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Events on September 13

• 1584 The largest Renaissance building in the world, the Royal Site of San Lorenzo de El Escorial in Spain, is completed.
• 1845 In Ireland, the occurrence of potato blight is observed for the first time. The resulting poor harvests trigger the Great Famine.
• 1911 On her 25th birthday, Melli Beese completes the prescribed circuits and maneuvers in a Rumpler Taube to obtain a pilot's license and then receives the “aircraft pilot's license” as the first woman in Germany.
• 1925 In Halle (Saale), the first international field handball match between Germany and Austria takes place. The match ends 3:6 in favor of Austria.
• 1950 In the Federal Republic of Germany, the first census is conducted. A population of 47.3 million people is determined.
• 1955 In Moscow, negotiations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Soviet Union end with an agreement on the repatriation of the last 9628 German prisoners of war and the resumption of diplomatic relations. Decree on the dissolution of special settlements or command posts for Russian Germans.
• 1959 The Soviet space probe Luna 2 impacts the Moon as the first artificial spacecraft.
• 1985 In Japan, the video game Super Mario Bros. is released by the Japanese company Nintendo.
• 1990 The Federal Republic of Germany and the USSR sign a cooperation and non-aggression treaty. For the withdrawal of the Red Army from the GDR by 1994, the USSR receives 13 billion DM (6.6 billion euros).
• 1991 The first episode of the American animated television series The Simpsons is broadcast in Germany.
• 1993 The Oslo I Agreement is signed by Jitzchak Rabin and Jassir Arafat in Washington.
• 2004 Amélie Mauresmo becomes the first French tennis player to reach the top of the WTA world rankings.

Born on September 13

• 1874 Arnold Schönberg, Austrian composer
• 1892 Viktoria Luise von Preußen, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg
• 1894 John Boynton Priestley, British writer
• 1901 Friedel Nowack, German actress
• 1940 Óscar Arias Sánchez, President of Costa Rica, Nobel laureate
• 1941 Knut Kiesewetter, German singer, songwriter and trombonist
• 1971 Goran Ivanišević, Croatian tennis player
• 1971 Stella McCartney, British fashion designer
• 1993 Niall Horan, Irish singer (One Direction)
• 1993 Alice Merton, German singer-songwriter

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

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