📜 This Day in History
December 13
1294Saint Celestine V resigned the papacy after only five months to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit.- 1769Dartmouth College was established by royal charter in present-day Hanover, New Hampshire.
- 1928An American in Paris, a jazz-influenced orchestral piece by George Gershwin, premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York.
- 1960With Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, out of the country, four conspirators staged a coup attempt to install Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen on the throne.
- 1991Croatian War of Independence: The Croatian Army retreated after the failure of Operation Whirlwind, destroying their tanks to avoid their capture.
- 2019Jo Swinson steps down as Leader of the Liberal Democrats after losing her seat in the 2019 general election making her tenure the shortest in the party's history.
