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December 29, 2013

On December 29, 2013, a suicide bomb attack at the Volgograd-1 railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd kills at least 18 people and wounds 40 others. The year's #1 song was "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz. Big Justice, Prince George of Wales, Big Justice would arrive in the same year.

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2013 (MMXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2013th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 13th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2010s decade.

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On December 29, 2013

  1. 2013 A suicide bomb attack at the Volgograd-1 railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd kills at least 18 people and wounds 40 others.

    Two suicide bombings in the city of Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast, Southern Russia

    In December 2013, two separate suicide bombings a day apart targeted mass transportation in the city of Volgograd, in the Volgograd Oblast of Southern Russia, killing 34 people overall, including both perpetrators. The attacks followed a bus bombing carried out in the same city two months earlier.

  2. 2013 Seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher suffers a massive head injury while skiing in the French Alps.

    Motorsport championship held worldwide

    Formula One (F1) is the highest class of worldwide racing for open-wheel, single-seater formula racing cars run by Formula One Group and sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The FIA Formula One World Championship has been one of the world's premier forms of motorsport since its inaugural running in 1950 and is often considered to be the pinnacle of motorsport. The word formula in the name refers to the set of rules all participant cars must follow.

Farewells

Died on December 29, 2013

C. T. Hsia Chinese literary critic (1921–2013)
Paul Comstive English footballer (1961–2013)
Benjamin Curtis American guitarist
Connie Dierking American basketball player
Wojciech Kilar Polish composer (1932–2013)
Besik Kudukhov Russian freestyle wrestler
Jagadish Mohanty Indian writer
Mike O'Connor German-American journalist (born 1946)

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Big Justice 2013– American social media personality
Prince George of Wales 2013–
Big Justice 2013– American social media personality
Prince George of Wales 2013–
Big Justice 2013– American social media personality
Prince George of Wales 2013–

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