December 1, 2013, Season 4 Premiere of Treme
December 1, 2013, Comet ISON breaks up into a cloud of debris after skimming the Sun. (NBC)
December 1, 2013, China launches Chang'e 3, its first mission to the Moon's surface. (CNN)
December 1, 2013, At least four are dead following a Metro-North Railroad train derailment near Spuyten Duyvil, The Bronx, New York City. (CNN)
December 1, 2013, 2013 Ukraine pro-European Union protests:
100,000 people continue their protest against president Yanukovych's decision to back away from stronger ties with the European Union. (Ria Novosti)
December 2, 2013,
December 2, 2013,
December 2, 2013, Typhoon Haiyan: The death toll in the Philippines is confirmed over 5,700. (ABS-CBN)
December 2, 2013, 2013 Glasgow helicopter crash: Nine people are now confirmed dead following Friday's crash. (FOX News)
December 2, 2013, Pope Francis meets with the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu at the Vatican to discuss global affairs including the nuclear program of Iran. (USA Today)
December 3, 2013, Release of Britney Spears album Britney Jean
December 3, 2013,
December 3, 2013,
December 3, 2013,
December 3, 2013,
December 4, 2013, Series Premiere of Mob City
December 4, 2013,
December 4, 2013,
December 4, 2013,
December 5, 2013, Nobel anti-Apartheid activist and former South African president, Nelson Mandela, dies at age 95. (World News)
December 5, 2013, A major winter storm called Bodil hits the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany, disrupting traffic and causing four people to be dead or missing and widespread damage amid fears of flooding along the North Sea coast. (BBC)
December 5, 2013,
December 5, 2013, Pope Francis, in his first major action on the still very pressing issue, gives his assent during meetings on reform of the Roman Curia to the creation of a permanent expert-member Pontifical Commission
which would advise the Catholic Church on how to deal with cases of the
sin and crime of sex abuse of minors by those in Church ministries (as
of now, it would not be able to take corrective action against lax
Bishops; dioceses and then the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith are in charge of laicizing abusive clerics). (Catholic News Service)
December 5, 2013, Thalía is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (Variety)
December 6, 2013, Release of Out of the Furnace
December 6, 2013, Release of Inside Llewyn Davis
December 6, 2013, The China National Space Administration achieves Earth to Lunar transorbital insertion of their Chang'e 3 probe. The spacecraft enters a 100 km (62 mi)-high circular lunar orbit at 5:53 p.m. Beijing Time. The orbit is obtained after 361 seconds of variable-thrust engine braking. (Economic Times)
December 6, 2013, Release of Out of the Furnace
December 6, 2013, Release of Inside Llewyn Davis
December 6, 2013, The China National Space Administration achieves Earth to Lunar transorbital insertion of their Chang'e 3 probe. The spacecraft enters a 100 km (62 mi)-high circular lunar orbit at 5:53 p.m. Beijing Time. The orbit is obtained after 361 seconds of variable-thrust engine braking. (Economic Times)
December 6, 2013,
December 7, 2013, 2013 Korean crisis: North Korea releases 85-year-old American retiree Merrill Newman after 42 days in captivity. The United States once again asks the DPRK to pardon and release Kenneth Bae. (CNN)
December 7, 2013,
December 9, 2013, The United States National Security Agency played World of Warcraft, Second Life, and games in the Xbox 360 to spy on gamers. (CNN)
December 9, 2013,
December 9, 2013,
December 9, 2013, American Airlines Group is formed from the merger of AMR Corporation and US Airways Group and begins trading on the NASDAQ. (Los Angeles Times)
December 9, 2013, President of Russia Vladimir Putin announces that RIA Novosti, Voice of Russia, and the State Fund of Television and Radio Programs will immediately be shut down. Newly created Rossia Segodnya (Russia Today) will take RIA Novosti's place as the government news agency. (BBC)
December 10, 2013, Release of Childish Gambino album Because the Internet
December 10, 2013, Uruguay becomes the first country to legalize the growth, sale, and use of marijuana. (Reuters)
December 10, 2013, Death and state funeral of Nelson Mandela: The life of Nelson Mandela is celebrated in a memorial service in Johannesburg. (BBC)
December 10, 2013, Mary Barra of General Motors becomes the first woman CEO of an automotive company. (Businessweek)
December 10, 2013,
December 10, 2013,
December 11, 2013, Time magazine names Pope Francis its Person of the Year. (Sky News)
December 11, 2013,
December 11, 2013,
