Tageskalender vom 13 September

Es passierte an einem 13 September

1956 : First Hard Drive On September 13, 1956, IBM introduced the first hard drive. Its name is IBM 305 and it contains 5 megabytes of data. 55 years later, an average hard disk has a capacity of 1 million times greater.
1971 : End of the riot at Attica prison in New York On September 13, 1971, an assault by the police ended, in a bloody way, four days of riots in Attica prison in western New York. 29 prisoners and 10 hostages were killed and 80 others were seriously injured. The prisoners demanded better conditions of detention in the overcrowded maximum security prison.
1987 : Nuclear accident in Brazil On September 13, 1987, an object of radiotherapy in an old abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, is taken and handled by different people. The small container of highly radioactive Cesium contaminated 245 people and killed 4 of them.
1993 : Signing of a Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement in Washington On September 13, 1993, at the White House during a ceremony presided over by Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat signed an agreement which marked the start of a Palestinian autonomy and provided the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and part of the West Bank. To everyone's amazement, the two men even shaked hands. This agreement was acted upon but the extremists on both sides did everything to sabotage the peace process and in 1995, Rabin was assassinated.

Yitzhak Rabin
Give peace a chance.

Clara Schumann, German pianist (1819)
John J. Pershing, American general (1860)
Arthur Henderson, English politician, Nobel Peace Prize (1863)
Robert Robinson, English chemist, Nobel Laureate (1886)
Leopold Ruička, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1887)
J. B. Priestley, English novelist (1894)
Claudette Colbert, American actress (1903)
Roald Dahl, English writer (1916)
Maurice Jarre, French composer (1924)
Barbara Bain, American actress (1931)
Richard Kiel, American actor (1939)
Oscar Arias, Costa Rican politician, Nobel Peace Prize (1940)
Jacqueline Bisset, English actress (1944)
Randy Jones, American singer (Village People) (1952)
Alain Ducasse, Monégasque chef (1956)
Michael Johnson, American athlete (1967)
Stella McCartney, English fashion designer (1971)
Goran Ivaniević, Croatian tennis player (1971)
Christine Arron, French athlete (1973)
Fabio Cannavaro, Italian footballer (1973)
Ben Savage, American actor (1980)
James Bourne, English singer (1983)
Kamui Kobayashi, Japanese racing driver (1986)

Michel de Montaigne, French writer (1592)
James Wolfe, English general (1759)
Nicolas Oudinot, French Marshal (1848)
Leopold Stokowski, American conductor (1977)
Mervyn LeRoy, American director (1987)
Joe Pasternak, American producer (1991)
Georges Guétary, French singer (1997)
Dorothy McGuire, American actress (2001)
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