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Day Of The Week: December 13

December 13, 2025 is the 347th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 18 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Sagittarius is your zodiac sign. Turquoise is your modern birthstone. Onyx is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: December 13
- 1577 –Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.
- 1769 –Dartmouth College is founded by the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, with a Royal Charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal Governor John Wentworth.
- 1937 –Nanjing Massacre. Japanese troops begin carrying out several weeks of raping and killing of civilians and suspected Chinese resistance after the fall of Nanjing.
- 1968 –Brazilian president Artur da Costa e Silva decrees the AI-5 (or the fifth Institutional Act), which lasts until 1978 and marks the beginning of the hard times of Brazilian military dictatorship.
- 1972 –Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or “Moonwalk” of Apollo 17. To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon.
- 1977 –A DC-3 aircraft chartered from the Indianapolis-based National Jet crashes near Evansville Regional Airport, killing 29, including the University of Evansville basketball team, support staff and boosters of the team.
- 1981 –General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland to prevent dismantling of the communist system by Solidarity.
- 1989 –Attack on Derryard checkpoint: The Provisional Irish Republican Army launch an attack on a British Army nonpermanent vehicle checkpoint near Rosslea, Northern Ireland. Two British soldiers are killed and one badly wounded.
- 2000 –The “Texas 7” escape from the John Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas and go on a robbery spree, during which police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot and killed.
- 2003 –Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit (see Operation Red Dawn).
Who were born on December 13?
- 1585 –William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (d. 1649)
- 1640 –Robert Plot, English naturalist (d. 1696)
- 1784 –Archduke Louis of Austria (d. 1864)
- 1915 –B. J. Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa 1966-1978 (d. 1983)
- 1917 –John Hart, American actor (d. 2009)
- 1944 –Marti Webb, British actor and singer
- 1953 –Ben Bernanke, American economist and current United States Chairman of the Federal Reserve
- 1962 –Kendra Slewenski, English netballer
- 1978 –Olav Bjortomt, British quiz champion
- 1982 –Anthony Callea, Australian singer/songwriter
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