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*International Year of Water Cooperation<ref name="United Nations Observances: International Years">{{cite web|title=United Nations Observances: International Years|url=https://www.un.org/en/sections/observances/international-years/index.html|publisher=[[United Nations]]|access-date=April 14, 2015|ref=United Nations Observances: International Years |
*International Year of Water Cooperation<ref name="United Nations Observances: International Years">{{cite web|title=United Nations Observances: International Years|url=https://www.un.org/en/sections/observances/international-years/index.html|publisher=[[United Nations]]|access-date=April 14, 2015|ref=United Nations Observances: International Years}}</ref> |
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*[[International Year of Quinoa]]<ref name="United Nations Observances: International Years"/> |
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* [[January 5]] – [[2013 Craig, Alaska earthquake]]: A {{M|w|7.5}} ({{M|s|7.7}}, 'Moderate') earthquake shakes [[Prince of Wales Island (Alaska)|Prince of Wales Island]]. |
* [[January 5]] – [[2013 Craig, Alaska earthquake]]: A {{M|w|7.5}} ({{M|s|7.7}}, 'Moderate') earthquake shakes [[Prince of Wales Island (Alaska)|Prince of Wales Island]]. |
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* [[January 10]] – At least 130 people are killed and 270 are injured in [[January 2013 Pakistan bombings|several bomb blasts in Pakistan]]. |
* [[January 10]] – At least 130 people are killed and 270 are injured in [[January 2013 Pakistan bombings|several bomb blasts in Pakistan]]. |
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* [[January 11]] – The [[French Armed Forces|French military]] begins a 5-month intervention into the [[Northern Mali conflict]], targeting the militant [[Islamist]] [[Ansar Dine]] group.<ref>{{cite news|title=France launches Mali military intervention|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2013/01/2013111135659836345.html|access-date=January 11, 2013| |
* [[January 11]] – The [[French Armed Forces|French military]] begins a 5-month intervention into the [[Northern Mali conflict]], targeting the militant [[Islamist]] [[Ansar Dine]] group.<ref>{{cite news|title=France launches Mali military intervention|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2013/01/2013111135659836345.html|access-date=January 11, 2013|agency=[[Al Jazeera]]|date=January 11, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22664484|title=France army in key Mali withdrawal|publisher=[[BBC]]|date=May 25, 2013|access-date=July 25, 2013}}</ref> |
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* [[January 16]]–[[January 20|20]] – Thirty-nine international workers and 1 security guard die in a [[In Amenas hostage crisis|hostage crisis]] at a [[natural gas]] facility near [[In Aménas]], [[Algeria]].<ref name="reuters1">{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sahara-crisis-idUSBRE90F1JJ20130117|title=Thirty hostages reported killed in Algeria assault|last=Chikhi|first=Lamine|date=January 17, 2013|work=[[Reuters]]|access-date=January 17, 2013 |
* [[January 16]]–[[January 20|20]] – Thirty-nine international workers and 1 security guard die in a [[In Amenas hostage crisis|hostage crisis]] at a [[natural gas]] facility near [[In Aménas]], [[Algeria]].<ref name="reuters1">{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sahara-crisis-idUSBRE90F1JJ20130117|title=Thirty hostages reported killed in Algeria assault|last=Chikhi|first=Lamine|date=January 17, 2013|work=[[Reuters]]|access-date=January 17, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21042659|title=Foreigners held hostage by terrorists in Algeria|publisher=BBC|date=January 16, 2013|access-date=January 16, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/international/algeria-hostage-crisis-briton-confirmed-dead-as-workers-held-hostage-by-terrorists-1-2740491|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216181952/http://www.scotsman.com/news/international/algeria-hostage-crisis-briton-confirmed-dead-as-workers-held-hostage-by-terrorists-1-2740491|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 16, 2013|title=Algeria hostage crisis: Briton confirmed dead as workers held hostage by terrorists|last=Peterkin|first=Tom|date=January 17, 2013|work=[[The Scotsman]]|access-date=July 11, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/16/world/africa/algeria-attack/index.html|title=Islamists take foreign hostages in attack on Algerian oil field|last1=Watkins|first1=Tom|date=January 16, 2013|publisher=[[CNN]]|last2=Smith-Spark|first2=Laura|last3=Yousuf|first3=Basil|access-date=January 16, 2013}}</ref> |
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* [[January 21]] – [[Barack Obama]] is [[Second inauguration of Barack Obama|sworn in for a second term]] as [[President of the United States]]. |
* [[January 21]] – [[Barack Obama]] is [[Second inauguration of Barack Obama|sworn in for a second term]] as [[President of the United States]]. |
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* [[January 27]] – An estimated 245 people die in a [[Kiss nightclub fire|nightclub fire]] in [[Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul]], Brazil.<ref>{{cite news|title=Police up death toll to 245 in Brazil club fire|url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/more-90-dead-nightclub-fire-brazil|agency=Associated Press|date=27 January 2013|access-date=27 January 2013|archive-date=January 27, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130127220207/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/more-90-dead-nightclub-fire-brazil|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
* [[January 27]] – An estimated 245 people die in a [[Kiss nightclub fire|nightclub fire]] in [[Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul]], Brazil.<ref>{{cite news|title=Police up death toll to 245 in Brazil club fire|url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/more-90-dead-nightclub-fire-brazil|agency=Associated Press|date=27 January 2013|access-date=27 January 2013|archive-date=January 27, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130127220207/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/more-90-dead-nightclub-fire-brazil|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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* [[February 12]] – [[North Korea]] conducts its [[2013 North Korean nuclear test|third underground nuclear test]], prompting widespread condemnation and tightened economic sanctions from the international community.<ref>{{cite news |last=Bilby |first=Ethan |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-korea-north-eu-idUSBRE91H0E120130218 |title=EU approves tighter sanctions on North Korea |work=Reuters |date=February 18, 2013 |access-date=July 11, 2013 |
* [[February 12]] – [[North Korea]] conducts its [[2013 North Korean nuclear test|third underground nuclear test]], prompting widespread condemnation and tightened economic sanctions from the international community.<ref>{{cite news |last=Bilby |first=Ethan |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-korea-north-eu-idUSBRE91H0E120130218 |title=EU approves tighter sanctions on North Korea |work=Reuters |date=February 18, 2013 |access-date=July 11, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21704862 |title=UN adopts tough new North Korea sanctions after nuclear test |date=March 7, 2013 |publisher=BBC |access-date=March 16, 2013}}</ref> |
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* [[February 15]] – A [[Chelyabinsk meteor|meteor]] explodes over the Russian city of [[Chelyabinsk]], injuring 1,489–1,492 people and damaging over 4,300 buildings. It is the most powerful meteor to strike Earth's atmosphere [[Tunguska event|in over a century]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21471942|title=Russia meteor eyewitness: 'Something like the sun fell'|publisher=BBC|date=February 15, 2013|access-date=July 11, 2013 |
* [[February 15]] – A [[Chelyabinsk meteor|meteor]] explodes over the Russian city of [[Chelyabinsk]], injuring 1,489–1,492 people and damaging over 4,300 buildings. It is the most powerful meteor to strike Earth's atmosphere [[Tunguska event|in over a century]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21471942|title=Russia meteor eyewitness: 'Something like the sun fell'|publisher=BBC|date=February 15, 2013|access-date= July 11, 2013}}</ref> The incident, along with a coincidental [[2012 DA14|flyby of a larger asteroid]], prompts international concern regarding the [[global catastrophic risk#Asteroid impact|vulnerability of the planet to meteor strikes]].<ref>{{cite news|last=McKie|first=Robin|title=Scientists unveil new detectors in race to save Earth from next asteroid|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/feb/16/scientists-earth-asteroid|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=February 16, 2013|access-date=July 11, 2013|location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/science/space/dismissed-as-doomsayers-advocates-for-meteor-detection-feel-vindicated.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=Vindication for Entrepreneurs Watching Sky: Yes, It Can Fall|access-date=April 22, 2013|date=February 16, 2013|first=William J.|last=Broad}}</ref> |
