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April 21 – Businessman Horacio Cartes wins the 2013 Paraguayan general election against Efraín Alegre. April 24 – The 2013 Savar building collapse, one of the worst industrial disasters in the world, kills 1,134 people in Bangladesh. [33] [34] April 30 – Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication ...
November 1 – 2013 Thai protests began. November 11 – The 19th yearly session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference began in Warsaw , Poland , lasting until 22 November 2013. [ 4 ]
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 ...
Disasters and accidents 2013 Houphouët-Boigny stampede: At least 60 people are killed and more than 200 injured in a stampede during a New Year's fireworks celebration near the Stade Félix Houphouët-Boigny in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. (BBC) (CNN) (Reuters) Royal Dutch Shell's drilling rig Kulluk drifts aground near Sitkalidak Island, Alaska, after breaking loose from the anchor handling tug ...
Uncertainties Push Oil Higher The Algeria hostage crisis shows how little it takes in the terms of geopolitical events to cause a spike in oil prices. As problems in the Middle East simmer, along ...
If you're following the 3-D printing space, you might know that 2013 was the year that 3-D printing moved beyond a techie and Wall Street topic to capture the attention and investing dollars of ...
HSBC Job Cuts The restructuring of the financial services industry, which has ranged from 30,000 layoffs at Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) to cuts at Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) and Barclays PLC ...
At the 2013 World Baseball Classic, a bench-clearing brawl between Canada and Mexico breaks out after Canada bunts with a 9–3 lead in the ninth inning. (Toronto Star) Panamanian pitcher Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees, MLB's all-time saves leader, announces he will retire at the end of the 2013 Major League Baseball season.