December 11, 2013,
December 11, 2013,
December 11, 2013,
December 11, 2013,
December 11, 2013,
December 11, 2013,
December 11, 2013,
December 11, 2013,
December 11, 2013, Bubonic plague kills 20 people in a Madagascar village. (The Independent)
December 11, 2013, The U.S. National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable internet advertisers to track consumers, such tools are known as cookies; specifically, Google cookies are being tracked in order to determine targets for hacking. (The Washington Post)
December 12, 2013, An ammonia cooling pump on the International Space Station malfunctions, requiring suspension of some non-critical systems. (CNN)
December 12, 2013, Jang Sung-thaek, the uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, is executed. (Reuters)
December 12, 2013,
December 12, 2013,
December 12, 2013,
December 12, 2013, Death and state funeral of Nelson Mandela: The body of Nelson Mandela is lain-in-state in the federal government district of Pretoria. (The Washington Post)
December 12, 2013, The United Nations says that the legalization of marijuana in Uruguay is a violation of international law. (The Huffington Post)
December 12, 2013, Australia's High Court rules same-sex marriages held in the country are invalid. (Businessweek)
December 13, 2013, Release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
December 13, 2013, Release of American Hustle
December 13, 2013, Release of Saving Mr. Banks
December 13, 2013, Release of Release of Hours
December 13, 2013, Release of A Madea Christmas
December 13, 2013, Release of Beyonce album Beyonce
December 13, 2013, A gunman critically wounds a student in a shooting at Arapahoe High School, Centennial, Colorado, United States. (CNN)
December 13, 2013, 2013 Middle East cold snap: The storm spreads to Egypt with some Cairo suburbs seeing snowfall. Local news reports claimed it was the capital's first snowfall in 112 years. Night temperatures are expected to drop as low as 2°C / 36°F. (The Daily Star)
December 13, 2013,
December 13, 2013,Prince Harry of Wales and his "Walking with the Wounded" team reach the South Pole after three weeks trekking in the Antarctic. (BBC)
December 13, 2013,Typhoon Haiyan: The death toll passes 6,000, officially making it the deadliest recorded typhoon in the Philippines. (Fox News)
December 13, 2013, Death and state funeral of Nelson Mandela: The body of Nelson Mandela is to be flown to Qunu in the Eastern Cape where he is to be laid to rest. (CNN)
December 13, 2013, Chang'e-3: China's mission begins the descent phase to the moon that will likely make it one of only three countries to reach it. The landing is estimated to occur at 8:40 a.m. EST, December 14. (CNN)
December 14, 2013, Chang'e 3, carrying Yutu, China's first lunar rover, lands on the Moon. It is the first "soft" landing on the Moon since 1976. (Reuters)
December 14, 2013, American football: Jameis Winston, the quarterback for the Florida State Seminoles wins the 79th Heisman Trophy for the most outstanding player in college football. (USA Today)
December 14, 2013,
December 14, 2013,
December 15, 2013, Death and state funeral of Nelson Mandela The body of Nelson Mandela, the first South African president elected in a fully representative democratic election, is buried after a state funeral is held in his ancestral home of Qunu. (BBC)
December 15, 2013,
December 15, 2013,
December 15, 2013,
December 15, 2013, British and American actress Joan Fontaine, best known for her two roles under Alfred Hitchcock (Rebecca, Suspicion), and the sister of Olivia de Havilland, dies at the age of 96. (Hollywood Reporter)
December 15, 2013,
December 15, 2013,
December 16, 2013, For an undisclosed price, Google acquires the robot-making company Boston Dynamics which had previously been contracted by the U.S. military. (CNN Money)
December 16, 2013,
December 16, 2013,
December 16, 2013, An amnesty deal is being floated by the National Security Agency for the leaker Edward Snowden. (Time magazine)
December 16, 2013, American judge Richard J. Leon of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia rules that the National Security Agency collecting domestic phone records was unconstitutional in Klayman vs Obama. A stay has been placed on the ruling pending an appeal by the US Government. (CNN)
December 16, 2013, The center-left candidate Michelle Bachelet is elected as president of Chile for the second time. She is the first leader in Chile to be elected to serve two terms since military rule ended in 1990. (BBC)
December 17, 2013,
December 17, 2013, Angela Merkel is elected for a third term as Chancellor of Germany. (CNN)
