Wikipedia:Main Page history/2020 December 13b

Keke Rosberg

The 1982 Formula One World Championship featured sixteen rounds from January to September, spanning the 36th season of Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) Formula One motor racing. Keke Rosberg (pictured) won the Drivers' Championship, becoming the second driver to achieve the feat after winning only one race in the season. The year was marked by several incidents and tragedies: a drivers' strike at the first race in South Africa, a partial race boycott as part of the ongoing FISA–FOCA war at the San Marino Grand Prix, as well as the death of two drivers. Gilles Villeneuve died during qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix, and Riccardo Paletti at the start of the Canadian Grand Prix. Didier Pironi, while leading the championship, crashed during qualifying for the German Grand Prix, forcing him to retire from the sport. Nevertheless, Scuderia Ferrari won the Constructors' Championship after replacing Villeneuve with Patrick Tambay and Pironi with 1978 World Champion Mario Andretti. (Full article...)

Detlev Jöcker

• ... that Detlev Jöcker (pictured) wrote and performed songs with movements first for his little son, and went on to sell 13 million albums?
• ... that The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein exposes policies of racial segregation in nearly all United States presidential administrations dating back to the late 1800s?
• ... that a non-governmental organisation set up by Hekani Jakhalu helps young entrepreneurs from Nagaland?
• ... that Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the second U.S. Supreme Court justice to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol?
• ... that after the Battle of Inverkeithing, Oliver Cromwell deliberately left open a route for the Scottish army to invade England?
• ... that despite Sandpaper Ballet being choreographed to music by Leroy Anderson, his piece of the same name is not used?
• ... that Cyclone Gati in November 2020 was the strongest tropical cyclone on record to make landfall in Somalia?
• ... that Laura Garwin, one of the first female Rhodes Scholars, left a career in science to become a full-time trumpeter?

Nana Akufo-Addo

• Nana Akufo-Addo (pictured) is re-elected for a second term as President of Ghana.
• In motorsport, Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia win the World Rally Championship, while Hyundai win the manufacturers' title.
• Hayabusa2 successfully returns samples collected from asteroid 162173 Ryugu to Earth.
• Zdravko Krivokapić takes office as Prime Minister of Montenegro, becoming the first independent to hold the post.

December 13:

Haile Selassie

• 1862 – American Civil War: Union forces under Ambrose Burnside suffered severe casualties against entrenched Confederate defenders at the Battle of Fredericksburg in Virginia.
• 1928 – An American in Paris, a jazz-influenced orchestral piece by George Gershwin, premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York.
• 1960 – With Haile Selassie (pictured), Emperor of Ethiopia, out of the country, four conspirators staged a coup attempt to install Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen as the new emperor.
• 1982 – An earthquake registering 6.2 M_w struck North Yemen, killing about 2,800 people.