Notable Historical Events on October 13th
October 13th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
54 |
Nero suceeds Claudius to become Roman Emperor |
409 |
Vandals and Alans crossed the Pyrenees and appeared in Hispania. |
1213 |
Battle at Steppes-Bishop Pierrepont & Louis II beat Henry I of Brabant |
1282 |
Nichiren Daishonin, founder of the Nichiren School of Buddhism, dies. His ashes are interred at Taisekiji Temple. |
1307 |
French King Philip IV convicts templars because of heresy |
1483 |
Rabbi Issac Abarbanel starts his exegesis on Bible |
1492 |
English admiral Poynings fleet occupies Lock |
1501 |
Maximilian of Austria & Louis XII sign Treaty of Trente |
1534 |
Alessandro Farnese elected as Pope Paul III |
1629 |
Dutch West Indies Co grants religious freedom in West Indies |
1652 |
Prince of Condé flees Paris |
1659 |
Gen-major John Lambert drives out English Rump-government |
1660 |
Denmark king Frederik III makes coup |
1702 |
Dutch/English troops occupy Luik |
1710 |
English troops occupy Acadia (Nova Scotia) |
1716 |
Hungarian Emperor Karel VI's troops occupy Temesvar |
1724 |
Jonathan Swift publishes last of Drapier's letters |
1760 |
Russian/Austrian army evacuates Berlin |
1773 |
The Whirlpool Galaxy was discovered by Charles Messier |
1775 |
Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet |
1792 |
"Old Farmer's Almanac" is 1st published |
1792 |
Washington lays cornerstone of Executive Mansion (White House) |
1812 |
Battle of Queenstown Heights, Brit beats US attempt to invade Canada |
1843 |
B'nai B'rith founded (NY) |
1845 |
Texas ratifies a state constitution |
1860 |
1st aerial photo taken in US (from a balloon), Boston |
1862 |
Bismarck's "Blood & Iron" speech |
1863 |
Skirmish at Blountsville, Tennessee (50 casualties) |
1864 |
Battle at Darbytown Road Virginia (337 casualties) |
1864 |
Battle of Dalton, GA - surrendered |
1864 |
Battle of Harpers Ferry, WV (mOSBY's Raid) |
1864 |
Maryland voters adopt new constitution, including abolition of slavery |
1870 |
Gustav Mahler (10) gives his 1st public piano concert |
1871 |
The Delphic Fraternity is founded as the Delphic Society at the State Normal School in Geneseo, New York. |
1881 |
Revival of Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda & friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations |
1884 |
Greenwich established as universal time meridian of longitude |
1885 |
The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, Georgia. |
1890 |
The Delta Chi fraternity is founded by 11 law students at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. |
1893 |
Vigilant (US) beats Valkyrie II (England) in 9th America's Cup |
1896 |
First public screening of a motion picture in New Zealand |
1899 |
7000 lay-offs black mine workers of South Africa reach Natal |
1902 |
President Roosevelt threatens to start using army troops to work coal mines struck since 12 may; this brings the owners to agree to abide by a Commission of Arbitration |
1903 |
Pilgrims beat Pirates 5 games to 3 in 1st World Series |
1903 |
Victor Herbert's "Babes in Toyland" premieres in NYC |
1914 |
Belgian regime forms at St Adresse at Le Havre |
1914 |
Boston Braves sweep Phila A's, 1st sweep in World Series history |
1914 |
Garrett Morgan invents & patents gas mask |
1914 |
Pro-German Boers begin opposition to British authority in South Africa |
1915 |
Boston Red Sox beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 1 in 12th World Series |
1917 |
Soviets accept establishment of Petrograd Military |
1920 |
World Series celebration in Wade Park brings out 50,000+ Clevelanders |
1921 |
NY Giants beat NY Yankees, 5 games to 3 in 18th World Series |
1923 |
Angora (Ankara) becomes Turkey's capital |
1924 |
Wahhabietes under Ibn Saudi take Mecca |
1930 |
New German Reichstag opens with 107 NSDAP'ers in uniform |
1931 |