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* [[February 21]] – American scientists use a [[3D printer]] to create a living lab-grown [[ear]] from [[collagen]] and animal ear cell cultures. In the future, it is hoped that similar ears could be grown to order as [[organ transplant|transplant]]s for human patients with ear trauma or amputation.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9883441/Scientists-create-artificial-ear-using-3D-printing-and-living-cell-gels.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130221195804/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9883441/Scientists-create-artificial-ear-using-3D-printing-and-living-cell-gels.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 21, 2013|title=Scientists create artificial ear using 3D printing and living-cell gels|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=February 21, 2013|access-date=February 25, 2013|location=London}}</ref> |
* [[February 21]] – American scientists use a [[3D printer]] to create a living lab-grown [[ear]] from [[collagen]] and animal ear cell cultures. In the future, it is hoped that similar ears could be grown to order as [[organ transplant|transplant]]s for human patients with ear trauma or amputation.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9883441/Scientists-create-artificial-ear-using-3D-printing-and-living-cell-gels.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130221195804/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9883441/Scientists-create-artificial-ear-using-3D-printing-and-living-cell-gels.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 21, 2013|title=Scientists create artificial ear using 3D printing and living-cell gels|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=February 21, 2013|access-date=February 25, 2013|location=London}}</ref> |
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* [[February 25]] – [[Park Geun-hye]] becomes the first woman to become the president of [[South Korea]].<ref>{{cite news |
* [[February 25]] – [[Park Geun-hye]] becomes the first woman to become the president of [[South Korea]].<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20130224000257 |title=Park's swearing-in draws record 70,000 participants |newspaper=The Korea Herald |access-date=16 October 2015|date=24 February 2013}}</ref> |
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* [[February 28]] – [[Pope Benedict XVI|Benedict XVI]] [[Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI|resigns]] as [[pope]], becoming the first to [[papal resignation|do so]] since [[Pope Gregory XII|Gregory XII]] in [[1415]], and the first to do so voluntarily since [[Pope Celestine V|Celestine V]] in [[1294]].<ref>{{cite news |
* [[February 28]] – [[Pope Benedict XVI|Benedict XVI]] [[Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI|resigns]] as [[pope]], becoming the first to [[papal resignation|do so]] since [[Pope Gregory XII|Gregory XII]] in [[1415]], and the first to do so voluntarily since [[Pope Celestine V|Celestine V]] in [[1294]].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-pope-resignation-idUKBRE91Q0BE20130228 |title=Benedict's reign ends with a promise to obey next pope |date=February 28, 2013 |author=Pullella, Philip |work=Reuters |access-date=February 28, 2013}}</ref> |
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* [[March 13]] – [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal]] Jorge Mario Bergoglio of [[Argentina]] is [[Papal conclave, 2013|elected]] the 266th pope, whereupon he takes the [[papal name|name]] [[Pope Francis|Francis]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21777494|publisher=BBC|title=Argentina's Jorge Mario Bergoglio elected Pope Francis|date=March 13, 2013|access-date=April 22, 2013 |
* [[March 13]] – [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal]] Jorge Mario Bergoglio of [[Argentina]] is [[Papal conclave, 2013|elected]] the 266th pope, whereupon he takes the [[papal name|name]] [[Pope Francis|Francis]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21777494 |publisher=BBC|title=Argentina's Jorge Mario Bergoglio elected Pope Francis|date=March 13, 2013|access-date=April 22, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope-succession-idUSBRE92808520130314|title=Argentina's Bergoglio elected as new Pope Francis|last1=Pullella|first1=Philip|date=March 14, 2013|work=Reuters|last2=Moody|first2=Barry|access-date=April 22, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/new-pope-chosen-argentinian-jorge-mario-bergoglio-1.1193437|title=New pope chosen: Argentine Jorge Mario Bergoglio who becomes Pope Francis|last=Hahn|first=Phil|date=March 13, 2013|publisher=[[CTV News]]|access-date=April 22, 2013}}</ref> and becomes the first [[Jesuit]] pope, the first pope from the Americas, and the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pcusa.org/news/2013/3/20/why-first-jesuit-pope-big-deal|title=Why the first Jesuit pope is a big deal|last=Bell|first=Caleb|date=March 20, 2013|publisher=[[Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)|Presbyterian Church USA]]|access-date=July 24, 2013}}</ref> |
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* [[March 24]] – [[Central African Republic]] President [[François Bozizé]] flees to the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], after [[Séléka|rebel forces]] [[Central African Republic Civil War#Fall of Bangui|capture]] the nation's capital, [[Bangui]].<ref name=BBC24march>{{cite news|title=Central African Republic: Rebels 'take palace as Bozize flees'|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21915901|publisher=BBC|date=March 24, 2013 |
* [[March 24]] – [[Central African Republic]] President [[François Bozizé]] flees to the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], after [[Séléka|rebel forces]] [[Central African Republic Civil War#Fall of Bangui|capture]] the nation's capital, [[Bangui]].<ref name=BBC24march>{{cite news|title=Central African Republic: Rebels 'take palace as Bozize flees'|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21915901|publisher=BBC|date=March 24, 2013}}</ref><ref name="AJE CAR">{{Cite news|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2013/03/201332481729584103.html|title=CAR rebels 'seize' presidential palace|date=March 24, 2013|publisher=Al Jazeera}}</ref> |
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* [[March 25]] – The European Union [[2012–13 Cypriot financial crisis|agrees to a €10 billion economic bailout]] for [[Cyprus]]. The bailout loan will be equally split between the [[European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism]], the [[European Financial Stability Facility]], and the [[International Monetary Fund]]. The deal precipitates a [[2012–2013 Cypriot financial crisis|banking crisis]] in the island nation.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21797888|title=Eurozone and IMF agree 10bn-euro Cyprus bailout deal|date=March 17, 2013| |
* [[March 25]] – The European Union [[2012–13 Cypriot financial crisis|agrees to a €10 billion economic bailout]] for [[Cyprus]]. The bailout loan will be equally split between the [[European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism]], the [[European Financial Stability Facility]], and the [[International Monetary Fund]]. The deal precipitates a [[2012–2013 Cypriot financial crisis|banking crisis]] in the island nation.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21797888|title=Eurozone and IMF agree 10bn-euro Cyprus bailout deal|date=March 17, 2013|agency=BBC|work=BBC News}}</ref><ref name="Eurogroup bailout package agreement on 25 March">{{cite web|url=http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_Data/docs/pressdata/en/ecofin/136487.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130403142434/http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/en/ecofin/136487.pdf |archive-date=2013-04-03 |url-status=live|title=Eurogroup Statement on Cyprus|publisher=[[Eurogroup]]|date=March 25, 2013}}</ref> |
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* [[April 2]] – The [[United Nations General Assembly]] adopts the [[Arms Trade Treaty]] to regulate the international trade of [[conventional weapon]]s.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-arms-treaty-un-idUSBRE9310MN20130402|title=U.N. overwhelmingly approves global arms trade treaty|work=Reuters|author=Charbonneau, Louis|date=April 2, 2013|access-date=April 8, 2013 |
* [[April 2]] – The [[United Nations General Assembly]] adopts the [[Arms Trade Treaty]] to regulate the international trade of [[conventional weapon]]s.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-arms-treaty-un-idUSBRE9310MN20130402|title=U.N. overwhelmingly approves global arms trade treaty|work=Reuters|author=Charbonneau, Louis|date=April 2, 2013|access-date=April 8, 2013}}</ref> |
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*[[April 13]] – [[2013 Venezuelan presidential election|Venezuelan presidential election]]: [[Nicolás Maduro]] is declared winner with a narrow victory over his opponent [[Henrique Capriles Radonski]].<ref name="BBC19April">{{cite web|date=19 April 2013|title=Venezuela election vote to be audited|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22215387|access-date=19 April 2013|publisher=BBC |