December 17, 2013, Cat Stevens, Hall & Oates, Kiss, Linda Ronstadt, and Nirvana are to be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (Variety)
December 17, 2013, Jamaican reggae singer Tessanne Chin wins Season 5 of the American singing competition The Voice. (Los Angeles Times)
December 17, 2013, A gunman is dead after shooting and killing one person and wounding two others at the Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nevada, United States. (Washington Post)
December 17, 2013, Edward Snowden offers Brazil information over the NSA spying of its citizens. (ABC News)
December 18, 2013, Release of Anchor Man 2: The Legend Continues
December 18, 2013, Release of Her
December 18, 2013, Series Premiere of The Great Train Robbery
December 18, 2013, British criminal Ronnie Biggs, best known for his role in the Great Train Robbery and escape from Wandsworth Prison, dies in the North London suburb of East Barnet. (BBC)
December 18, 2013, 2014 Winter Olympics: LGBT sportspeople, such as tennis player Billie Jean King and ice hockey player Caitlin Cahow, are to represent the United States in Sochi as a protest against the treatment of LGBT people in Russia. (BBC)
December 18, 2013, Pussy Riot and Greenpeace activists are likely to be freed after the Duma votes in favor of a law giving them amnesty. (CNN)
December 18, 2013, British singer Ian Watkins (Lostprophets) is sentenced to 35 years imprisonment at Cardiff Crown Court for a range of child sex offences including the attempted rape of a baby. (BBC)
December 19, 2013, Phone hacking scandal: A prosecutor alleges in a London court that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's phones were hacked by the now-defunct News of the World. (CNN)
December 19, 2013, Part of the ornate ceiling of the Apollo Theatre in London collapses during a performance, injuring at least 81 people in the audience. (CNN)
December 19, 2013, A recommendation against practices by the National Security Agency is presented to United States President Barack Obama. (The New York Times)
December 19, 2013, Phil Robertson, featured on the reality show Duck Dynasty, is suspended by A&E in response to controversial statements about homosexuality made during an interview with GQ magazine. (BBC)
December 19, 2013, Target Corporation and the United States Secret Service say that more than 40 million credit and debit cards used in Target stores may have been compromised due to a data breach. (CNN)
December 19, 2013, Same-sex marriage is legalized in the U.S. state of New Mexico. (San Francisco Chronicle)
December 19, 2013, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale are convicted of the murder of British Army soldier Lee Rigby. (BBC)
December 20, 2013, Release of Walking with Dinosaurs
December 20, 2013, The Supreme Court of Canada strikes down anti-prostitution laws in the country. (CP24)
December 20, 2013,
December 20, 2013,
December 20, 2013, The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 hit record highs after the United States ecomomy grew more than expected in the fiscal year. (CNN)
December 20, 2013, Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the U.S. state of Utah, and gay couples begin receiving marriage licenses, after a federal judge strikes down a provision of the Utah Constitutio. (Deseret News)
December 21, 2013, Two NASA astronauts at the International Space Station begin a series of spacewalks to replace a faulty ammonia coolant pump. (FOX News)
December 21, 2013,
December 21, 2013, Despite an anti-flammable liquid coating, the yearly giant Yule goat in Gävle, Sweden, is again destroyed in an arson attack. (Expressen)
December 22, 2013,
December 22, 2013, Blackmarket sales begin of credit and debit card data which was compromised due to a Target Corporation data breach. (Fox News)
December 23, 2013, Political activists Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, of the Russian band Pussy Riot, are given amnesty less than three months before the end of their sentences. They had been convicted of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred". (The Guardian)
December 23, 2013,
December 23, 2013, The Russian designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, Mikhail Kalashnikov, dies at the age of 94. (The Irish Times)
December 23, 2013, British World War II computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing, who had been chemically castrated in 1952 following his conviction for homosexuality, is given a posthumous royal pardon. (The Guardian)
December 24, 2013, Two NASA astronauts at the International Space Station complete a series of spacewalks to replace a faulty ammonia coolant pump. (FOX News)
