Today in History

September 13

1918 - Train accident at Weesp, the Netherlands, kills 42.

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

1943 - Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of China.

1991 - The US and the Soviet Union agree to discontinue their military aid to government and rebel forces in Afghanistan.

1993 - Palestine and Israel sign a peace accord in Oslo. 1998 - The Yugoslav republic of Montenegro deports thousands of Kosovo refugees to Albania.

2006 - Abu Dhabi to get

Cleveland hospital.

2008 - A series of bombs rocks New Delhi, India and kills more than 30 people.

2009 - A fire raps through a decrepit drugs treatment facility in Kazakhstan.

2015 - California declares state of emergency as raging wildfires spread.