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2013 in the United States

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Events in the year 2013 in the United States.

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Events

= January =

File:Japan Airlines 787.jpg: The grounded Japan Airlines 787 at Boston Logan Airport]]

File:President Barack Obama, 2012 portrait crop.jpg, the 44th president of the United States, begins his second term.]]

File:Joe Biden official portrait 2013 (cropped) 3.jpg, the 47th vice president of the United States, begins his second term.]]

  • January 1
  • New laws that go into effect on January 1:
  • Maryland's voter-approved same-sex marriage law goes into effect.{{cite web|url=http://www.equalitymaryland.org/2012/11/8/we-won-marriage-now-wh |title=We Won Marriage – Now What? Answers to Your Questions |publisher=Equality Maryland |date=2012-11-08 |access-date=2013-01-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130214072307/http://www.equalitymaryland.org/2012/11/8/we-won-marriage-now-wh |archive-date=2013-02-14 }}
  • Performing a "wheelie" on a motorcycle is banned in Illinois.{{cite web|first=Maryalice|last=Aymong |url=http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/01/02/the-wackiest-laws-enacted-in-2013/ |title=The wackiest laws enacted in 2013 — MSNBC |website=Tv.msnbc.com |date=2013-01-03 |access-date=2013-01-29}}
  • Illinois bans the sale of shark fins.{{cite web|url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/political-fix/illinois-laws-feature-shark-fin-ban-internet-privacy-and-texting/article_7c03c5a9-71f0-5cbd-9449-19513501923a.html |title=Illinois laws feature shark fin ban, Internet privacy and texting safety |website=Stltoday.com |date=2012-12-31 |access-date=2013-01-29}}
  • The Senate approves a deal to avert general tax hikes and spending cuts known as the "fiscal cliff".{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20880755|title=US Senate passes 'fiscal cliff' deal to avoid tax rises|work=BBC News|access-date=July 16, 2016|date=January 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fiscal-idUSBRE8A80WV20130101|title=House Republicans balk at fiscal cliff deal|date=January 1, 2013|publisher=Reuters|access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-to-vote-on-senate-passed-fiscal-crisis-bill-despite-conservative-qualms|title=House to vote on Senate-passed fiscal crisis bill, despite conservative qualms |publisher=Fox News|date=January 1, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • January 2 – President Barack Obama signs the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, intended to prevent the "fiscal cliff".{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/03/fiscal-cliff-obama_n_2398544.html|title=The Huffington Post|website=HuffPost}}
  • January 3 – Subaru issues a recall for nearly 634,000 vehicles in the U.S. due to a lighting problem.{{cite web|url=http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130103/AUTO0104/301030407/1361/Subaru-recalls-633-000-vehicles-for-fire-risks|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130215203801/http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130103/AUTO0104/301030407/1361/Subaru-recalls-633-000-vehicles-for-fire-risks|url-status=dead|title=Subaru recalls 633,000 vehicles for fire risks - The Detroit News - d…|date=February 15, 2013|archive-date=February 15, 2013}}
  • January 4 – Congress officially declares President Obama the winner of the 2012 presidential election.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}}
  • January 6 – In ice hockey, the National Hockey League and the National Hockey League Players' Association reach an agreement that ends the 113-day lockout and averts the cancellation of the 2012–13 season.{{cite web|url=http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2013/01/06/1403661/breaking-down-the-deal-that-ended-the-national-hockey-league-lockout/?mobile=nc|title=Breaking Down The Deal That Ended The National Hockey League Lockout|publisher=ThinkProgress|access-date=July 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304111128/http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2013/01/06/1403661/breaking-down-the-deal-that-ended-the-national-hockey-league-lockout/?mobile=nc|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}
  • January 7
  • For $8.5 billion, ten banks settle to stop mortgage foreclosure process audits. The United States government regulators had been engaged in a loan-by-loan review of home loan practices during the Great Recession. Bank of America, Citigroup Inc, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Wells Fargo & Co, MetLife Bank, Aurora Bank FSB, PNC Financial Services Group Inc, Sovereign Bank NA, SunTrust Banks Inc, and U.S. Bancorp settle with regulators to pay out cash up to $125,000 to homeowners whose homes were being foreclosed when the paperwork problems emerged. Further, Bank of America agrees to pay $11.6 billion to government mortgage finance company Fannie Mae.[http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2013/01/07/bank-america-other-banks-move-closer-to-ending-mortgage-mess/ Bank of America, other banks move closer to ending mortgage mess] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130216021528/http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2013/01/07/bank-america-other-banks-move-closer-to-ending-mortgage-mess/ |date=2013-02-16 }}
  • 2013 BCS National Championship Game: Number one ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish plays number two ranked Alabama Crimson Tide at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida.{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=323360061|title=Alabama vs. Georgia - Game Recap - December 1, 2012 - ESPN|access-date=July 16, 2016}} Alabama defeats Notre Dame, 42–14.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/jan/08/alabama-notre-dame-national-championship-live

|title= BCS National Championship: Alabama vs. Notre Dame—as it happened|date=January 8, 2013|work=Guardian UK|access-date=January 8, 2013|location=London|first=Michael|last=Solomon}}

  • January 9
  • In baseball, no living candidates are elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame for the first time since 1996. Some candidates, such as Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, receive few votes due to allegations of steroid use.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/10/sports/baseball/no-players-elected-to-baseball-hall-of-fame.html|title=Bonds (and Everyone) Strikes Out|date=January 10, 2013|work=The New York Times|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • Retired British businessman Christopher Tappin is sentenced to 33 months in prison by a U.S. court after pleading guilty to selling weapon parts to Iran.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20959319|title=Christopher Tappin sentenced to 33 months in US arms case|work=BBC News|access-date=July 16, 2016|date=2013-01-09}}
  • January 10 – 85th Academy Awards: Nominations are announced at Samuel Goldwyn Theater. The Best Picture nominees are Amour, Argo, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Django Unchained, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Les Misérables, Silver Linings Playbook, and Zero Dark Thirty.{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/press/presskits/nominations/pdf/85/85aa-nominations-announcement.pdf |title=85th Oscar Nominations Announced |publisher=Oscars |access-date=2013-01-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124031118/http://www.oscars.org/press/presskits/nominations/pdf/85/85aa-nominations-announcement.pdf |archive-date=2013-01-24 }}
  • January 12 – Mallory Hagan, Miss New York 2012, wins the 86th Miss America pageant.{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/12/mallory-hagan-miss-america-2013_n_2465292.html |title=Mallory Hagan, Miss New York, Wins Miss America 2013 Title (PHOTOS) |website=Huffingtonpost.com |date=2013-01-14 |access-date=2013-01-29}}
  • January 14 – Mike Pence is sworn in as the 50th governor of Indiana, replacing Mitch Daniels.{{cite news |first=Dan |last=Carden |url=http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/pence-sworn-in-as-indiana-s-th-governor/article_f2983b08-d136-509c-930b-6c8c62c81e65.html |title=Pence sworn in as Indiana's 50th governor |work=The Times of Northwest Indiana |date=January 14, 2013 }}
  • January 15
  • New York becomes the first state to pass a law relating to guns since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The new law bans possession of high-capacity magazines, requires a state-registry for assault-class weapons, and requires background checks.{{cite web|url=http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/15/16515653-new-york-passes-major-gun-control-law-first-since-newtown-massacre?lite |title=New York passes major gun control law - first since Newtown massacre - U.S. News |website=Usnews.nbcnews.com |date=2012-10-24 |access-date=2013-01-29}}
  • The Associated Press reports that the road cyclist Lance Armstrong has admitted to doping in his career during his interview with Oprah Winfrey.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/lance-armstrong-admits-doping-in-oprah-winfrey-interview-ap-reports/2013/01/14/a635a424-5eaf-11e2-9940-6fc488f3fecd_story.html|title=Lance Armstrong admits doping in Oprah Winfrey interview, AP reports|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • January 16 – Boeing 787 aircraft are grounded worldwide over concerns about the safety of their lithium-ion batteries.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21054089|title=Dreamliner: Boeing 787 planes grounded on safety fears|work=BBC News|access-date=July 16, 2016|date=2013-01-17}}{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/boeing-787-easa-idUSL6N0AM0E020130117|title=European safety agency to ground 787 in line with FAA|date=January 17, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016|newspaper=Reuters}}{{cite web|url=http://business.time.com/2013/01/17/lithium-batteries-central-to-boeings-787-woes/ |title=Not Found - Business & Money |access-date=July 16, 2016 |via=business.time.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121223442/http://business.time.com/2013/01/17/lithium-batteries-central-to-boeings-787-woes/ |archive-date=January 21, 2013 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/business/faa-grounds-all-boeing-787s-over-safety-concerns-1B7991426|title=FAA grounds all Boeing 787s over safety concerns|website=NBC News|date=January 16, 2013 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/business/faa-orders-grounding-of-us-operated-boeing-787s.html|title=F.A.A. Grounds U.S.-Operated Boeing 787s|date=January 17, 2013|work=The New York Times|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • January 18 – Ray Nagin, who was the Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana, when Hurricane Katrina killed 1,577 Louisianan people (most of whom drowned), is indicted on 21 different counts including fraud, embezzlement, money laundering, bribery, and tax evasion.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21092346|title=New Orleans ex-mayor Ray Nagin indicted|work=BBC News|access-date=July 16, 2016|date=2013-01-18}}{{cite web|url=http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_NEW_ORLEANS_CORRUPTION|title=News from The Associated Press|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • January 20 – President Barack Obama begins his second term, being sworn in to office in the Blue Room of the White House.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21106159|title=Inauguration Day: Obama sworn in for second term|work=BBC News|access-date=July 16, 2016|date=2013-01-20}}{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-inauguration-sworn-idUSBRE90J0CU20130120|title=Obama sworn in for second term in White House ceremony|date=January 20, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016|newspaper=Reuters}}{{cite web|url=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/03/2013-inaugural-ceremony-to-be-pushed-back-a-day/1|title=2013 inaugural ceremony to be pushed back a day|access-date=July 16, 2016}} Vice President Joe Biden begins his second term, being sworn into office at his official residence.
  • January 21 – Second inaugural address: The public portion of President Obama's and Vice President Biden's second inaugural takes place in Washington, D.C., a day after they were officially sworn into office.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21115349|title=Inauguration: Barack Obama is sworn in for second term|work=BBC News|access-date=July 16, 2016|date=2013-01-21}}{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-inauguration-idUSBRE90I04I20130121|title=Confident Obama lays out battle plan as he launches second term|date=January 21, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016|newspaper=Reuters}}{{cite web|url=http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_INAUGURATION|title=News from The Associated Press|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • January 23 – Previously valued $2 billion video game company THQ sells most of its assets for $72 million after last month filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.{{cite news|last=Fritz |first=Ben |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-fi-ct-thq-auction-20130124,0,4551883.story |title=THQ bankruptcy auction closes; video game rivals pick up assets |website=Los Angeles Times |date=2013-01-23 |access-date=2013-01-29}}
  • January 24
  • Defense Secretary Leon Panetta lifts the ban upon women serving in combat. Congress will have a month to review the decision before it goes into effect, and could block lifting the rule.{{cite news|last=Cloud |first=David S. |url=https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-combat-women-20130124,0,66796.story |title=Military to lift ban on women in combat |website=Los Angeles Times |date=2013-01-23 |access-date=2013-01-29}}
  • David Headley is sentenced to 35 years in prison for his role in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21189374|title=US Mumbai attacks plotter given 35 years in prison|work=BBC News|access-date=July 16, 2016|date=2013-01-24}}{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/american-mumbai-plotter-sentenced-chicago-18299695|title=U.S. News - National News|work=ABC News|access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/david-headley-has-no-right-to-live-relative-of-26-11-us-victims-321980|title=David Headley has no right to live: relative of 26/11 US victims|access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-sentencing-today-for-chicago-man-in-mumbai-terror-attack-20130124,0,3301876.story|title=Mumbai terror attack: Chicago man gets 35 years|website=Chicago Tribune|access-date=July 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124183315/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-sentencing-today-for-chicago-man-in-mumbai-terror-attack-20130124,0,3301876.story|archive-date=January 24, 2013|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}
  • January 24–August 14 – The North Korea crisis begins. There is extreme escalation of rhetoric by the new North Korean Kim Jong-un regime, and actions strongly implying imminent warfare against South Korea and the United States with nuclear weapons.{{cite news|title=North Korea Issues Blunt New Threat to United States|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/world/asia/north-korea-vows-nuclear-test-as-threats-intensify.html|access-date=January 24, 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 24, 2013|first=David|last=Sanger}}
  • January 29
  • Hermilo Moralez, an illegal immigrant to the United States from Belize is convicted of the 2010 murder of Joshua Wilkerson and sentenced to life imprisonment in Texas.{{cite web|url=https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/pearland/news/article/Illegal-immigrant-from-Belize-convicted-of-9320415.php|title=Illegal immigrant from Belize convicted of murdering Pearland teen Josh Wilkerson|first=Kristi|last=Nix|date=February 6, 2013|website=Houston Chronicle}}
  • The Alabama bunker hostage crisis occurs after Vietnam War era veteran, Jimmy Lee Dykes, shoots and kills school bus driver Charles Albert Poland Jr.{{Cite web|title=Exclusive: How Cops Saved Boy From Underground Bunker|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/exclusive-cops-saved-boy-underground-bunker/story?id=19290180|access-date=2020-11-16|website=ABC News|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=http://crimescenedb.com/the-2013-alabama-bunker-hostage-crisis/|title=The 2013 Alabama Bunker Hostage Crisis | Crime Scene Database|first=Fredrik-|last=CSDB}}
  • January 31 – A judge sentences Russell Wasendorf, a founder of Peregrine Financial Group, to 50 years in prison for stealing $215.5 million from investors over 20 years.{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-peregrince-financial-wasendorf-idUSBRE90U14820130131|title=Peregrine boss Wasendorf gets 50 years jail for fraud|date=January 31, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016|newspaper=Reuters}}{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/31/iowa-brokerage-embezzlement-wasendorf/1880679/|title=Iowa brokerage head gets 50 years for embezzlement|website=USA Today|access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nasdaq.com/article/peregrine-ceo-gets-50-years-in-prison-20130131-01301|title=Today's Stock Market News and Analysis from Nasdaq.com|access-date=July 16, 2016}}

= February =

File:Power Failure in the Superdome during Super Bowl 2013.jpg: Emergency lights provided some illumination during the Super Bowl XLVII power outage.]]

