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On April 17, 2013, an ammonium nitrate explosion occurred at the West Fertilizer Company storage and distribution facility in West, Texas, United States, while emergency services p…
An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others
Willem-Alexander is the current King of the Netherlands, having reigned since 30 April 2013.
Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix
The 2013 Reyhanlı car bombings took place on 11 May 2013, when two car bombs exploded in the Turkish town of Reyhanlı, a town of 64,000 people, 5 km from the Syrian border and the …
Fifty-two people are killed in a bombing in Reyhanlı, Turkey
From 15 to 21 May 2013, a series of deadly bombings and shootings struck the central and northern parts of Iraq, with a few incidents occurring in towns in the south and far west a…
An upsurge in violence in Iraq leaves more than 389 people dead over three days
The Boston Marathon bombing, sometimes referred to as simply the Boston bombing, was an Islamist domestic terrorist attack that took place during the 117th annual Boston Marathon o…
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police
The moment magnitude scale is a measure of an earthquake's magnitude based on its seismic moment. Mw was defined in a 1979 paper by Thomas C. Hanks and Hiroo Kanamori. Similar to t…
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The 2013 Hawija clashes relate to a series of violent attacks within Iraq, as part of the 2012–2013 Iraqi protests and Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013). On 23 April, an army raid again…
At least 111 people are killed and 233 injured as violence breaks out in Hawija, Iraq
The Rana Plaza collapse occurred on 24 April 2013 in Savar Upazila, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, when the eight-story Rana Plaza commercial building collapsed due to a structural failur…
A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,134 people and injuring about 2,500 others
On April 29, 2013 at around 10:00am CEST, an explosion occurred in a building in the centre of Prague, Czech Republic. The incident occurred in a townhouse belonging to the Air Nav…
A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, and injures 43
Naxalism is the communist ideology of the Naxalites or Naxals, a grouping of political and insurgent groups from India. It is influenced by Maoist political sentiment and ideology.
Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congres
United States v. Manning was the court-martial of Chelsea Manning, a former United States Army Private First Class.
The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Mead
On 3 June 2013, a fire at the Jilin Baoyuanfeng (吉林宝源丰) poultry processing plant in Mishazi (米沙子镇), a town about 35 km (22 mi) from Changchun, in Jilin province, People's Republic …
At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China
National Airlines Flight 102 (N8102/NCR102) was a cargo flight operated by National Airlines between Camp Shorabak near the city of Lashkargah in Afghanistan and Al Maktoum Airport…
National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan
Between 2002 and 2004, Ariel Castro abducted Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus from the roads of Cleveland, Ohio, United States, and later held them captive in his ho…
Three women, kidnapped and missing for more than a decade, are found alive in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States
One World Trade Center, also known as One WTC and the Freedom Tower, is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Designed by D…
One World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere
Kermit Barron Gosnell was an American serial killer and abortion doctor. At his clinic in West Philadelphia, Gosnell provided illegal and unsafe late-term abortions, committed post…
American physician Kermit Gosnell is found guilty in Pennsylvania of murdering three infants born alive during attempted
The Enhanced Fujita scale is a scale that rates tornado intensity based on the severity of the damage a tornado causes. It is used in the United States, Brazil and France, among ot…
An EF5 tornado strikes the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others
Charles Arthur Bruzon was a Gibraltarian politician and former Roman Catholic priest. He was affiliated with the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party (GSLP). In the general elections o…
Charles Bruzon, Gibraltarian politician (born 1938)
Ali Kafi was an Algerian politician who was Chairman of the High Council of State and acting President from 1992 to 1994.
Ali Kafi, Algerian politician (born 1928)
Siegfried Ludwig was an Austrian politician and Governor of Lower Austria from 1981 to 1992.
Siegfried Ludwig, Austrian politician, 18th Governor of Lower Austria (born 1926)
Pentti Alexander Lund was a Finnish Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played for the Boston Bruins and New York Rangers of the National Hockey League. Lund was ofte…
Pentti Lund, Finnish-Canadian ice hockey player (born 1925)
Fusilier is a name given to various kinds of soldiers; its meaning depends on the historical context. While fusilier is derived from the 17th-century French word fusil – meaning a …
Fusilier Lee Rigby is murdered by 2 Islamic extremists in Woolwich, Southeast London
Interstate 5 (I-5) is an Interstate Highway on the West Coast of the United States that serves as the region's primary north–south route. It spans 277 miles (446 km) across the sta…
A freeway bridge carrying Interstate 5 over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington
A wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Turkey began on 28 May 2013, initially to contest the urban development plan for Istanbul's Gezi Park. The protests were sparked by out…
Start of the Gezi Park protests in Turkey