Today in History

December 13

1916 - About 9,000 Austro-Hungarian troops are killed in avalanche in the Alps.

1957 - An estimated 1,062 people are killed by an earthquake in western Iran. 1988 - Gulam Ishaq Khan is sworn in as Pakistan President.

1993 - Eduardo Frei becomes Chilean President in the first democratic election in two decades.

2001 - Five armed terrorists, including a suicide bomber, storm India’s Parliament House, resulting in the deaths of 14 people.

2003 - Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussain is captured near his hometown of Tikrit.

2011 - The Palestinian flag is raised at the Paris headquarters of Unesco.

2015 - Seventeen women win seats in a local municipal council election in Saudi Arabia.