File:Winter Blizzard 2013, Billerica MA.jpg–9: February 2013 nor'easter – The snowfall in Billerica, Massachusetts.]]

File:Jacob J Lew Signature.svg: Many wonder if Treasury Secretary Jack Lew's signature will continue unaltered on United States currency.{{cite web|url=http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/02/jack-lew-and-his-squiggly-signature-are-your-new-treasury-secretary/62605/|title=Jack Lew and His Squiggly Signature Are Your New Treasury Secretary|access-date=July 16, 2016|date=2013-02-28}}]]

  • February – The historic 1748 Terry Homestead building in Bristol, Connecticut, is demolished.{{Cite web|url=http://bristolpress.com/articles/2013/02/28/news/doc51300f976f717131903256.txt|title=The Bristol Press - Home|access-date=July 11, 2022|archive-date=August 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170801114758/http://bristolpress.com/articles/2013/02/28/news/doc51300f976f717131903256.txt|url-status=dead}}
  • February 1 – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton submits her resignation. She is replaced by John Kerry after his confirmation by the Congress.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/31/us/hillary-clinton-goes-to-hospital-after-exam-finds-a-blood-clot.html?_r=0 |title=Clinton's Blood Clot Is Located Near Her Brain, Doctors Say |author=Cooper, Helene |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 31, 2012}}
  • February 3 – After a 34-minute delay in the game's second half caused by a power outage, the Baltimore Ravens defeat the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans by a score of 34–31.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/american-football/21318296|title=Super Bowl: Baltimore Ravens beat San Francisco 49ers in thriller|first1=Ian|last1=Shoesmith|first2=Tom Rostance BBC|last2=Sport|access-date=July 16, 2016|work=BBC Sport|date=2013-02-04}}{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/super-bowl-2013-joe-flacco-ray-lewis-and-ravens-hold-on-to-beat-49ers-34-31/2013/02/03/a570fbf4-6e7e-11e2-aa58-243de81040ba_story.html/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130204094607/http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/super-bowl-2013-joe-flacco-ray-lewis-and-ravens-hold-on-to-beat-49ers-34-31/2013/02/03/a570fbf4-6e7e-11e2-aa58-243de81040ba_story.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 4, 2013|title=Super Bowl 2013: Joe Flacco, Ray Lewis and Ravens hold on to beat 49ers, 34-31|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=April 30, 2012|access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/sports/ci_22512473/power-outage-halts-super-bowl-2013|title=Super Bowl lights out: Power outage halts San Francisco 49ers-Baltimore Ravens game|access-date=July 16, 2016|date=2013-02-03}}
  • February 4 – Seven people are killed and thirty others are injured after a bus is struck by two vehicles and flips over in Yucaipa, California.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0204-bus-crash-20130204,0,4493066.story|title=Eight killed as tour bus flips|first1=Julie|last1=Cart|first2=Jessica|last2=Garrison|date=February 4, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016|via=Los Angeles Times}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Scapadas-Magicas-Tour-Bus-Crash-Los-Angeles-189648841.html|title=Tour Bus Crashes Near Big Bear|date=February 4, 2013 |access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://ktla.com/2013/02/04/witnesses-bus-driver-appeared-to-be-speeding-riding-brakes-before-crash/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411052909/http://ktla.com/2013/02/04/witnesses-bus-driver-appeared-to-be-speeding-riding-brakes-before-crash/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 11, 2013 |title=Tour Bus Had Poor Safety Record Before Crash|access-date=July 16, 2016 }}
  • February 5
  • Dell announces it will go private after a $24 billion leveraged buyout deal with a consortium led by founder Michael Dell.{{cite web|url=https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/dell-sets-23-8-billion-deal-to-go-private/|title=Dell in $24 Billion Deal to Go Private|first=Michael J. de la Merced and Quentin|last=Hardy|date=February 5, 2013 |access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • Standard & Poor's is hit with a $5 billion lawsuit by the US government over its assessment of mortgage bonds prior to the subprime mortgage crisis.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/21331018|title=Standard & Poor's expects lawsuit over subprime ratings|work=BBC News|access-date=July 16, 2016|date=2013-02-04}}{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-02-04/u-s-to-file-civil-charges-against-s-p-over-crisis-bond-ratings|title=McGraw-Hill Tumbles Most Since '87 as U.S. Prepares S&P Lawsuit|first1=Matt|last1=Robinson|first2=Phil|last2=Mattingly|website=Bloomberg News|date=February 5, 2013 |access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mcgrawhill-sandp-civilcharges-idUSBRE9130U120130205|title=U.S. government slams S&P with $5 billion fraud lawsuit|date=February 5, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016|newspaper=Reuters}}
  • February 6
  • The United States Postal Service announces that it will no longer deliver first-class mail on Saturdays as of August 5.{{cite web|url=https://money.cnn.com/2013/02/06/news/economy/postal-service-cuts/index.html|title=Postal Service to end Saturday mail service Aug. 5|first=Jennifer|last=Liberto|work=CNNMoney |date=February 6, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom fine The Royal Bank of Scotland more than $610 million for its role in manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate, or Libor.{{cite web|url=http://www.news.com.au/business/breaking-news/royal-bank-of-scotland-fined-over-libor/story-e6frfkur-1226572270656?from=public_rss|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130405112359/http://www.news.com.au/business/breaking-news/royal-bank-of-scotland-fined-over-libor/story-e6frfkur-1226572270656?from=public_rss|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 5, 2013|title=Royal Bank of Scotland fined $A596m|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • February 7 – February 9 – The death toll from a nor'easter across the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada is 18, with 40 inches of snow reported from Hamden, Connecticut. More than 900,000 customers lost power at the height of the storm, while airports in the region cancelled over 5,300 flights.[http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/blizzard-hammers-us-northeast-five-dead-700000-lose-power/ Reuters] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130211005802/http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/blizzard-hammers-us-northeast-five-dead-700000-lose-power/ |date=2013-02-11 }}
  • February 10–14 – A Carnival Triumph Cruise Liner docks in Mobile, Alabama, after an engine room fire caused the ship to lose power and propulsion at sea.{{cite news|last=Hennessy |first=Molly |url=https://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-cruise-ship-docked-mobile-20130214,0,3490554.story |title=Carnival Triumph, crippled cruise ship, finally reaches port |website=Los Angeles Times |date=2013-02-14 |access-date=2013-05-14}} The standard rated capacity of passengers is 3,143 and of crew is 1,100.
  • February 12
  • An assailant believed to be Christopher Jordan Dorner kills a sheriff's deputy and injures another in and around Big Bear Lake, California. He then barricades himself in a cabin, which catches on fire during a police assault. It is believed that Dorner dies in the fire, however this is later dismissed by law enforcement officials. Ultimately he is named as a suspect wanted in connection to a series of shootings that occurred throughout Southern California that killed four people and wounded three others.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} On February 14, it is announced by the San Bernardino Sheriff's Office that the body discovered in the cabin had been positively identified by medical examiners as that of Dorner.{{cite web|url=http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/02/14/officials-remains-found-in-burned-out-cabin-are-that-of-christopher-dorner/|title=Officials: Remains Found In Burned-Out Cabin Are That Of Christopher Dorner|access-date=July 16, 2016|date=2013-02-14}}
  • President Barack Obama delivers his fourth State of the Union Address.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/us/politics/obamas-2013-state-of-the-union-address.html | work=The New York Times | title=Text: Obama's 2013 State of the Union Address | date=February 12, 2013}}
  • February 14
  • US Airways and the bankrupt American Airlines announce a merger to form the world's largest air carrier trading as American Airlines.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/american-airlines-approves-merger-with-us-air/2013/02/13/1e2b2a3c-7556-11e2-95e4-6148e45d7adb_story.html|title=American Airlines approves merger with US Air|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital announce that they are allying to buy H.J. Heinz for $28 billion.{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-berkshire-heinz-idUSBRE91D0PY20130214|title=Buffett, Brazil's 3G team up for $23 billion Heinz buyout|date=February 14, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016|newspaper=Reuters}}
  • February 20 – A federal grand jury in Georgia indicts four employees of bankrupt Virginia-based Peanut Corporation of America for the 2009 salmonella outbreak that killed nine people and infected hundreds. The 75–count indictment describes contaminated or misbranded food by company owner Stewart Parnell, his brother and company vice president Michael Parnell, and two company managers. The charges are conspiracy, wire fraud, and obstruction of justice. This infection triggered the most extensive food recall ever in United States history.{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/feds-indict-4-over-2009-salmonella-outbreak-linked-to-georgia-peanut-plant|title=Feds indict 4 over 2009 salmonella outbreak linked to Georgia peanut plant - Fox News|website=Fox News|date=February 21, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • February 21
  • Retired police sergeant Drew Peterson, whose fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, disappeared in 2007, is sentenced by the state of Illinois to 38 years incarceration for the 2004 murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio.{{cite web|url=http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/3d281c11a96b4ad082fe88aa0db04305/Article_2013-02-21-Drew%20Peterson/id-0f4c04102f98464fb9408f248d0af718|title=Associated Press|first=AP|last=Story|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • A watchdog group releases a report that details write-downs of $19 billion on more than 168,000 properties by five United States banks. Under terms of a federal and state settlement of foreclosure-processing violations reached one year ago in March, Bank of America lost the most and had $13.5 billion in homeowner debts written off. The other banks are Citigroup Inc, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Wells Fargo & Co, and Ally Financial Inc.[http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2013/02/21/us-banks-write-down-1-billion-under-settlement/?intcmp=obnetwork U.S. Banks Write Down $19 Billion Under Settlement]{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • February 23
  • The Air Force grounds its entire $400 billion fleet of 51 F-35 jets due to a major engine technical issue. During a routine inspection of the aircraft, maintenance personnel detected a cracked engine blade.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21554331|title=F-35 fighter jet fleet grounded by Pentagon|work=BBC News|access-date=July 16, 2016|date=2013-02-22}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/22/world/f-35-grounded/index.html|title=U.S. military grounds F-35 Joint Strike Fighter |first=Mike |last=Mount|date=February 22, 2013 |publisher=CNN|access-date=July 16, 2016}} On February 28, the Defense Department lifts the grounding after an investigation concludes that the cracks in that particular engine resulted from stressful testing, including excessive heat for a prolonged period during flight, and did not reflect a fleetwide problem.{{cite web|url=http://myfox8.com/2013/03/01/military-clears-f-35-joint-strike-fighter-to-fly/ |title=Military clears F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to fly |date=March 1, 2013 |access-date=July 16, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305005929/http://myfox8.com/2013/03/01/military-clears-f-35-joint-strike-fighter-to-fly/ |archive-date=March 5, 2016 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/f-35s-cleared-to-resume-flight-operations-382909/|title=F-35s cleared to resume flight operations|date=March 1, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://defense-update.com/20130301_f-35-grounding-lifted.html|title=F-35 Lightning II Resume Flying – 'Blade Crack Caused By Stressful Testing' - Defense Update|first= |last= |date=March 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}} The total cost of all retrofits for problems found in flight testing is now $1.7 billion.{{cite web|url=http://news.terra.com/exclusive-retrofits-to-add-17-billion-to-cost-of-f-35-gao-report,31e15e7272e4d310VgnCLD2000000dc6eb0aRCRD.html|title=Exclusive: Retrofits to add $1.7 billion to cost of F-35 - GAO report|work=Terra |access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • A crash during the final lap of the NASCAR DRIVE4COPD 300 auto race at Daytona International Speedway in Florida, sends debris flying into the stands, injuring 33 spectators.[http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CAR_NASCAR_DAYTONA_NATIONWIDE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-02-23-19-57-05 AP]{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • February 24
  • In stock car racing, Jimmie Johnson wins the Daytona 500. Danica Patrick finishes eighth, marking the highest ever finish by a woman.{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nascar/2013/02/24/daytona-500-2013-danica-patrick/1943125/|title=Danica Patrick finishes eighth in Daytona 500|website=USA Today|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • 85th Academy Awards: The ceremony, hosted by Seth MacFarlane, is held at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, with Ben Affleck's Argo winning Best Picture. With his portrayal of the title character in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, Daniel Day-Lewis becomes the only actor to have won the Academy Award for Best Actor three times. Ang Lee's Life of Pi wins four awards, including Lee's second for Best Director, while Lincoln leads in nominations with 12.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20973004|title=Oscars 2013: Full list of winners|work=BBC News|date=February 25, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}} The telecast garners nearly 40.4 million viewers.
  • February 25 – A study from Spain published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that following a Mediterranean diet high in olive oil, nuts, fish and fresh fruits and vegetables reduces the risk of heart disease. Patients were followed with either a Mediterranean or standard low-fat diet for five years.{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-diet-heart-disease-idUSBRE91O0XC20130225|title=Mediterranean diet can ward off heart disease: study|date=February 25, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016|newspaper=Reuters}}{{cite journal|title=Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease with a Mediterranean Diet|first1=Ramón|last1=Estruch|first2=Emilio|last2=Ros|first3=Jordi|last3=Salas-Salvadó|first4=Maria-Isabel|last4=Covas|first5=Dolores|last5=Corella|first6=Fernando|last6=Arós|first7=Enrique|last7=Gómez-Gracia|first8=Valentina|last8=Ruiz-Gutiérrez|first9=Miquel|last9=Fiol|first10=José|last10=Lapetra|first11=Rosa Maria|last11=Lamuela-Raventos|first12=Lluís|last12=Serra-Majem|first13=Xavier|last13=Pintó|first14=Josep|last14=Basora|first15=Miguel Angel|last15=Muñoz|first16=José V.|last16=Sorlí|first17=José Alfredo|last17=Martínez|first18=Miguel Angel|last18=Martínez-González|date=April 4, 2013|volume=368|issue=14|pages=1279–1290|doi=10.1056/NEJMoa1200303|pmid=23432189|journal=N. Engl. J. Med.|hdl=10171/28216|hdl-access=free}}{{Retracted|doi=10.1056/NEJMc1806491|pmid=29897867|http://retractionwatch.com/2018/06/13/does-the-mediterranean-diet-prevent-heart-attacks-nejm-retracts-and-replaces-high-profile-paper/ Retraction Watch|intentional=yes}} The study is later retracted.
  • February 26 – Pediatric clinical trials of Amgen's Sensipar, used to treat various hyperparathyroidism problems which result in abnormal levels of serum calcium, are halted in the United States after a 14-year-old patient dies.{{cite web|url=http://www.medpagetoday.com/Endocrinology/GeneralEndocrinology/37563|title=Death Halts Sensipar Trials in Kids|date=February 26, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • February 27 – Chuck Hagel is sworn in as Secretary of Defense, replacing Leon Panetta.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}}
  • February 28
  • Jack Lew is sworn in as the new Secretary of Treasury, succeeding Timothy Geithner.{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-treasury-lew-idUSBRE91R15H20130228|title=Jack Lew sworn in as Treasury secretary|date=February 28, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016|newspaper=Reuters}}
  • United States v. Manning: Private First Class Chelsea Manning pleads guilty to 10 counts out of 22 against her for leaking classified material in the WikiLeaks case.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21610811|title=Bradley Manning pleads guilty to some Wikileaks charges|work=BBC News|date=February 28, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/net-us-usa-wikileaks-manning-idUSBRE91R0T720130301|title=Bradley Manning pleads guilty to misusing classified data in WikiLeaks case|date=March 1, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016|newspaper=Reuters}}{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-accepts-mannings-guilty-pleas-in-wikileaks-case/|title=Judge accepts Manning's guilty pleas in WikiLeaks case|website=CBS News|date=February 28, 2013 |access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • ESPN reports that the seven Catholic schools that have announced plans to leave the Big East Conference will do so in July 2013, and will keep the "Big East" name. Butler University and Xavier University will reportedly leave the Atlantic 10 Conference to join the new Big East, and Creighton University may leave the Missouri Valley Conference to join as well.{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/9000502/catholic-7-schools-keep-big-east-name-new-league-next-season-according-sources|title=Sources: Catholic 7 to add 2, retain 'Big East'|date=February 28, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}

