Historical timeline for September 13

Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead and about 20 civilians injured.

Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.

The McLaren F1 team are found guilty of possessing confidential information from the Ferrari team, fined $100 million, and excluded from the constructors' championship standings.

The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.

Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.

A German Air Force Tupolev Tu-154 and a United States Air Force Lockheed C-141 Starlifter collide in mid-air near Namibia, killing 33.

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.

Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.

Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).

Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes Kalamata, Greece with a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing at least 20 and causing heavy damage in the city.

Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.

Spantax Flight 995 crashes at Málaga Airport during a rejected takeoff, killing 50 of the 394 people on board.

South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).

Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees China after the failure of an alleged coup. His plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.

State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt, which claimed 43 lives.

Cold War: Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.

Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd of 20,000 West Berliners on Sunday, in Waldbühne.

South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh.

An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.