December 24, 2013, Pope Francis visits Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI before celebrating his first Christmas Mass. (Slate)
December 24, 2013, American Express is ordered to pay US$75.7 million in restitution and fines to customers and federal regulators over billing people for services they never received. (Bloomberg)
December 24, 2013, Today is the deadline for U.S. residents to sign up without penalty for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. (Fox News)
December 25, 2013, Release of Wolf of Wall Street
December 25, 2013, Release of 47 Ronin
December 25, 2013, Release of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
December 25, 2013, Release of Grudge Match
December 25, 2013, Release of Justin Beiber: Believe
December 25, 2013, Pope Francis gives his first Urbi et Orbi speech calling for peace amidst the Syrian civil war and the 2013 South Sudan political crisis. (Al Jazeera)
December 25, 2013, A piranha attack in the Paraná River near the city of Rosario, Argentina by a school of Pygocentrus palometa reportedly leaves at least 70 injured. (FOX News)
December 26, 2013, Release of The Railway Man
December 26, 2013,
December 26, 2013,
December 26, 2013, Shipping companies United Parcel Service and FedEx apologize for late Christmas package deliveries in the United States, citing high volumes of packages. (CNN)
December 27, 2013, Release of Lone Survivor
December 27, 2013, Release of August: Osage County
December 27, 2013, U.S. District Judge William Pauley rules that the country's National Security Agency (NSA) acted lawfully, within the limits of the U.S. Constitution, when, after the September 11, 2001 attacks, it began an en masse bulk collection of metadata from American telephone records. The opinion, which throws out an ACLU lawsuit for now, is in direct contrast to Judge Richard Leon's earlier ruling in another District. (NBC)
December 29, 2013, The Chinese icebreaker Xuě Lóng, or "Snow Dragon", was only six nautical miles away from the Russian-flagged vessel Akademik Shokalskiy when it too became obstructed by heavy ice in Antarctica. (CNN)
December 28, 2013, In mixed martial arts: Chris Weidman defeats Anderson Silva via technical knockout to retain the UFC Middleweight Championship. (GMA News)
December 28, 2013, Russia's Soyuz-2-1v rocket makes its maiden flight. (RIA Novosti)
December 29, 2013,
December 29, 2013,
December 29, 2013, A suicide bomb attack at the Volgograd-1 railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd kills at least 16 people and wounds 40 others. (BBC)
December 29, 2013, Seven-time Formula One drivers' champion Michael Schumacher is reported to be in critical condition after brain surgery in Grenoble for a head injury suffered while skiing in the French Alps. (AP via ESPN)
December 29, 2013, The passenger ferry MS King Seaways, en route from Newcastle, England, to Amsterdam in the Netherlands, catches fire in the North Sea; a man is arrested on suspicion of arson. (Guardian)
December 30, 2013, Volgograd bombings: A bomb blast rips a trolleybus apart in Volgograd, Russia, killing at least 15 people in the second deadly attack in the southern city in less than 24 hours. (BBC)
December 30, 2013, Cyclone Christine makes landfall in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, causing evacuations in Port Hedland and winds over 170 km/h in Roebourne (ABC)
December 31, 2013, Latvia becomes the 18th EU member state to adopt the euro despite public opposition. (CNN)
December 7, 2013,
December 7, 2013, Typhoon Haiyan: The death toll reaches 5,800, with 26,233 injured and 1,779 still missing. (BW)
December 8, 2013, Euromaidan: During the third Sunday of mass protests, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians in Kiev seek the resignation of the government for refusing a deal on closer ties with the European Union. (BBC News)
-Anti-government protesters topple the last surviving statue of Communist leader Vladimir Lenin in central Kiev. (CNN)
December 7, 2013, Typhoon Haiyan: The death toll reaches 5,800, with 26,233 injured and 1,779 still missing. (BW)
December 8, 2013, Euromaidan: During the third Sunday of mass protests, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians in Kiev seek the resignation of the government for refusing a deal on closer ties with the European Union. (BBC News)
-Anti-government protesters topple the last surviving statue of Communist leader Vladimir Lenin in central Kiev. (CNN)
December 9, 2013, The United States National Security Agency played World of Warcraft, Second Life, and games in the Xbox 360 to spy on gamers. (CNN)
December 9, 2013,