= March =

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File:Rembrandt Christ in the Storm on the Lake of Galilee.jpg: Rembrandt's The Storm on the Sea of Galilee: stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990.]]

  • March 1
  • SpaceX's CRS-2 is launched. This launch is the fourth flight for the unmanned Dragon cargo spacecraft. The launch is also the fifth overall and final flight for the company's two-stage Falcon 9 v1.0 launch vehicle. CRS-2 is the second SpaceX operational mission contracted to NASA under a Commercial Resupply Services contract of 12 total.{{cite web|url=http://www.astrowatch.net/2012/11/spacex-engine-probe-delays-jan-flight.html|title=Astronomy and Space News - Astro Watch: SpaceX engine probe delays Jan. flight|access-date=July 16, 2016|archive-date=August 21, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821171743/http://www.astrowatch.net/2012/11/spacex-engine-probe-delays-jan-flight.html|url-status=dead}} Once in orbit, CRS-2 encounters thruster issues, but they are ultimately resolved.{{cite web|url=http://www.space.com/20035-spacex-dragon-glitch-elon-musk.html|title=Dragon Spacecraft Glitch Was 'Frightening,' SpaceX Chief Elon Musk Says|website=Space.com|date=March 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • 2013 Sequestration: A budget sequestration begins in the government.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/01/sequester-deadline-obama-talks-live|title=Obama says he can't force sequester deal: 'I'm not a dictator' – as it happened|first=Tom|last=McCarthy|website=TheGuardian.com|date=March 1, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • March 5 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches a new record high close of 14,253.77, last set in October 2007, on the back of more positive indicators about the US economy.{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-03-06/u-s-stock-index-futures-climb-before-adp-jobs-data|title=Dow Average Extends Record High on Job Data, Beige Book|first1=Inyoung|last1=Hwang|first2=Sarah|last2=Pringle|website=Bloomberg News|date=March 6, 2013 |access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324156204578275560657416332|title=Dow Industrials Set Record|first=Matt|last=Jarzemsky|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=March 5, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • March 7 – Senator Rand Paul ends a 13-hour filibuster to block voting on the nomination of John O. Brennan as the Director of the CIA, questioning President Barack Obama and his administration's use of drones, and the stated legal justification for hypothetical lethal use within the United States targeting against noncombatants. Attorney General Eric Holder states that combat drones would not be used to target and kill Americans not engaged in combat on American soil without due process.{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/07/historic-filibuster-renews-bipartisan-focus-on-drones-regulation/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130309030127/http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/07/historic-filibuster-renews-bipartisan-focus-on-drones-regulation/|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 9, 2013|title=Sen. Paul declares victory after Holder offers assurance on drones - Fox News|website=Fox News|date=March 7, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • March 9
  • A house fire kills five children (ages 10 months to 3 years) and two adults (including a pregnant woman) in the Gray community of Knox County, Kentucky.{{cite web|url=http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/09/17251104-2-adults-5-kids-killed-in-kentucky-fire|title=Pregnant woman, boyfriend, five kids killed in Kentucky fire|work=NBC News|access-date=July 16, 2016}}[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/10/kentucky-house-fire-kills-2-adults-5-children_n_2847604.html AP via The Huffington Post]
  • Google will pay a $7 million penalty to settle an investigation into the collection of e-mails, passwords and other sensitive information sent over wireless networks from 2007 to 2010 in the United States. Google company cars taking street-level photos for its online mapping service also had been vacuuming up personal data transmitted over wireless networks that weren't protected by passwords.{{cite web|url=http://news24.com/news24/Technology/News/Google-will-pay-7m-in-Wi-Spy-case-20130309|title=Google will pay $7m in 'Wi-Spy' case|access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21762545|title=Google hit by $7m Street View fine in US|work=BBC News|date=March 12, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/google-pays-7m-fine-settle-wi-fi-privacy-18711628|title=Technology Index|work=ABC News|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • March 10 – Daylight saving time goes into effect.{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/09/us/daylight-saving-time/index.html|title=Daylight Saving Time: Don't forget to spring forward|website=CNN|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • March 11 – Former Mayor of Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick is convicted on corruption charges.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/11/kwame-kilpatrick-detroit-guilty-corruption|title=Former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick found guilty of corruption|first=Associated Press in|last=Detroit|website=TheGuardian.com|date=March 11, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • March 12
  • Former New York City police officer Gilberto Valle is found guilty of plotting to kidnap, kill, and eat women.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21761077|title=NY policeman Gilberto Valle guilty of cannibal plot|work=BBC News|date=March 12, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • The Secret Service launches an investigation after hackers post what they claim is personal data and credit information of celebrities, including First Lady Michelle Obama, online.{{cite web|url=http://www.news24.com/news24/Technology/News/Hackers-post-Michelle-Obama-data-20130312|title=Hackers post Michelle Obama 'data'|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • March 18
  • Seven Marines are killed and eight others are injured when a mortar explodes during a training exercise in the Hawthorne Army Depot in Hawthorne, Nevada.{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/deadly-explosion-at-nevadas-hawthorne-army-depot-prompts-suspension-of-60mm-mortars|title=Deadly explosion at Nevada's Hawthorne Army Depot prompts suspension of 60mm mortars - Fox News|website=Fox News|date=March 19, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/19/us/nevada-military-explosion/index.html|title=7 killed in explosion at Nevada Marine training exercise|first=Barbara|last=Starr|website=CNN|date=March 19, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nevada-explosion-idUSBRE92I0FB20130319|title=Nevada military depot mortar explosion kills seven Marines|date=March 19, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016|newspaper=Reuters}} Because of the accident, the Pentagon has banned this type of shell.{{cite news|title=PENTAGON BANS 60 MM MORTAR ROUND AFTER DEATHS|url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/explosion-during-training-army-depot-nevada|agency=Associated Press|access-date=March 20, 2013|archive-date=March 22, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130322022957/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/explosion-during-training-army-depot-nevada|url-status=dead}}
  • The FBI states that they know who carried out the greatest art heist in American history at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990.{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/03/18/fbi-know-who-did-580m-boston-art-heist/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130318233720/http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/03/18/fbi-know-who-did-580m-boston-art-heist/|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 18, 2013|title=FBI: We know who carried out greatest art heist in American history - Fox News|website=Fox News|date=March 18, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • March 19
  • A suspect, Qari Abdul Saeed, is arrested in Pakistan for the 2002 beheading of The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/19/world/asia/pakistan-daniel-pearl-arrest/index.html|title=Pakistan arrests man in Daniel Pearl's slaying |first=Nasir |last=Habib|date=March 19, 2013 |publisher=CNN|access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/19/17361236-pakistan-captures-suspect-in-death-of-journalist-daniel-pearl-official-says|title=Pakistan captures suspect in death of journalist Daniel Pearl, officials say|work=NBC News|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • American musician Richard Hinds is sentenced to between five and ten years in prison for the murder of Irish tourist Nicola Furlong in Japan.{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/hinds-guilty-of-murdering-irish-student-nicola-furlong-1.1330865|title=Hinds guilty of murdering Irish student Nicola Furlong|newspaper=The Irish Times |access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/nicola-furlong-family-angered-at-japanese-justice-system-29139909.html|title=Nicola Furlong family angered at Japanese justice system - Independent.ie|date=March 19, 2013 |access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • In Ohio, T. J. Lane receives three life sentences for the child murders at Chardon High School that he committed on February 27, 2012, as a 17-year-old. Lane curses and makes obscene gestures at the victims' families during the sentencing.{{cite web|url=http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCHOOL_SHOOTING_OHIO?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-03-19-12-39-28 |title=News from The Associated Press |access-date=July 16, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054808/http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCHOOL_SHOOTING_OHIO?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-03-19-12-39-28 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 }}
  • The Supreme Court holds in a 6–3 decision that the first-sale doctrine applies to the domestic sale of foreign copies of copyrighted work lawfully made abroad. The first-sale doctrine (also known as the "exhaustion rule") is a core feature of both copyright and patent law. The doctrine holds that intellectual property rights associated with a particular copy of a work are exhausted once there is an authorized sale or manufacture of that copy. Although the decision does not mention patent law, the case also has obvious implications for patents. The case may also have some implications for streaming of copyrighted content based on national origin. A Thailand man, Supap Kirtsaeng, had moved to the US and set up a side business of importing textbooks from Thailand and reselling them on eBay in the US for a substantial profit. The imported books were not counterfeit but actual publisher-printed versions of textbooks. The publisher, John Wiley & Sons sued for copyright infringement and argued that the first-sale doctrine did not apply to its authorized foreign sales.{{cite web|url=http://www.ip-watch.org/2013/03/19/us-supreme-court-applies-first-sale-doctrine-worldwide/|title=US Supreme Court Applies First Sale Doctrine Worldwide|first= Steven|last=Seidenberg|date=March 19, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • March 23 – The Senate approves its first budget in four years by a margin of 50–49.{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-approves-democratic-budget-after-marathon-vote-a-rama|title=Senate approves Democratic budget after marathon 'vote-a-rama' - Fox News|website=Fox News|date=March 23, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • March 26 – T-Mobile USA removes the contract requirement from its mobile phone payment plans, becoming the first of the four major national wireless carriers in the U.S. to do so.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/technology/t-mobile-unveils-aggressive-phone-pricing-with-no-contracts.html|title=T-Mobile Shakes Up Its Service|date=March 27, 2013|work=The New York Times|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • March 29
  • A study published in the Journal of Pediatrics confirms that there is no scientific evidence of a link between vaccines and autism.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/no-link-found-between-autism-and-number-of-vaccines/|title=No link found between autism and number of vaccines|website=CBS News|date=March 29, 2013 |access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un orders preparations for strategic rocket strikes on the US mainland at an overnight meeting with top army commanders, in response to the use of nuclear-capable B-2 Stealth Bombers in joint US-South Korea military drills. China appeals for calm on all sides.{{cite web|url=http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1262973/1/.html|title=News|access-date=July 16, 2016|archive-date=April 1, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130401032728/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1262973/1/.html|url-status=dead}}

