Efeméride del 13 Septiembre

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1956 : First Hard Drive On September 13, 1956, IBM introduced the first hard drive. Its name is IBM 305 and it contains 5 megabytes of data. 55 years later, an average hard disk has a capacity of 1 million times greater.
1971 : End of the riot at Attica prison in New York On September 13, 1971, an assault by the police ended, in a bloody way, four days of riots in Attica prison in western New York. 29 prisoners and 10 hostages were killed and 80 others were seriously injured. The prisoners demanded better conditions of detention in the overcrowded maximum security prison.
1987 : Nuclear accident in Brazil On September 13, 1987, an object of radiotherapy in an old abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, is taken and handled by different people. The small container of highly radioactive Cesium contaminated 245 people and killed 4 of them.
1993 : Signing of a Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement in Washington On September 13, 1993, at the White House during a ceremony presided over by Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat signed an agreement which marked the start of a Palestinian autonomy and provided the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and part of the West Bank. To everyone's amazement, the two men even shaked hands. This agreement was acted upon but the extremists on both sides did everything to sabotage the peace process and in 1995, Rabin was assassinated.

Yitzhak Rabin
Give peace a chance.

Clara Schumann, Pianista alemana (1819)
John J. Pershing, General americano (1860)
Arthur Henderson, Político inglés, Premio Nobel de la Paz (1863)
Robert Robinson, Químico inglés, Premio Nobel (1886)
Leopold Ruička, Químico croato, Premio Nobel de Química (1887)
J. B. Priestley, Novelista inglés (1894)
Claudette Colbert, Actriz americana (1903)
Roald Dahl, Escritor inglés (1916)
Maurice Jarre, Compositor francés (1924)
Barbara Bain, Actriz americana (1931)
Richard Kiel, Actor americano (1939)
Oscar Arias, Político de Costa Rica, Premio Nobel de la Paz (1940)
Jacqueline Bisset, Actriz inglesa (1944)
Randy Jones, Cantante americano (Village People) (1952)
Alain Ducasse, Chef de Mónaco (1956)
Michael Johnson, Atleta estadounidense (1967)
Goran Ivaniević, Jugador de tenis croato (1971)
Stella McCartney, Diseñadora de moda inglesa (1971)
Christine Arron, Atleta francesa (1973)
Fabio Cannavaro, Futbolista italiano (1973)
Ben Savage, Actor americano (1980)
James Bourne, Cantante inglés (1983)
Kamui Kobayashi, Piloto japonés (1986)

Michel de Montaigne, Escritor francés (1592)
James Wolfe, General inglés (1759)
Nicolas Oudinot, Mariscal francés (1848)
Leopold Stokowski, Conductor de orquesta estadounidense (1977)
Mervyn LeRoy, Director de cine americano (1987)
Joe Pasternak, Productor americano (1991)
Georges Guétary, Cantante francés (1997)
Dorothy McGuire, Actriz americana (2001)
Luis E. Miramontes, Químico mexicano, co-inventor de la progestina (2004)