December 13 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for December 13
In the headlines today:

2003	Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is arrested in a farmhouse near his hometown of Tikrit. Hussein had been in hiding since the Allied liberation began the previous March 20.
2003	Opera singer Luciano Pavarotti marries his producer Nicoletta Mantovani in the singer's hometown of Modena, Italy.
1999	Brazil's second effort to launch an earth satellite fails when the second stage of the rocket booster doesn't ignite; the rocket is destroyed three minutes after launch.
1978	Production of the Susan B. Anthony US dollar coin begins.
1961	American primitive artist Grandma Moses dies at age 101.
1947	The Maine Turnpike officially opens to traffic.
1941	Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria, during WWII.
1928	The George Gershwin musical, An American in Paris, premieres at Carnegie Hall in New York.
1924	Actor Clark Gable marries his acting coach, Josephine Dillon.
1918	Woodrow Wilson becomes the first US president to visit France while in office. (photo credit: NARA)
1819	The town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is incorporated.
1769	New Hampshire's Dartmouth College receives its charter from King George III of England.
1642	Dutch explorer Abel Tasman discovers New Zealand.
1557	Explorer Sir Francis Drake leaves England to sail around the world.