*[[April 13]] – [[2013 Venezuelan presidential election|Venezuelan presidential election]]: [[Nicolás Maduro]] is declared winner with a narrow victory over his opponent [[Henrique Capriles Radonski]].<ref name="BBC19April">{{cite web|date=19 April 2013|title=Venezuela election vote to be audited|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22215387|access-date=19 April 2013|publisher=BBC}}</ref> [[2013 Venezuelan presidential election protests|Protests continue to October]].<ref>{{cite news|date=15 April 2013|title="Cacerolazo" contra Maduro ensordece a Venezuela|work=Diario Libre|publisher=Omnimedia|url=http://www.diariolibre.com/internacionales/2013/04/15/i379410_cacerolazo-contra-maduro-ensordece-venezuela.html|access-date=March 9, 2021|archive-date=May 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150504200332/http://www.diariolibre.com/internacionales/2013/04/15/i379410_cacerolazo-contra-maduro-ensordece-venezuela.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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* [[April 15]] – [[Boston Marathon bombing]]: Two Chechnya-born Islamist brothers (one a United States citizen) detonate 2 bombs at the [[Boston Marathon]] in [[Boston, Massachusetts]], in the United States, killing 3 and injuring 264 others.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/15/us/boston-marathon-explosions|title=Terrorism strikes Boston Marathon as bombs kill 3, wound scores|publisher=CNN|author=Josh Levs and Monte Plott|date=April 18, 2013|access-date=April 22, 2013 |
* [[April 15]] – [[Boston Marathon bombing]]: Two Chechnya-born Islamist brothers (one a United States citizen) detonate 2 bombs at the [[Boston Marathon]] in [[Boston, Massachusetts]], in the United States, killing 3 and injuring 264 others.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/15/us/boston-marathon-explosions|title=Terrorism strikes Boston Marathon as bombs kill 3, wound scores|publisher=CNN|author=Josh Levs and Monte Plott|date=April 18, 2013|access-date=April 22, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2013/04/23/number-injured-marathon-bombing-revised-downward/NRpaz5mmvGquP7KMA6XsIK/story.html|title=Injury toll from Marathon bombs reduced to 264|quote=It turns out that we had double-counted some patients who were transferred from 1 hospital to another, so we reviewed our spreadsheets and cleaned up the duplicates|work=[[The Boston Globe]]|last=Kotz|first=Deborah|date=April 24, 2013|access-date=May 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331141156/https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2013/04/23/number-injured-marathon-bombing-revised-downward/NRpaz5mmvGquP7KMA6XsIK/story.html|archive-date=March 31, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> Four hours after the explosions, Raymond Wang went to Joyful Garden. |
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*[[April 20]] – A [[2013 Lushan earthquake|magnitude 6.6 earthquake]] jolts [[Sichuan]], [[China]], leaving 193 people dead and more than 11,000 injured.<ref name="3rd press conference">{{cite web |url=http://news.ifeng.com/mainland/special/lushandizhen/content-3/detail_2013_04/21/24475808_0.shtml |title=雅安地震共造成193人死亡21人失踪 |publisher=[[:zh:凤凰网|凤凰网资讯]] |date=April 21, 2013 |access-date=April 21, 2013 |
*[[April 20]] – A [[2013 Lushan earthquake|magnitude 6.6 earthquake]] jolts [[Sichuan]], [[China]], leaving 193 people dead and more than 11,000 injured.<ref name="3rd press conference">{{cite web |url=http://news.ifeng.com/mainland/special/lushandizhen/content-3/detail_2013_04/21/24475808_0.shtml |title=雅安地震共造成193人死亡21人失踪 |publisher=[[:zh:凤凰网|凤凰网资讯]] |date=April 21, 2013 |access-date=April 21, 2013}}</ref> |
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*[[April 21]] – Businessman [[Horacio Cartes]] wins the [[2013 Paraguayan general election]] against [[Efraín Alegre]]. |
*[[April 21]] – Businessman [[Horacio Cartes]] wins the [[2013 Paraguayan general election]] against [[Efraín Alegre]]. |
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* [[April 24]] – The [[2013 Savar building collapse]], one of the worst [[List of accidents and disasters by death toll#Structural collapses|industrial disasters]] in the world, kills 1,134 people in [[Bangladesh]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.industriall-union.org/action-on-bangladesh|title=Action on Bangladesh|website=IndustriALL |
* [[April 24]] – The [[2013 Savar building collapse]], one of the worst [[List of accidents and disasters by death toll#Structural collapses|industrial disasters]] in the world, kills 1,134 people in [[Bangladesh]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.industriall-union.org/action-on-bangladesh|title=Action on Bangladesh|website=IndustriALL}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/2143075/five-years-nightmare-rana-plaza-what-changed-bangladesh|title=After Rana Plaza horror, what changed for Bangladesh garment workers?|date=April 24, 2018|website=South China Morning Post}}</ref> |
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* [[April 30]] – [[Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands|Willem-Alexander]] is [[Inauguration of the Dutch monarch|inaugurated]] as [[King of the Netherlands]] following the abdication of [[Beatrix of the Netherlands|Beatrix]].<ref name="royalhouse">{{cite web|title=Royal House of the Netherlands|url=https://www.royal-house.nl/members-royal-house/king-willem-alexander|website=royal-house.nl|date=January 14, 2015|access-date=November 30, 2017 |
* [[April 30]] – [[Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands|Willem-Alexander]] is [[Inauguration of the Dutch monarch|inaugurated]] as [[King of the Netherlands]] following the abdication of [[Beatrix of the Netherlands|Beatrix]].<ref name="royalhouse">{{cite web|title=Royal House of the Netherlands|url=https://www.royal-house.nl/members-royal-house/king-willem-alexander|website=royal-house.nl|date=January 14, 2015|access-date=November 30, 2017}}</ref> |
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* [[May 14]]–[[May 18|18]] – The [[Eurovision Song Contest 2013]] takes place in [[Malmö]], Sweden, and is won by [[Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest|Danish]] entrant [[Emmelie de Forest]] with the song "[[Only Teardrops]]". |
* [[May 14]]–[[May 18|18]] – The [[Eurovision Song Contest 2013]] takes place in [[Malmö]], Sweden, and is won by [[Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest|Danish]] entrant [[Emmelie de Forest]] with the song "[[Only Teardrops]]". |
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**Researchers from [[Oregon Health & Science University]] in the United States describe the first production of human [[embryonic stem cell]]s by [[cloning]], in a study published in the scientific journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nature.com/news/human-stem-cells-created-by-cloning-1.12983|title=Human stem cells created by cloning|last=Cyranoski|first=David|date=May 15, 2013|work=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]|access-date=May 15, 2013 |
**Researchers from [[Oregon Health & Science University]] in the United States describe the first production of human [[embryonic stem cell]]s by [[cloning]], in a study published in the scientific journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nature.com/news/human-stem-cells-created-by-cloning-1.12983|title=Human stem cells created by cloning|last=Cyranoski|first=David|date=May 15, 2013|work=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]|access-date=May 15, 2013}}</ref> |
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**The [[World Health Organization]] names the novel coronavirus [[Middle East respiratory syndrome]] (MERS).<ref>{{cite web |title=Novel coronavirus update – new virus to be called MERS-CoV |url=https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/communicable-diseases/influenza/news/news/2013/05/novel-coronavirus-update-new-virus-to-be-called-mers-cov |website=World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe |access-date=30 December 2020 |date=16 May 2013 |
**The [[World Health Organization]] names the novel coronavirus [[Middle East respiratory syndrome]] (MERS).<ref>{{cite web |title=Novel coronavirus update – new virus to be called MERS-CoV |url=https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/communicable-diseases/influenza/news/news/2013/05/novel-coronavirus-update-new-virus-to-be-called-mers-cov |website=World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe |access-date=30 December 2020 |date=16 May 2013}}</ref> |
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* May 20 - The [[2013 Moore tornado|latest EF5 tornado]] in the United States hits [[Moore, Oklahoma|Moore]] and several other surrounding areas near Oklahoma City. It is the second significant tornado to strike Moore since 1999, when the [[1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado|Bridge Creek–Moore tornado]] targeted similar areas with the highest winds ever recorded on Earth. |
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* [[May 22]] – Off-duty [[British Army]] soldier [[Fusilier#United Kingdom|Fusilier]] [[Murder of Lee Rigby|Lee Rigby]] of the [[Royal Regiment of Fusiliers]] is murdered in [[Woolwich]], southeast [[London]], by Islamic terrorists Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/10085080/Lee-Rigby-murder-suspect-transferred-from-hospital-to-police-station.html|title=Lee Rigby murder suspect transferred from hospital to police station|first=Claire|last=Carter|date=May 28, 2013| |
