September 13
1943
Chiang Kai-Shek became president of China.
1948
Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first woman to have served in both houses of Congress.
1971
The four-day revolt at the maximum security prison in Attica, New York, ended when state police and National Guardsmen stormed the facility. Forty-two people died.
1993
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat shook hands after signing an historic peace agreement.
Birthdays
Walter Reed
1851–1902, American army surgeon, born in Gloucester co., Va.
Milton Hershey
chocolatier, philanthropist (1857)
John J. Pershing
army officer (1860)
Arnold Schoenberg
composer (1874)
Sherwood Anderson
novelist (1876)
J. B. Priestley
author (1894)
Claudette Colbert
movie actress (1903)
Bill Monroe
bluegrass musician (1911)
Roald Dahl
writer (1916)