WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO JUNE 2013
Find out what all happened February to June 2013

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Japan last reactor is shut down at midnight. (20. 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)

Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation from the papacy, the first pontiff to resign in more than half a millennium. (11. February 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)

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

Pope Francis is elected in the papal conclave to succeed Pope Benedict XVI. (13. March 2013)

A gas cylinder explodes on a school bus in the Pakistani city of Gujrat, killing at least 17 children and injuring 7 others. (25. May 2013)

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

Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope. (23. June 2013)

NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun. (27. June 2013)

British soldier Lee Rigby was murdered in a London Street during a terrorist attack. (22. May 2013)

At least 37 people are killed and 850 are injured when a 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes the Iranian province of Bushehr. (9. April 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)

19 firefighters die controlling a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona. (30. June 2013)

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

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

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)

The Shard, the tallest building in the European Union, is opened to the public. (1. February 2013)

A suicide bomber kills 15 and injures 20 in a Shi'ite mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. (21. June 2013)