* [[May 22]] – Off-duty [[British Army]] soldier [[Fusilier#United Kingdom|Fusilier]] [[Murder of Lee Rigby|Lee Rigby]] of the [[Royal Regiment of Fusiliers]] is murdered in [[Woolwich]], southeast [[London]], by Islamic terrorists Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/10085080/Lee-Rigby-murder-suspect-transferred-from-hospital-to-police-station.html|title=Lee Rigby murder suspect transferred from hospital to police station|first=Claire|last=Carter|date=May 28, 2013|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}</ref> |
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* May 31 – The [[2013 El Reno tornado|largest tornado ever recorded]] hit [[El Reno]]. This rain-wrapped, [[multiple-vortex tornado]] was the [[Tornado records#Largest path width|widest tornado]] ever recorded. Remaining over mostly open terrain, the tornado did not impact many structures; however, measurements from mobile [[weather radar]]s revealed extreme winds up to 296 mph (476 km/h) within the vortex. These are among the highest observed wind speeds on [[Earth]], just slightly lower than the wind speeds of [[1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado]]. As it crossed [[U.S. Route 81 in Oklahoma|U.S. 81]], it had grown to a record-breaking width of 2.6 miles (4.2 km). |
* May 31 – The [[2013 El Reno tornado|largest tornado ever recorded]] hit [[El Reno]]. This rain-wrapped, [[multiple-vortex tornado]] was the [[Tornado records#Largest path width|widest tornado]] ever recorded. Remaining over mostly open terrain, the tornado did not impact many structures; however, measurements from mobile [[weather radar]]s revealed extreme winds up to 296 mph (476 km/h) within the vortex. These are among the highest observed wind speeds on [[Earth]], just slightly lower than the wind speeds of [[1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado]]. As it crossed [[U.S. Route 81 in Oklahoma|U.S. 81]], it had grown to a record-breaking width of 2.6 miles (4.2 km). |
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===June=== |
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* [[June 6]] – Former [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] employee [[Edward Snowden]] discloses operations engaged in by a U.S. government [[mass surveillance]] program to [[Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present)|news publications]] and flees the country, later being granted temporary [[Right of asylum|asylum]] in Russia.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/23/edward-snowden-nsa-files-timeline?INTCMP=SRCH|title=Edward Snowden and the NSA files – timeline|last=Gidda|first=Mirren|date=June 23, 2013|work=[[The Guardian]]|location=London|issn=0261-3077|access-date=2013-07-27 |
* [[June 6]] – Former [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] employee [[Edward Snowden]] discloses operations engaged in by a U.S. government [[mass surveillance]] program to [[Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present)|news publications]] and flees the country, later being granted temporary [[Right of asylum|asylum]] in Russia.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/23/edward-snowden-nsa-files-timeline?INTCMP=SRCH|title=Edward Snowden and the NSA files – timeline|last=Gidda|first=Mirren|date=June 23, 2013|work=[[The Guardian]]|location=London|issn=0261-3077|access-date=2013-07-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Analysis/Walker/2013/07/22/Walkers-World-Snowdens-best-refuge/UPI-94631374466020|title=Snowden's best refuge|publisher=United Press International|author=Walker, Martin|date=2013-07-22|access-date=2013-07-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/world/europe/edward-snowden-russia.html|title=Russia Grants Snowden 1-Year Asylum|first1=Steven|date=August 1, 2013|work=The New York Times|last2=Kramer|first2=Andrew|issn=0362-4331|last1=Myers}}</ref> |
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* [[June 23]] – A bus carrying 47 [[Romania|Romanian]] tourists to [[Tivat]], [[Montenegro]], [[2013 Montenegro bus crash|crashes]] in the [[Morača |Morača canyon]] in central Montenegro, killing 19 people and injuring 27.<ref name=bbc>{{cite web |
* [[June 23]] – A bus carrying 47 [[Romania|Romanian]] tourists to [[Tivat]], [[Montenegro]], [[2013 Montenegro bus crash|crashes]] in the [[Morača |Morača canyon]] in central Montenegro, killing 19 people and injuring 27.<ref name=bbc>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23024162 |title=BBC News - Deadly bus plunge in Montenegro |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date=2013-04-09 |accessdate=2013-06-24}}</ref> |
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* [[June 25]] – [[Emir of Qatar]] [[Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani]] abdicates and his son [[Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani]] assumes power.<ref name="New Emir BBC">{{cite news|title=Qatari emir Sheikh Hamad hands power to son Tamim|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23026870| |
* [[June 25]] – [[Emir of Qatar]] [[Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani]] abdicates and his son [[Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani]] assumes power.<ref name="New Emir BBC">{{cite news|title=Qatari emir Sheikh Hamad hands power to son Tamim|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23026870|work=BBC|date=June 25, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21580197-remarkable-emir-bows-out-hard-act-follow|title=Qatar's new emir: A hard act to follow|newspaper=The Economist|date=June 27, 2013}}</ref> |
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* [[June 26]] |
* [[June 26]] |
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** [[Kevin Rudd]] defeats [[Julia Gillard]] in an Australian Labor Party [[Australian Labor Party leadership spill, June 2013|leadership ballot]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.news.com.au/national-news/federal-election/labor-leadership-live-kevin-rudd-returns-julia-gillard-loses-support-of-partyroom/story-fnho52ip-1226669921693|title=Labor leadership live: Kevin Rudd returns, Julia Gillard loses support of partyroom|work=News.com.au|date=June 26, 2013|access-date=February 25, 2018|archive-date=October 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016132633/http://www.news.com.au/national-news/federal-election/labor-leadership-live-kevin-rudd-returns-julia-gillard-loses-support-of-partyroom/story-fnho52ip-1226669921693|url-status=dead}}</ref> and consequently becomes [[Prime Minister of Australia]], three years after Gillard [[Australian Labor Party leadership spill, 2010|replaced]] Rudd.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/26/julia-gillard-australia-prime-minister-kevin-rudd|title=Julia Gillard ousted as Australia prime minister|date=June 26, 2013 |
** [[Kevin Rudd]] defeats [[Julia Gillard]] in an Australian Labor Party [[Australian Labor Party leadership spill, June 2013|leadership ballot]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.news.com.au/national-news/federal-election/labor-leadership-live-kevin-rudd-returns-julia-gillard-loses-support-of-partyroom/story-fnho52ip-1226669921693|title=Labor leadership live: Kevin Rudd returns, Julia Gillard loses support of partyroom|work=News.com.au|date=June 26, 2013|access-date=February 25, 2018|archive-date=October 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016132633/http://www.news.com.au/national-news/federal-election/labor-leadership-live-kevin-rudd-returns-julia-gillard-loses-support-of-partyroom/story-fnho52ip-1226669921693|url-status=dead}}</ref> and consequently becomes [[Prime Minister of Australia]], three years after Gillard [[Australian Labor Party leadership spill, 2010|replaced]] Rudd.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/26/julia-gillard-australia-prime-minister-kevin-rudd|title=Julia Gillard ousted as Australia prime minister|date=June 26, 2013}}</ref> |
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** ''[[United States v. Windsor]]'' (570 U.S. 744) decided in the [[Supreme Court of the United States]], overturning a key section of the [[Defense of Marriage Act]] and hence granting federal recognition to [[same-sex marriage in the United States]]. |
** ''[[United States v. Windsor]]'' (570 U.S. 744) decided in the [[Supreme Court of the United States]], overturning a key section of the [[Defense of Marriage Act]] and hence granting federal recognition to [[same-sex marriage in the United States]]. |
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===July=== |
===July=== |
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* [[July 1]] – [[Croatia]] becomes the 28th member of the [[European Union]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/30/croatia-joins-eu-celebrations-uncertainty|title=Croatia joins EU amid celebrations and uncertainty about future|date=July 1, 2013|work=The Guardian|location=London|issn=0261-3077|access-date=July 1, 2013 |
* [[July 1]] – [[Croatia]] becomes the 28th member of the [[European Union]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/30/croatia-joins-eu-celebrations-uncertainty|title=Croatia joins EU amid celebrations and uncertainty about future|date=July 1, 2013|work=The Guardian|location=London|issn=0261-3077|access-date=July 1, 2013}}</ref> |
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* [[July 3]] – Amid [[ |
