WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO AUGUST 2013
Find out what all happened January to August 2013

At least 42 people are killed in a shooting at a school in Yobe State, Nigeria. (6. July 2013)

More than 70 people are killed in a building collapse in Thane, India. (4. April 2013)

Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani becomes the 8th Emir of Qatar. (25. June 2013)

A powerful EF5 tornado devastates El Reno, Oklahoma, killing nine people, and become the widest tornado in recorded history, with an astounding diameter of 2.6 miles (4.2 km). (31. May 2013)

The asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries. (31. May 2013)

The ferry MV Thomas Aquinas collides with a cargo ship and sinks at Cebu, Philippines, killing 61 people and 59 others missing. (16. August 2013)

Philippe of Belgium becomes King of the Belgians (21. July 2013)

A 6.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Aceh, Indonesia, killing at least 42 people and injuring 420 others. (2. July 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)

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

Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India. (25. May 2013)

Two bomb blasts in Hyderabad, India, kill at least 17 people and injure more than 100 others. (21. February 2013)

Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union. (1. July 2013)

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

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

An upsurge in violence in Iraq leaves more than 389 people dead over three days. (15. May 2013)

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

A suicide bomber kills 15 and injures 20 in a Shi'ite mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. (21. June 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)

A series of earthquakes in Dingxi, China, kills at least 89 people and injures more than 500 others. (22. July 2013)