December 13th
What Happened on the day you were born on This day in History
1903 Tibet British Control
December 13th, 1903 : Great Britain wanted to maintain dominance in Tibet to counteract the Soviet Union’s control over Manchuria and other parts of Asia. Tibet would also act as a buffer between Soviet controlled zones and India.
1924 Great Britain France Wartime Debt
December 13th, 1924 : France’s World War I wartime debt to Great Britain amounted to 623,000,000 pounds and the French also owed the United States 798,000,000 pounds. Although the British government was going to approach France about repaying its debts, the British public was skeptical that France would ever pay anything back.
1930 U.S.A. Depression and Typhoid
December 13th, 1930 : Charlotte Dynn died in Milwaukee of typhoid fever and her family couldn't afford to feed their five remaining children, let alone pay for her funeral. However, during the Christmas season the funeral director, the cemetery’s executive, and a pastor all arranged a free funeral for Charlotte.
1937 China Rape of Nanking
December 13th, 1937 : Japanese forces capture the city of Nanking and Japanese General Matsui Iwane orders the city of Nanking to be destroyed. Japanese troops launched a campaign of atrocities against civilians. including the massacre of an estimated 200,000 and the rape and mutilation of at least 20,000 women and girls of all ages .
1944 France Allied Prisoners of War Freed
December 13th, 1944 : In Sarreguemines, France one thousand allied soldiers who had been German captives became free as the 39th division stormed their prison. The liberated group included Russian, Polish, Italian, Serbian, and Yugoslavian soldiers who smiled at their new liberty.
1950 U.S.A. James Dean
December 13th, 1950 : James Dean who is still unknown at that time appears in a Pepsi commercial, dancing with other teens around a jukebox 5 years before he becomes an icon for the teenage revolution in such films as Rebel Without a Cause
1953 Italy Italian architecture
December 13th, 1953 : After being repressed and occupied by Germans during World War II, Italian architecture is enjoying a renaissance. Expert, Joan Pringle, comments, “The contemporary movement is putting to use great wealth of imagination and integrity and is vigorously creating fresh, new forms which surpass in originality and beauty those of most all European countries.”
1966 Saudi Arabia King Saud
December 13th, 1966 : King Saud, previous king of Saudi Arabia was overthrown by his brother Fiesal. Saud was ailing and wanted to live in Egypt. Egypt’s president, President Abdul Gamel Nasser, who King Saud is suspected of tryng to assassinate, allowed the ailing former king to come to Egypt.
1972 China Schistosomiesis Epidemic
December 13th, 1972 : Near Shanghai in communist China there was an epidemic of schistosomiesis, so of course when two specialists in this illness came to visit from the U.S., they instantly became celebrities. Dr. H. F. Hsu and is wife Dr. S. Y .Li Hsu were medical doctors born in China who became Americans and had not been back to China for 23 years. They received a very friendly reception while sharing their medical knowledge.
1978 U.S.A. Susan B Anthony Dollar
December 13th, 1978 : The first Susan B. Anthony ( a key figure in the woman suffrage movement )dollar is minted but is not accepted by the public due to it's very similar appearance to the quarter
1981 Poland Martial Law Imposed
December 13th, 1981 : Martial law and a state of emergency is imposed by Poland's military rulers. Leaders of the Solidarity trade union have been placed under arrest for inciting the unrest and the army are on the streets in a massive show of military strength imposing strict censorship and a curfew.
1988 Switzerland Yasser Arafat
December 13th, 1988 : Following the refusal of the US to grant Yasser Arafat a Visitors Visa the United Nations is convened in Geneva, Switzerland so that PLO chairman Yasser Arafat can address the U.N. General Assembly .
1989 Syria Release of Amed Jibril
December 13th, 1989 : President Hafez Assad, Syria’s president got an order from U.S. President George Bush to expel Amed Jibril or face being cut off from American diplomacy. Jibril was suspected of blowing up Pan Am flight 103 and killing 259 people, most of who were American citizens.
1995 England Brixton Riots
December 13th, 1995 : Hundreds youths take to the streets at Brixton, in south London attacking police, ransacking shops and burning cars
1996 U.S.A. Kofi Annan
December 13th, 1996 : The U.N. Security Council chooses Kofi Annan of Ghana to be the United Nations seventh secretary-general.