* [[July 3]] – Amid [[2012–13 Egyptian protests|mass protests]] across Egypt, [[President of Egypt|President]] [[Mohamed Morsi]] is deposed in a military [[2013 Egyptian coup d'état|coup d'état]], leading to [[Political violence in Egypt (2013)|widespread violence]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/03/world/meast/egypt-protests/index.html?hpt=hp_t1|title=Coup topples Egypt's Morsy; deposed president under 'house arrest'|last1=Wedemen|first1=Ben|date=July 3, 2013|publisher=CNN|last2=Sayah|first2=Reza|last3=Smith|first3=Matt|access-date=July 11, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23700663|title=Egypt declares national emergency|publisher=BBC|date=August 14, 2013}}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | * [[July 6]] – A runaway train carrying crude oil [[Lac-Mégantic rail disaster|derails in Lac-Mégantic]], [[Quebec]], catching fire and exploding, killing 47<ref>{{cite news |title=Canada train derailment: Death toll at 50; Lac-Megantic residents jeer rail CEO (photos) |url=https://www.syracuse.com/news/2013/07/canadian_train_derailment_death_roll_at_50_residents_of_lac-megantic_jeer_rail_c.html |access-date=11 July 2013 |agency=Associated Press |publisher=Syracuse.com}}</ref> |
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** [[Asiana Airlines Flight 214]] crashes while landing at [[San Francisco International Airport]], killing three. |
** [[Asiana Airlines Flight 214]] crashes while landing at [[San Francisco International Airport]], killing three. |
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* [[July 21]] – [[Philippe of Belgium|Philippe]] is sworn in as [[List of Belgian monarchs|King of the Belgians]], following the abdication of [[Albert II of Belgium|Albert II]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-belgium-monarchy-king-idUSBRE96K03220130721|title=Belgium subdues divisions for a day to swear in king|last1=Bartunek|first1=Robert-Jan|date=July 21, 2013|work=Reuters|access-date=October 20, 2018|last2=Blenkinsop|first2=Philip |
* [[July 21]] – [[Philippe of Belgium|Philippe]] is sworn in as [[List of Belgian monarchs|King of the Belgians]], following the abdication of [[Albert II of Belgium|Albert II]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-belgium-monarchy-king-idUSBRE96K03220130721|title=Belgium subdues divisions for a day to swear in king|last1=Bartunek|first1=Robert-Jan|date=July 21, 2013|work=Reuters|access-date=October 20, 2018|last2=Blenkinsop|first2=Philip}}</ref> |
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* [[July 22]]–[[July 28|28]] – XIV [[World Youth Day 2013|World Youth Day]], in [[Rio de Janeiro]], Brazil. |
* [[July 22]]–[[July 28|28]] – XIV [[World Youth Day 2013|World Youth Day]], in [[Rio de Janeiro]], Brazil. |
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* [[August 8]] – The [[TU Me]] instant messaging and Voice over IP app is discontinued.<ref name="cincodias.com">{{Cite web|url=https://cincodias.elpais.com/cincodias/2013/08/08/economia/1375938705_391125.html|title=Telefónica cancela TU Me, una de sus aplicaciones anti-WhatsApp|first=Santiago Millán|last=Alonso|date=August 8, 2013|website=Cinco Días |
* [[August 8]] – The [[TU Me]] instant messaging and Voice over IP app is discontinued.<ref name="cincodias.com">{{Cite web|url=https://cincodias.elpais.com/cincodias/2013/08/08/economia/1375938705_391125.html|title=Telefónica cancela TU Me, una de sus aplicaciones anti-WhatsApp|first=Santiago Millán|last=Alonso|date=August 8, 2013|website=Cinco Días}}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | * [[August 14]] – Following the military coup in Egypt, two anti-coup camps are raided by the security forces, [[August 2013 Rabaa massacre|leaving 2,696 dead]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/08/201381522364486906.html|title=Egypt's Brotherhood to hold 'march of anger'|date=2013-08-16|website=Al Jazeera|access-date=2017-02-11}}</ref> The raids were described by [[Human Rights Watch]] as "one of the world's largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/08/12/egypt-raba-killings-likely-crimes-against-humanity|title=Egypt: Rab'a Killings Likely Crimes against Humanity|date=2014-08-12|newspaper=Human Rights Watch|access-date=2017-02-11|language=en}}</ref> |
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*[[August 13]] – Platform game, Geometry Dash is released by Swedish [[Video game developer|developer]], [[RobTop]].{{cn|date=January 2024}}<!-- WP:RS needed; removed link to WP--> |
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| ⚫ | * [[August 14]] – Following the military coup in Egypt, two anti-coup camps are raided by the security forces, [[August 2013 Rabaa massacre|leaving 2,696 dead]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/08/201381522364486906.html|title=Egypt's Brotherhood to hold 'march of anger'|date=2013-08-16| |
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*[[August 15]] – [[Horacio Cartes]] is sworn in as [[President of Paraguay]]. |
*[[August 15]] – [[Horacio Cartes]] is sworn in as [[President of Paraguay]]. |
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* [[August 21]] – 1,429 are killed in the [[Ghouta chemical attack]] during the Syrian Civil War.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/30/government-assessment-syrian-government-s-use-chemical-weapons-august-21|title=Government Assessment of the Syrian Government's Use of Chemical Weapons on August 21, 2013|date=August 30, 2013|via=[[NARA|National Archives]]| |
* [[August 21]] – 1,429 are killed in the [[Ghouta chemical attack]] during the Syrian Civil War.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/30/government-assessment-syrian-government-s-use-chemical-weapons-august-21|title=Government Assessment of the Syrian Government's Use of Chemical Weapons on August 21, 2013|date=August 30, 2013|via=[[NARA|National Archives]]|work=[[whitehouse.gov]]|access-date=August 30, 2013}}</ref> |
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* [[August 29]] – The United Kingdom Parliament [[List of Government defeats in the House of Commons (1945–present)#Cameron (coalition government)|votes against]] UK military attacks on Syria.<ref name="blow">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/aug/30/cameron-mps-syria|title=Blow to Cameron's authority as MPs rule out British assault on Syria|author1=Nicholas Watt|author2=Rowena Mason|author3=Nick Hopkins|website= |
* [[August 29]] – The United Kingdom Parliament [[List of Government defeats in the House of Commons (1945–present)#Cameron (coalition government)|votes against]] UK military attacks on Syria.<ref name="blow">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/aug/30/cameron-mps-syria |title=Blow to Cameron's authority as MPs rule out British assault on Syria|author1=Nicholas Watt|author2=Rowena Mason|author3=Nick Hopkins|website=theguardian.com|date=August 30, 2013}}</ref> |
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* [[August 31]] – Raymond Wang and his family returned home to Massachusetts after 7 days of vacation. They went to Yellowstone Park, rode a tour bus, and stayed in hotels. |
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* [[September 7]] |
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** [[2013 Australian federal election]]: The [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]]/[[National Party of Australia|National]] [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]] led by [[Tony Abbott]] defeats the [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]] [[Rudd Government (2013)|Government]] led by [[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime Minister]] [[Kevin Rudd]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2013/s3843467.htm|title=Kevin Rudd concedes defeat|work=AM|publisher=ABC Radio|author=Eastley, Tony|location=Australia|format=transcript|date=September 8, 2013|access-date=February 7, 2015 |
** [[2013 Australian federal election]]: The [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]]/[[National Party of Australia|National]] [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]] led by [[Tony Abbott]] defeats the [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]] [[Rudd Government (2013)|Government]] led by [[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime Minister]] [[Kevin Rudd]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2013/s3843467.htm|title=Kevin Rudd concedes defeat|work=AM|publisher=ABC Radio|author=Eastley, Tony|location=Australia|format=transcript|date=September 8, 2013|access-date=February 7, 2015}}</ref> Abbott would be sworn in on [[September 18]]th.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://australianpolitics.com/elections/federal-2013|title=2013 Federal Election | AustralianPolitics.com|website=australianpolitics.com}}</ref> |
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** The [[International Olympic Committee]] awards [[Tokyo]] the right to host the [[2020 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/10294032/Japan-celebrates-as-Tokyo-wins-right-to-host-2020-Olympic-Games-ahead-of-Madrid-and-Istanbul.html|work=The Daily Telegraph|title=Japan celebrates as Tokyo wins right to host 2020 Olympic Games ahead of Madrid and Istanbul|date=September 8, 2013|access-date=September 17, 2017 |
