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October 13
is the 286th day of the year (287th in
leap years
) in the
Gregorian calendar
. There are 79 days remaining until the end of the year.
- 54
?
Roman Empire
emperor
Claudius
dies after being poisoned by his wife
Agrippina
.
Nero
becomes Emperor.
- 409
?
Vandals
and
Alans
cross the
Pyrenees
and reach
Hispania
, present-day
Spain
.
- 1307
? All
Knights Templar
in
France
are simultaneously arrested by agents of
Phillip the Fair
, to be later tortured into "admitting"
heresy
.
- 1399
?
Henry IV of England
is crowned
King
. He founds the Royal
House of Lancaster
.
- 1582
? Due to the implementation of the
Gregorian calendar
this day does not exist in this year in
Italy
,
Poland
,
Portugal
and
Spain
.
- 1644
? A
Swedish
-
Dutch
fleet
defeats the
Danes
and captures about 1,000
prisoners
.
- 1710
? Port Royal, capital of French
Acadia
, falls in a
siege
to British forces.
- 1773
?
Charles Messier
discovers the
Whirlpool Galaxy
.
- 1775
? The
United States Continental Congress
orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the
United States Navy
).
- 1792
? In
Washington, DC
, the cornerstone of the
United States
Executive Mansion (known as the
White House
since
1818
) is laid.
- 1803
? The first
European
settlement in
Victoria
,
Australia
, is started at
Sullivan Bay, Victoria
.
- 1812
?
War of 1812
:
Battle of Queenston Heights
? On the
Niagara
frontier in
Ontario, Canada
,
United States
forces under General
Stephen Van Rensselaerof
are repulsed from invading
Canada
by
British
and native troops led by Sir
Isaac Brock
.
- 1825
?
Ludwig I of Bavaria
becomes
King
.
- 1843
? In
New York City
,
Henry Jones
and 11 others found
B'nai B'rith
(the oldest
Jewish
service organization in the world).
- 1845
? A majority of voters in the
Republic of Texas
approve a proposed constitution, that if accepted by the
U.S. Congress
, will make
Texas
a
U.S. state
.
- 1881
? First known conversation in modern
Hebrew
by
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
and a group of his friends.
- 1884
?
Greenwich
,
London
is decided as the place that the 0 degree
longitude
line will pass through.
- 1885
? The
Georgia Institute of Technology
is founded of
Atlanta, Georgia
.
- 1898
?
British
passenger ship
Mohegan
crashes into a
reef
off
Cornwall
, sinking within 12 minutes, killing 106 people.
- 1911
?
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
becomes the first British royal to be Governor-General of
Canada
.
- 1914
? The
Boston Braves
complete a 4 games to 0 win over the
Philadelphia Athletics
at
Fenway Park
in
Boston, Massachusetts
in the first such victory in
Baseball
World Series
history.
- 1917
? "Miracle of the Sun" is said to have been seen by 70,000 people in Fatima,
Portugal
.
- 1918
? Talaat Pasha and the
Young Turk
(C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in
World War I
.
- 1921
? The
Soviet
republics of
Russia
,
Armenia
,
Azerbaijan
and
Georgia
sign the
Treaty of Kars
with the Grand National Assembly of
Turkey
to determine modern borders between
Turkey
and the Southern
Caucasus
states.
- 1923
?
Ankara
replaces
Istanbul
as capital city of
Turkey
.
- 1943
?
World War II
: The new government of
Italy
sides with the
Allies
and declares war on
Germany
.
- 1944
?
World War II
:
Riga
,
Latvia
is occupied by the
Red Army
.
- 1945
? The
Christian Social Union of Bavaria
, the main political party of
Bavaria
, is founded.
- 1946
?
France
adopts the constitution of the
Fourth Republic
.
- 1958
? Debut of
Paddington Bear
fictional character, created by
Michael Bond
.
- 1960
?
1960 World Series
:
Baseball
player
Bill Mazeroski
becomes the first person to end a
World Series
with a
home run
.
- 1962
?
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
opens on
Broadway
.
- 1967
? The first game of the
American Basketball Association
is played in
Oakland, California
, as the
Oakland Oaks
defeat the
Anaheim Amigos
134-129.
- 1970
?
Fiji
joins the
UN
.
- 1972
? An
Aeroflot
Ilyushin-62 crashed outside
Moscow
killing 176
- 1972
?
