September 13: Feast day of Saint John Chrysostom (Western Christianity)
Mount Kenya
- 1541 – After three years of exile, John Calvin returned to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine that came to be known as Calvinism.
- 1899 – An expedition led by Halford Mackinder made the first ascent of Mount Kenya (pictured), the second-highest mountain in Africa.
- 1933 – Elizabeth McCombs became the first woman elected to the Parliament of New Zealand.
- 1971 – Following a failed coup attempt, Mao Zedong's second-in-command Lin Biao died in a plane crash while attempting to flee the People's Republic of China.
- 2007 – The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, setting out the individual and collective rights of indigenous peoples, as well as their rights to culture, identity, language, employment, health, education and other issues.
Michel de Montaigne (d. 1592) · Marguerite LeHand (b. 1896) · Lili Elbe (d. 1931)
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