December 9, 2013,
December 9, 2013, American Airlines Group is formed from the merger of AMR Corporation and US Airways Group and begins trading on the NASDAQ. (Los Angeles Times)
December 9, 2013, President of Russia Vladimir Putin announces that RIA Novosti, Voice of Russia, and the State Fund of Television and Radio Programs will immediately be shut down. Newly created Rossia Segodnya (Russia Today) will take RIA Novosti's place as the government news agency. (BBC)
December 10, 2013, Release of Childish Gambino album Because the Internet
December 10, 2013, Uruguay becomes the first country to legalize the growth, sale, and use of marijuana. (Reuters)
December 10, 2013, Death and state funeral of Nelson Mandela: The life of Nelson Mandela is celebrated in a memorial service in Johannesburg. (BBC)
December 10, 2013, Mary Barra of General Motors becomes the first woman CEO of an automotive company. (Businessweek)
December 10, 2013,
December 10, 2013,
December 11, 2013, Time magazine names Pope Francis its Person of the Year. (Sky News)
December 11, 2013,
December 11, 2013,
December 11, 2013,
December 11, 2013,
December 11, 2013,
December 11, 2013,
December 11, 2013,
December 11, 2013,
December 11, 2013,
December 11, 2013,
December 11, 2013, Bubonic plague kills 20 people in a Madagascar village. (The Independent)
December 11, 2013, The U.S. National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable internet advertisers to track consumers, such tools are known as cookies; specifically, Google cookies are being tracked in order to determine targets for hacking. (The Washington Post)
December 12, 2013, An ammonia cooling pump on the International Space Station malfunctions, requiring suspension of some non-critical systems. (CNN)
December 12, 2013, Jang Sung-thaek, the uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, is executed. (Reuters)
December 12, 2013,
December 12, 2013,
December 12, 2013,
December 12, 2013, Death and state funeral of Nelson Mandela: The body of Nelson Mandela is lain-in-state in the federal government district of Pretoria. (The Washington Post)
December 12, 2013, The United Nations says that the legalization of marijuana in Uruguay is a violation of international law. (The Huffington Post)
December 12, 2013, Australia's High Court rules same-sex marriages held in the country are invalid. (Businessweek)
December 13, 2013, Release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
December 13, 2013, Release of American Hustle
December 13, 2013, Release of Saving Mr. Banks
December 13, 2013, Release of Release of Hours
December 13, 2013, Release of A Madea Christmas
December 13, 2013, Release of Beyonce album Beyonce
December 13, 2013, A gunman critically wounds a student in a shooting at Arapahoe High School, Centennial, Colorado, United States. (CNN)
December 13, 2013, 2013 Middle East cold snap: The storm spreads to Egypt with some Cairo suburbs seeing snowfall. Local news reports claimed it was the capital's first snowfall in 112 years. Night temperatures are expected to drop as low as 2°C / 36°F. (The Daily Star)
December 13, 2013,
December 13, 2013,Prince Harry of Wales and his "Walking with the Wounded" team reach the South Pole after three weeks trekking in the Antarctic. (BBC)
December 13, 2013,Typhoon Haiyan: The death toll passes 6,000, officially making it the deadliest recorded typhoon in the Philippines. (Fox News)
December 13, 2013, Death and state funeral of Nelson Mandela: The body of Nelson Mandela is to be flown to Qunu in the Eastern Cape where he is to be laid to rest. (CNN)
December 13, 2013, Chang'e-3: China's mission begins the descent phase to the moon that will likely make it one of only three countries to reach it. The landing is estimated to occur at 8:40 a.m. EST, December 14. (CNN)
December 14, 2013, Chang'e 3, carrying Yutu, China's first lunar rover, lands on the Moon. It is the first "soft" landing on the Moon since 1976. (Reuters)
December 14, 2013, American football: Jameis Winston, the quarterback for the Florida State Seminoles wins the 79th Heisman Trophy for the most outstanding player in college football. (USA Today)
December 14, 2013,
December 14, 2013,
December 15, 2013, Death and state funeral of Nelson Mandela The body of Nelson Mandela, the first South African president elected in a fully representative democratic election, is buried after a state funeral is held in his ancestral home of Qunu. (BBC)
December 15, 2013,
December 15, 2013,
December 15, 2013,
December 15, 2013, British and American actress Joan Fontaine, best known for her two roles under Alfred Hitchcock (Rebecca, Suspicion), and the sister of Olivia de Havilland, dies at the age of 96. (Hollywood Reporter)
