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Events on December 13

• 1250 With the death of Frederick II, the interregnum begins in the Holy Roman Empire. The emperorless period lasts until the year 1273.
• 1577 Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth with the Pelican and four other ships on his circumnavigation of the world.
• 1810 By a decree of Napoleon Bonaparte, the North German coastal territories are annexed in order to increase the effectiveness of the Continental Blockade. Among other things, the Duchy of Oldenburg and the Hanseatic cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck become part of the French Empire.
• 1919 Marie Juchacz establishes Workers' Welfare in Germany under the name Main Committee for Workers' Welfare within the SPD.
• 1948 The Organization of Young Pioneers is founded in the Soviet occupation zone and is later renamed the Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organization.
• 1969 The first German feature-length animated film, The Animals' Conference, based on Erich Kästner's book of the same name, is released in West German cinemas.
• 1972 At the beginning of the 7th legislative term of the German Bundestag, Annemarie Renger becomes the first woman to serve as President of the Bundestag.
• 1972 Radio Bremen airs the first episode of the music show Musikladen, which was intended for a younger audience, on German television.
• 1981 General Wojciech Jaruzelski imposes martial law on Poland, which is to remain in effect until 22 July 1983. At the same time, the Solidarność trade union is banned.
• 1992 In Frankfurt am Main, the concert Heute die! Morgen du! takes place before more than 150,000 spectators in response to the right-wing extremist riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen and the murder attacks in Mölln. On the same evening, a candlelight march against right-wing terrorism is held in Hamburg.
• 2003 During the Iraq War, the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is found by the US military in a hole in the ground near his birthplace, Tikrit, and arrested.
• 2014 With the 215th episode, the broadcasting of Wetten, dass..?, Europe's largest television show, ends.

Born on December 13

• 1867 Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist
• 1911 Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1912 Lin Jaldati, Dutch singer and dancer, Holocaust survivor
• 1920 George Shultz, US-American politician
• 1940 Edith Clever, German actress
• 1940 Jutta Wachowiak, German actress
• 1953 Ben Bernanke, US-American economist
• 1962 Andreas Müller, German footballer
• 1970 Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, Austrian mountaineer
• 1981 Amy Lee, US-American singer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „13. Dezember“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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