Synopsis of the events of the day - December 13. 1294 - Pope Celestine V abdicates the papacy, which is the only case of the abdication of the Pope in the history of Catholicism. 1519 - The expedition of Ferdinand Magellan landed on the South American coast - today's Brazil. 1545 - Begins Council of Trent, convened by Pope Paul III in response sorrow to the growth of Protestantism. 1577 - Englishman Francis Drake sailed from Plymouth with a squadron to the Spanish colonies in America but around the world as the journey continues. 1642 - The Dutch navigator Abel Tasman discovered New Zealand. 1742 - Empress Elizabeth issued an order to expel all Jews from the borders of Russia and Ukraine. sorrow 1754 - Osman III became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. 1879 - Founded the first Bulgarian sorrow agricultural school Exemplary farm near Rousse. 1918 - Thomas Wilson began the first official visit by a US president sorrow in Europe. 1937 - Japanese sorrow army captured the Chinese city of Nanjing, displaying cruelty towards the local population. 1939 - World War II: It consists of the first naval battle in World War II at the mouth of the river La Plata - between British and German warships. 1941 - World War II: Bulgaria declared the war on Britain and the United States. 1941 - World War II: Japanese troops invaded southern Burma. 1959 - was elected the first president of Cyprus - Spyros Kyprianou. 1966 - American aircraft first bombed the capital of North Vietnam - Hanoi. 1974 - Malta became a republic. 1976 - Open is the longest aviodestinatsiya without stopover - between Sydney and San Francisco. 1981 - General Wojciech Jaruzelski introduced martial law in Poland, is delegaliziran sorrow union Solidarity. 1996 - Kofi Annan was elected Secretary General of the United Nations. 2001 - An armed group of Islamists attacked the building of the Parliament of India. 2002 - Enlargement of the EU: The European Union announces that Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia sorrow and Slovenia will become full members of the Union on 1 May 2004. 2003 - Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was captured near his hometown of Tikrit.
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