A 6.1–magnitude earthquake strikes Iran killing 32 people and injuring over 850 people. Date: April 9, 2013 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 9 📅 Events on this day in 2013 📅 On This Day (Today)
Seventy-four people are killed in a building collapse in Thane, India. Date: April 4, 2013 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 4 📅 Events on this day in 2013 📅 On This Day (Today)
More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Date: April 3, 2013 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 3 📅 Events on this day in 2013 📅 On This Day (Today)
At least 36 people are killed when a 16-floor building collapses in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Date: March 29, 2013 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 29 📅 Events on this day in 2013 📅 On This Day (Today)
At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand. Date: March 22, 2013 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 22 📅 Events on this day in 2013 📅 On This Day (Today)
A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq. Date: March 19, 2013 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 19 📅 Events on this day in 2013 📅 On This Day (Today)
The 2013 papal conclave elects Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio taking the name Pope Francis as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church. Date: March 13, 2013 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 13 📅 Events on this day in 2013 📅 On This Day (Today)
A bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 48 people and injured 200 others in a predominantly Shia Muslim area. Date: March 3, 2013 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 3 📅 Events on this day in 2013 📅 On This Day (Today)
Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church, becoming the first pope to do so voluntarily since Pope Gregory XII in 1415. Date: February 28, 2013 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 28 📅 Events on this day in 2013 📅 On This Day (Today)
A shooting takes place at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland, in which five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured. Date: February 27, 2013 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 27 📅 Events on this day in 2013 📅 On This Day (Today)