September 13
1943
Chiang Kai-Shek became president of China.
1948
Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first woman to have served in both houses of Congress.
The four-day revolt at the maximum security prison in Attica, New
York, ended when state police and National Guardsmen stormed the
facility. Forty-two people died.
1993
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat shook hands after signing an historic peace agreement.
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