December 15, 2013,
December 15, 2013,
December 16, 2013, For an undisclosed price, Google acquires the robot-making company Boston Dynamics which had previously been contracted by the U.S. military. (CNN Money)
December 16, 2013,
December 16, 2013,
December 16, 2013, An amnesty deal is being floated by the National Security Agency for the leaker Edward Snowden. (Time magazine)
December 16, 2013, American judge Richard J. Leon of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia rules that the National Security Agency collecting domestic phone records was unconstitutional in Klayman vs Obama. A stay has been placed on the ruling pending an appeal by the US Government. (CNN)
December 16, 2013, The center-left candidate Michelle Bachelet is elected as president of Chile for the second time. She is the first leader in Chile to be elected to serve two terms since military rule ended in 1990. (BBC)
December 17, 2013,
December 17, 2013, Angela Merkel is elected for a third term as Chancellor of Germany. (CNN)
December 17, 2013, Cat Stevens, Hall & Oates, Kiss, Linda Ronstadt, and Nirvana are to be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (Variety)
December 17, 2013, Jamaican reggae singer Tessanne Chin wins Season 5 of the American singing competition The Voice. (Los Angeles Times)
December 17, 2013, A gunman is dead after shooting and killing one person and wounding two others at the Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nevada, United States. (Washington Post)
December 17, 2013, Edward Snowden offers Brazil information over the NSA spying of its citizens. (ABC News)
December 18, 2013, Release of Anchor Man 2: The Legend Continues
December 18, 2013, Release of Her
December 18, 2013, Series Premiere of The Great Train Robbery
December 18, 2013, British criminal Ronnie Biggs, best known for his role in the Great Train Robbery and escape from Wandsworth Prison, dies in the North London suburb of East Barnet. (BBC)
December 18, 2013, 2014 Winter Olympics: LGBT sportspeople, such as tennis player Billie Jean King and ice hockey player Caitlin Cahow, are to represent the United States in Sochi as a protest against the treatment of LGBT people in Russia. (BBC)
December 18, 2013, Pussy Riot and Greenpeace activists are likely to be freed after the Duma votes in favor of a law giving them amnesty. (CNN)
December 18, 2013, British singer Ian Watkins (Lostprophets) is sentenced to 35 years imprisonment at Cardiff Crown Court for a range of child sex offences including the attempted rape of a baby. (BBC)
December 19, 2013, Phone hacking scandal: A prosecutor alleges in a London court that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's phones were hacked by the now-defunct News of the World. (CNN)
December 19, 2013, Part of the ornate ceiling of the Apollo Theatre in London collapses during a performance, injuring at least 81 people in the audience. (CNN)
December 19, 2013, A recommendation against practices by the National Security Agency is presented to United States President Barack Obama. (The New York Times)
December 19, 2013, Phil Robertson, featured on the reality show Duck Dynasty, is suspended by A&E in response to controversial statements about homosexuality made during an interview with GQ magazine. (BBC)
December 19, 2013, Target Corporation and the United States Secret Service say that more than 40 million credit and debit cards used in Target stores may have been compromised due to a data breach. (CNN)
December 19, 2013, Same-sex marriage is legalized in the U.S. state of New Mexico. (San Francisco Chronicle)
December 19, 2013, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale are convicted of the murder of British Army soldier Lee Rigby. (BBC)
December 20, 2013, Release of Walking with Dinosaurs
December 20, 2013, The Supreme Court of Canada strikes down anti-prostitution laws in the country. (CP24)
December 20, 2013,
December 20, 2013,
December 20, 2013, The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 hit record highs after the United States ecomomy grew more than expected in the fiscal year. (CNN)
December 20, 2013, Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the U.S. state of Utah, and gay couples begin receiving marriage licenses, after a federal judge strikes down a provision of the Utah Constitutio. (Deseret News)
December 21, 2013, Two NASA astronauts at the International Space Station begin a series of spacewalks to replace a faulty ammonia coolant pump. (FOX News)
December 21, 2013,
December 21, 2013, Despite an anti-flammable liquid coating, the yearly giant Yule goat in Gävle, Sweden, is again destroyed in an arson attack. (Expressen)
