Today in history / September 13...

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122 AD - Building of Hadrian's Wall began.

1743 - Treaty of Worms signed between England, Austria, and Sardinia.

1759 - Battle of Quebec fought between England and France during the French and Indian War. England earns dominion over most of Quebec City.

1788 - First national election sanctioned in the US. New York becomes temporary capital.

1789 - US Gov't takes out first national loan, thus starting the national debt.

1857 - Milton Hershey (aka: chocolate) born in Penn.

1881 - Lewis Latimer patents electric lamp w/ carbon filament.

1899 - Henry H. Bliss becomes first person to be killed by car (taxi) in Manhattan.

1918 - U.S. and French forces took St. Mihiel, France, in America's first action as a standing army.

1922 - In El Azizia, Libya, a temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 Celsius) was the hottest ever measured on Earth.

1939 - First working helicopter invented by Igor Sikorsky.

1940 - Buckingham Palace destroyed by German bombs.

1942 - German forces attacked Stalingrad.

1956 - IBM introduced the Model 305 computer capable of storing 20 megabytes of data.

1965 - The Beatles release "Yesterday".

1971 - State troopers storm Attica Correctional Facility in NY to put down prison riot.

1972 - "The Waltons" premiers on CBS.

1989 - Desmond Tutu leads largest anti-Apartheid march in S. Africa.

1993 - Bill Clinton has Yitzhak Rabin and Yassir Arafat shake hands at the White House after signing peace accord.

1996 - Rapper Tupack Shakur dies of gunshot wounds in Las Vegas hospital.

1997 - Funeral services held in Calcutta, India for Mother Teresa.

1998 - Chicago Cubs' Sammy Sosa hits HRs #61 & 62, breaking Roger Maris' mark and tying him with Mark McGwire.

1999 - Chechen rebels bomb Russian apartment complex, killing 28.

2001 - President Bush vows to wage war against those nations which harbor terrorists.
 
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