaco Grand Prix.

6. 1916 – Roald Dahl, British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot, and screenwriter.

7. 1959 – Rajeev Shukla, Indian politician.

8. 1967 – Michael Johnson, American runner famous for his upright style, who won double Olympic gold in Atlanta 1996.

9. 1969 – Shane Warne, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster.

10. 1976 – Ro Khanna, American politician.

11. 1980 – Viren Rasquinha, Indian field hockey player.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on September 13.

1. 81 AD – Titus, Roman emperor.

2. 1592 – Michel de Montaigne, French essayist and diarist.

3. 1598 – The Habsburg King Philip II of Spain, The World’s most powerful ruler.

4. 1806 – Charles James Fox, English statesman. He was taken ill and dies at home in London, just as he was about to introduce a bill abolishing slavery. 

5. 1929 – Jatin Das, an Indian independence activist and revolutionary.

6. 2004 – Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-invented the birth-control pill.

7. 2012 – Ranganath Misra, Indian lawyer, and jurist, 21st Chief Justice of India.

13-September-1500

Pedro Alvaris, Portugese businessman, reached Calicut and established the first European factory in India.

13-September-1893

Mama Parmanand, one of the founders of 'Prarthana Samaj', passed away.

13-September-1901

Jamshedji Bomanji H. Wadia, director and producer, was born. His first film was 'Toofan Mail' (1932).

13-September-1906

Surendra Kumar Dey, social reformer and politician, was born at Sylhet (Bangladesh).

13-September-1928

Shridhar Pathak, prominent Hindi writer, passed away.

13-September-1948

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel took police action on Hyderabad for anti national policy's of Nijam of Hyderabad and Rijvi Rajakar's.

13-September-1965

Pakistanis bomb Bombay.

13-September-1984

Swami Brahmanand died. He established Brahmanand Inter College (1938), Brahmanand Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya (1943) and Brahmanand Mahavidyalaya (1960). He joined the freedom movement and participated in Salt Satyagraha, Non Cooperation Movement and Quit India Movement.

13-September-1990

An attempt to hijack a Coimbatore-Bangalore-Madras Indian Airlines flight IC 534 to Sri Lanka.

13-September-1991

Churchil Alemao, former Goa CM, who was wanted under COFEPOSA, surrenders to the police in Panaji.

13-September-1992

Union government decides to form a National Human Rights Commission.

13-September-1996

Lok Pal Bill introduced in Lok Sabha.

13-September-1997

Grieving India lays to rest Mother Teresa in state funeral in Calcutta in which pomp and splendour is combined with religious rites.

13-September-1997

India drubs Maldives in SAFF football final in Kathmandu.

13-September-1998

Dr. Justice Adarsh Sein Anand is appointed Chief Justice of India.

13-September-2000

Central Government withdraws the ban on use of non-iodised salt despite protests from the medical community and several state governments.