** The [[International Olympic Committee]] awards [[Tokyo]] the right to host the [[2020 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/10294032/Japan-celebrates-as-Tokyo-wins-right-to-host-2020-Olympic-Games-ahead-of-Madrid-and-Istanbul.html|work=The Daily Telegraph|title=Japan celebrates as Tokyo wins right to host 2020 Olympic Games ahead of Madrid and Istanbul|date=September 8, 2013|access-date=September 17, 2017}}</ref> |
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* [[September 9|September 8]] – The [[2013 Colorado floods]] begin, resulting from heavy rain in the Colorado River Basin. |
* [[September 9|September 8]] – The [[2013 Colorado floods|2013 Colorado Floods]] begin, resulting from heavy rain in the Colorado River Basin. |
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* [[September 17]] – [[Rockstar Games]] releases video game [[Grand Theft Auto V]]. |
* [[September 17]] – [[Rockstar Games]] releases video game [[Grand Theft Auto V]]. |
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* [[September 21]] – [[Al-Shabaab (militant group)|al-Shabaab]] militants [[Westgate shopping mall attack|attack]] the [[Westgate, Nairobi|Westgate shopping mall]] in [[Nairobi, Kenya]], killing at least 62 civilians and wounding over 170.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24189116|title=Nairobi siege: What we know|work=BBC News|date=September 23, 2013|access-date=September 24, 2013 |
* [[September 21]] – [[Al-Shabaab (militant group)|al-Shabaab]] militants [[Westgate shopping mall attack|attack]] the [[Westgate, Nairobi|Westgate shopping mall]] in [[Nairobi, Kenya]], killing at least 62 civilians and wounding over 170.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24189116|title=Nairobi siege: What we know|work=BBC News|date=September 23, 2013|access-date=September 24, 2013}}</ref> |
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* [[October 15]] – A [[Moment magnitude scale|magnitude]] 7.2 [[earthquake]] [[2013 Bohol earthquake|struck]] [[Bohol]], [[Philippines]], leaving 222 dead, 8 missing, and 976 people injured.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ndrrmc.gov.ph/attachments/article/1108/NDRRMC%20Update%20SitRep%20no.%2035%20re%20Effects%20of%20M7.2%20Bohol%20EQ,%203Nov2013,%206AM.pdf |title=SitRep No. 35 re Effects of Magnitude 7.2 Sagbayan, Bohol Earthquake |publisher=[[National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council]] |date=November 3, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214193612/http://www.ndrrmc.gov.ph/attachments/article/1108/NDRRMC%20Update%20SitRep%20no.%2035%20re%20Effects%20of%20M7.2%20Bohol%20EQ%2C%203Nov2013%2C%206AM.pdf |archive-date=December 14, 2013}}</ref> |
* [[October 15]] – A [[Moment magnitude scale|magnitude]] 7.2 [[earthquake]] [[2013 Bohol earthquake|struck]] [[Bohol]], [[Philippines]], leaving 222 dead, 8 missing, and 976 people injured.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ndrrmc.gov.ph/attachments/article/1108/NDRRMC%20Update%20SitRep%20no.%2035%20re%20Effects%20of%20M7.2%20Bohol%20EQ,%203Nov2013,%206AM.pdf |title=SitRep No. 35 re Effects of Magnitude 7.2 Sagbayan, Bohol Earthquake |publisher=[[National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council]] |date=November 3, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214193612/http://www.ndrrmc.gov.ph/attachments/article/1108/NDRRMC%20Update%20SitRep%20no.%2035%20re%20Effects%20of%20M7.2%20Bohol%20EQ%2C%203Nov2013%2C%206AM.pdf |archive-date=December 14, 2013}}</ref> |
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* [[October 16]] – [[Lao Airlines Flight 301]] crashes on approach to [[Pakse Airport]], Laos, killing all 49 people on board. |
* [[October 16]] – [[Lao Airlines Flight 301]] crashes on approach to [[Pakse Airport]], Laos, killing all 49 people on board. |
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| ⚫ | * [[October 18]] – [[Saudi Arabia]] rejects a seat on the [[United Nations Security Council]], making it the first country to reject a seat on the Security Council. [[Jordan]] takes the seat on [[December 6]].<ref name="aawsat">{{cite news|url=http://www.aawsat.net/2013/10/article55319608|title=Saudi Arabia declines UN Security Council seat|publisher=Asharq Al-Awsat|date=2013-10-18|access-date=2013-10-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019022009/http://www.aawsat.net/2013/10/article55319608|archive-date=2013-10-19}}</ref> |
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* [[October 17]] – [[Microsoft]] releases [[Windows 8.1]]. |
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| ⚫ | * [[October 18]] – [[Saudi Arabia]] rejects a seat on the [[United Nations Security Council]], making it the first country to reject a seat on the Security Council. [[Jordan]] takes the seat on [[December 6]].<ref name="aawsat">{{cite news|url=http://www.aawsat.net/2013/10/article55319608|title=Saudi Arabia declines UN Security Council seat| |
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* [[November 5]] – The uncrewed [[Mars Orbiter Mission]] is launched by India from its launch pad in [[Sriharikota]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-11-05/india/43693030_1_orbiter-mission-mars-orbiter-mission-director-p-kunhikrishnan |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131107190855/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-11-05/india/43693030_1_orbiter-mission-mars-orbiter-mission-director-p-kunhikrishnan |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-11-07 |title=Mars mission starts, Mangalyaan launched successfully |date=2013-11-05 |work=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=2013-11-05}}</ref> |
* [[November 5]] – The uncrewed [[Mars Orbiter Mission]] is launched by India from its launch pad in [[Sriharikota]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-11-05/india/43693030_1_orbiter-mission-mars-orbiter-mission-director-p-kunhikrishnan |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131107190855/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-11-05/india/43693030_1_orbiter-mission-mars-orbiter-mission-director-p-kunhikrishnan |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-11-07 |title=Mars mission starts, Mangalyaan launched successfully |date=2013-11-05 |work=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=2013-11-05}}</ref> |
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* [[November 8]] – [[Typhoon Haiyan]] (Yolanda), one of the strongest [[tropical cyclone]]s on record, hits the [[Philippines]] and [[Vietnam]], causing devastation with at least 6,241 dead.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24887337 |title=Typhoon Haiyan: Thousands feared dead in Philippines |date=2013-11-10 |work=BBC News |access-date=2013-11-10 |
* [[November 8]] – [[Typhoon Haiyan]] (Yolanda), one of the strongest [[tropical cyclone]]s on record, hits the [[Philippines]] and [[Vietnam]], causing devastation with at least 6,241 dead.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24887337 |title=Typhoon Haiyan: Thousands feared dead in Philippines |date=2013-11-10 |work=BBC News |access-date=2013-11-10}}</ref> |
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* [[November 12]] – ''[[Three Studies of Lucian Freud]]'', a series of portraits of [[Lucian Freud]] by the [[United Kingdom|British]] painter [[Francis Bacon (artist)|Francis Bacon]], sells for [[United States dollar|US$]]142.4 million in a [[New York City]] auction, setting a world record for an auctioned work of art.<ref>{{cite news|title=Bacon painting fetches record price|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24922106|access-date=November 14, 2013|date=November 13, 2013| |
* [[November 12]] – ''[[Three Studies of Lucian Freud]]'', a series of portraits of [[Lucian Freud]] by the [[United Kingdom|British]] painter [[Francis Bacon (artist)|Francis Bacon]], sells for [[United States dollar|US$]]142.4 million in a [[New York City]] auction, setting a world record for an auctioned work of art.<ref>{{cite news|title=Bacon painting fetches record price|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24922106|access-date=November 14, 2013|date=November 13, 2013|agency=BBC|work=BBC News}}</ref><ref name="NYT sale">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/13/arts/design/bacons-study-of-freud-sells-for-more-than-142-million.html|title=At $142.4 Million, Triptych Is the Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold at an Auction|last=Vogel|first=Carol|date=November 12, 2013|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|issn=0362-4331|access-date=November 13, 2013}}</ref> |
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* [[November 17]] – Fifty people are killed when [[Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363]] crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia. |
* [[November 17]] – Fifty people are killed when [[Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363]] crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia. |
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* [[November 21]] |
* [[November 21]] |
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** [[Euromaidan]] pro-EU demonstrations begin in Ukraine after President [[Viktor Yanukovych]] rejects an economic association agreement between the [[European Union]] and Ukraine in favor of closer ties to Russia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/news/2013/12/23/81532/ukraines-euromaidan-now-comes-the-hard-part/|title=Ukraine's Euromaidan: Now Comes the Hard Part|last=Welt|first=Cory|date=2013-12-23|access-date=2017-02-11|work=Center for American Progress |
