WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER 2013
Find out what all happened January to September 2013

241 people die in a nightclub fire in the city of Santa Maria, Brazil. (27. January 2013)

A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others. (24. April 2013)

A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada. (8. February 2013)

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

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

400 km long Human chain called Catalan Way is organized by the Assemblea Nacional Catalana for the independence of Catalonia (11. September 2013)

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

Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead and about 20 civilians injured. (13. September 2013)

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

A gunman murders 13 people in a spree shooting in the village of Velika Ivanča, Serbia. (9. 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)

The new eastern span of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opened to traffic, being the widest bridge in the world. (2. September 2013)

Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage. (30. May 2013)

The riots between two religious communities started at Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India. (27. August 2013)

Three women missing for more than a decade are found alive in the U.S. city of Cleveland, Ohio, while a 52-year-old man, Ariel Castro, is taken into custody. (6. May 2013)

At least 60 people are killed and 200 injured in a stampede after celebrations at Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. (1. January 2013)

A gunman kills twelve people at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. (16. September 2013)

The United Nations mission MINUSMA begins its operative mandate in Mali. (1. July 2013)

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