Events in History in 2013 (Part 3)

Events 401 - 600 of 603

• Jul 22 89 people are killed and 500 are injured by earthquakes in Gansu province, China
• Jul 23 19 people are killed and 22 are injured after a tour bus collides with a truck in Saraburi, Thailand
• Jul 24 22 are left dead after a conflict between the Knights Templar Cartel and Mexican police in Michoacan
• Jul 24 80 people are killed and 140 are injured after a high-speed train derails in Santiago de Compostela, Spain
• Jul 26 57 people are killed in a market bombing in Parachinar, Pakistan
• Jul 27 1,000 inmates escape from a prison in Benghazi, Libya
• Jul 27 100 people are killed and 1,500 injured in a crackdown against protesters in Cairo, Egypt
• Jul 27 First Przewalski’s horse (whose wild populations were believed extinct in 1969) is born via artificial insemination at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute as part of a worldwide effort to rebuild the wild herds
• Jul 28 39 people are killed after a bus veers off a bridge in Avellino Province, Italy
• Jul 29 300 prisoners are freed after a Taliban attack in Dera Ismal Khan, Pakistan
• Jul 29 44 people are killed in a wave of car bombings in Iraq
• Jul 29 €103 million of diamonds is stolen from the Carton Intercontinental Hotel, Cannes, France
• Jul 30 134 people are killed in tribal conflicts in Darfyr, Sudan
• Jul 30 28 people are killed in a series of bombings in Kano, Nigeria
• Jul 30 9 children are killed and 20 are injured after a school bus collides with a truck in Hanumangarh, India
• Jul 30 Mamnoon Hussain is elected President of Pakistan
• Jul 30 Wikileaks discloser Bradley [later Chelsea] Manning convicted of 17 espionage charges

• Aug 2 40 people are killed after an ammunition depot explodes in Homs, Syria

• Aug 3 80 people are killed in a wave of insurgency across Iraq
• Aug 3 9 children are killed by a suicide bombing in Jalalabad, Afghanistan

• Aug 5 160 people are killed by flash floods across Afghanistan and Pakistan

• Aug 5 The world's first bovine stem cell lab-grown burger is eaten in London
• Aug 6 1 person is killed and 4 are injured after a hot air balloon crash in Montbovon, Sweden
• Aug 6 18 people are killed and 55 are wounded by a car bomb explosion in Damascus, Syria
• Aug 6 25 people are killed and 60 are wounded by a series of car bombs in Baghdad, Iraq
• Aug 6 An alleged chemical weapons attack on Damascus, Syria, is claimed by Syrian rebels
• Aug 7 11 people are killed by a bombing in Karachi, Pakistan
• Aug 8 14 people are killed by a bomb explosion in Nangarhar, Afghanistan
• Aug 8 28 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Quetta, Pakistan
• Aug 8 4 people are killed and 4 are wounded in a shooting spree in Dallas, Texas

• Aug 9 8 people are killed and 24 are injured after gunmen open fire on a Sunni mosque in Quetta, Pakistan
• Aug 10 16 Royal Guardsmen are killed in a bus accident in Al Hoceima, Morocco
• Aug 10 6 people are killed after Paluweh volcano erupts in Indonesia
• Aug 11 2 people are killed and 30 are injured after a bus crash in the Alps of southern France
• Aug 11 22 people are killed by flash floods in Kabul, Afghanistan
• Aug 12 30 people are killed by gunmen in northeast Nigeria
• Aug 12 8 people are killed and 25 are injured in a suicide bomb attack in Balad, Iraq
• Aug 12 Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta is elected President of Mali

