Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on December 13th!
| 1642 | Dutch navigator Abel Tasman arrived in present-day New Zealand. |
| 1769 | Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter. |
| 1789 | The National Guard is created in France. |
| 1812 | The last remnants of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grand Armeé reach the safety of Kovno, Poland, after the failed Russian campaign. |
| 1814 | General Andrew Jackson announces martial law in New Orleans, Louisiana, as British troops disembark at Lake Borne, 40 miles east of the city. |
| 1862 | The Battle of Fredericksburg ends with the bloody slaughter of onrushing Union troops at Marye’s Heights. |
| 1862 | Confederate forces dealt Union troops a major defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg in Virginia. |
| 1902 | The Committee of Imperial Defence holds its first meeting in London.  |
| 1908 | The Dutch take two Venezuelan Coast Guard ships. |
| 1937 | The Japanese army occupies Nanking, China. Boeing’s Trailblazing P-26 Peashooters. |
| 1940 | Adolf Hitler issues preparations for Operation Martita, the German invasion of Greece. |
| 1941 | British forces launch an offensive in Libya. A secret ear for the Desert Fox. |
| 1945 | France and Britain agree to quit Syria and Lebanon. |
| 1951 | After meeting with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, President Harry S Truman vows to purge all disloyal government workers.  |
| 1968 | President Lyndon B. Johnson and Mexico’s President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz meet on a bridge at El Paso, Texas, to officiate at ceremonies returning the long-disputed El Chamizal area to the Mexican side of the border. |
| 1972 | Astronaut Gene Cernan climbs into his lunar lander on the moon and prepares to lift off. He is the last man to set foot on the moon. |
| 1973 | Great Britain cuts the work week to three days to save energy. |
| 1981 | Polish labor leader Lech Walesa is arrested and the government decrees martial law, restricting civil rights and suspending operation of the independent trade union Solidarity. |
| 1985 | France sues the United States over the discovery of an AIDS serum. |
| 1988 | PLO chairman Yasser Arafat addressed the U.N. General Assembly in Geneva, where it had reconvened after the United States refused to grant Arafat a visa to visit New York. |
| 1989 | South African President F.W. de Klerk met for the first time with imprisoned African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, at de Klerk’s office in Cape Town.  |
| 1996 | The U.N. Security Council chose Kofi Annan of Ghana to be the world body’s seventh secretary-general. |
| 2000 | Republican George W. Bush claimed the presidency 36 days after Election Day. |
| 2001 | The Pentagon released a captured videotape of Osama bin Laden in which the al-Qaida leader said the deaths and destruction achieved by the Sept. 11 attacks exceeded his “most optimistic” expectations. |
| 2001 | Five suspected Islamic militants killed nine people in an attack on India’s parliament before being killed themselves. |
| 2001 | President George W. Bush served formal notice that the United States was pulling out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia. |
| 2002 | Cardinal Bernard Law resigned as Boston archbishop because of the priest sex abuse scandal.  |
| 2003 | Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. forces while hiding in a hole under a farmhouse in Adwar, near his hometown of Tikrit. |
| 2007 | Shareholders of Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, approved a takeover by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. |
| 2007 | The Mitchell Report on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball was released, implicating seven MVPs and 31 All-Stars. |
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