From left, clockwise:Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classifiedNSA wiretapping information;Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in thePhilippines andSoutheast Asia ; theRana Plaza collapse inBangladesh kills over 1,000 people; the streak from theChelyabinsk meteor that rocketed across theRussian morning sky; protests occur amid thecoup d'état that overthrew PresidentMohamed Morsi ofEgypt ; smoke rises as a result of theWestgate shopping mall attack inNairobi, Kenya , carried out byAl-Shabaab militants; theBoston Marathon bombing marks the first major Islamicterrorist attack in theU.S. since9/11 ;Pope Francis is elected to thePapacy in thepapal conclave . Calendar year
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2013 (MMXIII ) was acommon year starting on Tuesday of theGregorian calendar , the 2013th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 3rd millennium and the21st century , and the 4th year of the2010s decade.
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2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years).
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February 11 - TheEmergency Alert Systems of five different television stations across the U.S. states ofMontana ,Michigan ,Wisconsin , andNew Mexico arehijacked, airing a false "Zombie apocalypse" hoax . It is amongst one of the largest cybersecurity breaches in EAS history.[ 9] [ 10] [importance? February 12 –North Korea conducts itsthird underground nuclear test , prompting widespread condemnation and tightened economic sanctions from the international community.[ 11] [ 12] February 15 – Ameteor explodes over the Russian city ofChelyabinsk , injuring 1,489–1,492 people and damaging over 4,300 buildings. It is the most powerful meteor to strike Earth's atmospherein over a century .[ 13] flyby of a larger asteroid , prompts international concern regarding thevulnerability of the planet to meteor strikes .[ 14] [ 15] February 21 – American scientists use a3D printer to create a living lab-grownear fromcollagen and animal ear cell cultures. In the future, it is hoped that similar ears could be grown to order astransplants for human patients with ear trauma or amputation.[ 16] February 25 –Park Geun-hye becomes the first woman to become the president ofSouth Korea .[ 17] February 28 –Benedict XVI resigns aspope , becoming the first todo so sinceGregory XII in1415 , and the first to do so voluntarily sinceCelestine V in1294 .[ 18] May 14 –18 – TheEurovision Song Contest 2013 takes place inMalmö , Sweden, and is won byDanish entrantEmmelie de Forest with the song "Only Teardrops ".May 15 May 20 – Thelatest EF5 tornado in the United States hitsMoore and several other surrounding areas near Oklahoma City, resulting in 24 deaths and many injuries.[ 38] May 22 – Off-dutyBritish Army soldierFusilier Lee Rigby of theRoyal Regiment of Fusiliers is murdered inWoolwich , southeastLondon , by Islamic terrorists Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale.[ 39] May 31 – Thelargest tornado ever recorded hitsEl Reno , United States. This rain-wrapped,multiple-vortex tornado was thewidest tornado ever recorded, and results in eight deaths, including four storm-chasers. Measurements from mobileweather radars revealed extreme winds up to 296 mph (476 km/h) within the vortex, among the highest observed wind speeds onEarth . As it crossesU.S. 81 , the tornado grows to a record-breaking width of 2.6 miles (4.2 km).[ 40] November 5 – The uncrewedMars Orbiter Mission is launched by India from its launch pad inSriharikota .[ 69] November 8 –Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), one of the strongesttropical cyclones on record, hits thePhilippines andVietnam , causing devastation with at least 6,241 people dead.[ 70] November 12 –Three Studies of Lucian Freud Lucian Freud by theBritish painterFrancis Bacon , sells forUS$ 142.4 million in aNew York City auction, setting a world record for an auctioned work of art.[ 71] [ 72] November 17 November 21 November 24 –Iran agrees to limit theirnuclear development program in exchange for sanctions relief.[ 77] [ 78] November 27 - Disney releases Frozen, which would become the highest-grossing animated movie of all time for many years.November 29 – A police helicoptercrashes into The Clutha, a pub inGlasgow , Scotland, killing 10 people and injuring 31.^a b "United Nations Observances: International Years" .United Nations .Archived from the original on May 8, 2015. 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