September 13 spans 59 recorded events across recorded history, from 585 BC to 2013. Below is a curated digest of the most significant moments tied to this date. 1948 — Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate. By thisDay.info Editorial Team · September 13 — Wikipedia More major events on September 13 The featured story and these ranked highlights form a quick summary. Every recorded event remains available in the chronology below. 1788 The Congress of the Confederation sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital. Source 1933 Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament. Source In 1948, Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate. This featured entry focuses on the immediate decision and its direct historical impact. Margaret Madeline Chase Smith was an American politician. This helps explain why the event mattered beyond the initial announcement. A member of the Republican Party, she served as a U.S. This clarifies the institutional and public response around the event. She was the first woman to serve in both houses of the U.S. This shows how the event shaped policy and public communication in the same period. A Republican, she was among the first to criticize the tactics of Joseph McCarthy in her 1950 speech "Declaration of Conscience". This helps explain why the event mattered beyond the initial announcement. Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia. The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September. Khosrow I becomes king of the Sassanid Empire following the death of his father Kavad I. Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimum, near Carthage, North Africa. Consecration of pope Sabinian following the death of pope Gregory I earlier that year. Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii: Mongolia. Battle of Tangier: a Portuguese expeditionary force initiates a failed attempt to seize the Moroccan citadel of Tangier. Pedro Álvares Cabral and his Portuguese fleet arrive in Calicut, having crossed both the Atlantic and Indian Ocean. Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him – the Hudson River. Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Scottish Royalists are defeated by Covenanters at the Battle of Philiphaugh. Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms. Battle of the Plains of Abraham: the British defeat the French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War. American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar. The Congress of the Confederation sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital. King Louis XVI accepts the new French constitution. Beethoven's Mass in C major, Op. Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero. War of 1812: A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows. In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore. The Greek Army rebels (OS date: September 3) against the autocratic rule of king Otto of Greece, demanding the granting of a constitution. Mexican–American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives an iron rod 1+1⁄4 inches (3.2 cm) in diameter being driven through his brain; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate discussion of the nature of the brain and its functions. American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. The Basuto Gun War breaks out after the Basuto launch a rebellion against the Cape Colony.

Anglo-Egyptian War: English forces defeat the Egyptian army in the battle of Tel el-Kebir. Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film. Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m – 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya. Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War. The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe. The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences. Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship. Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament. World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. World War II: Start of the Battle of Meligalas between the Greek Resistance forces of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) and the collaborationist security battalions. Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel orders the Army to move into Hyderabad to integrate it with the Indian Union. Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage. The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed. An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university. South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh. Martin Luther King Jr. Cold War: Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact. State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt, which claimed 43 lives. Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees China after the failure of an alleged coup. South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa). Spantax Flight 995 crashes at Málaga Airport during a rejected takeoff, killing 50 of the 394 people on board. Super Mario Bros. A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes Kalamata, Greece with a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing at least 20 and causing heavy damage in the city. Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning. Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure). Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy. A German Air Force Tupolev Tu-154 and a United States Air Force Lockheed C-141 Starlifter collide in mid-air near Namibia, killing 33. Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks. The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. The McLaren F1 team are found guilty of possessing confidential information from the Ferrari team, fined $100 million, and excluded from the constructors' championship standings. Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries. 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. History runs on facts, and this project runs on coffee! Your support is incredibly helpful and genuinely appreciated.