Andes flight disaster
:
Fairchild
passenger plane transporting a rugby team crashes in Andes. They are found alive
December 20
but they have had to resort to
cannibalism
to survive, as chronicled in the 1993
movie
Alive: The Miracle of the Andes
.
- 1976
? A Bolivian
Boeing
707 cargo jet crashes in
Santa Cruz, Bolivia
killing 100 (97, mostly children killed on the ground)
- 1976
? The first
electron micrograph
of an
Ebola
viral
particle was obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at
U.C. Davis
, who was then working at the
C.D.C.
.
- 1977
? Four
Palestinians
hijack a
Lufthansa Airlines
flight to
Somalia
and demand release of 11 members of the
Red Army Faction
.
- 1990
? End of the
Lebanese Civil War
:
Syrian
forces launch an attack on the free areas of
Lebanon
, removing Michel Aoun from the
Presidential
Palace
.
- 1992
? An Antonov An-124 operated by Antonov
Airlines
crashes near
Kiev
,
Ukraine
, killing 8 people.
- 1995
?
Microsoft
releases
Windows 95
.
- 1999
? The
United States Senate
rejects ratification of the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
(CTBT).
- 1162
?
Leonora of England
, Queen of
Castile
(d.
1214
)
- 1453
?
Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales
(d.
1471
)
- 1474
?
Mariotto Albertinelli
, Italian painter (d.
1495
)
- 1499
?
Claude of France
(d.
1524
)
- 1566
?
Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork
, Irish politician (d.
1643
)
- 1613
?
Luisa of Medina-Sidonia
, Queen of
Portugal
(d.
1666
)
- 1680
?
Catherine Opalinska
, Queen of
Poland
(d.
1747
)
- 1713
?
Allan Ramsay
, Scottish painter (d.
1784
)
- 1768
?
Jacques Felix Emmanuel Hamelin
, French explorer (d.
1839
)
- 1816
?
Benjamin H. Brewster
,
United States Attorney General
(d.
1888
)
- 1820
?
John William Dawson
, Canadian
geologist
(d.
1899
)
- 1821
?
Rudolf Virchow
, German
physician
,
pathologist
,
biologist
and politician (d.
1902
)
- 1825
?
Charles Frederick Worth
, English
fashion
designer (d.
1895
)
- 1844
?
Ernest Myers
, English
poet
(d.
1921
)
- 1853
?
Lillie Langtry
, British actress (d.
1929
)
- 1862
?
Mary Kingsley
, British explorer (d.
1900
)
- 1867
?
Ramon Maximiliano Valdes
, 7th
President
of
Panama
(d.
1918
)
- 1870
?
Albert Jay Nock
, American
writer
(d.
1945
)
- 1872
?
Blaise Diagne
,
Senegalese
politician (d.
1934
)
- 1874
?
Jozsef Klekl
,
Slovenian
politician in
Hungary
(d.
1948
)
- 1876
?
Rube Waddell
, American
baseball
player (d.
1914
)
- 1877
?
Theodore G. Bilbo
,
Governor
of
Mississippi
(d.
1947
)
- 1878
?
Stepan Shahumyan
,
Armenian
politician
and
revolutionary
(d.
1918
)
- 1879
?
Edward Hennig
, American gymnast (d.
1960
)
- 1880
?
Sasha Cherny
, Russian
poet
(d.
1932
)
- 1883
?
William Dickey
, American diver (d.
1950
)
- 1887
?
Jozef Tiso
,
Slovakian
politician (d.
1947
)
- 1890
?
Conrad Richter
, American writer (d.
1968
)
- 1891
?
Irene Rich
, American actress (d.
1988
)
- 1893
?
Kurt Reidemeister
, German
mathematician
(d.
1971
)
- 1895
?
Mike Gazella
, American
baseball
player (d.
1978
)
- 1896
?
E. Beatrice Riley
, Australian
supercentenarian
(d.
2009
)
- 1900
?
Gerald Marks
, American composer (d.
1997
)
- 1902
?
Karl Leichter
,
Estonian
musicologist
(d.
1987
)
- 1904
?
Wilfred Pickles
, English actor (d.
1978
)
- 1905
?
Coloman Braun-Bogdan
,
Romanian
footballer
(d.
1983
)
- 1905
?
Yves Allegret
, French
movie director
(d.
1987
)
- 1908
?
Steinn Steinarr
,
Icelandic
poet
(d.
1958
)
- 1909
?
