On December 13th

IT HAPPENED ON DECEMBER 13TH

863 Boudouin with the Iron Arm married Judith, daughter of Charles de Kales
1545 Council of Trente the 19th ecumenical council opens
1642 Dutch navigator Abel Tasman discovers New Zealand 1577 Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to circumnavigate the world1833 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin aboard arrives in Port Deseado, Patagonia
1843 "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens first published
1903 Wright Brothers make maiden flight at Kittyhawk
1903 Italo Marcioni patents ice cream cone in New Jersey
1913 the Mona Lisa which was stolen in Aug 1911 returned to the Louvre
1916 Avalanche in the Tyrol kills 10,000 Austrian and Italian troops in 24 hrs
1918 U.S. Army of occupation crosses Rhine and enters Germany 1918 Wilson, becomes the first serving president to make a foreign visit (France) 1919 Ross and Smith land in Australia after flying from London
1920 League of nations establishes International Court of Justice in The Hague
1928 Clip-on tie designed 1938 Los Angeles freezes at 28ø F
1939 Battle of the River Plate between 3 British cruisers and the German Graf Spee
1941 U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier Ark Royal1943 150 U.S. Marauders bomb Schiphol1944 Japanese kamikaze pilot crashes into U.S. cruiser Nashville killing 1381949 Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capital to Jerusalem1951 Future British Prime Minister Margaret Roberts marries Denis Thatcher
1959 Archbishop Makarios elected first president of Cyprus
1966 U.S. bomb Hanoi for the first time 1967 Unsuccessful coup against Greek King Constantine II
1974 Malta becomes a republic
1976 Longest non-stop passenger flight 13hours 14mins (Sydney to San Francisco)
1977 14 University of Evansville basketball players die in plane crash
1978 the first U.S. coin to honor a woman, the Susan B. Anthony dollar is issued
1979 Strikes against price increases in Gdansk Poland
1981 Polish government declares martial law and arrests Solidarity activists
1982 a major Earthquake hits Northern Yemen killing 2,000
1990 Heavy earthquake strikes Sicily, 18 die
1993 Fire in textile factory in Fuzjou China, killing 60 1994 American eagle commuter plane crashes in North Carolina, killing 15

20 PEOPLE WHO ARRIVED IN THE WORLD ON
DECEMBER 13TH

1533 Erik XIV, king of Sweden 1560-69 1553 Henry IV, 1st Bourbon-king of Navarre, France
1724 Franz Maria Ulrich Theodosius Aepinus, in Rostock, German physician/physicist 1732 Jean-Claude Trial, composer 1740 Franz Xavier Schnitzer, composer 1770 John Clarke-Whitfield, composer 1797 Heinrich Heine, Germany, poet and lyricist
1810 Clark Mills, American sculptor
1819 Edwin George Monk, composer
1893 Curt Jurgens, Munich Germany, actor
1910 Van Heflin, Walters Oklahoma actor
1925 Dick Van Dyke, West Plains Missouri, actor 1929 Christopher Plummer, Toronto, actor
1930 Robert Prosky, Philadelphia, actor
1948 Lillian Board, England, 400m runner
1951 Robert Lindsay, Ilkeston England, actor
1952 John Francombe, English national hunt jockey 1957 Steve Buscemi, actor
1967 Jamie Foxx, comedian
1981 Chelsea Hertford, actress

20 PEOPLE WHO LEFT THE WORLD ON
DECEMBER 13TH

838 Pippijn I, King of Aquitania
1048 Al-Biruni, Arabic royal astrologer aged 74
1126 Hendrik IX, Hendrik the Black, Duke of Bayern (1120-26)
1204 Maimonides, Jewish philosopher and Talmudic scholar, died in Cairo aged 69
1250 Frederick II, German Emperor (1212-1250), aged 55
1404 Albrecht, duke of Bavaria, aged 74
1521 Manoel I "the Great", King of Portugal (1495-1521), 52
1565 Konrad von Gesner, naturalist, aged 49
1574 Selam II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74), 50
1603 Franciscus Vieta, mathematician, died in Paris aged 63 1622 Jan Campanus, composer, 50
1793 Johann Joachim Christoph Bode, composer, aged 63
1812 Marianne von Martinez, composer, 68 1945 Robert van Genechten, Dutch Nazi (NSB), commits suicide
1961 Grandma Moses, U.S. painter, aged 101 1969 Raymond A Spruance, U.S. Admiral Battle of Midway veteran, dies at 83 1990 Alice Marble, California, tennis star, 77 1993 Myrna Loy, actress, aged 88
1994 Norman Beaton, actor, 60 1997 Alexander Oppenheim, mathematician, aged 94