Today in History – September 13th

Published September 13, 2012 |

335, Emperor Constantine the Great consecrated the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
1501, Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
1504, Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built.
1609, Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him, the Hudson River.
1743, Great Britain, Austria and Savoy-Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.
1759, Battle of the Plains of Abraham: British defeat French near Quebec City in the Seven Years’ War.
1759, James Wolfe, British general (b. 1727) died.
1775, Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (d. 1868) was born.
1782, American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch unsuccessful “grand assault” during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
1788, Philadelphia Convention sets date for 1st presidential election in US, and NYC becomes the country’s temporary capital.
1791, King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
1812, War of 1812: A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
1850, 1st ascent of Piz Bernina, the highest summit of the eastern Alps.
1857, Milton S. Hershey, American confectioner (d. 1945) was born.
1860, John J. Pershing, American general (d. 1948) was born.
1862, Union soldiers find copy of Lee’s battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. Prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
1881, Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general and politician (b. 1824) died.
1898, Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
1899, Henry Bliss is 1st person in the US to be killed in an automobile accident.
1900, Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.
1906, 1st flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
1914, WWI: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with assault on Ramansdrift police station.
1914, WWI: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
1916, Mary the elephant, large elephant,hanged for stepping on her trainer. died.
1916, Roald Dahl, British writer (d. 1990) was born.
1925, Mel Torme, American singer (d. 1999) was born.
1933, Elizabeth McCombs becomes 1st woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
1935, Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the International Railway (New York, Ontario).
1943, The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe.
1948, Margaret Chase Smith is elected senator, and becomes 1st woman to serve in both US House of Representatives and US Senate.
1953, Nikita Khrushchev is appointed secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1956, IBM introduces 1st computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.
1989, Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
1994, Ulysses probe passes the Sun’s south pole.
1996, Tupac Shakur, aka 2Pac, American rapper and actor (b. 1971) died.
1998, George Wallace, American politician (b. 1919) died.

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