WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO APRIL 2013
Find out what all happened January to April 2013

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicates and Willem-Alexander becomes King of the Netherlands. (30. April 2013)

SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashes near the Kazakh city of Almaty, killing 21 people. (29. January 2013)

An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others. (17. April 2013)

Funeral of The Rt. Hon Margaret Thatcher. Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. (17. April 2013)

The largest meteorite (since NASA started observing the moon in 2005) hit the moon. (17. March 2013)

An estimated 41 international workers are taken hostage in an attack in the town of In Aménas, Algeria. (16. January 2013)

One French soldier and 17 militants are killed in a failed attempt to free a French hostage in Bulo Marer, Somalia. (11. January 2013)

Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing 3 people and injuring 264 others. (15. April 2013)

More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan. (10. January 2013)

A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town in Quetta, Pakistan, kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others. (16. February 2013)

Boston Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is captured while hiding in a boat inside a backyard in Watertown, Massachusetts. (19. April 2013)

A hot-air balloon crashes near Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 people. (26. February 2013)

A train carrying Egyptian Army recruits derails near Giza, Greater Cairo, killing 19 and injuring 120 others. (15. January 2013)

A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing more than 150 people and injuring thousands. (20. April 2013)

A wave of bombings across Iraq kills 75 people and injures approximately 356 others. (15. April 2013)

A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14. (15. February 2013)

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, the strongest in the country in 40 years, killing at least 35 people. (16. April 2013)

Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival. (10. February 2013)

Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church becoming the first pope to do so since 1415. (28. February 2013)

A gunman kills eight people in a house-to-house rampage in Kawit, the Philippines. (4. January 2013)