WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO MAY 2013
Find out what all happened March to May 2013

More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina. (3. April 2013)

A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, Czech Republic, believed to have been caused by natural gas, injures 43 people. (29. April 2013)

27 people are killed and more than 30 injured, when a tanker truck crashes and explodes outside Mexico City. (7. May 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)

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

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

At least 46 people are killed by a pair of car bombs in Reyhanlı, Turkey. (11. May 2013)

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declares a state of emergency in the northeast states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa due to the terrorist activities of Boko Haram. (14. May 2013)

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

The Freedom Tower becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. (10. May 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)

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

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 EF5 tornado strikes outside Oklahoma City killing 24 people and injuring 377 others. (20. May 2013)

The Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington. (23. May 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)

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

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

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