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Only if a month begins on a Sunday will there be Friday the 13th in it.
Turning back the clock to December 13 happenings
1294 Saint Celestine V resigns after just five months after becoming pope, saying he wants to return to his humble life as a hermit.
1642 Dutch navigator Abel Tasman discovers the land of the long white cloud, New Zealand.
1880 After repeated attempts to have the annexation of the Transvaal revoked, a meeting at Paardekraal resolves to restore the Republic, starting the Transvaal War of Independence, or First Anglo-Boer War.
1916 The first 2 000 of 10 000 troops are killed by avalanches on White Friday – one of the bloodiest days of the Battle of the Dolomites. The little-known but fierce campaign, the White War, was fought in the Alpine sector of the Italian front of World War I.
1937 Nanjing (Nanking) falls and it brings one of the worst atrocities of World War II. Over the next six weeks Japanese soldiers attack, rape and kill about 200 000 people.
1939 The German raider and pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee engages the Allied cruisers HMS Exeter, Ajax and HMNZS Achilles in the Battle of the River Plate, off Rio de Janerio.
1957 Jerry Lee Lewis 22, one of the big stars of the early rock ’n’ roll years, ‘marries’ the daughter of his cousin – a union that caused a storm of outrage because he had been married twice and his latest wife was just 13. In 2012, he took Judith Brown for his seventh wife.
1964 US and Mexican presidents Lyndon Johnson and Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting the Rio Grande, to reshape the US-Mexico border.
2003 Found hiding in a hole, on-the-run former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town, Tikrit.
2017 Scientists begin checking the interstellar asteroid Oumuamua for signs of alien life.
2022 New Zealand passes world’s first complete tobacco ban, outlawing smoking for those born after 2009.
2023 Researchers pinpoint possible cause of extreme morning sickness in pregnancy - low levels of the hormone GDF15.
2024 The Proteas beat Pakistan in the second T20 International by seven wickets at Centurion Park, with opener Reeza Hendricks scoring a century and the Proteas sealing the series 2-0 with a match to spare.
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