** [[Euromaidan]] pro-EU demonstrations begin in Ukraine after President [[Viktor Yanukovych]] rejects an economic association agreement between the [[European Union]] and Ukraine in favor of closer ties to Russia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/news/2013/12/23/81532/ukraines-euromaidan-now-comes-the-hard-part/|title=Ukraine's Euromaidan: Now Comes the Hard Part|last=Welt|first=Cory|date=2013-12-23|access-date=2017-02-11|work=Center for American Progress}}</ref> |
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** [[Moldova]]n-[[ship registration|flagged]] [[cargo ship]] {{MV|Rhosus}} makes port in [[Beirut, Lebanon]], carrying 2,750 tonnes of [[ammonium nitrate]]. After inspection by port state control, the ''Rhosus'' is deemed [[seakeeping|unseaworthy]], and is forbidden to set sail. By order of an Urgent Matters judge in Beirut, the cargo is brought ashore in [[2014]] and placed in Warehouse 12 at the port, where it will remain for six years. The ammonium nitrate will erupt in a [[2020 Beirut explosion|massive explosion]] on [[August 4]], [[2020]].<ref name="rhosus.shiparrested">{{cite journal |url=https://shiparrested.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/The-Arrest-News-11th-issue.pdf#page=3 |title=m/v Rhosus – Arrest and Personal Freedom of the Crew |date=October 2015 |number=11 |journal=The Arrest News |access-date=8 August 2020 |first1=Charbel |last1=Dagher |first2=Christine |last2=Maksoud |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805004609/https://shiparrested.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/The-Arrest-News-11th-issue.pdf |archive-date=5 August 2020}}</ref><ref name="rhosus.bbc">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-53683082|title=How ship's deadly cargo ended up at Beirut port|date=6 August 2020|work=[[BBC News]] |
** [[Moldova]]n-[[ship registration|flagged]] [[cargo ship]] {{MV|Rhosus}} makes port in [[Beirut, Lebanon]], carrying 2,750 tonnes of [[ammonium nitrate]]. After inspection by port state control, the ''Rhosus'' is deemed [[seakeeping|unseaworthy]], and is forbidden to set sail. By order of an Urgent Matters judge in Beirut, the cargo is brought ashore in [[2014]] and placed in Warehouse 12 at the port, where it will remain for six years. The ammonium nitrate will erupt in a [[2020 Beirut explosion|massive explosion]] on [[August 4]], [[2020]].<ref name="rhosus.shiparrested">{{cite journal |url=https://shiparrested.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/The-Arrest-News-11th-issue.pdf#page=3 |title=m/v Rhosus – Arrest and Personal Freedom of the Crew |date=October 2015 |number=11 |journal=The Arrest News |access-date=8 August 2020 |first1=Charbel |last1=Dagher |first2=Christine |last2=Maksoud |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805004609/https://shiparrested.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/The-Arrest-News-11th-issue.pdf |archive-date=5 August 2020}}</ref><ref name="rhosus.bbc">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-53683082|title=How ship's deadly cargo ended up at Beirut port|date=6 August 2020|work=[[BBC News]]}}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | * [[November 24]] – [[Iran]] [[Geneva interim agreement on the Iranian nuclear program|agrees]] to limit their [[Nuclear program of Iran|nuclear development program]] in exchange for sanctions relief.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/23/world/meast/iran-nuclear-talks-geneva/index.html?hpt=hp_t1|title=Obama: Iran nuclear deal limits ability to create nuclear weapons|last1=Sciutto|first1=Jim|date=November 24, 2013|publisher=CNN|last2=Carter|first2=Chelsea}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25074729|title=Iran agrees to curb nuclear activity at Geneva talks|publisher=BBC|date=November 24, 2013}}</ref> |
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* [[November 22]] – [[Benjamin Britten]]'s opera [[Peter Grimes]] in Concert performance in [[Carnegie Hall]] of [[Benjamin Britten]]'s Centennial birthday |
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| ⚫ | * [[November 24]] – [[Iran]] [[Geneva interim agreement on the Iranian nuclear program|agrees]] to limit their [[Nuclear program of Iran|nuclear development program]] in exchange for sanctions relief.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/23/world/meast/iran-nuclear-talks-geneva/index.html?hpt=hp_t1|title=Obama: Iran nuclear deal limits ability to create nuclear weapons|last1=Sciutto|first1=Jim|date=November 24, 2013|publisher=CNN|last2=Carter|first2=Chelsea |
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* [[November 27]] – [[Frozen (2013 film)|Frozen]] is released, launching a global phenomenon and releasing the hit song [[Let it Go]], recorded for the movie version by [[Idina Menzel]] as her character Elsa, and for the end credits and single version by the singer and actress [[Demi Lovato]]. |
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* [[November 29]] – A police helicopter [[2013 Glasgow helicopter crash|crashes]] into The Clutha, a pub in [[Glasgow]], Scotland, killing 10 people and injuring 31. |
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===December=== |
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* [[December 7]] – [[World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 2013|Ninth Ministerial Conference]] of the [[World Trade Organization]] delegates sign the [[Bali Package]] agreement aimed at loosening global [[trade barrier]]s.<ref name=bbc2>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25274889|title=WTO agrees global trade deal worth $1tn|last=Walker|first=Andrew|date=December 7, 2013|work=BBC News|access-date=December 7, 2013 |
* [[December 7]] – [[World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 2013|Ninth Ministerial Conference]] of the [[World Trade Organization]] delegates sign the [[Bali Package]] agreement aimed at loosening global [[trade barrier]]s.<ref name=bbc2>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25274889|title=WTO agrees global trade deal worth $1tn|last=Walker|first=Andrew|date=December 7, 2013|work=BBC News|access-date=December 7, 2013}}</ref> |
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* [[December 14]] – [[China National Space Administration|Chinese]] uncrewed spacecraft [[Chang'e 3]], carrying the ''[[Yutu (rover)|Yutu]]'' [[Lunar rover|rover]], becomes the first spacecraft to "soft"-[[Moon landing|land]] on the [[Moon]] since [[Luna 24|1976]] and the third ever robotic rover to do so.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25356603|title=China lands Jade Rabbit robot rover on Moon|last=Rincon|first=Paul|date=December 14, 2013|access-date=2017-02-11|publisher=BBC |
* [[December 14]] – [[China National Space Administration|Chinese]] uncrewed spacecraft [[Chang'e 3]], carrying the ''[[Yutu (rover)|Yutu]]'' [[Lunar rover|rover]], becomes the first spacecraft to "soft"-[[Moon landing|land]] on the [[Moon]] since [[Luna 24|1976]] and the third ever robotic rover to do so.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25356603|title=China lands Jade Rabbit robot rover on Moon|last=Rincon|first=Paul|date=December 14, 2013|access-date=2017-02-11|publisher=BBC}}</ref> |
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* [[December 15]] – Fighting between ethnic [[Dinka people|Dinka]] and [[Nuer people|Nuer]] members of the presidential guard break out in [[Juba]], [[South Sudan]], plunging the country into [[South Sudanese Civil War|civil war]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/23/south-sudan-state-that-fell-apart-in-a-week|title=South Sudan: the state that fell apart in a week|last=Howden|first=Daniel|date=2013-12-23|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=2017-02-11|issn=0261-3077 |
* [[December 15]] – Fighting between ethnic [[Dinka people|Dinka]] and [[Nuer people|Nuer]] members of the presidential guard break out in [[Juba]], [[South Sudan]], plunging the country into [[South Sudanese Civil War|civil war]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/23/south-sudan-state-that-fell-apart-in-a-week|title=South Sudan: the state that fell apart in a week|last=Howden|first=Daniel|date=2013-12-23|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=2017-02-11|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> |
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2013 (MMXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2013th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 13th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2010s decade.
2013 was designated as:
- International Year of Water Cooperation[1]
- International Year of Quinoa[1]
Events
January
- January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alaska earthquake: A Mw 7.5 (Ms 7.7, 'Moderate') earthquake shakes Prince of Wales Island.
- January 10 – At least 130 people are killed and 270 are injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan.
- January 11 – The French military begins a 5-month intervention into the Northern Mali conflict, targeting the militant Islamist Ansar Dine group.[2][3]
- January 16–20 – Thirty-nine international workers and 1 security guard die in a hostage crisis at a natural gas facility near In Aménas, Algeria.[4][5][6][7]
- January 21 – Barack Obama is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States.
