October 13
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[change] Births
- 1925 - Lenny Bruce, sometimes controversial American comedian (died 1966)
- 1941 - Paul Simon, American musician and songwriter
- 1925 - Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister
[change] Deaths
- 54 - Claudius, Roman Emperor
- 1706 - Iyasus the Great, Emperor of Ethiopia
- 1812 - Sir Isaac Brock, British general (killed in battle)
- 1869 - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (b. 1804)
- 1890 - Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court justice (born 1816)
- 1909 - Francisco Ferrer Guardia, Spanish free-thinker
- 1917 - Florence La Badie, pioneer actress
- 1919 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer (born 1857)
- 1945 - Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate tycoon
- 1955 - Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (born 1897)
- 1966 - Clifton Webb, actor
- 1968 - Bea Benaderet, actress
- 1974 - Ed Sullivan, television personality
- 1979 - Rebecca Clarke, composer and violist
- 1990 - Le Duc Tho, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (born 1911)
- 2002 - Stephen Ambrose, American historian and biographer
- 2003 - Bertram Brockhouse, Nobel Prize-winning Canadian physicist
- 2003 - Joan B. Kroc, American philanthropist
[change] Events
- 54 - Roman Empire emperor Claudius I dies after being poisoned by his wife Agrippina.
- 1307 - All Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into "admitting" heresy.
- 1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1918 - Talaat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I
- 1943 - World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.
- 1946 - France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
- 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.
- 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 film 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.
- 1995 - Microsoft releases Windows 95.
- 1999 - The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
- 2003 - The Public Library of Science commences publication of an open-access scientific journal, PLoS Biology.
