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What Happened on October 13th This Day in History

Year Name
2019 Kenyan Brigid Kosgei sets a new world record for a woman runner with a time of 2:14:04 at the 2019 Chicago Marathon.
2016 The Maldives announces its decision to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations.
2013 A stampede occurs in India during the Hindu festival Navratri, killing 115 and injuring more than 110.
2010 The mining accident in Copiapó, Chile ends as all 33 trapped miners arrive at the surface after a record 69 days underground.
1993 At least 60 people die in eastern Papua New Guinea when a series of earthquakes rock the Finisterre Range, triggering massive landslides.
1990 Syrian forces attack free areas of Lebanon, removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.
1983 Ameritech Mobile Communications launches the first US cellular network in Chicago.
1977 Hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181 by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
1976 The first electron micrograph of an Ebola virus is taken at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Dr. F. A. Murphy.
1972 Aeroflot Flight 217 crashes outside Moscow, killing 174.
1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains. Twenty-eight survive the crash. All but 16 succumb before rescue on December 23.
1962 The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Category 3 hurricane, with winds above 150 mph. Forty-six people die.
1946 France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
1944 World War II: The Soviet Riga Offensive captures the city.
1943 World War II: Marshal Pietro Badoglio announces that Italy has officially declared war on Germany.
1923 Ankara becomes the capital of Turkey.
1921 Soviet republics sign the Treaty of Kars to formalize the borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
1917 The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Portugal.
1915 First World War: The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos.
1911 Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.
1908 Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and becomes the first woman to speak there.
1903 The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.
1892 Edward Emerson Barnard discovers first comet discovered by photographic means.
1885 The Georgia Institute of Technology is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
1881 First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
1843 In New York City, B'nai B'rith, the oldest Jewish service organization in the world, is founded.
1821 The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is publicly proclaimed.
1812 War of 1812: Sir Isaac Brock's British and native forces repel an invasion of Canada by General Rensselaer's United States forces.
1793 French Revolutionary Wars: Austro-Prussian victory over Republican France at the First Battle of Wissembourg.
1792 In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
1775 The Continental Congress establishes the Continental Navy (predecessor of the United States Navy).
1710 Port Royal, the capital of French Acadia, falls in a siege by British forces.
1644 A Swedish–Dutch fleet defeats the Danish fleet at Fehmarn and captures about 1,000 prisoners.
1399 Coronation of Henry IV of England at Westminster Abbey.[2]
1332 Rinchinbal Khan becomes the Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan dynasty, reigning for only 53 days.
1307 Hundreds of the Knights Templar in France are arrested at dawn by King Philip the Fair, and later confess under torture to heresy.
1269 The present church building at Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
409 Vandals and Alans cross the Pyrenees and appear in Hispania.
54 Roman emperor Claudius dies from poisoning under mysterious circumstances. He is succeeded by his adoptive son Nero, rather than by Britannicus, his son with Messalina.
Famous People Born on October 13

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Year Name
1967 Kate Walsh, American actress and producer
1981 Taylor Buchholz, American baseball player
1999 Andrew Capobianco. American Olympic diver
1474 Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter and educator (d. 1515)
1935 Bruce Morrow, American radio host and actor
1961 Rachel De Thame, English gardener and television presenter
1973 Matt Hughes, American wrestler and mixed martial artist
1862 Mary Kingsley, English explorer and author (d. 1900)
1902 Karl Leichter, Estonian musicologist and academic (d. 1987)
1971 Pyrros Dimas, Albanian-Greek weightlifter and politician
Famous People Deaths On October 13

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Date Name
2001 Peter Doyle, Australian singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
1706 Iyasu I, emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1654)
1979 Antonio Berni, Argentinian painter, illustrator, and engraver (b. 1905)
1825 Maximilian I Joseph, king of Bavaria (b. 1756)
1100 Guy I, count of Ponthieu
2013 Martin Drewes, German soldier and pilot (b. 1918)
1956 Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, Turkish poet and author (b. 1910)
2008 Alexei Cherepanov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1989)
1882 Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher and author (b. 1816)
1788 Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish poet and politician (b. 1702)