WHAT HAPPENED ON 13. SEPTEMBER
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Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives a 3-foot (0.91 m)-plus iron rod being driven through his head; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions. (13. September 1848)

First ascent of Piz Bernina, the highest summit of the eastern Alps. (13. September 1850)

American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam. (13. September 1862)

The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War. (13. September 1882)

Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film. (13. September 1898)

Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident. (13. September 1899)

Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m – 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya. (13. September 1899)

Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War. (13. September 1900)

First flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe. (13. September 1906)

World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station. (13. September 1914)

World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France. (13. September 1914)

The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences. (13. September 1922)

Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship. (13. September 1923)

Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament. (13. September 1933)

Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the International Railway (New York – Ontario). (13. September 1935)

World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Imperial Japanese Army with heavy losses for the Japanese forces. (13. September 1942)

The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe. (13. September 1943)

Deputy Primer Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel ordered the Army to move into the Hyderabad to integrate it with Indian Union. (13. September 1948)

Margaret Chase Smith is elected senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate. (13. September 1948)

Nikita Khrushchev is appointed secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. (13. September 1953)