December 13
1642 - New Zealand was discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman.
1769 - Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter.
1862 - Confederate forces dealt Union troops a major defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg in Virginia.
1918 - President Woodrow Wilson arrived in France, becoming the first U.S. president to visit Europe while in office.
1978 - The U.S. Mint began stamping the Susan B. Anthony dollar, the first U.S. coin honoring a woman.
1981 - The Polish government imposed martial law in an attempt to crush the Solidarity movement.
1988 - PLO chairman Yasser Arafat addressed the U.N. General Assembly in Geneva, where it had reconvened after the United States refused to grant Arafat a visa to visit New York.
1989 - South African President F.W. de Klerk met for the first time with imprisoned African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, at de Klerk's office in Cape Town.
1996 - Kofi Annan of Ghana was chosen as the next U.N. secretary-general.
2000 - George W. Bush accepted the presidency 36 days after election; Vice President Al Gore conceded the race.
2001 - The Pentagon released a captured videotape of Osama bin Laden in which the al-Qaida leader said the deaths and destruction achieved by the Sept. 11 attacks exceeded his "most optimistic" expectations.
2001 - President George W. Bush served formal notice that the United States was pulling out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia.
2002 - Cardinal Bernard Law resigned as Boston archbishop because of the priest sex abuse scandal.
2003 - American forces captured Saddam Hussein who was hiding in a hole near his hometown of Tikrit.
2007 - Shareholders of Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, approved a takeover by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
Birthdays
23 - Jessica Revell (actress)
28 - Taylor Swift (singer)
29 - Rickie Fowler (golfer)
31 - Amanda Elise Lee (model)
36 - Amy Lee (singer)
50 - Jamie Foxx (actor)
50 - NeNe Leakes (reality star)
53 - Dorinda Medley (reality star)
60 - Steve Buscemi (actor)
69 - Ted Nugent (musician)
88 - Christopher Plummer (actor)
92 - Dick Van Dyke (actor)
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Today in Sports History - December 13
1922 - Charles Ebbets proposes putting numbers on baseball players' sleeves or caps.
1936 - Final Boston Redskins NFL game, lose to Green Bay Packers 21-6 in the NFL championship game, move to Washington D.C.
1942 - The Washington Redskins defeat the Chicago Bears 14-6 in the NFL championship game.
1956 - Brooklyn Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to New York Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield and $35,000; Robinson retires.
1966 - The rights to the first four Super Bowls were sold to CBS and NBC for a total of $9.5 million.
1967 - United Soccer Association and National Pro Soccer League merge into NASL.
1973 - Detroit became the first city to receive a franchise for the World Football League.
1977 - The University of Evansville men's basketball team is killed in a plane crash shortly after takeoff from Evansville, Indiana.
1983 - The Denver Nuggets and the visiting Detroit Pistons combine for an NBA record 370 points, with Detroit winning in triple overtime, 186-184.
1995 - Paul Coffey (Detroit Red Wings) became the first NHL defenseman to reach 1,000 career points.
1996 - Free agent Roger Clemens signs with Toronto Blue Jays.
1997 - Cornerback Charles Woodson of Michigan wins the Heisman Trophy.
1998 - Gary Anderson (Minnesota Vikings) kicked six field goals against Baltimore. In the game Anderson set an NFL record for 34 straight field goals without a miss.
1998 - Marshall Faulk set a new Colts record for total yards from scrimmage in a season with 2,090. The record had been held by Eric Dickerson with 2,036.
2007 - The Mitchell Report on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball was released, implicating seven MVPs and 31 All-Stars.
2010 - The New York Giants and Minnesota Vikings played at Detroit's Ford Field. The game was moved due to the collapse of the inflatable roof at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Mall of America Stadium the previous day.
1642 - New Zealand was discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman.
1769 - Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter.
1862 - Confederate forces dealt Union troops a major defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg in Virginia.
1918 - President Woodrow Wilson arrived in France, becoming the first U.S. president to visit Europe while in office.
1978 - The U.S. Mint began stamping the Susan B. Anthony dollar, the first U.S. coin honoring a woman.
1981 - The Polish government imposed martial law in an attempt to crush the Solidarity movement.
1988 - PLO chairman Yasser Arafat addressed the U.N. General Assembly in Geneva, where it had reconvened after the United States refused to grant Arafat a visa to visit New York.
1989 - South African President F.W. de Klerk met for the first time with imprisoned African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, at de Klerk's office in Cape Town.
1996 - Kofi Annan of Ghana was chosen as the next U.N. secretary-general.
2000 - George W. Bush accepted the presidency 36 days after election; Vice President Al Gore conceded the race.
2001 - The Pentagon released a captured videotape of Osama bin Laden in which the al-Qaida leader said the deaths and destruction achieved by the Sept. 11 attacks exceeded his "most optimistic" expectations.
2001 - President George W. Bush served formal notice that the United States was pulling out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia.
2002 - Cardinal Bernard Law resigned as Boston archbishop because of the priest sex abuse scandal.
2003 - American forces captured Saddam Hussein who was hiding in a hole near his hometown of Tikrit.
2007 - Shareholders of Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, approved a takeover by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
Birthdays
23 - Jessica Revell (actress)
28 - Taylor Swift (singer)
29 - Rickie Fowler (golfer)
31 - Amanda Elise Lee (model)
36 - Amy Lee (singer)
50 - Jamie Foxx (actor)
50 - NeNe Leakes (reality star)
53 - Dorinda Medley (reality star)
60 - Steve Buscemi (actor)
69 - Ted Nugent (musician)
88 - Christopher Plummer (actor)
92 - Dick Van Dyke (actor)
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Today in Sports History - December 13
1922 - Charles Ebbets proposes putting numbers on baseball players' sleeves or caps.
1936 - Final Boston Redskins NFL game, lose to Green Bay Packers 21-6 in the NFL championship game, move to Washington D.C.
1942 - The Washington Redskins defeat the Chicago Bears 14-6 in the NFL championship game.
1956 - Brooklyn Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to New York Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield and $35,000; Robinson retires.
1966 - The rights to the first four Super Bowls were sold to CBS and NBC for a total of $9.5 million.
1967 - United Soccer Association and National Pro Soccer League merge into NASL.
1973 - Detroit became the first city to receive a franchise for the World Football League.
1977 - The University of Evansville men's basketball team is killed in a plane crash shortly after takeoff from Evansville, Indiana.
1983 - The Denver Nuggets and the visiting Detroit Pistons combine for an NBA record 370 points, with Detroit winning in triple overtime, 186-184.
1995 - Paul Coffey (Detroit Red Wings) became the first NHL defenseman to reach 1,000 career points.
1996 - Free agent Roger Clemens signs with Toronto Blue Jays.
1997 - Cornerback Charles Woodson of Michigan wins the Heisman Trophy.
1998 - Gary Anderson (Minnesota Vikings) kicked six field goals against Baltimore. In the game Anderson set an NFL record for 34 straight field goals without a miss.
1998 - Marshall Faulk set a new Colts record for total yards from scrimmage in a season with 2,090. The record had been held by Eric Dickerson with 2,036.
2007 - The Mitchell Report on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball was released, implicating seven MVPs and 31 All-Stars.
2010 - The New York Giants and Minnesota Vikings played at Detroit's Ford Field. The game was moved due to the collapse of the inflatable roof at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Mall of America Stadium the previous day.