= April =

  • April 2
  • Six people, including multiple elected officials, are arrested on charges of fraud for allegedly attempting to rig the 2013 New York City mayoral election.{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/02/us/new-york-state-senator-charged/index.html|title=6 New York officials accused in plot to rig mayoral race |first=Chris |last=Boyette|date=April 2, 2013 |publisher=CNN|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • Tonya S. Bundick is charged in connection with 70 arsons in Virginia.{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/02/woman-charged-in-most-recent-more-than-70-arsons-on-virginia-eastern-shore/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130405114931/http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/02/woman-charged-in-most-recent-more-than-70-arsons-on-virginia-eastern-shore/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 5, 2013|title=Woman charged in most recent of more than 70 arsons on Virginia's Eastern Shore - Fox News|website=Fox News|date=April 2, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • April 3
  • Thirty-five teachers and administrators from Atlanta, Georgia, are indicted on fraud charges for allegedly facilitating cheating on standardized tests dating back to 2001.{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/03/atlanta-cheating-scandal/2049051/|title=Atlanta testing scandal begins long march to justice|website=USA Today|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • Disney announces that it is shutting down its LucasArts computer game making division.{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/Disney-ends-LucasArts-game-development-4407769.php|title=Disney ends LucasArts' game development|date=April 3, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • April 4 – A group of Washington University School of Medicine scientists announce in a study published in the journal Neuron that they have identified a number of genetic markers that are associated with increased risk of Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22025100|title=Early genetic markers of Alzheimer's risk identified|work=BBC News|date=April 5, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • April 7 – WWE holds WrestleMania 29 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, drawing a crowd of 80,676.
  • April 8 – The Louisville Cardinals win the 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament defeating the Michigan Wolverines by a score of 82–76.[https://web.archive.org/web/20190122144911/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/finals-watch-ticket-prices-fab-five-history-favors-louisville-hail-to-the-victors/2013/04/08/f7701552-a0ab-11e2-bd52-614156372695_story.html AP via The Washington Post]
  • April 10 – The United States Post Office is forced by the United States Congress to continue mail service on Saturdays.{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/postal-service-backs-off-plan-to-stop-saturday-delivery-hints-at-layoffs-price-hikes|title=Postal Service backs off plan to stop Saturday delivery, hints at layoffs, price hikes - Fox News|website=Fox News|date=April 10, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • April 11 – Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley approves a stormwater management fee derisively known as the rain tax.{{cite web|url=http://metro.co.uk/2013/04/11/governor-imposes-rain-tax-on-homes-3592504/|title=Governor imposes tax on the rain|first=Paul|last=McMillan|date=April 11, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://nation.foxnews.com/maryland-rain-tax/2013/04/13/state-passes-rain-tax|title=State Passes 'Rain Tax'|date=July 16, 2016|access-date=July 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819015913/http://nation.foxnews.com/maryland-rain-tax/2013/04/13/state-passes-rain-tax|archive-date=August 19, 2016|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}
  • April 13
  • A disgraced former jurist, Eric Williams, and his wife, Kim Williams, are charged with three counts of homicide for the murders of two Texas prosecutors and one wife.{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/former-justice-of-the-peace-charged-with-making-threat-in-texas-da-murders|title=Former justice of the peace charged with making threat in Texas DA murders - Fox News|website=Fox News|date=April 14, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • Disneyland announces that it would temporarily close three of its attractions at its California theme park due to multiple OSHA-related violations.{{cite news |last1=Niles |first1=Robert |title=Disneyland's Space Mountain closes after State of California alleges unsafe working conditions for maintenance crews |url=https://www.themeparkinsider.com/flume/201304/3446/ |access-date=April 26, 2019 |work=The Park Insider |date=April 14, 2013}}
  • April 14 – In golf, Adam Scott becomes the first Australian to win the Masters Tournament by defeating Ángel Cabrera in a sudden-death final.[http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/top-news/guan-wraps-up-memorable-1st-masters-with-75/nXL3h/ AP via The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
  • April 15–19 – Two explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon leave 3 people dead and 260 injured.{{cite web|url=http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/metro/Explosions-reported-near-Boston-Marathon-finish-line/-/11971628/19757044/-/ktnc1wz/-/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130616021856/http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/metro/Explosions-reported-near-Boston-Marathon-finish-line/-/11971628/19757044/-/ktnc1wz/-/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 16, 2013 |title=3 killed, dozens injured in blasts near Boston Marathon finish line |first=Jamy Pombo |last=Sesselman |access-date=July 16, 2016 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-16/explosions-at-boston-marathon-finish-line3a-reports/4631036|title=Terror in Boston as deadly blasts hit marathon|website=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|date=April 15, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}} Authorities found clear video images of two suspects carrying black backpacks and with their faces visible, each suspect separately at the scene of one of the two explosions.{{cite news|title=Videos Said to Show Clear Images of 2 Bombing Suspects|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/us/boston-set-to-mourn-bombing-victims.html?hp&_r=0|access-date=April 18, 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 18, 2013|first1=Katharine Q.|last1=Seelye|first2=Michael|last2=Cooper|first3=Michael S.|last3=Schmidt}}{{cite news|title=Authorities have clear video images of two suspects|url=http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/18/authorities-have-clear-video-images-two-suspects/YejgNWAcmChcx2lUXigs5I/story.html|access-date=April 18, 2013|newspaper=The Boston Globe|date=April 18, 2013}}{{cite news|title=Video images yield two possible Boston bombing suspects|url=https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-boston-bombings-investigation-20130418,0,2651203.story|access-date=April 18, 2013|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=April 18, 2013|first1=Richard A.|last1=Serrano|first2=Ken|last2=Dilanian|first3=Joseph|last3=Tanfani}} A campus police officer is shot dead in his vehicle at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-19/reports-of-gunshots-at-mit-building/4639494|title=Massive manhunt shuts down Boston|website=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|date=April 19, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mit-gunshots-idUSBRE93I04520130419|title=One suspect in Boston bombing dead, manhunt under way for second man|date=April 19, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016|newspaper=Reuters}} The Boston Police Department chases two carjacking suspects in the MIT campus shooting to the nearby suburb of Watertown where, after a gunfight that included explosives, one MBTA officer is injured, one suspect is killed, and the other is still at large.{{cite web|url=http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/04/mit_police_officer_killed_cops_chase_suspects_in_watertown|title='We got him' Mayor Menino announces amid cheers|access-date=July 16, 2016}} The suspects are brothers. One suspect is identified as Kyrgyzstan-born Cambridge resident 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.{{cite web|url=http://www.wtsp.com/news/topstories/article/312057/250/AP-Surviving-bomb-suspect-identified|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130616021818/http://www.wtsp.com/news/topstories/article/312057/250/AP-Surviving-bomb-suspect-identified|url-status=dead|title=AP: Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev identified as surviving Boston Marathon bomb…|date=June 16, 2013|archive-date=June 16, 2013}} The deceased brother is identified as 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev. A number of YouTube videos, posted by the suspects, surface that seek Muslim takeover of Chechnya.{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/bombing-suspects-followed-harry-potter-hating-australian-sheikh/|title=Bombing suspects followed Harry Potter-hating Australian sheikh - Fox News|website=Fox News|date=April 19, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}} A tip leads police to the backyard-stored boat at a home in the Boston suburb of Watertown, Massachusetts, where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is captured after an exchange of gunfire and a brief standoff.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/apr/19/boston-mit-police-dead-watertown|title=Boston bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev captured – as it happened|first1=Tom|last1=McCarthy|first2=Paul|last2=Owen|first3=Warren|last3=Murray|first4=Matthew|last4=Weaver|newspaper=The Guardian|date=April 20, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}} The Boston Bruins home game against the Ottawa Senators scheduled for that day is postponed.
  • April 16–27 – 2013 ricin attacks: Mail to the US Senate is suspended after letter sent to U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) tests positive for the poisonous substance ricin at an offsite Congressional mail facility. The letter was sent to the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, for further testing.{{cite web|url=http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/16/17783383-letter-sent-to-us-senator-tests-positive-for-deadly-poision|title=Letter sent to US senator tests positive for deadly poison|work=NBC News|access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/us/politics/toxic-ricin-detected-on-mail-sent-to-senator.html|title=Letter Mailed to Senator Tests Positive for Ricin|date=April 17, 2013|work=The New York Times|access-date=July 16, 2016}} After release of a previous suspect without charge, an adversary of his, Everett Dutschke of Mississippi, has been arrested for mailing letters containing ricin to the President of the United States, a senator, and a federal judge.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22323146|title=Mississippi man charged in US ricin letters inquiry|work=BBC News|date=April 27, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • April 17 – 15 people are dead and 160 injured after the Texas fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas.{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/18/us/texas-explosion/index.html|title=Report: As many as 35 killed in Texas plant explosion |author1=Josh Levs |author2=Lateef Mungin|date=April 18, 2013 |publisher=CNN|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • April 19
  • The FAA has approved a fix of the lithium-ion battery in Boeing's 787s, clearing the way for its resumption of service.{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-04-19/faa-approves-boeing-787-battery-fix-allowing-flight-resumptions|title=Boeing 787 Battery Fix Wins Approval to Resume Flights|first1=Alan|last1=Levin|first2=Susanna|last2=Ray|website=Bloomberg News|date=April 20, 2013 |access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • The Boston Bruins postpone their scheduled home game against the Pittsburgh Penguins due to the manhunt for the Boston marathon bombing suspect.
  • April 20
  • Five people are killed and 17 are injured in Vail, Arizona when a car accident occurs during a U.S. Border Patrol pursuit.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-ff-fatal-van-crash-ariz-20130421,0,5880885.story|title=At least five killed during Border Patrol pursuit in Arizona|first=Cindy|last=Carcamo|date=April 21, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016|via=Los Angeles Times}}
  • 3 Doors Down bass player Todd Harrell is charged in Nashville, Tennessee, with vehicular homicide by intoxication after being involved in a car crash which killed another driver.{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/entertainment-us-usa-crash-bassist-idUSBRE93K01P20130421|title=3 Doors Down bassist charged in fatal crash in Tennessee|date=April 21, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016|newspaper=Reuters}}
  • April 23
  • The United States stock market undergoes a flash crash (similar to 2010) of 1 percent when the Twitter feed from the Associated Press news agency is hacked and erroneously states that several explosions have injured President Barack Obama.{{cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2013/04/23/false-rumor-of-explosion-at-white-house-causes-stocks-to-briefly-plunge-ap-confirms-its-twitter-feed-was-hacked.html|title=Markets Sink Briefly on Fake AP Terror Tweet|first=Patti|last=Domm|date=April 24, 2013|publisher=CNBC|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • Teen Titans Go! debuts on Cartoon Network.{{cite news |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2012/06/08/teen-titans-returning-with-new-full-length-episodes |title=Teen Titans Returning With New Full Length Episodes |work=IGN |access-date=November 4, 2016}}
  • April 25 – In American football, the 2013 NFL draft begins with Kansas City Chiefs selecting Eric Fisher in New York City's Radio City Music Hall.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/apr/26/nfl-draft-2013-live-updates|title=NFL Draft 2013 - as it happened|first1=Nicky|last1=Bandini|first2=Steve|last2=Busfield|date=April 25, 2013|work=The Guardian|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • April 30
  • NASA extends its contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency, paying $424 million for the RKA to deliver and receive astronauts shuttled to the ISS through 2016.{{cite web|url=http://en.ria.ru/world/20130430/180929707.html|title=NASA Extends Russia Space Travel Deal|last=Sputnik|date=April 30, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • Apple initiates the largest ever non-bank bond offering, valued at $17 billion.{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/apple-debt-idUSL2N0DH19720130430|title=CORRECTED-UPDATE 7-Apple wows market with record $17bn bond deal|date=April 30, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016|newspaper=Reuters}}

