At A Glance
15 September 2013 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 15 September 2013 was a Sunday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “Roar” by Katy Perry.
- Top Film of 2013
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2013 was Frozen.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 15 September is Virgo.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 15 September 2013 fell in the Year of the Snake.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for September is Sapphire.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 15 September 2013 was Waxing Gibbous.
On this day: 15 September
- 1983 Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
- 2001 During a CART race at the Lausitzring in Germany, former Formula One driver Alex Zanardi suffers a heavy accident resulting in him losing both his legs.
- 2004 National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players' union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.
- 2008 Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
- 2020 Signing of the Bahrain–Israel normalization agreement occurs in Washington, D.C., normalizing relations between Israel and two Arab nations, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
Famous people born on 15 September
- Tom Hardy, English actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1977)
- Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Duke of Sussex (born 1984)
- Agatha Christie, English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright (1890–1976)
- Josh Charles, American actor and director (born 1971)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2013 in the United Kingdom
A selection from Wikipedia's '2013 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.
- 1 April – Police Scotland begins operations, merging all the former forces in the country.
- 17 July – Same-sex marriage becomes legal in England and Wales after the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 receives Royal Assent.
- 27 August – David Cameron recalls Parliament from its summer recess to discuss responses to the Syrian crisis in the wake of a chemical weapons attack in Damascus.
Life in 2013
Prime Minister
David Cameron
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Pint of Beer
£3.15
Loaf of Bread
£1.38
Average House
£168,607
Weekly Wage
£733.00
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