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January -

Horse meat scandal 

London helicopter crash

Malala Yousafzai was discharged from hospital and had more speeches

Jimmy Savile 

World Ending conspiricy 

February - 

News of The World phone hacking scandal

A skeleton thought to be King Richard 3rd is discovered under a Leicester car park

Chris Huhne 

Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation 

Russian Meteorite 

Oscar Pistorius 

March - 

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez died 

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio (from Argentina) was elected as the new Pope.

April - 

Margaret Thatcher died 

Boston Bombs

Bangladesh clothing factory collapsed 

The Grand National

May - 

Ariel Castro was found with kidnapping three young girls for over a decade, one being Amanda Berry.

Sir Alex Ferguson retired as Manchester United manager

Oklahoma tornado

Drummer Lee Rigby machette attack in Londons street for wearing a Help For Hero's jumper...(a couple of my friends in army cadets had actually worked with him<3)

Bayern Munich won the Champions League 

Harlem Shake became popular 

June - 

Edward Snowden was the NSA leaker

Colorado wildfires 

Mass protests in Egypt

8th - Emily Davidson died 100 years ago four days after throwing herself under the Kings' horse in a race infront of other spectators

George Zimmerman trial began 

Miley Cyrus' controversial arguments began, with We Can't Stop being published 

July - 

Morsi Deposed by Military After One Year in Office

Historic Wimbledon Crowns Andy Murray and Marion Bartoli

Gay marriage is legalized in England and Wales

Royal baby was born

Claims of new evidence of the Madeleine McCann case

England v Australia ashes

Spanish runaway train disaster 

August - 

The world's first bovine stem cells lab-grown burger is cooked and eaten at a news conference in London.

The two drug mules 

Gibraltar tensions 

Syrian chemical attack

Indian train wreck

Egypt riots increased, declaration of state of emergency

50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream speech

September - 

Walkie-talkie building in London burnt parts of cars

2020 Olympics - Tokyo, Japan wins to host

Colorado floods

Huge storms in Mexico

Kenyan mall attack

October -

A boat sinks off the Italian island of Lampedusa

Peter Higgs and Francois Englert win the Nobel Prize in Physics

US government shut down

Remake of Carrie - by Stephen King was released (it was amazing)

November - 

Lostprophets lead singer Ian Watkins

Britains "major" storm

Glasgow helicopter crash

Philippines typhoon

Plane crash in Russia 

Taliban leader killed in Pakistan 

December -

Nelson Mandela died

Kim Jong-un's uncle, Jang Song-Thaek, is removed from power and executed

Train crash in Bronx

The Indian Supreme Court bans gay sex

Pussy Riot band members are released from jail in Russia 

Ronnie Biggs, the Great Train Robber died aged 84

92 injured in the ceiling-collapse at the Apollo Theatre in London

Fast and Furious star Paul Walker and his friend died in a car crash

Justin Bieber announced his "retirement"

I guess you could say 2013 was an incredibly eventful year!

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