• Aug 14 14 people are killed and 26 are injured by two roadside bombings in Baqubah, Iraq
• Aug 14 638 people are killed in violent clashes between police and protesters across Egypt
• Aug 15 20 people are killed and 200 are injured in an explosion in Beirut
• Aug 16 61 people are killed after the ferry MV Thomas Aquinas sinks in the Philippines
• Aug 17 15 civilians are killed by a Syrian warplane attack in Aleppo
• Aug 17 18 people are killed in conflict between Boko Harem and Nigerian military
• Aug 18 6 people are killed by a bomb blast on a bus in West Bengal, India
• Aug 19 24 Egyptian policemen are killed in an attack in Rafah
• Aug 19 37 pilgrims are killed in a train accident in India
• Aug 19 91 people are killed by floods across China
• Aug 20 9 Islamist militants are killed by Russian police in North Caucasus
• Aug 21 21 people are killed in flash floods in Qinghai province, China
• Aug 21 37 people are killed and 16 are injured in a bus crash near Chin Swee Temple, Malaysia
• Aug 22 14 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Western Iraq
• Aug 23 26 people are killed and 55 are injured by a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq
• Aug 23 50 people are killed in mosque bombings in Tripoli, Lebanon
• Aug 23 UN inspectors are stopped by Syrian government from investigating a reported site of a chemical massacre
• Aug 24 30 people are killed in a gang battle involving flame throwers in Palmasola prison, Bolivia
• Aug 24 4 people are killed in a helicopter crash in the Shetland Islands
• Aug 25 4 people are killed and 25 are injured after a train derails in Tabasco, Mexico
• Aug 25 41 people are killed in a wave of bomb attacks across Iraq
• Aug 26 All 25,000 applicants to the University of Liberia fail their university entrance examination
• Aug 28 51 people are killed in a series of bombings across Iraq
• Aug 28 China and Russia walk out of a UN Security Council meeting after the US pushes for immediate action against Syria's use of chemical weapons
• Aug 29 41 people are killed and 33 are injured in a bus accident in Kenya
• Aug 30 15 people are killed by a liquid ammonia leak at a cold storage plant in Shanghai, China
• Sep 3 15 militants are killed by an Egyptian Army helicopter in Sinai Peninsula
• Sep 3 Microsoft purchases Nokia for $7.2 Billion
• Sep 6 20 people are killed by Islamist militants in villages in northeast Nigeria
• Sep 7 14 Syrian rebels and 2 civilians are killed by heavy government shelling of Damascus
• Sep 7 15 people are killed by a restaurant car bombing by Al-Shabaab in Mogadishu, Somalia

• Sep 7 Tony Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Australia after a Liberal-National Coalitions wins the election
• Sep 8 11 people are killed after a minibus collides with a train in Lasi, Romania
• Sep 8 11 people are killed and 18 are injured after a gunfire attack in Guatemala City
• Sep 8 6 people are killed and 9 are injured after a minibus collides with a car in Jakarta, Indonesia
• Sep 9 18 people are killed in conflict between government and Boko Harem troops in Borno State, Nigeria
• Sep 9 44 people are killed and 45 are injured after a bus crashes into a ravine in Northern Guatemala
• Sep 9 60 people are killed in conflict between rebels and loyalists in the Central African Republic
• Sep 9 Erna Solberg is elected Prime Minister of Norway after a centre-right coalition wins a majority in their elections
• Sep 10 16 people are killed after a series of bomb attacks across Iraq
• Sep 10 Three people are killed after a Canadian Coast Guard helicopter crashes in the Arctic Ocean
• Sep 11 12 Alawite sect members are killed by rebel fighters in central Syria
• Sep 13 30 people are killed by a mosque bombing attack in Baghdad, Iraq
• Sep 13 9 people are killed after massive floods in Galati County, Romania
• Sep 15 21 people are killed in a series of bombings in Baghdad and Shia provinces, Iraq
• Sep 15 27 people are killed after a coal mine collapses in Afghanistan
• Sep 15 Edi Rama is elected Prime Minister of Albania
• 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 20 46 soldiers are killed in army-base attacks in Shabwah Governorate, Yemen
• 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 24 515 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 3 Chinese President Xi Jinping announces plans for a "21st Century Maritime Silk Road", linking China to Southeast Asia and the Mediterranean (Belt and Road Initiative / One Belt One Road) while in Indonesia
• 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 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 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 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 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 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 14 Boston gangster Whitey Bulger is sentenced to two consecutive life terms plus five years for his crimes
• Nov 15 5 people are killed and 10 are injured after a train derails in Nashik, India
• 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 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 20 Ben Bradlee is presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony

• 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 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 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 17 Angela Merkel is elected Chancellor of Germany for a third term
• 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 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

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