1996 Ireland EU Finance Ministers
December 13th, 1996 : In Dublin, fifteen EU finance ministers debated for eleven hours about imposing fines on EU countries whose poor accounting practices jeopardized EU stability. The new common currency of the EU, the Euro, was to be launched in 1999.
2001 India Parliament Attacked
December 13th, 2001 : Gunmen have broken through tight security to attack the parliament building in the Indian capital, New Delhi leaving At least 12 dead and 22 injured .
2001 U.S.A. Osama bin Laden Video
December 13th, 2001 : The Pentagon released a captured videotape of Osama bin Laden in which the al-Qaida leader said the deaths and destruction achieved by the Sept. 11 attacks exceeded his ''most optimistic'' expectations.
2001 U.S.A. Pulls Out Of Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty
December 13th, 2001 : President George W. Bush served formal notice that the United States was pulling out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia.
2003 Iraq Saddam Hussein
December 13th, 2003 : Saddam Hussein is captured by U.S. forces at a farmhouse in Adwar, near his hometown of Tikrit.
2006 Iran Deny Holocaust
December 13th, 2006 : In Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke to a crowd of people who deny the Holocaust ever existed and asserted, “The Zionist regime will be wiped out the same way the Soviet Union was, and humanity will achieve freedom.” Hostility over this meeting could have sanctions placed on Iran by the United States.
2007 U.S.A. Wall Street Journal
December 13th, 2007 : Rupert Murdoch buys Dow Jones & Co. which includes The Wall Street Journal for $5 billion-plus
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What Happened on the day you were born on This day in History
1972 England Thalidomide
December 13th, 1972 : 300 British Thalidomide victims are being offered a compensation deal said to be worth £11.85 million over 10 years which is rejected by the victims. ( Eventually an agreement is reached providing £20.00 million.
Thalidomide became notorious in the mid 50's to early 60's when it was prescribed to pregnant women to ease morning sickness. and was marketed under the names Distaval, Talimol, Nibrol, Sedimide, Quietoplex, Contergan, Neurosedyn, and Softenon.
It was sold in 50 countries around the world and is blamed for causing approximately 10,000 children to be born with severe malformations.
Thalidomide is approved today for the treatment of Leprosy and Multiple Myeloma but strictly controlled in it's use.
December 13th, 1972 : 300 British Thalidomide victims are being offered a compensation deal said to be worth £11.85 million over 10 years which is rejected by the victims. ( Eventually an agreement is reached providing £20.00 million.
Thalidomide became notorious in the mid 50's to early 60's when it was prescribed to pregnant women to ease morning sickness. and was marketed under the names Distaval, Talimol, Nibrol, Sedimide, Quietoplex, Contergan, Neurosedyn, and Softenon.
It was sold in 50 countries around the world and is blamed for causing approximately 10,000 children to be born with severe malformations.
Thalidomide is approved today for the treatment of Leprosy and Multiple Myeloma but strictly controlled in it's use.
1903 Tibet British Control
December 13th, 1903 : Great Britain wanted to maintain dominance in Tibet to counteract the Soviet Union’s control over Manchuria and other parts of Asia. Tibet would also act as a buffer between Soviet controlled zones and India.
1924 Great Britain France Wartime Debt
December 13th, 1924 : France’s World War I wartime debt to Great Britain amounted to 623,000,000 pounds and the French also owed the United States 798,000,000 pounds. Although the British government was going to approach France about repaying its debts, the British public was skeptical that France would ever pay anything back.
1930 U.S.A. Depression and Typhoid
December 13th, 1930 : Charlotte Dynn died in Milwaukee of typhoid fever and her family couldn't afford to feed their five remaining children, let alone pay for her funeral. However, during the Christmas season the funeral director, the cemetery’s executive, and a pastor all arranged a free funeral for Charlotte.
1937 China Rape of Nanking
December 13th, 1937 : Japanese forces capture the city of Nanking and Japanese General Matsui Iwane orders the city of Nanking to be destroyed. Japanese troops launched a campaign of atrocities against civilians. including the massacre of an estimated 200,000 and the rape and mutilation of at least 20,000 women and girls of all ages .
1944 France Allied Prisoners of War Freed
December 13th, 1944 : In Sarreguemines, France one thousand allied soldiers who had been German captives became free as the 39th division stormed their prison. The liberated group included Russian, Polish, Italian, Serbian, and Yugoslavian soldiers who smiled at their new liberty.