Art Tatum
, American
jazz
musician (d.
1956
)
- 1911
?
Ashok Kumar
, Indian actor (d.
2001
)
- 1911
?
Migjeni
,
Albanian
poet
(d.
1938
)
- 1915
?
Terry Frost
, English
artist
(d.
2003
)
- 1915
?
Wesley Powell
,
Governor
of
New Hampshire
(d.
1981
)
- 1917
?
George Osmond
,
patriarch
of the
Osmonds
(d.
2007
)
- 1920
?
Laraine Day
, American actress (d.
2007
)
- 1921
?
Yves Montand
, French actor and singer (d.
1991
)
- 1923
?
Faas Wilkes
, Dutch
footballer
(d.
2006
)
- 1923
?
Iona Opie
, English folklorist
- 1924
?
Terry Gibbs
, American
jazz
musician
- 1924
?
Charlie Silvera
, American
baseball
player (d.
2019
)
- 1924
?
Roberto Eduardo Viola
, Argentine military leader (d.
1994
)
- 1925
?
Lenny Bruce
, American comedian (d.
1966
)
- 1925
?
Margaret Thatcher
,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
(d.
2013
)
- 1925
?
Gustav Winckler
, Danish singer (d.
1979
)
- 1926
?
Killer Kowalski
, Canadian
professional wrestler
(d.
2008
)
- 1926
?
Tommy Whittle
, British
jazz
saxophonist (d.
2013
)
- 1927
?
Lee Konitz
, American
jazz
saxophonist
- 1927
?
Turgut Ozal
, 8th
President of Turkey
(d.
1993
)
- 1929
?
Shivinder Singh Sidhu
, Indian politician,
Governor
of
Meghalaya
and
Goa
(d.
2018
)
- 1931
?
Raymond Kopa
, French footballer (d.
2017
)
- 1933
?
Narriman Sadek
,
Egyptian
royal
- 1933
?
Mark Zakharov
, Russian director and screenwriter (d.
2019
)
- 1934
?
Nana Mouskouri
, Greek singer and politician
- 1934
?
Jack Colvin
, American actor (d.
2005
)
- 1938
?
Christiane Horbiger
, Austrian actress
- 1939
?
Melinda Dillon
, American actress
- 1940
?
Pharoah Sanders
, American
saxophonist
- 1940
?
Chris Farlowe
, English rock, blues and soul singer
- 1941
?
Paul Simon
, American musician and songwriter
- 1942
?
Rutanya Alda
, Latvian-American
actress
- 1943
?
Edmund Daukoru
,
OPEC
Secretary-General
- 1943
?
Peter Sauber
, Swiss
Formula One
team principal
- 1945
?
Desi Bouterse
,
President
of
Suriname
- 1946
?
Edwina Currie
, British politician
- 1947
?
Joe Dolce
, American-born Australian singer-songwriter
- 1947
?
Sammy Hagar
, American singer
- 1949
?
Raimundo Fagner
, Brazilian
singer
,
composer
and
actor
- 1949
?
Marisol Malaret
, Puerto Rican
model
- 1949
?
Rick Vito
, American
singer-songwriter
and
guitarist
(
Fleetwood Mac
)
- 1949
?
Mark Winzenried
, American middle-distance runner
- 1950
?
Rolf Russmann
, German footballer (d.
2009
)
- 1952
?
Mundo Earwood
, American
country musician
and
singer-songwriter
(d.
2014
)
- 1954
?
Haitham bin Tariq
,
Sultan
of
Oman
- 1954
?
Mordechai Vanunu
, Israeli nuclear technician
- 1956
?
Chris Carter
, American TV and movie producer, director and writer
- 1958
?
Maria Cantwell
, American politician
- 1958
?
Jamal Khashoggi
, Saudi journalist (d.
2018
)
- 1959
?
Marie Osmond
, American entertainer
- 1960
?
Joey Belladonna
, American musician
- 1960
?
Eric Joyce
, Scottish politician
- 1960
?
Ari Fleischer
, 24th
White House
Press Secretary
- 1960
?
Peter Keisler
,
United States Attorney General
- 1961
?
Doc Rivers
, American
basketball
player and coach
- 1962
?
Kelly Preston
, American actress
- 1962
?
Jerry Rice
,
American football
player
- 1963
?
Thomas Dorflein
, German zookeeper (d.
2008
)
- 1964
?