December 22, 2013,
December 22, 2013, Blackmarket sales begin of credit and debit card data which was compromised due to a Target Corporation data breach. (Fox News)
December 23, 2013, Political activists Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, of the Russian band Pussy Riot, are given amnesty less than three months before the end of their sentences. They had been convicted of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred". (The Guardian)
December 23, 2013,
December 23, 2013, The Russian designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, Mikhail Kalashnikov, dies at the age of 94. (The Irish Times)
December 23, 2013, British World War II computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing, who had been chemically castrated in 1952 following his conviction for homosexuality, is given a posthumous royal pardon. (The Guardian)
December 24, 2013, Two NASA astronauts at the International Space Station complete a series of spacewalks to replace a faulty ammonia coolant pump. (FOX News)
December 24, 2013, Pope Francis visits Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI before celebrating his first Christmas Mass. (Slate)
December 24, 2013, American Express is ordered to pay US$75.7 million in restitution and fines to customers and federal regulators over billing people for services they never received. (Bloomberg)
December 24, 2013, Today is the deadline for U.S. residents to sign up without penalty for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. (Fox News)
December 25, 2013, Release of Wolf of Wall Street
December 25, 2013, Release of 47 Ronin
December 25, 2013, Release of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
December 25, 2013, Release of Grudge Match
December 25, 2013, Release of Justin Beiber: Believe
December 25, 2013, Pope Francis gives his first Urbi et Orbi speech calling for peace amidst the Syrian civil war and the 2013 South Sudan political crisis. (Al Jazeera)
December 25, 2013, A piranha attack in the Paraná River near the city of Rosario, Argentina by a school of Pygocentrus palometa reportedly leaves at least 70 injured. (FOX News)
December 26, 2013, Release of The Railway Man
December 26, 2013,
December 26, 2013,
December 26, 2013, Shipping companies United Parcel Service and FedEx apologize for late Christmas package deliveries in the United States, citing high volumes of packages. (CNN)
December 27, 2013, Release of Lone Survivor
December 27, 2013, Release of August: Osage County
December 27, 2013, U.S. District Judge William Pauley rules that the country's National Security Agency (NSA) acted lawfully, within the limits of the U.S. Constitution, when, after the September 11, 2001 attacks, it began an en masse bulk collection of metadata from American telephone records. The opinion, which throws out an ACLU lawsuit for now, is in direct contrast to Judge Richard Leon's earlier ruling in another District. (NBC)
December 29, 2013, The Chinese icebreaker Xuě Lóng, or "Snow Dragon", was only six nautical miles away from the Russian-flagged vessel Akademik Shokalskiy when it too became obstructed by heavy ice in Antarctica. (CNN)
December 28, 2013, In mixed martial arts: Chris Weidman defeats Anderson Silva via technical knockout to retain the UFC Middleweight Championship. (GMA News)
December 28, 2013, Russia's Soyuz-2-1v rocket makes its maiden flight. (RIA Novosti)
December 29, 2013,
December 29, 2013,
December 29, 2013, A suicide bomb attack at the Volgograd-1 railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd kills at least 16 people and wounds 40 others. (BBC)
December 29, 2013, Seven-time Formula One drivers' champion Michael Schumacher is reported to be in critical condition after brain surgery in Grenoble for a head injury suffered while skiing in the French Alps. (AP via ESPN)
December 29, 2013, The passenger ferry MS King Seaways, en route from Newcastle, England, to Amsterdam in the Netherlands, catches fire in the North Sea; a man is arrested on suspicion of arson. (Guardian)
December 30, 2013, Volgograd bombings: A bomb blast rips a trolleybus apart in Volgograd, Russia, killing at least 15 people in the second deadly attack in the southern city in less than 24 hours. (BBC)
December 30, 2013, Cyclone Christine makes landfall in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, causing evacuations in Port Hedland and winds over 170 km/h in Roebourne (ABC)
December 31, 2013, Latvia becomes the 18th EU member state to adopt the euro despite public opposition. (CNN)
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