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2013 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2013th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 13th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2010s decade.
July 10 – With still two years until its closest approach, NASA's New Horizons team releases the spacecraft's first high resolution view of the Pluto/Charon dwarf planet system. [206] July 11 – Sharknado airs for the first time on Syfy. [207] July 12 – 648 counts are added to the previous 329 counts, for 977 total, against the Cleveland ...
Business and economy 2012–2013 Cypriot financial crisis: President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades says the island has no intention of abandoning the euro, despite the tough conditions imposed by its 10 billion euro bailout deal with the European Union and International Monetary Fund. (BBC) Disasters and accidents Dar es Salaam building collapse: At least 36 are killed and around 25 more are ...
International relations 2013 Korean crisis: BBC says that an edition of Panorama filmed secretly on a university study trip to North Korea will be broadcast, despite claims by the London School of Economics that students may have been put in danger. (BBC) North Korea suggests that it is open to peaceful negotiations, on the condition that its status as a nuclear power is not challenged. (RT ...
Law and crime Former fugitive Malcolm Naden is given a life sentence and some for two murders in the Australian state of New South Wales. (Sydney Morning Herald) Won Sei-hoon, former head of South Korea's National Intelligence Service is indicted on charges of interfering in last year's presidential election. (AP) Four people are shot, leaving three critically injured, when Earnest Moore, 39 ...
Business and economy China begins a major effort to boost its economic growth with business tax breaks and export liberalization, amid an increasing industrial slowdown. (BBC) Disasters and accidents Santiago de Compostela derailment: Mariano Rajoy, the Prime Minister of Spain, declares three days of national mourning for the 78 people killed in the derailment, Spain's worst train accident ...
Disasters and accidents Flash floods and heavy rains sweep across central Texas, United States, killing 2 people. (AP via Fox News) Law and crime 2013 Los Angeles International Airport shooting: A gunman opens fire at Los Angeles International Airport, killing a US Transportation Security Administration employee, and wounding several other people. It prompts a terminal evacuation. (NBC Los ...
Business and economy Google removes a privacy feature from its Android mobile software, despite objections from groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation. (Reuters) Disasters and accidents 2013 Middle East cold snap The storm spreads to Egypt with some Cairo suburbs seeing snowfall. Local news reports claimed it was the capital's first snowfall in 112 years. Night temperatures are ...