What happend on 13th December

12.12
14.12
1978

The first Susan B. Anthony dollar enters circulation

1977

A United States government DC-3 crashes after takeoff at Evansville, Indiana, killing 29, including the University of Evansville basketball team

1974

Malta becomes a republic

1973

Rael, leader of the Raelian Movement meets an ET named Yahweh, during a UFO encounter in Puy de Lassolas,France.

1972

A chartered Spanish airliner crashes on takeoff from the Canary Islands, killing 155

1959

Archbishop Makarios becomes the first President of Cyprus

1949

The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem

1939

The Battle of the River Plate, the first major naval battle of World War II, begins.

1938

100 deportees from Sachsenhausen build the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg

1937

Battle of Nanjing concludes with the Japanese victory and the fall of the city which became the site of the Nanjing Massacre