WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO MAY 2013
Find out what all happened February to May 2013

An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others. (17. April 2013)

A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others. (24. April 2013)

Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage. (30. May 2013)

A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada. (8. February 2013)

An upsurge in violence in Iraq leaves more than 389 people dead over three days. (15. May 2013)

Three women missing for more than a decade are found alive in the U.S. city of Cleveland, Ohio, while a 52-year-old man, Ariel Castro, is taken into custody. (6. May 2013)

The largest meteorite (since NASA started observing the moon in 2005) hit the moon. (17. March 2013)

A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14. (15. February 2013)

Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India. (25. May 2013)

The Freedom Tower becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. (10. May 2013)

A wave of bombings across Iraq kills 75 people and injures approximately 356 others. (15. April 2013)

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Japan last reactor is shut down at midnight. (20. April 2013)

A gunman murders 13 people in a spree shooting in the village of Velika Ivanča, Serbia. (9. April 2013)

Two bomb blasts in Hyderabad, India, kill at least 17 people and injure more than 100 others. (21. February 2013)

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declares a state of emergency in the northeast states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa due to the terrorist activities of Boko Haram. (14. May 2013)

The smallest Extrasolar planet, Kepler-37b is discovered. (20. February 2013)

More than 70 people are killed in a building collapse in Thane, India. (4. April 2013)

Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church becoming the first pope to do so since 1415. (28. February 2013)

Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival. (10. February 2013)

A gas cylinder explodes on a school bus in the Pakistani city of Gujrat, killing at least 17 children and injuring 7 others. (25. May 2013)