Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 13

This is a list of selected September 13 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

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  Francis Scott Key
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  Death of James Wolfe, by Benjamin West
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  Yitzhak Rabin, Bill Clinton, and Yasser Arafat at the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords
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  RAMAC
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  General Carl von Döbeln
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  Phineas Gage
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  Ögedei Khan

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
533 – Belisarius and his legions defeated Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimum near Carthage, and began the "Reconquest of the West" under Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.	no footnotes
1808 – Finnish War: Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln defeated the Russians at the Battle of Jutas.	needs more footnotes; Jutas article is stub
1847 – Mexican–American War: Six teenagers known as Los Niños Héroes fought to their death defending the military academy at Castillo de Chapultepec in Mexico City during the Battle of Chapultepec.	Tagged with {{refimprove}}
1956 – IBM unveiled the 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control), the first commercial computer that used magnetic disk storage.	refimprove section
1993 – After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin formally signed the Oslo Peace Accords.	refimprove section

Eligible

• 509 BC – The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Capitoline Hill, the most important temple in Ancient Rome, was dedicated.
• 1229 – Ögedei Khan, the third son of Genghis Khan, was proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
• 1848 – An explosion drove an iron rod through the head of railroad foreman Phineas Gage, making him an important early case of personality change after brain injury.
• 1971 – Following a failed coup attempt, Mao Zedong's second-in-command Lin Biao died in a plane crash while attempting to flee the People's Republic of China.
• 1964 – South Vietnamese Generals Lam Van Phat and Duong Van Duc staged a coup attempt after junta leader Nguyen Khanh demoted them.
• 1985 – Super Mario Bros., one of the best-selling and most influential video games of all time, was first released for the NES in Japan.
• 1987 – A radioactive item was scavenged from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, leading to the deaths of four and serious contamination in 249 others.
• 2006 – Kimveer Gill shot 19 people for unknown reasons, killing one, at Dawson College in Montreal.
• 2007 – The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, setting out the individual and collective rights of indigenous peoples, as well as their rights to culture, identity, language, employment, health, education and other issues.

Notes

• Hurricane Iniki appears on September 11, so Hurricane Gilbert should not appear in the same year
• Battle of North Point appears on September 12, so Battle of Baltimore/Francis Scott Key should not appear in the same year

September 13: Feast Day of Saint John Chrysostom (Western Christianity); Yom Kippur begins at sunset (Judaism, 2013)

• 1759 – Seven Years' War: British forces defeated the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham near Quebec City, New France, though General James Wolfe was mortally wounded.
• 1814 – War of 1812: Fort McHenry in Baltimore's Inner Harbor was attacked by British forces during the Battle of Baltimore, inspiring Francis Scott Key to write "Defence of Fort McHenry", which later was used as the lyrics to the United States' national anthem.
• 1933 – Elizabeth McCombs (pictured) became the first woman elected to the Parliament of New Zealand.
• 1988 – Hurricane Gilbert reached a minimum pressure of 888 mb (26.22 inHg) with sustained flight-level winds of 185 mph (295 km/h), making it the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record at the time.
• 2008 – Five synchronised bomb blasts took place within a span of few minutes in Delhi, India, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.

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