History for September 13 - On-This-Day.com
Walter Reed 1851, Milton S. Hershey 1857, John Pershing 1860
J.B. Priestley 1894, Claudette Colbert 1905, Roald Dahl 1916
1759 - The French were defeated by the British on the Plains of Abraham in the final French and Indian War.
1788 - The Constitutional Convention decided that the first federal election was to be held on Wednesday the following February. On that day George Washington was elected as the first president of the United States. In addition, New York City was named the temporary national capital.
1789 - The United States Government took out its first loan.
1847 - U.S. forces took the hill Chapultepec during the Mexican-American War.
1922 - In El Azizia, Libya, the highest shade temperature was recorded at 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
1935 - Aviator Howard Hughes, Jr., of Houston, set a new airspeed record of 352 mph with his H-1 airplane (Winged Bullet).
1948 - Republican Margaret Chase Smith was elected to the U.S. Senate and became the first woman to serve in both houses of the U.S. Congress.
1971 - In New York, National Guardsmen stormed the Attica Correctional Facility and put an end to the four-day revolt. A total of 43 people were killed in the final assault. A committee was organized to investigate the riot on September 30, 1971.
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