= May =

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  • May 1 – Boston Police state that three more individuals are arrested in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing.{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/01/us/boston-attack/index.html|title=Bomb suspect's buddies covered for him, feds say |first=Matt |last=Smith|date=May 2013 |publisher=CNN|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • May 2 – Rhode Island becomes the tenth state to legalize same-sex marriage.{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/02/rhode-island-gay-marriage-approved_n_3203618.html|title=Rhode Island Legalizes Gay Marriage|website=HuffPost|date=May 2, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • May 3 – Iron Man 3, directed by Shane Black, is released by Marvel Studios as the seventh film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) the first in its "Phase Two" slate and the direct sequel to 2008's Iron Man and 2010's Iron Man 2. It becomes the fifth highest-grossing film of all time at the time of release (currently the 20th).
  • May 4 – In horse racing, Dominican Joel Rosario rides Orb to win the Kentucky Derby.{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/horseracing/2013/05/04/orb-wins-139th-kentucky-derby/2135553/|title=Orb gives McGaughey his first Kentucky Derby victory|website=USA Today|access-date=July 16, 2016}} Other noteworthy entrants were Kevin Krigger who was aboard Goldencents, trying to become the first black jockey to win since Jimmy Winkfield in 1902.{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/04/kentyucky-derby-2013-field-odds_n_3211603.html|title=Kentucky Derby 2013: Orb, Goldencents, Verrazano Lead Wide-Open Field At Churchill Downs|website=Huffington Post|date=May 4, 2013|access-date=May 4, 2013|first=Beth|last=Harris}} Rosie Napravnik's fifth-place finish aboard Mylute made her the highest finishing female jockey in the race's history.
  • May 5
  • The world's first gun produced by Defense Distributed using a 3-D printer is fired successfully in Austin, Texas. Security officials worry that such plastic weapons could evade detection at airport screenings.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22421185|title=Working gun made with 3D printer|work=BBC News|date=May 6, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.wgbhnews.org/post/gun-made-3-d-printer-successfully-fired|title=Gun Made With 3-D Printer Is Successfully Fired|date=May 6, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • Five women are killed and four others are injured after a limousine catches fire on the San Mateo Bridge in Hayward, California.{{citation needed|date=May 2013}}
  • May 6
  • Bank of America agrees to pay $1.6 billion to insurer MBIA to settle a long-running dispute between MBIA and two companies Bank of America had since acquired.{{cite web|url=https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/bank-of-america-and-mbia-said-to-agree-to-1-7-billion-settlement/|title=After Years of Battling, Bank of America and MBIA Settle Mortgage Dispute|first=Floyd|last=Norris|date=May 6, 2013 |access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • Singer Lauryn Hill is sentenced to prison for three months after being convicted of tax evasion.{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/06/lauryn-hills-jail-sentence-tax-evasion_n_3225414.html|title=Huffington Post|website=HuffPost}}
  • Three women missing (Michele Knight, Amanda Berry, Georgina DeJesus) for more than a decade are found alive in Cleveland, Ohio, while a man, Ariel Castro, is charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape.{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-missing-ohio-idUSBRE94600620130508|title=Ariel Castro charged in Cleveland kidnapping|date=May 8, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016|newspaper=Reuters}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/07/missing-women-found-cleveland-ohio-live|title=Amanda Berry, Michelle Knight and Gina DeJesus found in Cleveland – as it happened|first=Adam|last=Gabbatt|newspaper=The Guardian|date=May 7, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.news.com.au/world-news/who-were-the-three-women-set-free-from-captivity-in-cleveland/story-fndir2ev-1226636654710|title=Who were the three women set free from captivity in Cleveland?|access-date=July 16, 2016|archive-date=October 11, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131011211221/http://www.news.com.au/world-news/who-were-the-three-women-set-free-from-captivity-in-cleveland/story-fndir2ev-1226636654710|url-status=dead}}
  • May 7
  • Delaware becomes the eleventh state to legalize same-sex marriage.{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/07/delaware-senate-gay-marriage_n_3231374.html |title=Delaware Senate Passes Gay Marriage Bill |website=Huffingtonpost.com |date= May 7, 2013|access-date=2013-05-14 |first=Luke |last=Johnson}}
  • Singer Tim Lambesis is arrested on charges of attempting to hire a hit man to kill his wife.{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1706977/as-i-lay-dying-tim-lambesis-murder-plot-arrest.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607062954/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1706977/as-i-lay-dying-tim-lambesis-murder-plot-arrest.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 7, 2013|title=As I Lay Dying's Tim Lambesis Arrested In Murder-For-Hire Plot|website=MTV}}
  • The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 15,000 for the first time, at 15,056.20 gaining 87.31 points.{{cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2013/05/07/new-records-dow-ends-above-15000-for-first-time-sp-in-bull-market.html|title=Dow Ends at All-Time High Above 15000; S&P 500 Enters Bull Market Territory|first=JeeYeon|last=Park|website=CNBC|date=May 7, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • May 8 – Jodi Arias is convicted of the first-degree murder of her boyfriend by a court in Arizona.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22459671|title=Jodi Arias convicted of premeditated murder of boyfriend|work=BBC News|date=May 8, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • May 9 – It is revealed that in February, hackers stole $45 million from worldwide bank ATMs with large numbers of criminals using fraudulent debit cards.{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/tech/atm-hackers-stole-45m-in-21st-century-bank-heist-feds-say/|title=ATM hackers stole $45M in '21st century bank heist,' feds say - Fox News|website=Fox News|date=May 9, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • May 10
  • Boston Marathon bombing: Evidence mounts that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was involved in an unsolved triple murder in Massachusetts on September 11, 2011. One of the victims, Brendan Mess, was once a roommate of Tamerlan.{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/mounting-evidence-boston-bombers-involved-2011-triple-murder/story?id=19151271|title='Mounting Evidence' Boston Bombers Involved in 2011 Triple Murder|date=May 22, 2013|work=ABC News|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • After several years of construction, the spire is installed on New York's One World Trade Center, making it the sixth tallest freestanding structure, at a symbolic 1,776 ft.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22483761|title=One World Trade Center spire installed in New York City|work=BBC News|date=May 10, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • May 12 – Gunmen open fire on people marching in a neighborhood Mother's Day parade in New Orleans, Louisiana, wounding 19.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/us/several-wounded-in-shooting-at-new-orleans-parade.html|title=19 Wounded in New Orleans Shooting|date=May 13, 2013|work=The New York Times|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • May 13
  • Kermit Gosnell, a U.S. abortion physician, is found guilty in Pennsylvania of three counts of murder of newborn infants, one count of involuntary manslaughter, and various other charges.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/2013/05/13/b4444bdc-bbda-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html|title=Jury convicts abortion provider Kermit Gosnell of murder|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22518979|title=Kermit Gosnell guilty of three murders in late-term abortions|work=BBC News|date=May 14, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}} In a plea bargain later he trades away his appeals in exchange for a life sentence without the possibility of parole.{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/14/justice/pennsylvania-abortion-doctor-trial/index.html|title=Doctor convicted of murder in abortion case gets life in prison |first=Sarah |last=Hoye|date=May 14, 2013 |publisher=CNN|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • Attorney General Eric Holder, acting for the Obama Administration, testifies before the House Judiciary Committee that he was not party to the U.S. Justice Department's secret seizure of telephone records of the news agency the Associated Press. The Justice Department seized two months worth of telephone records from AP offices and reporters.{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/holder-faces-tough-house-questioning-after-defending-ap-records-probe|title=Holder faces tough House questioning, after defending AP records probe - Fox News|website=Fox News|date=May 15, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/holder-i-wasnt-involved-in-ap-secret-phone-probe/|title=Holder: I wasn't involved in AP secret phone probe|website=CBS News|date=May 14, 2013 |access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.newser.com/article/da6a00e82/gop-dems-aggressively-question-holder-over-subpoenas-of-ap-phone-records.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130616022107/http://www.newser.com/article/da6a00e82/gop-dems-aggressively-question-holder-over-subpoenas-of-ap-phone-records.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 16, 2013 |title=Newser - Headline News Summaries, World News, and Breaking News |access-date=July 16, 2016 }}
  • The U.S. Department of Treasury may probe why Bloomberg News reporters were monitoring how investment bank employees searched their site for financial information, including U.S. Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/business/media/bloomberg-admits-terminal-snooping.html|title=Bloomberg Admits Terminal Snooping|date=May 13, 2013|work=The New York Times|access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22508473|title=Bloomberg says data snooping was 'inexcusable'|work=BBC News|date=May 13, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • May 14
  • Minnesota becomes the twelfth state to legalize same-sex marriage.{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/13/minnesota-12th-state-to-pass-gay-marriage/|title=Minnesota becomes 12th state to pass gay marriage|newspaper=The Washington Times|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • The United States fines the Indian pharmaceutical company Ranbaxy Laboratories $500 million after they are found guilty of selling adulterated drugs to the United States.{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jQYsSNqHZQMd6b_N36nQsowQ_eMQ?docId=CNG.b736c800fa345dd0ed4b84ca0517bc60.231|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130616085613/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jQYsSNqHZQMd6b_N36nQsowQ_eMQ?docId=CNG.b736c800fa345dd0ed4b84ca0517bc60.231|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 16, 2013|title=AFP via Google News}}
  • The U.S. Internal Revenue Service admits that it targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny.{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-irs-scandal-revives-past-allegations-against-agency|title=New IRS scandal revives past allegations against agency - Fox News|first=Barnini|last=Chakraborty|website=Fox News|date=May 14, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • May 20 – A tornado kills 24 people and wounds over 300 in Moore, Oklahoma.{{citation needed|date=June 2013}}
  • May 23
  • The Boy Scouts of America lifts its longstanding ban on gay youth members.{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/23/us/boy-scouts-sexual-orientation/?hpt=us_c2 |title=Boy Scouts to allow gay youths to join |website=CNN.com |date= May 24, 2013|access-date=2013-06-06}}
  • A bridge near Mount Vernon, Washington, collapses after a truck full of drilling equipment bumps into the bridge's steel framework.{{cite web|last=Valdes |first=Manuel |url=http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/23/3413816/i-5-bridge-collapses-in-nw-wash.html |title=MOUNT VERNON, Wash.: Trucker bumps I-5 bridge, sees horror behind him - Breaking News |website=MiamiHerald.com |access-date=2013-06-06}}
  • May 24 – Eight year old boy Gabriel Fernandez dies after being fatally beaten and tortured by his mother Pearl Fernandez, and her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre. The pair are later convicted of murder, with the case highlighting numerous failings by social services in Los Angeles County.
  • May 25 – Two freight trains collide fifteen miles southwest of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, causing a highway overpass to collapse; causing seven injuries.{{cite news|last=Bross |first=Tim |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-train-crash-idUSBRE94O07020130525 |title=Two freight trains collide in Missouri, bringing down overpass |publisher=Reuters |date= May 25, 2013|access-date=2013-06-06}}
  • May 26–31 – An outbreak of tornadoes affects the Great Plains, particularly Oklahoma and Kansas. Around 76 tornadoes were reported in the event including the widest tornado ever recorded near El Reno, Oklahoma, at a very large 2.6 miles in width. A total of ten confirmed fatalities were reported with the outbreak.{{cite web|url=http://www.breakingnews.com/topic/oklahoma-city-tornadoes-may-31-2013 |title=Latest breaking news on Oklahoma City tornadoes, May 31, 2013 |website=breakingnews.com |date=2013-06-02 |access-date=2013-06-06}}
  • May 26 – Avengers Assemble debuts on Disney XD.{{cite news |url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2013/03/08/marvels-avengers-assemble-and-marvels-hulk-and-the-agents-of-smash-to-premiere-on-marvel-universe-block-on-disney-xd-523312/20130308disneyxd01/ |title="Marvel's Avengers Assemble" and "Marvel's Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H." to Premiere on Marvel Universe Block on Disney XD |work=The Futon Critic |date=March 8, 2013 |access-date=March 25, 2013}}

= June =

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  • June 5 – An abandoned building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, collapses onto a thrift store, killing six people and injuring 14 others.{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-philadelphia-building-collapse-20130605,0,1940911.story |title=Philadelphia building collapse |work=Chicago Tribune |access-date=2013-06-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130608172032/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-philadelphia-building-collapse-20130605,0,1940911.story |archive-date=2013-06-08 |url-status=dead }}
  • June 6–20 – The 2013 NBA Finals finishes the championship series of the 2012–13 NBA season and the conclusion of the season's playoffs. The Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat defeated the Western Conference champion San Antonio Spurs to win their second straight title. The Finals began with Game 1 on June 6, and ended with Game 7 on June 20.{{cite web |url=http://www.nba.com/news/key-dates/index.html |title=National Basketball Association Important Dates |work=NBA.com |access-date=May 17, 2012}}{{cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/nba/playoffs/2013/story/_/id/9270700/nba-finals-schedule |title=NBA Conference finals, Finals schedule |date=May 13, 2013 |publisher=ESPN |access-date=June 4, 2013}}{{cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/nba/playoffs/2013/story/_/page/5-on-5-130605/which-team-win-nba-finals |title=NBA Finals: Heat against Spurs|date=June 5, 2013 |publisher=ESPN |access-date=June 6, 2013}}
  • June 7 – A spree shooting occurs at Santa Monica College in California, with six deaths and more than four injuries. Shooter John Zawahri killed his father and brother and set their house on fire before going on a rampage, ending with him being shot dead by police.{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/05/pa-building-collapse-philadelphia/2391943/ |title=6 dead, 14 hurt in Philadelphia building collapse |work=USA Today |date=June 6, 2013 |access-date=2013-06-12}}
  • June 9 – Published in the journal Nature, using the petascale supercomputer Blue Waters, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC), the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Physics Professor Klaus Schulten, UIUC Postdoctoral Researcher Juan R. Perilla, and their colleagues, with the aid of previous research, and data from the University of Pittsburgh and Vanderbilt University, publish a structure of the AIDS-causing human immunodeficiency virus capsid, potentially useful for drug and vaccine development.{{cite web|url=http://news.illinois.edu/news/13/0529HIVcapsid_KlausSchulten.html|title=News Bureau - ILLINOIS|first=Diana|last=Yates|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • June 12–24 – The 2013 Stanley Cup Finals finishes the championship series of the National Hockey League (NHL) {{NHL Year|2012}} season, and the conclusion of the 2013 Stanley Cup playoffs. The Western Conference playoff champion Chicago Blackhawks defeated the Eastern Conference playoff champion Boston Bruins in six games to capture their fifth Stanley Cup in team history.{{cite web|url=http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=675063|title=Chicago's Patrick Kane wins Conn Smythe Trophy as Stanley Cup playoff MVP|date=June 24, 2013|publisher=NHL.com|access-date=June 25, 2013 }}
  • June 13
  • The Supreme Court rules that naturally occurring human genes may not be patented, with significant implications for future medical research.{{cite news |title=Supreme Court Rules Human Genes May Not Be Patented |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/us/supreme-court-rules-human-genes-may-not-be-patented.html?hp&_r=1& |date=June 13, 2013 |work=The New York Times |access-date=June 13, 2013 |first=Adam |last=Liptak}}{{cite news|title=Association for Molecular Pathology et al. v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., et al. |url=https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-398_8njq.pdf |date=June 13, 2013 |publisher=US Supreme Court |access-date=June 13, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130613163742/https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-398_8njq.pdf |archive-date=June 13, 2013 }}
  • An ethylene- and propylene- manufacturing chemical plant explosion kills two and injures 75 others in Geismar, Louisiana.{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/14/louisiana-explosion/2424765/ |title=Police: 1 dead, others hurt in new La. plant blast |work=USA Today |access-date=2013-06-15 |date=June 14, 2013}}{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/13/la-state-police-blast-fire-at-chemical-plant/2419151/ |title=1 dead, at least 73 hurt in La. plant explosion |work=USA Today |date=June 13, 2013 |access-date=2013-06-15 |first=Stacey |last=Plaisance}}
  • June 13-June 16 – Justin Rose wins the 113th edition of the U.S. Open with a score of 281 (1 over par). He is the first English player to win the U.S. Open since Tony Jacklin in 1970.{{cite web |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/golf/pga/leaderboard/2013/24|publisher=Yahoo! Sports|title=2013 U.S. Open Leaderboard |date=June 16, 2013 |access-date=June 17, 2013}}
  • June 14 – Man of Steel, directed by Zack Snyder, is released in theatres as the first film in the DC Extended Universe.
  • June 21 – Pixar Animation Studios' 14th feature film, Monsters University, a prequel to 2001's Monsters, Inc., is released in theaters.
  • June 25 – In a 5–4 decision, the Supreme Court strikes down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Section 4 had required states with a history of discrimination to get permission from the federal government to change their election procedures in any way.{{citation needed|date=June 2013}}
  • June 26
  • In a 5–4 vote, the Supreme Court strikes down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act as unconstitutional, allowing legally married gay couples to receive over 1,000 federal benefits and privileges.{{citation needed|date=June 2013}}
  • In a 5–4 vote, the Supreme Court rules that supporters of California Proposition 8 did not have legal standing in federal court, allowing same-sex marriages to resume in California.{{citation needed|date=June 2013}}
  • June 28
  • The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit lifts its stay on gay marriages in California, making the state the thirteenth to legalize same-sex marriage. Gay marriage in the state of California is legalized after the stay held on the unconstitutional California Proposition 8 is lifted. Two women who successfully challenged Proposition 8 in the Supreme Court of the United States are married in San Francisco.{{cite web|url=http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/28/19194079-prop-8-challengers-wed-in-california-after-stay-is-lifted?lite |title=Prop 8 challengers wed in California after stay is lifted - U.S. News |publisher=Usnews.nbcnews.com |date=2013-06-28 |access-date=2013-10-19}}
  • Australia-based News Corp. completes a planned split into two companies, creating 21st Century Fox.{{cite news|last=James |first=Meg |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-news-corp-21st-century-fox-20130628,0,2975128.story |title=News Corp. divides into two companies; 21st Century Fox is born |work=Los Angeles Times |date=2013-06-28 |access-date=2013-10-19}}
  • June 30 – 19 elite firefighters are killed trying to contain a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/us/arizona-blaze-rages-on-as-crews-cope-with-death-of-19-firefighters.html?_r=0 |work=The New York Times |first=Fernanda |last=Santos |title=Lost in Arizona Fire, an Elite Crew That Rushed In |date=July 1, 2013}}

