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Events

• 1229 (797 years ago) Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii: Mongolia.
• 1500 (526 years ago) Pedro Álvares Cabral and his Portuguese fleet arrive in Calicut, having crossed both the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.
• 1788 (238 years ago) The Congress of the Confederation sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital.
• 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeat attacks by the Japanese with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
• 1964 (62 years ago) Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd of 20,000 West Berliners on Sunday, in Waldbühne.
• 1971 (55 years ago) Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees China after the failure of an alleged coup. His plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.
• 1997 (29 years ago) A German Air Force Tupolev Tu-154 and a United States Air Force Lockheed C-141 Starlifter collide in mid-air near Namibia, killing 33.
• 2013 (13 years ago) Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead and about 20 civilians injured.

Births

• 1819 (207 years ago) Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (died 1896)
• 1874 (152 years ago) Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer and painter (died 1951)
• 1903 (123 years ago) Claudette Colbert, American actress (died 1996)
• 1916 (110 years ago) Roald Dahl, British novelist, poet, and screenwriter (died 1990)
• 1940 (86 years ago) Óscar Arias, Costa Rican politician, President of Costa Rica, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1951 (75 years ago) Salva Kiir Mayardit, South Sudanese politician, 1st President of South Sudan
• 1973 (53 years ago) Fabio Cannavaro, Italian footballer and manager
• 1989 (37 years ago) Thomas Müller, German footballer

Deaths

• 81 (1945 years ago) Titus, Roman emperor (born AD 39)
• 1506 (520 years ago) Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter and engraver (born 1431)
• 1592 (434 years ago) Michel de Montaigne, French philosopher and author (born 1533)
• 1598 (428 years ago) Philip II of Spain, King of Spain, Portugal, England and Ireland (born 1526)
• 1872 (154 years ago) Ludwig Feuerbach, German anthropologist and philosopher (born 1804)
• 1949 (77 years ago) August Krogh, Danish physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874)
• 1996 (30 years ago) Tupac Shakur, American rapper, producer, and actor (born 1971)
• 2022 (4 years ago) Jean-Luc Godard, French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic (born 1930)

All 431 events, births and deaths of September 13