Timeline September 2013

Events in September 2013 7

• 1913 – 2013 Eiji Toyoda (1913-2013) Died 17 September 2013, aged 100 Eiji Toyoda was a Japanese industrialist who led Toyota Motor Corporation through its expansion into a major global automaker and helped develop the Toyota Production System. He died at his home in Toyota City, Japan.
• 2008 – 2013 Breaking Bad AMC, 2008-2013 - 62 episodes over five seasons Vince Gilligan's drama about a chemistry teacher who becomes a meth kingpin, from Mr. Chips to Scarface.
• 2012 – 2013 Breaking Bad season 5 16 episodes Sixteen episodes split over two years: the empire, then the collapse.
• 2013 Diana Nyad swims from Cuba to Florida First person to complete the crossing without a shark cage Long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad completed a roughly 110-mile swim from Havana, Cuba, to Key West, Florida, in about 53 hours, becoming the first person to make the crossing without a protective shark cage. It was her fifth attempt at the swim, at age 64.
• 2013 Microsoft acquires Nokia's mobile division for €5.44 billion Microsoft acquires Nokia's mobile phone and services division for €5.44 billion — announced September 2013, completed April 2014. Stephen Elop returns to Microsoft. The deal fails catastrophically: Microsoft writes off €7.6 billion on the acquisition in 2015 and lays off 7,800 Nokia employees. The Nokia mobile brand — once the most recognised consumer brand in the world — is effectively dead. Nokia retains its patents and network infrastructure business.
• 2013 Voyager 1 confirmed to reach interstellar space NASA probe becomes first human-made object beyond the solar system NASA announced that the Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, had crossed into interstellar space over a year earlier, based on plasma density readings. It became the first human-made object to leave the heliosphere.
• 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack Al-Shabaab gunmen kill dozens in Nairobi siege Militants from the Somali group al-Shabaab attacked the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, killing at least 67 people in a four-day siege. The attack was described as retaliation for Kenyan military involvement in Somalia.