= July =

  • July 6 – Three Chinese nationals are killed when Asiana Airlines Flight 214, from Seoul, South Korea's Incheon International Airport bound for San Francisco, California, crashes upon attempting to land at San Francisco International Airport.{{cite news | title=Asiana Airlines Crash: At a glance | work = CNN |url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/07/us/california-plane-developments/ | access-date = July 7, 2013 | date=July 8, 2013}}
  • July 7 – Ten people are killed when an Alaskan Air Taxi crashes.{{cite news|last=Thiessen|first=Mark|title=All 10 Aboard Alaskan Air Taxi Dead After Fiery Crash|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/all-10-aboard-alaskan-air-taxi-dead-after-fiery-crash-2013-7|access-date=July 12, 2013|newspaper=Business Insider|date=July 8, 2013}}
  • July 8 – A prisoner hunger strike in California begins, with upwards of 29,000 inmates protesting solitary confinement practices.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/11/us/hunger-strike-by-california-inmates-already-large-is-expected-to-be-a-long-one.html | work=The New York Times | first=Jennifer | last=Medina | title=Hunger Strike by California Inmates, Already Large, Is Expected to Be Long | date=July 10, 2013}}
  • July 10 – With still two years until its closest approach, NASA's New Horizons team releases the spacecraft's first high resolution view of the Pluto/Charon dwarf planet system.{{cite web|url=http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/news_center/news/20130710.php|title=New Horizons Camera Spots Pluto's Largest Moon|access-date=2013-07-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131208200701/http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/news_center/news/20130710.php|archive-date=2013-12-08|url-status=dead}}
  • July 11 – Sharknado airs for the first time on Syfy.[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sharknado-what-hollywood-is-saying-584052 "'Sharknado': What Hollywood Is Saying About Syfy's Movie"] from The Hollywood Reporter (July 11, 2013)
  • July 12 – 648 counts are added to the previous 329 counts, for 977 total, against the Cleveland kidnapper.{{citation needed|date=July 2013}}
  • July 13 – George Zimmerman, the man charged with the killing of Trayvon Martin, is acquitted of all charges after a trial.{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/13/justice/zimmerman-trial/ |title=George Zimmerman found not guilty of murder in Trayvon Martin's death |author=Greg Botelho and Holly Yan |publisher=CNN |date=2013-07-14 |access-date=2013-11-19}}
  • July 17 – Rolling Stone Magazine editors approve a cover photo that some believe glamourizes Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/17/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-boston-marathon-bombing-rolling-stone/2523891/|title='Rolling Stone' defends Tsarnaev glam cover amid outcry|website=USA Today|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • July 18 – The city of Detroit, Michigan, files for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection against debts of $18.5 billion.{{cite web|url=http://www.freep.com/article/20130718/NEWS01/307180107/Detroit-bankruptcy-filing-Kevyn-Orr-emergency-manager|title=Detroit Free Press|website=Detroit Free Press|access-date=July 18, 2013|archive-date=January 27, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127213248/http://www.freep.com/article/20130718/NEWS01/307180107/Detroit-bankruptcy-filing-Kevyn-Orr-emergency-manager|url-status=dead}}
  • July 26 – Kidnapper Ariel Castro pleads guilty in exchange for life imprisonment.{{in lang|fr}} [http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/International/2013/07/26/010-castro-ariel-entente-culpabilite-prison-vie.shtml Ariel Castro plaide coupable pour éviter la peine de mort]

= August =

  • August 11 – American golfer Jason Dufner wins the 2013 PGA Championship played at the Oak Hill Country Club in Pittsford, New York.{{cite web|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/golf/james-dufner-in-pole-position-in-pga/story-fnaxw0m2-1226695278365|title=The Australian|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • August 12
  • American mob boss Whitey Bulger is convicted of racketeering.{{cite web|url=https://boston.com/metrodesk/2013/08/12/bulgerverdict/1Kj1TAeB6WgVH00lFmufgL/story.html|title=Whitey Bulger, notorious Boston gangster, convicted of murder in sweeping racketeering case - Boston.com|access-date=July 16, 2016|archive-date=August 15, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130815052957/http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/08/12/bulgerverdict/1Kj1TAeB6WgVH00lFmufgL/story.html|url-status=dead}}
  • PAW Patrol debuts on Nickelodeon.{{cite news |url=http://thefutoncritic.com/news/2013/07/24/nickelodeon-unleashes-new-preschool-series-paw-patrol-monday-aug-12-at-830-pm-et-pt-223310/20130724nickelodeon01/ |title=Nickelodeon Unleashes New Preschool Series "Paw Patrol" Monday, Aug. 12, at 8:30 P.M. (ET/PT) |work=The Futon Critic |date=July 24, 2013 |access-date=July 25, 2013}}
  • August 19 – A B-1B Lancer with the United States Air Force's 28th Bomb Wing crashes near Broadus, Montana, during a routine training mission.{{cite web|url=https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/466899/b-1-lancer-crashes-in-montana/|title=B-1 Lancer crashes in Montana|work=U.S. Air Force |access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • August 22
  • Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is indicted for the murder of 27-year-old Odin Lloyd.{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/boston/nfl/story/_/id/9591709/aaron-hernandez-former-new-england-patriots-tight-end-indicted-murder-charge|title=Hernandez gets indicted on murder charge|date=August 22, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • The American electronic stock exchange NASDAQ shuts down for 3 hours due to a computer problem.{{cite web|url=http://www.foxbusiness.com/investing/2013/08/22/trading-halted-on-nasdaq-listed-securities/?intcmp=obnetwork|title='Flash Freeze' on Wall Street: Nasdaq Paralyzed by 3-Hour Halt - Fox Business|first=Matt|last=Egan|website=Fox Business|date=August 22, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924040031/http://www.foxbusiness.com/investing/2013/08/22/trading-halted-on-nasdaq-listed-securities/?intcmp=obnetwork|archive-date=September 24, 2015|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}
  • August 23
  • Former U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan is convicted of multiple murder and attempted murder counts in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting.{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/23/justice/nidal-hasan-court-martial-friday/index.html|title=Nidal Hasan convicted in Fort Hood shootings |first=Chelsea J. |last=Carter|date=August 23, 2013 |publisher=CNN|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • Former U.S. Army Sergeant Robert Bales is sentenced to life in prison without parole for the killing of 16 Afghan civilians in March 2012.{{cite web|url=http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/23/20155554-soldier-accused-of-massacre-of-afghan-villagers-gets-life-without-parole?lite=|title=Soldier accused of massacre of Afghan villagers gets life without parole - NBC News|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • Bob Filner, mayor of San Diego, California, agrees to resign on August 30 over sexual harassment allegations.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-diego-mayor-bob-filner-resigns-20130823-story.html|title=San Diego Mayor Bob Filner out Aug. 30, apologizes to victims|first=Los Angeles|last=Times|website=Los Angeles Times|date=August 23, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • August 27 – The Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park grows to about 281 square miles.{{cite web|url=http://www.scpr.org/news/2013/08/27/38900/rim-fire-yosemite-wildfire-now-7th-largest-in-cali/|title=Rim Fire: Yosemite wildfire now 7th largest in Calif. history (map, photos)|first=Southern California Public|last=Radio|date=August 27, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • August 28 – Former U.S. Army Major and psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan is sentenced to death for the November 5, 2009, Fort Hood massacre that killed 13 and wounded 32 others. He will be granted an automatic appeal; the Army general (convening authority) who will review the case can grant him life without parole; any eventual military execution would need presidential approval.{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/28/us/nidal-hasan-sentencing/index.html|title=Fort Hood shooting jury recommends death penalty for Nidal Hasan |first=Bill |last=Mears|date=August 28, 2013 |publisher=CNN|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • August 29 – The NFL reaches a $765 million settlement of concussion-related lawsuits.{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nfl-players-reach-proposed-765m-settlement-of-concussion-related-lawsuits|title=NFL, players reach proposed $765M settlement of concussion-related lawsuits - Fox News|website=Fox News|date=August 29, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • August 30 – Syrian civil war: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says that Syrian government forces killed 1,429 people in the August 21 chemical weapons attack.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23906913|title=Syria chemical weapons attack killed 1,429, says John Kerry|work=BBC News|date=August 30, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • August 31 – WeSeed free website officially closes.

