User:Venustas 12/December 13 2010 Selected Anniversaries/December 13

1545 – Counter-Reformation: The Council of Trent, an ecumenical council convoked by Pope Paul III in response to the growth of Protestantism, opened in Trent, Bishopric of Trent (now in modern Italy).
1769 – Dartmouth College in present-day Hanover, New Hampshire, US, was established by a Royal Charter from George III of Great Britain and became the last university founded in the Thirteen Colonies before the American Revolution.
1960 – With Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie out of the country, four conspirators staged a coup d'état and installed Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen as the new Emperor.
2001 – The Parliament of India was attacked by five gunmen, resulting in 15 deaths, including those of the perpetrators.
2006 – The Baiji (pictured), a freshwater dolphin found only in the Yangtze River in China, was announced as functionally extinct by leaders of the Yangtze Freshwater Dolphin Expedition.

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