Nie Haisheng
, Chinese
astronaut
- 1964
?
Christopher Judge
, American actor
- 1966
?
John Regis
, English athlete
- 1967
?
Trevor Hoffman
, American
baseball
player
- 1967
?
Javier Sotomayor
,
Cuban
athlete
- 1967
?
Kate Walsh
, American actress
- 1968
?
Carlos Marin
, Spanish
baritone
(
Il Divo
)
- 1968
?
Tisha Campbell
, American actress
- 1969
?
Nancy Kerrigan
, American
figure skater
- 1970
?
Mel Jackson
, American actor and musician
- 1970
?
Paul Potts
, English
tenor
- 1970
?
Rob Howley
, Welsh
rugby
player and coach
- 1971
?
Sacha Baron Cohen
, English actor and comedian
- 1971
?
Kira Reed
, American actress and TV host, writer and producer
- 1977
?
Katrin Wagner-Augustin
, German
canoeist
- 1977
?
Paul Pierce
, American
basketball
player
- 1977
?
Antonio Di Natale
, Italian footballer
- 1978
?
Wes Brown
, English footballer
- 1978
?
Markus Heikkinen
, Finnish
footballer
- 1978
?
Jermaine O'Neal
, American
basketball
player
- 1980
?
Magne Hoseth
, Norwegian footballer
- 1980
?
David Haye
, English boxer
- 1980
?
Scott Parker
, English footballer
- 1980
?
Ashanti
, American singer and actress
- 1981
?
Kele Okereke
, English
singer-songwriter
and
guitarist
(
Bloc Party
)
- 1982
?
Ian Thorpe
, Australian swimmer
- 1982
?
Kevin Clifton
, English professional dancer
- 1982
?
Denis Buntic
, Croatian
handball
player
- 1984
?
Misono
, Japanese
singer-songwriter
and
guitarist
- 1984
?
Frank Simek
, American
basketball
player
- 1986
?
Gabriel Agbonlahor
, English footballer
- 1986
?
Sergio Perez Moya
, Mexican footballer
- 1987
?
Ashley Newbrough
, American actress
- 1988
?
Scott Jamieson
, Australian footballer
- 1988
?
Enrique Perez
, Mexican footballer
- 1988
?
Susan Thorsgaard
, Danish
handball
player
- 1989
?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
, American politician and activist
- 1990
?
Pooja Hegde
, Indian
model
and
actress
- 1990
?
Himesh Patel
, English actor
- 1992
?
Aaron Dismuke
, American voice actor
- 1993
?
Kaito Ishikawa
, Japanese voice actor
- 1993
?
D-Pryde
, Canadian rapper
- 1993
?
Tiffany Trump
, daughter of
Donald Trump
- 54
?
Claudius
,
Roman Emperor
(b.
10 BC
)
- 1093
?
Robert I, Count of Flanders
- 1282
?
Nichiren
, Japanese
monk
(b.
1222
)
- 1687
?
Geminiano Montanari
, Italian
astronomer
(b.
1633
)
- 1706
?
Iyasus the Great
,
Emperor of Ethiopia
(b.
1682
)
- 1715
?
Nicolas Malebranche
, French
philosopher
(b.
1638
)
- 1759
?
John Henley
, English clergyman (b.
1692
)
- 1812
? Sir
Isaac Brock
, British general (killed in battle) (b.
1769
)
- 1815
?
Joachim Murat
,
King
of
Naples
, Marshal of
France
(b.
1767
)
- 1822
?
Antonio Canova
,
Venetian
sculptor
(b.
1757
)
- 1825
?
Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria
(b.
1756
)
- 1852
?
John Lloyd Stephens
, American
explorer
,
writer
and
diplomat
(b.
1805
)
- 1869
?
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
, French literary critic (b.
1804
)
- 1882
?
Arthur Gobineau
, French
philosopher
(b.
1816
)
- 1890
?
Samuel Freeman Miller
,
U.S. Supreme Court justice
(b.
1816
)
- 1904
?
Pavlos Melas
, Greek military officer (b.
1870
)
- 1905
?
Henry Irving
, British actor (b.
1838
)
- 1909
?
Francisco Ferrer y Guardia
, Spanish free-thinker (b.
1849
)
- 1911
?
Sister Nivedita
, Irish-Indian social worker, author and educator (b.
1867
)
- 1917
?
Florence La Badie
, pioneer actress (b.
1888
)
- 1919
?
