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2013 REVIEW. FRENCH. January 11 th : The ………………………………… military began a five-month intervention into the Northern Mali conflict. January 20 th : The second inauguration of ……………………………………………… as President of the USA took place in the Blue Room of the White House. Barack Obama. meteor. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
2013 REVIEW
January 11th: The ………………………………… military began a five-month intervention into
the Northern Mali conflict.
FRENCH
January 20th: The second inauguration
of ……………………………………………… as President of the USA
took place in the Blue Room of the White House.
Barack Obama
February 15th: A .............................exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring
1,491 people and damaging over 4,300 buildings. It is the most powerful
…………………………… to strike Earth's atmosphere in over a century
meteor
meteor
February 28th: ……………………………………
resigned as Pope, becoming the first to do so since Gregory XII in 1415, and
the first to do so voluntarily since Celestine V in 1294
Benedict XVI
March 5th: Death of Hugo Chavez, President of ……………………………………..Venezuela
March 13th : Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected the
266th Pope, whereupon he took the name ……………………………… and
became the first pope from ……………………………, and the first
pope from the Southern ………………………………………..
Francis 1stAmerica
hemisphere
April 8th: Death of ……………………………………………., Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to
1990.
Margaret Thatcher
April 15th :Two Chechen Islamist brothers exploded two bombs at
the Marathon in ………………………… (city) , ………………………………….
(state), in the United States, killing 3 and injuring 264 others
BostonMassachussets
April 24th : An eight-story …………………………………………………
collapses in Savar Upazila near the Bangladeshi capital
of ……………………………………, leaving 1,129 dead and 2,500 injured.
Commercial building
Dhaka
May 15th: In a study published in the ………………………………… (genre)
journal Nature, researchers from Oregon Health & Science University in the United States described the first creation of
HUMAN embryonic stem cells by ……………………………………….
scientific
cloning
May 18th: Same-sex …………………………………….. became legal in …………………………………...marriage
France
June 6th …………………………………(nationality) Edward
Snowden disclosed operations engaged by a ………………………………
(nationality) government mass surveillance program to news
publications and fled the country, later being granted
temporary asylum in ………………………………………
American
US
Russia
June 7th Death of Pierre ………………………, …………………… Prime Minister from 1981 to 1984.Moroy French
July 1st: ………………………………….became the 28th member of the European Union.
Croatia
July 22nd : Princess ……………………………………………….gave birth to Baby ………………………………...Kate Middleton
George
July 24th : The ……………………………………………… derailment occurred, when a high-speed train travelling from Madrid to Ferrol, in the north-west of Spain, derailed at high speed. 140 passengers were injured and 79 died.
Santiago de Compostela
August 11th : There was a prolific …………………………………………… associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle.
Meteor shower
September 7th: ………………………………(city) is chosen as Host for the ………………(year) Summer Olympics
Tokyo2020
September 21st : Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in …………………………… (city), killing at least 62 civilians and
wounding over 170.Nairobi
October 18th : ……………………………………….(country) rejects a seat on the United Nations Security Council making the country
the ………………….. (number) to reject a seat on the Security Council.
Saudi Arabia
first
October 27th: Death of ……………………………………….., …………………………………. singer, musician and songwriter
Lou ReedAmerican
November 8th: ………………………….. Haiyan "Yolanda", one of the strongest …………………………………………on record, hit
the …………………………………. and Vietnam, causing devastation with at least 6,149 dead
Typhoon
Tropical cyclones
Philippines
November 30th: Death of …………………………………………………, American actor, famous for the Fast and Furious movie series.
Paul Walker
December 5th : Death of ………………………………………………, former President of ……………………………….. and peace icon.
Nelson MandelaSouth Africa
December 14th :……………………………………. (nationality) spacecraft Chang'e 3, becomes the ………………………
(number) robotic spacecraft to land on the Moon.
Chinese
third