September 13: Feast Day of Saint John Chrysostom (Western Christianity)

• 509 BC – The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus onCapitoline Hill, the most important temple in Ancient Rome, was dedicated.
• 1541 – After three years of exile, John Calvin returned toGeneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine that came to be known as Calvinism.
• 1848 – An explosion drove an iron rod through the head of railroad foreman Phineas Gage (pictured holding rod), making him an important early case of personality change after brain injury.
• 1971 – Following a failed coup attempt, Mao Zedong's second-in-command Lin Biao died in a plane crash while attempting to flee the People's Republic of China.
• 2006 – Kimveer Gill shot 19 people for unknown reasons, killing one, atDawson College in Montreal.