In late December, the American army moved from Whitemarsh to Valley Forge, and although the distance was only 13 miles, the journey took more than a week because of the bad weather, the barefooted and almost naked men.

At December 13, 1960 the fund held by the Industrial National Bank of Providence, as trustee for payment of past and future service pensions to qualified members of the plan, totaled $2,412,616.

Pope Leo 13, on the 13th day of December 1898, granted the following indulgences: `` An indulgence of three hundred days is granted to all the Faithful who read the Holy Gospels at least a quarter of an hour.

Gershwin brought back some Parisian taxi horns for the New York premiere of the composition, which took place on December 13, 1928 in Carnegie Hall, with Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Symphony.

On the December 13, 2010 episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen reads a passage of A Modest Proposal in support of Ted Turner's suggestions on reducing overpopulation by having poor people sell ( to rich people ) their right to bear a single child per family.

" Histoire et Science Sociale: La Longue Durée " ( 1958 ) Annales E. S. C., 13: 4 October – December 1958, 725 – 753

* He married, on December 7, 1929 ( civil ), in Aix-les-Bains, France, and December 13, 1929 ( religious ), in Bombay, India, Andrée Joséphine Carron ( 1898 – 1976 ).

Alexander Selkirk ( 1676 – 13 December 1721 ) was a Scottish sailor who spent four years as a castaway after being marooned on an uninhabited island.

According to the ship's log, Selkirk died at 8 p. m. on 13 December 1721 while serving as a lieutenant on board the Royal ship Weymouth.

On December 11, 13 games into his first NFL season as head coach, Bobby Petrino resigned without notice to coach at the University of Arkansas, leaving the beleaguered players only a note in the locker room.

This production transferred to Broadway on December 13, 2009, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones as Desiree and Angela Lansbury as Madame Armfeldt.

The 2008 Menier Chocolate Factory production opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in previews on November 24, 2009 and officially on December 13, 2009, with the same creative team.

On December 13, 2001, George W. Bush gave Russia notice of the United States ' withdrawal from the treaty, in accordance with the clause that required six months ' notice before terminating the pact — the first time in recent history that the United States has withdrawn from a major international arms treaty.

* December 13, 1975 episode ( host: Richard Pryor ) – sick

The NASA Constellation Program announced Altair as the name of the Lunar Surface Access Module ( LSAM ) on December 13, 2007.

A bocce player of note is Umberto Granaglia ( May 20, 1931 – December 13, 2008 ), who was awarded the honor of " Player of the Twentieth Century " by the Confédération Mondiale des Sports de Boules.

On December 13, 2007, former U. S. Senator George J. Mitchell released his report on the use of performance-enhancing substances by MLB players.

*" 53 On Missing Craft Are Reported Saved ", The Washington Post, December 13, 1925.

Mexico reasserted its claim over Clipperton Island late in the 19th century, and on December 13, 1897, sent the gunboat La Democrata to occupy and annex it.

It was only on 13 December 1989 that the governing League of Communists of Croatia agreed to legalize opposition political parties and hold free elections in the spring of 1990.

$ 13. 67 billion ( 31 December 2007 est.

It convened in Trent ( the capital of the Prince-Bishopric of Trent of the Holy Roman Empire, in Italy ) between December 13, 1545, and December 4, 1563 in twenty-five sessions for three periods.

Unable, however, to resist the urging of Charles V, the pope, after proposing Mantua as the place of meeting, convened the council at Trent ( at that time a free city of the Holy Roman Empire under a prince-bishop ), on December 13, 1545 ; the Pope's decision to transfer it to Bologna in March, 1547 on the pretext of avoiding a plague failed to take effect and the Council was indefinitely prorogued on 17 September 1549.

Chaplin arrived in Los Angeles, home of the Keystone studio, in early December 1913.

The US Federal Reserve was created by the U. S. Congress through the passing of The Federal Reserve Act in the Senate and its signing by President Woodrow Wilson on the same day, December 23, 1913.

It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, largely in response to a series of financial panics, particularly a severe panic in 1907.

Bernardo Reyes ( 1850 – 1913 ), whose brutality as Governor of Nuevo León in 1903 resulted in Madero's politicization, and who launched a rebellion against Madero in Nuevo León in December 1911.

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The initial expedition started, probably unwisely, on December 9, 1913, at the height of the rainy season.

Thomas Woodrow Wilson ( December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924 ) was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921.

The final plan passed in December 1913.

* December 12 – Josef Bican, Czech-Austrian footballer ( b. 1913 )

* December 3 – Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist ( b. 1913 )

* December 15 – Evelyn Venable, American actress ( b. 1913 )

* December 31 – Raimond Valgre, Estonian composer and musician ( b. 1913 )

* December 6 – Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1913 )

* December 18 – George Abecassis, English race car driver ( b. 1913 )

* December 22 – Godfried Bomans, Dutch writer ( b. 1913 )

* December 26 – Robert Lowery, American actor ( b. 1913 )

* December 30 – Dorothy Comingore, American actress ( b. 1913 )

* December 3 – Harry Wismer, American baseball owner ( b. 1913 )

* December 3 – Sourou Migan Apithy, Beninese political figure, former president of Dahomey ( b. 1913 )

* December 25 – Hans von Bartels, German painter ( d. 1913 )