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Notable anniversaries in history for today: December 13
- 900th: 1124 - Callistus II [Guido di Borgogna] Italian Pope (1119-24), dies.
- 250th: 1774 - First incident of the Revolution-400 attack Fort William and Mary, New Hampshire.
- 250th: 1774 - Susanne K von Klettenberg German friend of Goethes mother, dies at age 50.
- 150th: 1874 - Birth of Ludwig Curtius; German archaeologist (Die antike Kunst).
- 100th: 1924 - Samuel Gompers, organizer (American Federation of Labor), dies at age 74.
- 80th: 1944 - Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138.
- 80th: 1944 - Lupe Velez, actress (Joe Palooka), overdoses on seconal at age 34.
- 80th: 1944 - Vassily V Kandinsky, abstract artist (Dreamy Inspiration), dies at age 78.
- 80th: 1944 - The New York Times reports American Air Force airmen have encountered silver-colored spheres in the air over German territory.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of John Anderson in Apopka, Florida, USA; country singer/actor (Lone Wolf McQuade).
- 60th: 1964 - In El Paso, Texas, US President Lyndon Johnson and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-México border.
- 60th: 1964 - Shirley Englehorn and Sam Snead win Haig and Haig Mixed Foursome Golf.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Chris Lewis; Canadian Football League safety (Calgary Stampeders).
- 50th: 1974 - Former British colony of Malta becomes a republic.
- 50th: 1974 - Rufe Davis, actor (Floyd Smoot - Petticoat Junction), dies at age 66.
- 40th: 1984 - Artificial heart recipient William Schroeder suffers first stroke.
- 30th: 1994 - American Eagle commuter plane crashes in North Carolina, killing 15.
- 30th: 1994 - Antoine Pinay, Prime Minister of France (1952-53), dies.
- 30th: 1994 - Herman W "Fritz" Liebert, US librarian/Yale-curator, dies at age 83.
- 30th: 1994 - Norman Beaton, actor (Eureka, Black Joy, Mighty Quinn), dies at age 60.
- 30th: 1994 - Fred West, 53, a builder living in Gloucester, is remanded in custody, charged with murdering 12 people (including two of his own daughters) whose bodies were mostly found buried at his house in Cromwell Street. His wife Rose West, 41, is charged with ten murders. Police believe that the murders took place between 1967 and 1987, and suspect that the couple may have killed up to 30 people.
- 25th: 1999 - Angola devalues its currency about 1 new kwanza to 1 million old kwanza.
- 20th: 2004 - Software giants Oracle Corporation and PeopleSoft agree to merge in a US$10.3 billion deal, creating the second largest maker of business applications software.
- 15th: 2009 - Death of Paul Samuelson, American economist and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915).
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