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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_13" title="September 13">September 13</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/509_BC" title="509 BC">509 BC</a> – According to Roman tradition, the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Jupiter_Optimus_Maximus" title="Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus">Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus</a></b> <i>(depicted)</i>, the most important temple in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">ancient Rome</a>, was dedicated.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1567" title="1567">1567</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Inabayama_Castle" title="Siege of Inabayama Castle">siege of Inabayama Castle</a></b>, the final battle in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oda_Nobunaga" title="Oda Nobunaga">Oda Nobunaga</a>'s campaign to conquer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mino_Province" title="Mino Province">Mino Province</a>, began; it culminated in a decisive victory for Nobunaga.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1848" title="1848">1848</a> – An explosion drove an iron rod through the head of railroad foreman <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage" title="Phineas Gage">Phineas Gage</a></b>; his survival and recovery influenced 19th-century discussion of psychology and neuroscience.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919" title="1919">1919</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_police_strike" title="Boston police strike">Boston police strike</a></b> ended after four days of rule by the state militia, the deaths of nine people, and accusations that striking officers were "agents of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin" title="Vladimir Lenin">Lenin</a>".</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005" title="2005">2005</a> – A software bug caused <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident" title="Corrupted Blood incident">a simulated pandemic</a></b> in the online video game <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Warcraft" title="World of Warcraft">World of Warcraft</a></i>, serving as a model for epidemiologists to understand how human interaction influences disease outbreaks.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavad_I" title="Kavad I">Kavad I</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 531); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Secord" title="Laura Secord">Laura Secord</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1775); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauretta_Ngcobo" title="Lauretta Ngcobo">Lauretta Ngcobo</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1931); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Laybourne_Smith" title="Louis Laybourne Smith">Louis Laybourne Smith</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1965)</p>