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This Day in History Sept 13 Highlights Across Years
Key events on September 13 span 1788 New York City named temporary capital 1922 Libyan heat record 136.4F 1943 Chiang Kai-shek becomes China president 1948 Margaret Chase Smith elected to Senate 1971 Attica riot ends with 43 deaths 1993 Rabin and Arafat shake hands at White House 2000s space weapon test and 2000s Supreme Court nominee hearings and crime bill passage for Clinton era actions
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Associated Press
Congress of the Confederation
New York City
el Azizia
Libya
Chiang Kai-shek
China
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
U.S. Senate
Congress
Attica
Upstate
New York
White House
Yitzhak Rabin
PLO
Yasser Arafat
Senate Judiciary Committee
Supreme Court
David H. Souter
Clinton