2013 REVIEW

January 11th: The ………………………………… military began a five-month intervention into

the Northern Mali conflict.

FRENCH

January 20th: The second inauguration

of ……………………………………………… as President of the USA

took place in the Blue Room of the White House.

Barack Obama

February 15th: A .............................exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring

1,491 people and damaging over 4,300 buildings. It is the most powerful

…………………………… to strike Earth's atmosphere in over a century

meteor

meteor

February 28th: ……………………………………

resigned as Pope, becoming the first to do so since Gregory XII in 1415, and

the first to do so voluntarily since Celestine V in 1294

Benedict XVI

March 5th: Death of Hugo Chavez, President of ……………………………………..Venezuela

March 13th : Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected the

266th Pope, whereupon he took the name ……………………………… and

became the first pope from ……………………………, and the first

pope from the Southern ………………………………………..

Francis 1stAmerica

hemisphere

April 8th: Death of ……………………………………………., Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to

1990.

Margaret Thatcher

April 15th :Two Chechen Islamist brothers exploded two bombs at

the Marathon in ………………………… (city) , ………………………………….

(state), in the United States, killing 3 and injuring 264 others

BostonMassachussets

April 24th : An eight-story …………………………………………………

collapses in Savar Upazila near the Bangladeshi capital

of ……………………………………, leaving 1,129 dead and 2,500 injured.

Commercial building

Dhaka

May 15th: In a study published in the ………………………………… (genre)

journal Nature, researchers from Oregon Health & Science University in the United States described the first creation of

HUMAN embryonic stem cells by ……………………………………….

scientific

cloning

May 18th: Same-sex …………………………………….. became legal in …………………………………...marriage

France

June 6th …………………………………(nationality) Edward

Snowden disclosed operations engaged by a ………………………………

(nationality) government mass surveillance program to news

publications and fled the country, later being granted

temporary asylum in ………………………………………

American

US

Russia

June 7th Death of Pierre ………………………, …………………… Prime Minister from 1981 to 1984.Moroy French

July 1st: ………………………………….became the 28th member of the European Union.

Croatia

July 22nd : Princess ……………………………………………….gave birth to Baby ………………………………...Kate Middleton

George

July 24th : The ……………………………………………… derailment occurred, when a high-speed train travelling from Madrid to Ferrol, in the north-west of Spain, derailed at high speed. 140 passengers were injured and 79 died.

Santiago de Compostela

August 11th : There was a prolific …………………………………………… associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle.

Meteor shower

September 7th: ………………………………(city) is chosen as Host for the ………………(year) Summer Olympics

Tokyo2020

September 21st : Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in …………………………… (city), killing at least 62 civilians and

wounding over 170.Nairobi

October 18th : ……………………………………….(country) rejects a seat on the United Nations Security Council making the country

the ………………….. (number) to reject a seat on the Security Council.

Saudi Arabia

first

October 27th: Death of ……………………………………….., …………………………………. singer, musician and songwriter

Lou ReedAmerican

November 8th: ………………………….. Haiyan "Yolanda", one of the strongest …………………………………………on record, hit

the …………………………………. and Vietnam, causing devastation with at least 6,149 dead

Typhoon

Tropical cyclones

Philippines

November 30th: Death of …………………………………………………, American actor, famous for the Fast and Furious movie series.

Paul Walker

December 5th : Death of ………………………………………………, former President of ……………………………….. and peace icon.

Nelson MandelaSouth Africa

December 14th :……………………………………. (nationality) spacecraft Chang'e 3, becomes the ………………………

(number) robotic spacecraft to land on the Moon.

Chinese

third