Musical "Everybody's Welcome" with T/J Dorsey premieres in NYC |
1931 |
Noel Cowards "Cavalcade" premieres in London |
1933 |
JDJ Boularan's "Tovarich" premieres in Paris |
1933 |
Soccer team STEVO forms in Geesteren |
1936 |
Explosion caused by leaking gas rips out section 12 of Cleve Stadium |
1937 |
A recorded trace of snow in Central Park, NYC |
1941 |
Nazis kill 11,000 Jewish children/old people |
1943 |
Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany |
1944 |
Riga Latvia freed |
1944 |
US 1st army begins battle of Aachen |
1947 |
"Kukla, Fran & Ollie" premieres |
1947 |
1st NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 4-3 at Toronto |
1949 |
"Touch & Go" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 176 performances |
1953 |
Burglar alarm-ultrasonic or radio waves-patented-Samuel Bagno |
1954 |
RP Smith/M Shulman's "Tender Trap" premieres in NYC |
1955 |
1st edition of L'express publishes in Paris |
1956 |
WAGM TV channel 8 in Presque Isle, ME (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins |
1957 |
German Democratic Republic recalls OstMark & issues new currency |
1958 |
Burial of Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII on the 41st anniversary of the "Miracle of the Sun". |
1960 |
Third presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood & Kennedy in NY |
1960 |
Opponents of Fidel Castro executed in Cuba |
1960 |
Pirate's Mazeroski's bottom of 9th lead off HR beats NY Yankees 10-9 in game 7 of 57th World Series |
1962 |
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens on Broadway, with Uta Hagen |
1963 |
"Beatlemania" is coined after Beatles appear at Palladium |
1963 |
15th Ryder Cup: US beats 23-9 at East Lake Country Club (Atlanta, Georgia, US) |
1963 |
9th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright |
1964 |
At Plesman airport, Curacao, 125.5 mm rainfalls (record) |
1964 |
Voskhod 1 crew returns |
1966 |
173 US aircraft bomb North Vietnam |
1966 |
Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA |
1967 |
CBS radio cancels "House Party" |
1968 |
Tinker Creek Gorge of Cleveland Metroparks is dedicated |
1969 |
1st time 7 people in space |
1969 |
Billy Martin (97-65) is fired as manager of AL West-winning Twins |
1969 |
Soyuz 8 is launched |
1970 |
Angela Davis arrested in NYC |
1970 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR |
1970 |
A man dies in a premature bomb explosion in Dublin, Republic of Ireland |
1971 |
1st World Series night game (Pittsburgh 4-Baltimore 3) |
1971 |
WTZH TV channel 24 in Meridian, MS (CBS) suspends broadcasting |
1972 |
"Hurry, Harry" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 2 performances |
1972 |
Aeroflot Il-62 crashes in large pond outside Moscow, 176 die |
1972 |
Commish Bowie Kuhn allows Bert Campaneris to play in World Series |
1972 |
Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountains, (passengers eat crash victims to survive, 16 of 45 rescued 2 months later) |
1973 |
Jordan enters Yom Kippur war |
1973 |
Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Emily in for Carol" |
1975 |
9th Country Music Association Award: John Denver wins |
1975 |
Rock vocal Neil Young undergoes throat surgery |
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.. |
1978 |
US President Jimmy Carter answers callers' questions on National Public Radio |
1978 |
Swaziland's new constitution promulgated bans political parties |
1978 |
Tiros N, US's 1st third generation weather satellite, is launched |
1978 |
Graig Nettles at 3rd makes many spectactular plays in WS game 3 as Guidry beats Dodgers, after trailing 2 games to 0 Yanks win next 4 |
1980 |
14th Country Music Association Award: Barbara Mandrell, Emmylou Harris & George Jones wins |
1980 |
Unprovoked slayings of 6 blacks in Buffalo, NY |
1981 |
Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt |
1982 |
