Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 13
September 13: Independence Day in Venda (1979)
- 533 - Belisarius' legions defeated Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimum, beginning the "Reconquest of the West" under Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
- 1759 - General James Wolfe was fatally wounded, but he died happy, knowing that his British forces had defeated the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham near Quebec City, New France, a decisive battle in the French and Indian War.
- 1814 - The battle for Fort McHenry outside Baltimore inspired Francis Scott Key to pen The Star-Spangled Banner.
- 1987 - Goiânia accident: A radioactive object was stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people.
- 1993 - After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Peace Accords were formally signed by PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at a public ceremony in Washington D.C.
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