= September =

  • September 2
  • The new eastern span of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to the public ahead of the schedule after more than a decade of construction to replace the old span which was damaged during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.[http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local/new-bay-bridge-opens-traffic/nZkJ8/ KTVU] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202235839/http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local/new-bay-bridge-opens-traffic/nZkJ8/ |date=2013-12-02 }}
  • Verizon Communications agrees to acquire Vodafone's stake in Verizon Wireless for $130 billion, the third largest M&A deal ever.{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vodafone-verizon-idUSBRE97S08C20130902|title=Verizon, Vodafone agree $130 billion Wireless deal|date=September 2, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016|newspaper=Reuters|last1=Carew|first1=Kate Holton}}
  • September 3
  • The Cleveland, Ohio, kidnapper Ariel Castro dies, apparently committing suicide by hanging.{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/04/justice/ariel-castro-cleveland-kidnapper-death/index.html|title=Ariel Castro dead: Cleveland kidnapper commits suicide in prison |author1=Lateef Mungin |author2=Dave Alsup|date=September 4, 2013 |publisher=CNN|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • Microsoft purchases Nokia's mobile device division for $7.2 billion.[http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2013/09/02/microsoft-to-buy-nokia-devices-business/ MarketWatchPulse] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130906064032/http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2013/09/02/microsoft-to-buy-nokia-devices-business/ |date=2013-09-06 }}
  • September 8–9 – In US Open tennis, Serena Williams wins the women's singles final,{{cite web |title=Serena Williams beats Victoria Azarenka - as it happened {{!}} US Open tennis 2013 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/sep/08/serena-williams-victoria-azarenka-live |website=The Guardian |date=September 8, 2013 |access-date=May 13, 2021}} and Rafael Nadal wins the men's singles final the following day.{{cite web |last1=Pengelly |first1=Martin |title=Novak Djokovic vs Rafael Nadal: US Open final – live! |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/sep/09/us-open-finals-2013-nadal-djokovic-live |website=The Guardian |access-date=May 13, 2021 |date=September 10, 2013}}
  • September 9–16 – In Colorado at least eight people are dead,{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/19/us/colorado-flooding/index.html|title=Colorado flood toll rises to 7 dead, 3 presumed dead |first=Matt |last=Smith|date=September 19, 2013 |publisher=CNN|access-date=July 16, 2016}} 648 unaccounted for, and $2 billion in property losses from flooding.{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2013/09/13/3-dead-in-colorado-floods/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130913113958/http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2013/09/13/3-dead-in-colorado-floods/|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 13, 2013|title=At least 4 dead, thousands evacuated as Colorado flooding cuts off mountain towns|website=Fox News|date=September 13, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.9news.com/rss/article/355149/339/4-killed-80-unaccounted-for-in-Colorado-floods|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130923234202/http://www.9news.com/rss/article/355149/339/4-killed-80-unaccounted-for-in-Colorado-floods|url-status=dead|title=4 killed, 181 unaccounted for in Colorado floods - 9news.com|date=September 23, 2013|archive-date=September 23, 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-colorado-floods-20130916,0,3692981.story|title=Rain thwarts Colorado air rescues|first1=Jenny|last1=Deam|first2=Matt|last2=Pearce|date=September 16, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016|via=Los Angeles Times}}
  • September 14 – In the Syrian civil war, the United States and Russia reach a deal on Syrian chemical weapons.{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/14/us-russia-reach-deal-syria-chemical-weapons/|title=US, Russia reach deal on Syria chemical weapons|newspaper=The Washington Times|access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{Cite news |date=2013-09-15 |title=Syria will implement arms deal once it has UN approval |language=en-AU |work=ABC News |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-15/syria-hails-us-russia-deal/4959286 |access-date=2023-06-15}}
  • September 15 – Nina Davuluri, Miss New York 2013, wins the 87th Miss America pageant.{{citation needed|date=November 2013}}
  • September 16 – A gunman opens fire at Washington, D.C.'s Naval Yard; with twelve victims killed and eight injured. The perpetrator, Aaron Alexis, was killed by arriving police officers. It is the second worst shooting on a military base after the 2009 Fort Hood shooting.{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/other/gunman-kills-least-12-washington-navy-yard-gathering-weapons-along-f8C11167492|title=Gunman kills at least 12 at Washington Navy Yard, gathering weapons along the way|first1=Jim|last1=Miklaszewski|first2=Pete|last2=Williams|first3=Richard|last3=Esposito|first4=Erin|last4=McClam|website=NBC News|date=September 17, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/police-search-for-active-shooter-on-grounds-of-washington-navy-yard-in-southeast-dc/2013/09/16/b1d72b9a-1ecb-11e3-b7d1-7153ad47b549_story.html|title=At least 13 dead in Navy Yard shooting; possible suspect at large|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/16/us/dc-navy-yard-gunshots/index.html|title=Navy Yard shooting rampage: 12 killed, dead suspect identified |author1=Barbara Starr |author2=Catherine E. Shoichet |author3=Pamela Brown|date=September 16, 2013 |publisher=CNN|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • September 18 – Cygnus 1 (also known as Orbital Sciences COTS Demo Flight) launches the first planned flight of the Orbital Sciences' uncrewed cargo spacecraft Cygnus, its first flight to the International Space Station and the second launch of the company's Antares launch vehicle. The flight is under contract to NASA as Cygnus' demonstration mission in the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. The launch site is MARS on the Delmarva Peninsula in Virginia.{{cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/content/cygnus-en-route-for-sunday-rendezvous-with-station/index.html|title=Cygnus En Route for Sunday Rendezvous With Station|first=Jerry|last=Wright|date=April 4, 2015|access-date=July 16, 2016|archive-date=June 26, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140626124730/http://www.nasa.gov/content/cygnus-en-route-for-sunday-rendezvous-with-station/index.html|url-status=dead}}
  • September 22 – The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards are held in Los Angeles, California, with Breaking Bad winning the best drama and Modern Family winning the best comedy.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/emmy-awards-2013-breaking-bad-modern-family-win-top-honors/|title=Emmy Awards 2013: "Breaking Bad," "Modern Family" win top honors|website=CBS News|date=September 22, 2013 |access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • September 23 – The Blacklist debuts on NBC.{{cite news |url=http://thefutoncritic.com/news/2013/06/21/nbc-announces-fall-premiere-dates-for-new-season-628112/20130621nbc01/ |title=NBC Announces Fall Premiere Dates for New Season |work=The Futon Critic |access-date=June 21, 2013}}
  • September 24 – Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Goldbergs, Trophy Wife and Lucky 7 premieres on ABC.{{cite web|url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/07/16/abc-sets-premiere-dates-for-2013-2014-season-including-s-h-i-e-l-d-once-upon-a-time-in-wonderland-modern-family-scandal-more/192284/ |title=ABC Sets Premiere Dates for 2013–2014 Season Including 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.', 'Once Upon a Time in Wonderland' & More |publisher=TV By the Numbers |access-date=July 16, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130719052314/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/07/16/abc-sets-premiere-dates-for-2013-2014-season-including-s-h-i-e-l-d-once-upon-a-time-in-wonderland-modern-family-scandal-more/192284/ |archive-date=July 19, 2013 }}

= October =

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  • October 1–16 – Debt-ceiling crisis: Following tensions between the largely Democratic Senate and the largely Republican House of Representatives regarding the Affordable Care Act while voting on the mandatory budget for the 2014 fiscal year, Congress ultimately reaches a stalemate, resulting in a shutdown of all federal government departments deemed nonessential by the Antideficiency Act. Hundreds of thousands of federal government workers in these departments are temporarily furloughed. The juxtaposition of the shutdown poses a major threat to the United States economy, as it looms very closely to the date of the mandatory raising of the debt ceiling. The shutdown ends with Congress voting to postpone debates over the debt ceiling until February 2014. It is the first federal government shutdown since the 1995-96 shutdown under the Clinton administration.{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/16/government-shutdown-debt-ceiling_n_4111483.html |title=Huffington Post: Shutdown Over, Debt Ceiling Raised |publisher=Huffington Post |date=2013-10-16 |access-date=2013-10-17 |first=Michael |last=McAuliff}}
  • October 3
  • Miriam Carey, a 34-year-old woman with a history of mental health issues, who was a New York and Connecticut-licensed dental hygienist, is shot and killed by police in Washington, D.C. The incident leads to a lockdown in the city.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24392014|title=Police chase in Washington ends in shooting and crash|work=BBC News|date=October 3, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • Adobe reveals that 2.9 million customers' data was stolen in security breach which included credit card information.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24392819|title=Adobe in source code and customer data security breach|work=BBC News|date=October 4, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • October 8 – The new United States $100 bill with increased security features is released into circulation.{{cite web|url=http://www.uscurrency.gov/media/news/federal-reserve-announces-day-issue-redesigned-100-note |title=Federal Reserve Announces Day of Issue of Redesigned $100 Note |date=April 23, 2013 |publisher=U.S. Currency Education Program |access-date=2020-07-06 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/10/07/100-dollar-bill/2936097/|title=New currency out Tuesday: 411 on the new $100|publisher=USA Today|date=October 7, 2013}}
  • October 9 – The FBI raids a warehouse in Edison, New Jersey, and arrests nine members of the New York divorce coercion gang,{{cite news |title=Rabbi Sentenced for Role in Divorce-Coercion Ring |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/nyregion/rabbi-sentenced-for-role-in-divorce-coercion-ring.html |access-date=March 14, 2019 |agency=Associated Press |work=The New York Times |date=December 14, 2015}} with ringleader Mendel Epstein being arrested separately in Brooklyn, New York.Bandler, Jonathan; Lieberman, Steve (October 10, 2013) [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/10/rabbis-fbi-divorce-sting/2959369/ "FBI Arrests N.Y. Rabbis in Jewish Divorce-gang Probe], USA Today
  • October 11 – The two-year-old son of NFL player Adrian Peterson (2012 AP NFL MVP) dies at a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, hospital due to injuries sustained during an alleged assault by the boyfriend of the child's mother, Joseph Robert Patterson.{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/vikings/2013/10/11/adrian-peterson-son-critical-condition/2966015/ |title=Adrian Peterson's son, 2, dies; man charged with abuse |last=Schrotenboer |first=Brent |work=USA Today | date=October 11, 2013 |access-date=October 11, 2013 }}
  • October 14 – The Thundermans debuts on Nickelodeon.{{cite news | url=http://thefutoncritic.com/news/2013/10/23/the-thundermans-takes-off-on-nickelodeon-385303/20131023nickelodeon01/ | title="The Thundermans" Takes Off on Nickelodeon | work=The Futon Critic | access-date=October 23, 2013}}
  • October 21
  • The state of Michigan's New Energy to Reinvent and Diversify Fund (NERD) is closing down.{{cite news |url=http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/10/snyder_nerd_fund_closing_michi.html |title=Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's NERD Fund to close amidst ongoing calls for transparency |first=Jonathon |last=Oosting |publisher=Mlive.com |date=October 21, 2013 |accessdate=October 25, 2013}}
  • New Jersey becomes the fourteenth state to legalize same-sex marriage.{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/21/us/new-jersey-same-sex-marriage/ |title =Same-sex marriages start in New Jersey, 14th state to recognize such unions |publisher=CNN |author=Ed Payne |date=2013-10-21 |access-date=2013-11-13}}
  • October 30 – In Major League Baseball, the Boston Red Sox win the World Series defeating the St. Louis Cardinals 4 games to 2. This is the first series to be won in Boston by the Red Sox since 1918.{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/home-red-sox-hope-win-title-fenway-20722713|title=ABC Sports News|work=ABC News|access-date=July 16, 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2013/10/30/red-sox-win-game-6-world-series-championship-cardinals/3320331/|title=Red Sox savor title, and comfort of home|website=USA Today|access-date=July 16, 2016|quote="It has been 95 years since the Red Sox last won a World Series championship at Fenway, and it was as if everyone wanted to remember this moment, just in case it doesn't happen again this century."}}

= November =

  • November 1 – A gunman suspected to be 23-year-old Paul Ciancia opens fire at the Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California, killing one Transportation Security Administration officer and injuring an additional six people. The apprehended suspect sustains several gunshot wounds from police officers and survives. A handwritten note is later found in Ciancia's bag describing his desire to kill TSA officers and "pigs". A text message sent to one of his siblings suggests he was suicidal.{{cite news |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/02/lax-shooting-tsa_n_4200467.html |title=LAX Shooting: TSA Officer Killed, Others Hurt |publisher=Huffington Post |author=Justin Pritchard and Tami Abdollah |access-date=2013-11-02 |date=November 2, 2013}}
  • November 3 – Daylight saving time ends.{{cite web |url=http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html |title=Daylight Saving Time: When do we change our clocks? |author=Web Exhibits |access-date=2013-11-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200123080746/http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html |archive-date=2020-01-23 |url-status=dead }}
  • November 8 – Thor: The Dark World, directed by Alan Taylor, is released by Marvel Studios as the eighth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the sequel to 2011's Thor.
  • November 13
  • Hawaii becomes the fifteenth state to legalize same-sex marriage. Legal marriages begin on December 2.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}}
  • Four U.S. Marines are killed in an accident involving an unexploded ordnance at Camp Pendleton in San Diego County, California. Two Marines and one Navy hospital worker nearby sustain minor injuries.{{cite web|url=http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Marines-Killed-Maintenance-Incident-Camp-Pendleton-231808091.html |title=4 Marines Killed at Camp Pendleton |author=Monica Garske, R. Stickney and Greg Bledsoe |publisher=NBC News San Diego |date=2013-11-13 |access-date=2013-11-13}}{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marines-killed-at-camp-pendleton-were-doing-dangerous-job/ |title=Four Marines killed at Camp Pendleton identified |work=CBS News |date=2013-11-14 |access-date=2013-11-15}}
  • November 18 – MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) launches as a space exploration mission to send a space probe to orbit Mars and study its atmosphere. After its scheduled September 22, 2014 Martian orbital insertion, it will help determine what caused the Martian atmosphere—and water—to be lost to space, making the climate increasingly inhospitable for life.{{cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/hostile_mars.html|title=NASA - New NASA Missions to Investigate How Mars Turned Hostile|website=www.nasa.gov|access-date=December 7, 2012|archive-date=January 31, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131041546/http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/hostile_mars.html|url-status=dead}}
  • November 19 – In the largest-ever settlement with the U.S. government, banking giant JPMorgan Chase agrees to pay $13 billion and admits to making serious misrepresentations over mortgage-backed securities.{{cite web|url=http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2013/11/19/jpm-settlement/|title=JPMorgan Chase Inks $13B Settlement, Admits Misrepresenting MBS - Fox Business|first=Matt|last=Egan|website=Fox Business|date=November 19, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151101182932/http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2013/11/19/jpm-settlement/|archive-date=November 1, 2015|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}
  • November 20 – Illinois becomes the sixteenth state to legalize same-sex marriage. Provisions of the bill will not go into effect until June 1, next year.{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-illinois-gay-marriage-bill-signing-20131120,0,4464600.story |title=Quinn to sign Illinois gay marriage bill this afternoon |author=Monique Garcia |publisher=Chicago Tribune |date=2013-11-20 |access-date=2013-11-20}}
  • November 21 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes 16,000 for the first time and gaining 109.17 points at 16,009.99.{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-21/u-s-stock-index-futures-advance-before-jobless-report.html|title=Dow Closes Above 16,000 on Jobless Claims, Buybacks |newspaper=Bloomberg.com |publisher=Bloomberg L.P.|date=November 22, 2013|access-date=July 11, 2014}}
  • November 22
  • Crystal Mangum, the false rape accuser in the Duke lacrosse case, is found guilty of murdering her boyfriend Reginald Daye and sentenced to 14–18 years in prison.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-25061046|title=Duke rape accuser guilty of murder|work=BBC News|date=November 22, 2013}}
  • Walt Disney Animation Studios' 53rd feature film, Frozen, is released in theatres. Considered by some to be on the level of the studio's Renaissance-era output, the film receives critical acclaim and is by far their biggest commercial success at that point, grossing $1.280 billion in worldwide revenue throughout its run. To date, it is the most recent fairy tale adaptation that the studio has produced.
  • November 30 – Actor Paul Walker, and friend Roger Rodas, are killed in a single-vehicle accident when their Porsche Carrera GT catches on fire and disintegrates after hitting a lamp post and striking two trees while going over 100 MPH in Santa Clarita, California. After being notified of Walker's death, Universal announces Furious 7 will be delayed

