September 13 is the 256th day of the year 2012. There are 109 days remaining until the end of the year.
786 Abbasid caliph Al-Ma’mun al Rashid is born.
1229 Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Khentii, Mongolia.
1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham: British defeat French near Quebec City in the 7 Years’ War,
1882 The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
1899 Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
1906 First flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
1914 World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
1922 The temperature at ‘Aziziya, Libya reaches a world record 57.8 °C (136.0 °F).
1922 The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
1948 Sardar Patel orders Army to move into the Hyderabad to integrate it with Indian Union.
1956 IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.
1972- Sheikh Abdullah and Mirwaiz take part in Municipal elections after 16 years boycott.
1989- BJP State President Tika Lal Taploo shot dead.
1993 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords.
2001 Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
2008 Delhi hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
2010- Protests against Quran desecration in Kashmir, 18 shot dead in single day.
2010- Curbs imposed on local media, local channels stopped, no newspaper hits stands.
HISTORY QUOTE!
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing. –Tertullian 160 ~ 240, Roman
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