1950 U.S.A. James Dean
December 13th, 1950 : James Dean who is still unknown at that time appears in a Pepsi commercial, dancing with other teens around a jukebox 5 years before he becomes an icon for the teenage revolution in such films as Rebel Without a Cause
1953 Italy Italian architecture
December 13th, 1953 : After being repressed and occupied by Germans during World War II, Italian architecture is enjoying a renaissance. Expert, Joan Pringle, comments, “The contemporary movement is putting to use great wealth of imagination and integrity and is vigorously creating fresh, new forms which surpass in originality and beauty those of most all European countries.”
1966 Saudi Arabia King Saud
December 13th, 1966 : King Saud, previous king of Saudi Arabia was overthrown by his brother Fiesal. Saud was ailing and wanted to live in Egypt. Egypt’s president, President Abdul Gamel Nasser, who King Saud is suspected of tryng to assassinate, allowed the ailing former king to come to Egypt.
1972 China Schistosomiesis Epidemic
December 13th, 1972 : Near Shanghai in communist China there was an epidemic of schistosomiesis, so of course when two specialists in this illness came to visit from the U.S., they instantly became celebrities. Dr. H. F. Hsu and is wife Dr. S. Y .Li Hsu were medical doctors born in China who became Americans and had not been back to China for 23 years. They received a very friendly reception while sharing their medical knowledge.
1978 U.S.A. Susan B Anthony Dollar
December 13th, 1978 : The first Susan B. Anthony ( a key figure in the woman suffrage movement )dollar is minted but is not accepted by the public due to it's very similar appearance to the quarter
1981 Poland Martial Law Imposed
December 13th, 1981 : Martial law and a state of emergency is imposed by Poland's military rulers. Leaders of the Solidarity trade union have been placed under arrest for inciting the unrest and the army are on the streets in a massive show of military strength imposing strict censorship and a curfew.
1988 Switzerland Yasser Arafat
December 13th, 1988 : Following the refusal of the US to grant Yasser Arafat a Visitors Visa the United Nations is convened in Geneva, Switzerland so that PLO chairman Yasser Arafat can address the U.N. General Assembly .
1989 Syria Release of Amed Jibril
December 13th, 1989 : President Hafez Assad, Syria’s president got an order from U.S. President George Bush to expel Amed Jibril or face being cut off from American diplomacy. Jibril was suspected of blowing up Pan Am flight 103 and killing 259 people, most of who were American citizens.
1995 England Brixton Riots
December 13th, 1995 : Hundreds youths take to the streets at Brixton, in south London attacking police, ransacking shops and burning cars
1996 U.S.A. Kofi Annan
December 13th, 1996 : The U.N. Security Council chooses Kofi Annan of Ghana to be the United Nations seventh secretary-general.
1996 Ireland EU Finance Ministers
December 13th, 1996 : In Dublin, fifteen EU finance ministers debated for eleven hours about imposing fines on EU countries whose poor accounting practices jeopardized EU stability. The new common currency of the EU, the Euro, was to be launched in 1999.
2001 India Parliament Attacked
December 13th, 2001 : Gunmen have broken through tight security to attack the parliament building in the Indian capital, New Delhi leaving At least 12 dead and 22 injured .
2001 U.S.A. Osama bin Laden Video
December 13th, 2001 : The Pentagon released a captured videotape of Osama bin Laden in which the al-Qaida leader said the deaths and destruction achieved by the Sept. 11 attacks exceeded his ''most optimistic'' expectations.
2001 U.S.A. Pulls Out Of Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty
December 13th, 2001 : President George W. Bush served formal notice that the United States was pulling out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia.
2003 Iraq Saddam Hussein
December 13th, 2003 : Saddam Hussein is captured by U.S. forces at a farmhouse in Adwar, near his hometown of Tikrit.
2006 Iran Deny Holocaust
December 13th, 2006 : In Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke to a crowd of people who deny the Holocaust ever existed and asserted, “The Zionist regime will be wiped out the same way the Soviet Union was, and humanity will achieve freedom.” Hostility over this meeting could have sanctions placed on Iran by the United States.
2007 U.S.A. Wall Street Journal
December 13th, 2007 : Rupert Murdoch buys Dow Jones & Co. which includes The Wall Street Journal for $5 billion-plus