= December =

  • December 1 – At least four are dead and 63 others injured following a Metro-North Railroad train derailment near Spuyten Duyvil, The Bronx, New York City.{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/01/travel/new-york-train-derails/index.html|title=New York derailment kills 4, hurts dozens |author1=Eden Pontz |author2=Catherine E. Shoichet |author3=AnneClaire Stapleton|date=December 2013 |publisher=CNN|access-date=July 16, 2016}} Preliminary reports by the NTSB determine that the train was traveling at 82 miles per hour; the speed limit for the section of track involved is 30 miles per hour.
  • December 2 – In the New Hampshire's U.S. District Court, the former medical technician David Kwiatkowski is sentenced to 39 years in prison for infecting unknown numbers of patients in various states with hepatitis C through the reuse of his contaminated syringes.{{Cite web |date=2015-03-25 |title=New Hampshire hospital worker gets 39 years in hepatitis case |url=https://www.foxnews.com/health/new-hampshire-hospital-worker-gets-39-years-in-hepatitis-case |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=Associated Press |language=en-US}}
  • December 6
  • The United States Labor Department says that unemployment rate fell to 5-year low of 7 percent as employers added 203,000 jobs.{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-unemployment-rate-falls-to-5-year-low-of-7-percent-as-employers-add-203000-jobs|title=US unemployment rate falls to 5-year low of 7 percent as employers add 203,000 jobs - Fox News|website=Fox News|date=December 6, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • A record cold wave strikes with at least a dozen deaths due to ice storms.{{cite web|url=http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremes/records/daily/prcp/2013/12/06?sts%5B%5D=US#records_look_up|title=U.S. Daily Precipitation Records set on December 6, 2013 | Extremes | National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)|publisher=Ncdc.noaa.gov|access-date=2013-12-08}}{{Dead link|date=June 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web |url=http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremes/records/daily/snow/2013/12/06?sts%5B%5D=US#records_look_up |title=U.S. Daily Snowfall Records set on December 6, 2013 | Extremes | National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) |publisher=Ncdc.noaa.gov |access-date=2013-12-08 }}{{Dead link|date=June 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web|url=http://www.wunderground.com/US/tx/dallas.html |title=Dallas, TX Weather Forecast from Weather Underground |publisher=Wunderground.com |access-date=2013-12-06}}{{cite web|url=http://weather.wfaa.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?brand=wfaa&target=wfaa&query=Dallas,TX |title=wfaa.com | Weather | Dallas, Texas (75201) Conditions & Forecast |publisher=Weather.wfaa.com |access-date=2013-12-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211011500/http://weather.wfaa.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?brand=wfaa&target=wfaa&query=Dallas%2CTX |archive-date=2013-12-11 }}{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2013/12/07/us-storm-weather-snow-sleet-ice/3901673/ |title=Snow, sleet and ice drive into eastern USA |publisher=Usatoday.com |date=2013-12-07 |access-date=2013-12-23}}
  • December 9 – American Airlines Group is formed from the merger of AMR Corporation and US Airways Group and begins trading on the NASDAQ.{{Cite web |last= |date=2013-12-09 |title=American Airlines-US Airways merger becomes official |url=https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mo-american-airlines-us-airways-merger-20131209-story.html |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}
  • December 12
  • An ammonia cooling pump on the International Space Station malfunctions, requiring suspension of some non-critical systems.{{Cite web |last=Shoichet |first=John Zarrella, Catherine E. |date=2013-12-11 |title=Cooling pump fails on International Space Station; six-man crew OK |url=https://www.cnn.com/2013/12/11/us/international-space-station-cooling-problem/index.html |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=CNN |language=en}}
  • The United States Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the federal bus safety regulator, shuts down 52 bus line companies in a major nationwide crackdown on unsafe outfits.{{Cite web |title=Stock Portfolio & Tracker - Yahoo Finance |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/portfolios/ |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=finance.yahoo.com |language=en-US}}
  • December 13
  • A gunman identified as Karl Pierson opens fire at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colorado. Pierson kills one girl before committing suicide.{{cite web|url=http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/arapahoe-hs-shooting/karl-pierson-identified-as-arapahoe-high-school-gunman-who-shot-2-students-while-targeting-librarian |title=Karl Pierson identified as Arapahoe High School gunman who shot student while targeting librarian |publisher=The Denver Channel |author=TheDenverChannel.com Team |date=2013-12-13 |access-date=2013-12-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214200210/http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/arapahoe-hs-shooting/karl-pierson-identified-as-arapahoe-high-school-gunman-who-shot-2-students-while-targeting-librarian |archive-date=2013-12-14 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/national/arapahoe-high-school-shooting-reported-at-colorado-school-possibly-two-victims |title=Dead Colorado school shooter wanted 'revenge' on faculty member, sheriff says |publisher=WPTV |author=TheDenverChannel.com Team |date=2013-12-13 |access-date=2013-12-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216040921/http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/national/arapahoe-high-school-shooting-reported-at-colorado-school-possibly-two-victims |archive-date=2013-12-16 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/13/arapahoe-high-school-shooting_n_4441538.html |title=Arapahoe High School shooting leave student injured, 1 dead |publisher=Huffington Post |date=2013-12-13 |access-date=2013-12-13 |first=Hilary |last=Hanson}}{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/17-year-old-shot-at-colorado-high-school-dies|title=17-year-old shot at Colorado high school dies - Fox News|website=Fox News|date=December 22, 2013|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • The U.S. National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable internet advertisers to track consumers, such tools are known as cookies; specifically, Google cookies are being tracked in order to determine targets for hacking.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}}
  • December 14 – Florida State University quarterback Jameis Winston wins the Heisman Trophy as the most outstanding player in U.S. college football.{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2013/12/14/jameis-winston-heisman-trophy-florida-state/4026843/|title=Florida State's Jameis Winston wins Heisman Trophy|website=USA Today|access-date=July 16, 2016}}
  • December 15 – Japanese-born British and American actress Joan Fontaine, best known for her two roles under Alfred Hitchcock (Rebecca, Suspicion), and the sister of Olivia de Havilland, dies at the age of 96.{{Cite web |last=Barnes |first=Mike |date=2013-12-15 |title=Legendary Actress Joan Fontaine Dies at 96 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/actress-joan-fontaine-dies-rebecca-suspicion-665831/ |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}
  • December 16 – For an undisclosed price, Google acquires the robot-making company Boston Dynamics which had previously been contracted by the U.S. military.{{Cite web |last=Petroff |first=Alanna |date=2013-12-16 |title=Google buys maker of fast, military robots |url=https://money.cnn.com/2013/12/16/technology/google-boston-dynamics-robots/index.html |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=CNNMoney}}
  • December 17
  • Six American troops die after their helicopter crashes in Afghanistan.{{Cite web |date=2015-03-25 |title=6 American troops killed in Afghanistan helicopter crash |url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/6-american-troops-killed-in-afghanistan-helicopter-crash |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=Fox News |language=en-US}}
  • A gunman is dead after shooting and killing one person and wounding two others at the Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nevada.[https://web.archive.org/web/20190225162043/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/gunman-shoots-4-kills-himself-at-reno-hospital/2013/12/17/3e2958b4-6771-11e3-997b-9213b17dac97_story.html The Washington Post] The Washington Post
  • A report by the American nonprofit investigative news organization The Center for Public Integrity details that the U.S. Federal Election Commission was hacked by China during the October 2013 federal government shutdown.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}}
  • December 18 – An EPA employee who committed fraud regarding his vacation pay is sentenced to 32 months in prison. John C. Beale had perpetrated a scam whereby he disappeared from work for years at a time saying he was a covert CIA agent.{{Cite web |date=2015-03-25 |title=EPA fraudster sentenced for 'outrageous' CIA scam |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/epa-fraudster-sentenced-for-outrageous-cia-scam |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=Fox News |language=en-US}}
  • December 19
  • Target Corporation and the United States Secret Service say that more than 40 million credit and debit cards used in Target stores may have been compromised due to a data breach.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2013-12-18 |title=Target: 40 million credit cards compromised |url=https://money.cnn.com/2013/12/18/news/companies/target-credit-card/index.html |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=CNNMoney}}
  • Same-sex marriage is legalized in the U.S. state of New Mexico.http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/Same-sex-marriage-ruled-legal-by-NM-s-high-court-5078750.php San Francisco Chronicle
  • December 20
  • Utah becomes the eighteenth state to legalize same-sex marriage when District Court Judge Robert J. Shelby strikes down Amendment 3 of Utah's Constitution.{{cite news |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/21/utah-gay-weddings_n_4485296.html |title=Utah Gay Weddings Begin Right After Judge Overturns Same-Sex Marriage Ban |author=Brady McCombs and Paul Foy |publisher=Huffington Post |date=2013-12-21 |access-date=2013-12-21}}{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/20/justice/utah-same-sex-marriage-ruling/ |title=In Utah, judge's ruling ignites same-sex marriage frenzy |author=Tom Watkins |publisher=CNN |date=2013-12-20 |access-date=2013-12-21}}
  • At least five people die as the early 2014 North American cold wave begins.{{cite web|url=http://www.today.com/video/today/53896129#53892699 |title=Severe weather causing holiday travel headaches - Video on |publisher=Today.com |access-date=2013-12-23}}{{cite news|url=http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2013/12/19/from-snow-to-tornadoes-christmas-travel-in-jeopardy-for-millions |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221043709/http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2013/12/19/from-snow-to-tornadoes-christmas-travel-in-jeopardy-for-millions/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 21, 2013 |title=From Snow to Tornadoes: Christmas Travel in Jeopardy for Millions |publisher=Fox News |date=2013-12-19 |access-date=2013-12-24}}{{cite news|url=http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/12/22/storms-in-southern-us-kill-2-in-mississippi-thousands-lose-power-damage |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131222225509/http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/12/22/storms-in-southern-us-kill-2-in-mississippi-thousands-lose-power-damage/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 22, 2013 |title=Storms in southern US kill 2 in Mississippi; thousands lose power, damage widespread |publisher=Fox News |date= December 22, 2013|access-date=2013-12-24}}
  • December 22 – Black market sales begin of credit and debit card data which was compromised due to a Target Corporation data breach.{{Cite web |date=2015-03-25 |title=Debit and credit cards stolen in Target breach reportedly for sale in underground black markets |url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/debit-and-credit-cards-stolen-in-target-breach-reportedly-for-sale-in-underground-black-markets |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=Fox News |language=en-US}}
  • December 24
  • American Express is ordered to pay $75.7 million in restitution and fines to customers and federal regulators over billing people for services they never received.[https://web.archive.org/web/20131227022122/http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-12-24/amex-settles-with-u-dot-s-dot-regulators-over-marketing-of-card-add-ons] Bloomberg
  • Two NASA astronauts at the International Space Station complete a series of spacewalks to replace a faulty ammonia coolant pump.{{Cite web |date=2015-03-25 |title=Astronauts make rare Christmas Eve spacewalk |url=https://www.foxnews.com/science/astronauts-make-rare-christmas-eve-spacewalk |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=Associated Press |language=en-US}}http://www.nasa.gov/content/stations-replacement-pump-successfully-restarted/index.htmlNASA NASA.gov]{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • The deadline for U.S. residents to sign up without penalty for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.[https://archive.today/20131226112409/http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/12/22/monday-deadline-for-obamacare-is-milestone-and-marker-uncertainty/] Fox News
  • December 25 – An unnamed gunman shoots three teenagers, two fatally, in a neighborhood near Interstate 78 in Newark, New Jersey. This occurs shortly after three other men are killed and two more wounded by a shooting at a strip club in Irvington.{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/26/newark-shooting-christmas-night_n_4502580.html |title=Newark Shooting: 2 Teens Killed, 1 Critically Injured On Christmas Night |publisher=Huffington Post |date=2013-12-26 |access-date=2013-12-26}}
  • December 26 – President Barack Obama signs the 2013 bipartisan budget deal, which successfully passed through the mostly Republican House and the mostly Democratic Senate, easing spending cuts and including a projected $85 billion in savings for the next two years.{{cite news |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/26/obama-budget-deal_n_4479638.html |title=Obama Signs Bipartisan Budget Deal, Easing Spending Cuts Over the Next 12 Years |publisher=Huffington Post |date=2013-12-26 |access-date=2013-12-26 |first=Chris |last=Gentilviso}}

= Ongoing =

Births

  • June 15 – North West, daughter of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian{{Cite web |last=Johnson |first=Zach |date=2013-06-26 |title=Kris Jenner Defends Granddaughter North West's Name on The View |url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/kris-jenner-defends-granddaughter-north-wests-name-on-the-view-2013266/ |access-date=2023-01-06 |website=Us Weekly |language=en-US}}

Deaths

= January =

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= February =

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** Mary Brave Bird, writer, civil rights activist, and wife of Leonard Crow Dog (b. 1954)

= March =

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= April =

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= May =

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= June =

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= July =

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= August =

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= September =

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= October =

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= November =

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{{cite news|title=Peter B. Lewis dead at 80|agency=Associated Press|date=November 23, 2013|access-date=March 20, 2016|url=http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/local/peter-b-lewis-dead-at/article_cd5b89cc-54b5-11e3-b9d9-001a4bcf887a.html}}

= December =

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See also

References

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