Karl Adolph Gjellerup
, Danish writer (born
1857
)
- 1926
?
Hans E. Kinck
, Norwegian philologist and author (b.
1865
)
- 1928
?
Dagmar of Denmark
, Empress of
Russia
(b.
1847
)
- 1931
?
Ernst Didring
, Swedish writer (b.
1868
)
- 1938
?
E.C. Segar
, American cartoonist (b.
1892
)
- 1945
?
Milton S. Hershey
, American chocolate tycoon (b.
1857
)
- 1955
?
Manuel Avila Camacho
,
President
of
Mexico
(b.
1897
)
- 1961
?
Prince Louis Rwagasore
,
Prime Minister
of
Burundi
(b.
1932
)
- 1966
?
Clifton Webb
, actor (b.
1889
)
- 1968
?
Bea Benaderet
, actress (b.
1906
)
- 1974
?
Ed Sullivan
, American television personality (b.
1901
)
- 1979
?
Antonio Berni
, Argentine painter, illustrator and engraver (b.
1905
)
- 1981
?
Rebecca Clarke
, composer and violist (b.
1886
)
- 1987
?
Walter Houser Brattain
, American
physicist
(b.
1902
)
- 1987
?
Kishore Kumar
, Indian singer (b.
1929
)
- 1989
?
Merab Kostava
,
Georgian
political activist (b.
1939
)
- 1990
?
Le Duc Tho
,
Vietnamese
Nobel Peace Prize
recipient (b.
1911
)
- 1993
?
Wade Flemons
, American
singer-songwriter
(b.
1940
)
- 1996
?
Beryl Reid
, English actress (b.
1919
)
- 1998
?
Dmitry Filippov
, Russian politician (b.
1944
)
- 2000
?
Gus Hall
, American
Communist
politician (b.
1910
)
- 2001
?
Peter Doyle
, Australian singer (b.
1949
)
- 2002
?
Stephen Ambrose
, American historian and biographer (b.
1936
)
- 2003
?
Bertram Brockhouse
,
Nobel Prize
-winning Canadian
physicist
(b.
1918
)
- 2006
?
Dino Monduzzi
, Italian
cardinal
(b.
1922
)
- 2007
?
Bob Denard
, French mercenary (b.
1929
)
- 2008
?
Alexei Cherepanov
, Russian
ice hockey
player (b.
1989
)
- 2008
?
Guillaume Depardieu
, French actor (b.
1971
)
- 2009
?
Al Martino
, American musician (b.
1927
)
- 2010
?
Vernon Biever
, American photographer (b.
1923
)
- 2010
?
Mary Malcolm
, British television personality (b.
1918
)
- 2012
?
Gary Collins
, American actor and
television host
(b.
1938
)
- 2013
?
Olga Aroseva
, Russian actress (b.
1926
)
- 2013
?
Tommy Whittle
, British
jazz
saxophonist (b.
1926
)
- 2014
?
Antonio Cafiero
, Argentine politician (b.
1922
)
- 2014
?
Pontus Segerstrom
, Swedish
footballer
(b.
1981
)
- 2015
?
Sue Lloyd-Roberts
, English
journalist
(b.
1950
)
- 2016
?
Dario Fo
, Italian
writer
,
playwright
,
theatre
director
and
actor
(b.
1926
)
- 2016
?
Bhumibol Adulyadej
,
King
of
Thailand
(b.
1946
)
- 2016
?
Jim Prentice
, Canadian politician, 16th
Premier
of
Alberta
(b.
1956
)
- 2017
?
Satish Chandra
, Indian historian (b.
1922
)
- 2017
?
Pierre Hanon
, Belgian
footballer
(b.
1936
)
- 2017
?
Bo Holmstrom
, Swedish journalist (b.
1938
)
- 2017
?
William Lombardy
, American
chess
player (b.
1937
)
- 2017
?
Albert Zafy
,
President
of
Madagascar
(b.
1927
)
- 2018
?
Fabien Eboussi Boulaga
, Cameroonian
philosopher
(b.
1934
)
- 2018
?
William Coors
, American brewer (b.
1916
)
- 2018
?
Nikolai Pankin
, Russian swimmer (b.
1949
)
- 2018
?
Jim Taylor
, American football player (b.
1935
)
- 2018
?
Robert W. Doran
, New Zealand computer scientist (b.
1944
)
- 2018
?
Edgar S. Harris Jr.
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