IOC Executive Committee approves the reinstatement of Jim Thorpe's gold medals from the 1912 Olympics |
1982 |
NJ Devils 1st short handed goal-Don Lever |
1983 |
Ameritech Mobile Communications (now Cingular) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois. |
1984 |
Blackhawk Bill Gardner scores on 10th penalty shot against Islanders |
1984 |
John Henry becomes 1st thoroughbred to win $6 million |
1984 |
STS 41-G mission; lands at Kennedy Space Center |
1985 |
"Sunday in the Park with George" closes at Booth NYC after 604 perfs |
1985 |
Belgium premier Martens CVP wins parliamentary election |
1985 |
During NLCS, Cards rookie Vince Coleman is injured stretching before game as his left leg is caught in Busch Stadium's automated tarpaulin |
1986 |
20th Country Music Association Award: Reba McEntire wins |
1986 |
25th NY, NL appearance in World Series (Mets vs A's) |
1986 |
IOC announces baseball will become a medal sport in 1992 |
1987 |
1st military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf) |
1987 |
Costa Rican Pres Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize |
1987 |
West Indies score 4-360 in 50 overs in Cricket World Cup v Sri Lanka |
1988 |
Concert at Masada ends Israel's 40th-anniversary fest |
1988 |
Nobel prize for literature awarded to Naguib Mahfouz |
1988 |
Shroud of Turin, revered by many Christians as Christ's burial cloth, is shown by carbon-dating tests to be a fake from the Middle Ages |
1988 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1989 |
Bob Quinn resigns as NY Yankee VP/GM & replaced by Harding Peterson |
1989 |
Dow Jones down 190.58 points |
1990 |
1st Russian Orthodox service in 70 yrs held in St Basil's Cathedral |
1990 |
Target Center in Minneapolis opens |
1991 |
Blue Jay Cito Gaston is 1st manager ejected in a playoff game |
1991 |
Minnesota Twins win AL pennant beating Toronto in 5 games |
1993 |
Greek government of Papandreou forms |
1993 |
Mighty Ducks win their 1st NHL game |
1993 |
Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Kary Mullis & Michael Smith |
1993 |
Nobel prize for physics awarded to Russel Hulse & Joseph Taylor |
1993 |
Phillies beat Atlanta in NLCS |
1993 |
Captured American Pilot Mike Durant is filmed in an interview in captivity by a CNN camera crew. |
1994 |
Earliest start of Sheffield Shield season (Queensland v Tasmania) |
1994 |
Nobel prize for literature awarded to Kenzaburo Oe |
1995 |
Joseph Rotblat awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
1995 |
Pamela Anderson Lee, rush to hospital with flu like symptoms |
1996 |
"Big" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 193 performances |
1996 |
Annika Sorenstam wins Betsy King LPGA Golf Classic |
1996 |
NY Jet Nick Lowrey breaks Jan Stenerud NFL field goal record at 374 |
1996 |
Yanks (3) & Orioles (3) combine to tie play off record of 6 HRs |
1997 |
Andy Green's Jet-powered car reaches record 749.69 MPH |
1999 |
The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). |
2008 |
HM Treasury infused £37 billion ($64 billion, 47 billion euros) of new capital-bailout into Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, Lloyds TSB and HBOS Plc, to avert a financial sector collapse. |
2010 |
The 2010 Copiapó mining accident in Copiapó, Chile comes to an end as all 33 miners arrive at the surface after surviving a record 69 days underground awaiting rescue. |
2012 |
15 people are killed by a market suicide bombing in Darra Adam Khel, Pakistan |
2012 |
Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes Bild sells for $34 million, the highest sold artwork by a living artist |
2013 |
109 people are killed in a stampede on a bridge in Datia district, Madhya Pradesh, India |
2016 |
US military strikes Yemen after missile attacks on US Navy ship |
2016 |
UFC: Ronda Rousey to make comeback against Amanda Nunes |
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