A bit of December 13th history…
1636 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes 3 militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians; this organization is recognized today as the founding of the US National Guard
1642 - Dutch explorer Abel Tasman sights the South Island of present day New Zealand; initially he calls it Staten Landt and changes it a year later to Nieuw Zeeland
1774 - Paul Revere and Wentworth Cheswell ride to warn Portsmouth of the approach of the British warships
1920 - League of Nations establishes The International Court of Justice in The Hague
1964 - In El Paso, Texas, US President LBJ and Mexican President Gustavo Ordaz set off an explosion diverting the Rio Grande to reshape US-Mexico border
1990 - South African President FW de Klerk meets with Nelson Mandela to talk of end of apartheid
2003 - Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured during Operation Red Dawn by US forces
2006 - The Baiji, or Chinese River Dolphin, announced as extinct (pictured)
2017 - Prehistoric bones of a penguin as tall as a human (5ft 3in) found in New Zealand
A bit of December 13th history… 1636 - The Massachusetts Bay...