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7 March – World Book Day becomes a UNESCO-designated event marked in more than 100 countries. [3] April – J. K. Rowling publishes a detective novel, The Cuckoo's Calling, under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, with the U.K. publisher Sphere Books. The author's identity is revealed by the media in July. [4] 23 April – World Book Night. [3]
The following list ranks the number-one best selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-books category. [1] The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was Inferno by Dan Brown with 6 weeks at the top of the list, followed closely by The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith with 5 weeks.
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.
Alabama defeats Notre Dame, 42–14. [13] January 9. In baseball, no living candidates are elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame for the first time since 1996. Some candidates, such as Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, receive few votes due to allegations of steroid use. [14]
Politics and elections Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush is released from The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, after more than seven weeks of treatment for bronchitis. (Reuters) Sport Spanish football club Sevilla fires coach Míchel due to a poor run in the 2012–13 La Liga season and replaces him with Unai Emery. (Goal.com) In tennis, 2013 Australian Open begins today in ...
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A list of essential books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the history of Gaza help explain how it became a flashpoint and a target. (Said Khatib / AFP via Getty Images)
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 ...