- January 27 – An estimated 245 people die in a nightclub fire in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.[8]
February
- February 12 – North Korea conducts its third underground nuclear test, prompting widespread condemnation and tightened economic sanctions from the international community.[9][10]
- February 15 – A meteor explodes over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring 1,489–1,492 people and damaging over 4,300 buildings. It is the most powerful meteor to strike Earth's atmosphere in over a century.[11] The incident, along with a coincidental flyby of a larger asteroid, prompts international concern regarding the vulnerability of the planet to meteor strikes.[12][13]
- February 21 – American scientists use a 3D printer to create a living lab-grown ear from collagen and animal ear cell cultures. In the future, it is hoped that similar ears could be grown to order as transplants for human patients with ear trauma or amputation.[14]
- February 25 – Park Geun-hye becomes the first woman to become the president of South Korea.[15]
- February 28 – Benedict XVI resigns as pope, becoming the first to do so since Gregory XII in 1415, and the first to do so voluntarily since Celestine V in 1294.[16]
March
- March 13 – Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina is elected the 266th pope, whereupon he takes the name Francis[17][18][19] and becomes the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from the Americas, and the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere.[20]
- March 24 – Central African Republic President François Bozizé flees to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after rebel forces capture the nation's capital, Bangui.[21][22]
- March 25 – The European Union agrees to a €10 billion economic bailout for Cyprus. The bailout loan will be equally split between the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism, the European Financial Stability Facility, and the International Monetary Fund. The deal precipitates a banking crisis in the island nation.[23][24]
April
- April 2 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Arms Trade Treaty to regulate the international trade of conventional weapons.[25]
- April 13 – Venezuelan presidential election: Nicolás Maduro is declared winner with a narrow victory over his opponent Henrique Capriles Radonski.[26] Protests continue to October.[27]
- April 15 – Boston Marathon bombing: Two Chechnya-born Islamist brothers (one a United States citizen) detonate 2 bombs at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States, killing 3 and injuring 264 others.[28][29] Four hours after the explosions, Raymond Wang went to Joyful Garden.
- April 20 – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake jolts Sichuan, China, leaving 193 people dead and more than 11,000 injured.[30]
- April 21 – Businessman Horacio Cartes wins the 2013 Paraguayan general election against Efraín Alegre.
- April 24 – The 2013 Savar building collapse, one of the worst industrial disasters in the world, kills 1,134 people in Bangladesh.[31][32]
- April 30 – Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix.[33]
May
- May 14–18 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2013 takes place in Malmö, Sweden, and is won by Danish entrant Emmelie de Forest with the song "Only Teardrops".
- May 15
- Researchers from Oregon Health & Science University in the United States describe the first production of human embryonic stem cells by cloning, in a study published in the scientific journal Nature.[34]
- The World Health Organization names the novel coronavirus Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).[35]
- May 20 - The latest EF5 tornado in the United States hits Moore and several other surrounding areas near Oklahoma City. It is the second significant tornado to strike Moore since 1999, when the Bridge Creek–Moore tornado targeted similar areas with the highest winds ever recorded on Earth.
- May 22 – Off-duty British Army soldier Fusilier Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers is murdered in Woolwich, southeast London, by Islamic terrorists Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale.[36]
- May 31 – The largest tornado ever recorded hit El Reno. This rain-wrapped, multiple-vortex tornado was the widest tornado ever recorded. Remaining over mostly open terrain, the tornado did not impact many structures; however, measurements from mobile weather radars revealed extreme winds up to 296 mph (476 km/h) within the vortex. These are among the highest observed wind speeds on Earth, just slightly lower than the wind speeds of 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado. As it crossed U.S. 81, it had grown to a record-breaking width of 2.6 miles (4.2 km).
June
- June 6 – Former CIA employee Edward Snowden discloses operations engaged in by a U.S. government mass surveillance program to news publications and flees the country, later being granted temporary asylum in Russia.[37][38][39]
- June 23 – A bus carrying 47 Romanian tourists to Tivat, Montenegro, crashes in the Morača canyon in central Montenegro, killing 19 people and injuring 27.[40]
- June 25 – Emir of Qatar Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani abdicates and his son Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani assumes power.[41][42]
- June 26
- Kevin Rudd defeats Julia Gillard in an Australian Labor Party leadership ballot[43] and consequently becomes Prime Minister of Australia, three years after Gillard replaced Rudd.[44]
- United States v. Windsor (570 U.S. 744) decided in the Supreme Court of the United States, overturning a key section of the Defense of Marriage Act and hence granting federal recognition to same-sex marriage in the United States.
July
- July 1 – Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.[45]
- July 3 – Amid mass protests across Egypt, President Mohamed Morsi is deposed in a military coup d'état, leading to widespread violence.[46][47]
- July 6 – A runaway train carrying crude oil derails in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, catching fire and exploding, killing 47[48]
- Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes while landing at San Francisco International Airport, killing three.
- July 21 – Philippe is sworn in as King of the Belgians, following the abdication of Albert II.[49]
- July 22–28 – XIV World Youth Day, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
August
- August 8 – The TU Me instant messaging and Voice over IP app is discontinued.[50]
- August 14 – Following the military coup in Egypt, two anti-coup camps are raided by the security forces, leaving 2,696 dead.[51] The raids were described by Human Rights Watch as "one of the world's largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history".[52]
- August 15 – Horacio Cartes is sworn in as President of Paraguay.
- August 21 – 1,429 are killed in the Ghouta chemical attack during the Syrian Civil War.[53]
- August 29 – The United Kingdom Parliament votes against UK military attacks on Syria.[54]
- August 31 – Raymond Wang and his family returned home to Massachusetts after 7 days of vacation. They went to Yellowstone Park, rode a tour bus, and stayed in hotels.
September
- September 7
- 2013 Australian federal election: The Liberal/National Coalition led by Tony Abbott defeats the Labor Government led by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.[55] Abbott would be sworn in on September 18th.[56]
- The International Olympic Committee awards Tokyo the right to host the 2020 Summer Olympics.[57]
- September 8 – The 2013 Colorado Floods begin, resulting from heavy rain in the Colorado River Basin.
- September 17 – Rockstar Games releases video game Grand Theft Auto V.
- September 21 – al-Shabaab militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, killing at least 62 civilians and wounding over 170.[58]
October
- October 10 – Delegates from some 140 countries and territories sign the Minamata Treaty, a UNEP treaty designed to protect human health and the environment from emissions and releases of mercury and mercury compounds.[59]
- October 15 – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Bohol, Philippines, leaving 222 dead, 8 missing, and 976 people injured.[60]
- October 16 – Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse Airport, Laos, killing all 49 people on board.
- October 18 – Saudi Arabia rejects a seat on the United Nations Security Council, making it the first country to reject a seat on the Security Council. Jordan takes the seat on December 6.[61]
November
- November 5 – The uncrewed Mars Orbiter Mission is launched by India from its launch pad in Sriharikota.[62]
- November 8 – Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), one of the strongest tropical cyclones on record, hits the Philippines and Vietnam, causing devastation with at least 6,241 dead.[63]
- November 12 – Three Studies of Lucian Freud, a series of portraits of Lucian Freud by the British painter Francis Bacon, sells for US$142.4 million in a New York City auction, setting a world record for an auctioned work of art.[64][65]
- November 17 – Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia.
- November 21
- Euromaidan pro-EU demonstrations begin in Ukraine after President Viktor Yanukovych rejects an economic association agreement between the European Union and Ukraine in favor of closer ties to Russia.[66]
- Moldovan-flagged cargo ship MV Rhosus makes port in Beirut, Lebanon, carrying 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate. After inspection by port state control, the Rhosus is deemed unseaworthy, and is forbidden to set sail. By order of an Urgent Matters judge in Beirut, the cargo is brought ashore in 2014 and placed in Warehouse 12 at the port, where it will remain for six years. The ammonium nitrate will erupt in a massive explosion on August 4, 2020.[67][68]
- November 24 – Iran agrees to limit their nuclear development program in exchange for sanctions relief.[69][70]
December
- December 7 – Ninth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization delegates sign the Bali Package agreement aimed at loosening global trade barriers.[71]
- December 14 – Chinese uncrewed spacecraft Chang'e 3, carrying the Yutu rover, becomes the first spacecraft to "soft"-land on the Moon since 1976 and the third ever robotic rover to do so.[72]
- December 15 – Fighting between ethnic Dinka and Nuer members of the presidential guard break out in Juba, South Sudan, plunging the country into civil war.[73]
Births and deaths
Nobel Prizes
- Chemistry – Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, and Arieh Warshel
- Economics – Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller
- Literature – Alice Munro
- Peace – Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
- Physics – François Englert and Peter Higgs
- Physiology or Medicine – James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman, and Thomas C. Südhof
New English words
See also
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