16 January 2013Gun Violence Task ForceJoseph Robinette Biden Jr
Leads administration work on gun violence proposals.
Historical records for United States of America in 2013, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Leads administration work on gun violence proposals.
Armstrong admits to doping in a television interview conducted by Oprah Winfrey
Produces The Next Day, Bowie's surprise return after a long absence from new albums.
MESSENGER begins a second extended phase of Mercury observations, allowing progressively lower-altitude measurements.
Links new observations to the long-lost Jovian moon S 2000 J11, recovering its orbit.
MESSENGER imagery supports a new global Mercury mosaic used to study surface geology and spacecraft ground tracks.
Showalter discovers a tiny Neptunian moon in archival Hubble images and initially designates it S/2004 N 1.
The names Kerberos and Styx are adopted for Pluto's fourth and fifth known moons, previously called P4 and P5.
An enhanced-color global map from MESSENGER highlights compositional differences across Mercury's surface.
Frieman helps lead the Dark Energy Survey as it begins observing the southern sky to measure supernovae, galaxy clustering, weak lensing and galaxy clusters.
NASA announces evidence that Voyager 1 has entered interstellar space.
With Joseph Polchinski, argues that typical black holes in gauge-gravity duality may possess firewalls at the horizon.
With Donald Marolf, develops a gauge-gravity argument supporting firewalls in typical black hole states.
Dies in East Hampton, New York, after a career spanning the Velvet Underground and five decades of solo work.
Wins a second Academy Award for Original Screenplay for Django Unchained.
MESSENGER observes Comet Encke from Mercury orbit, adding comet science to the spacecraft's extended mission.
MESSENGER observes Comet ISON during its approach to the Sun while continuing Mercury orbital measurements.
With Juan Maldacena, proposes the ER equals EPR conjecture connecting entanglement with wormhole geometry in quantum gravity.
Showalter determines a circular orbit for the newly detected moon by tracing it through many archival Hubble images.
Steinhardt critiques aspects of inflation and stimulates debate over early universe evidence
Voyager 1 plasma-wave observations measure electron-density oscillations characteristic of the local interstellar medium.
Stars in Men in Black 3
New Horizons detects Pluto's large moon Charon from deep space as the spacecraft continues its approach to the Pluto system.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic in cells.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic in cells.
Summers's updated book Not in Your Lifetime discussed allegations involving Cuban exile figures, including Herminio Diaz, while presenting them as part of the continuing JFK assassination debate.
Summers 1980 book Conspiracy was updated as "Not in Your Lifetime: The Defining Book on the JFK Assassination". He implicates Cuban exile Herminio Diaz, an employee of Santo Trafficante, as a grassy knoll shooter in the assassination of John F. Kennedy
Stars in Penthouse North
President Barack Obama announces an end the the "War on Terror"
Publication of "The Goldfinch"
Publication of "The Lowland"
Stars as stockbroker Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street.
President Barack Obama announces an end the the "War on Terror"
Bennett and the WMAP team publish final nine-year results supporting a nearly flat universe dominated at late times by dark energy consistent with a cosmological constant.
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