What happened in 2013

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1. Jan 5Locked Out Of HeavenBruno Mars4 wks
2. Feb 2Thrift ShopMacklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Wanz6 wks
3. Mar 2Harlem ShakeBaauer5 wks
4. Apr 20When I Was Your ManBruno Mars1 wk
5. Apr 27Just Give Me A ReasonP!nk Featuring Nate Ruess3 wks
6. May 18Can't Hold UsMacklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Ray Dalton5 wks
7. Jun 22Blurred LinesRobin Thicke Featuring T.I. + Pharrell12 wks
8. Sep 14RoarKaty Perry2 wks
9. Sep 28Wrecking BallMiley Cyrus3 wks
10. Oct 12RoyalsLorde9 wks
11. Dec 21The MonsterEminem Featuring Rihanna2 wks

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1. Feb 28Benedict XVI became the first pope in nearly 600 years to resign from the papacy.
2. Mar 13Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected as Pope Francis, making him the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, and the first from the Southern Hemisphere.
3. Apr 17An ammonium nitrate explosion occurred at a fertilizer company facility in West, Texas, U.S., killing 15 people and injuring 160 others.
4. Apr 30Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix.
5. May 6Amanda Berry escaped from the Cleveland, Ohio, home of her captor, Ariel Castro, having been held there with two other women for ten years.
6. May 10One World Trade Center in New York City, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, was topped out at a height of 1,776 feet (541 m).
7. May 20A tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, United States, killing 24 people and causing an estimated $2 billion of damage.
8. Jun 25In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the CIA acknowledged the existence of Area 51, a secretive U.S. Air Force facility in Nevada and a subject of various UFO, and other, conspiracy theories.
9. Jun 26The U.S. Supreme Court granted federal recognition to same-sex marriage when it overturned the Defense of Marriage Act.
10. Jun 30Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona.
11. Jul 3General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi led a coalition to depose President Mohamed Morsi in a coup d'état in Cairo, suspending the Egyptian Constitution of 2012.
12. Jul 19The NASA spacecraft Cassini took a photograph of Saturn with Earth in the distance, for which people were invited to "wave at Saturn".
13. Sep 17Grand Theft Auto V earns more than half a billion dollars on its first day of release.
14. Dec 14A reported coup attempt in South Sudan leads to continued fighting and hundreds of casualties.

Event summaries from Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Each links to its article.

• U.S. President

  Barack Obama

• UK Prime Minister

  David Cameron

• Prime Minister of Canada

  Stephen Harper

• President of France

  François Hollande

• German Chancellor

  Angela Merkel

• Prime Minister of Japan

  Shinzō Abe

• President of Russia

  Vladimir Putin

Everyone who held the office at some point in 2013, from Wikidata.

A selection of the best-documented titles on Wikidata, by first release year; not a box-office ranking.

• Big JusticeAmerican social media personality · Apr 8
• Prince George of WalesJul 22

From Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0.