Today in History

September 13

1923 - Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes Prime Minister of Spain in a military coup.

1943 - Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of China.

1948 - Margaret Chase Smith becomes the first woman elected to the US Senate, and the first to serve in both houses of Congress.

1979 - An underwater earthquake in Indonesia causes tidal waves that destroy an entire village and kill more than 100 people.

1989 - Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa.

2013 - Indian court sentences four men to death for the fatal gang-rape of a 23-year-old paramedical student on a moving Delhi bus.

2017 - Sharjah and Canada sign a deal on new health care projects.