73 events found for 2013
The Smithsonian announces the discovery of the olinguito, the first new carnivorous species found in the Americas in…
The ferry St. Thomas Aquinas collides with a cargo ship and sinks at Cebu, Philippines, killing 61 people with 59…
The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.
Hundreds of people are reported killed by chemical attacks in the Ghouta region of Syria.
A riot at the Palmasola prison complex in Santa Cruz, Bolivia kills 31 people.
The Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens at 10:15 pm at a cost of $6.4 billion,…
Forty-one elephants are poisoned with cyanide in salt pans, by poachers in Hwange National Park.
The first Minotaur V rocket is launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, carrying NASA's…
NASA confirms that its Voyager 1 probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space.
Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National…
A gunman kills twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.
Grand Theft Auto V earns more than half a billion dollars on its first day of release.
A VIA Rail train crashes into a double-decker bus at a train station in Ottawa, Canada, killing six people and…