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October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years). There are 79 days remaining.
Events
1-1899
1900-1999
- 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: Baseballer 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 (1972): 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.
- 1990 - Syria invades Lebanon killing over 500, and a perfect Palindrome appears on the California Lottery in the form of the numbers 1-5-7-15-17-51. Using the major system for memorizing numbers, the name al-Qaeda forms the number 571. Several years later, California Lottery officials are arrested for taking bribes, involving the awarding of contracts - yet no foreign invlovment is proven.
- 1995 - Microsoft releases Windows 95.
- 1997 - Syria invades Lebanon again.
- 1999 - The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
2000-2099
Births
1800-1899
1900-1999
- 1909 - Art Tatum, jazz pianist (d. 1956)
- 1909 - Herbert Block ("Herblock"), editorial cartoonist (d. 2001)
- 1910 - Ernest McGann, author (d. 1991)
- 1911 - Ashok Kumar, actor, India (d. 2001)
- 1915 - Cornel Wilde, actor (d. 1989)
- 1917 - Burr Tillstrom, puppeteer
- 1918 - Robert Walker, actor (d. 1951)
- 1921 - Yves Montand, singer, actor (d. 1991)
- 1924 - Nipsey Russell, comedian, actor, television personality
- 1925 - Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1925 - Lenny Bruce, comedian (d. 1966)
- 1931 - Eddie Mathews, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 2001)
- 1934 - Nana Mouskouri, Greek singer
- 1938 - Hugo Young, journalist (d. 2003)
- 1940 - Pharoah Sanders, jazz saxophonist
- 1941 - Paul Simon, musician
- 1942 - Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys
- 1946 - Edwina Currie, former British politician
- 1947 - Sammy Hagar, singer
- 1948 - Ted Poe, American politician
- 1953 - Pat Day, jockey
- 1959 - Marie Osmond, singer, actress, television personality
- 1962 - Jerry Rice, American football star
- 1969 - Nancy Kerrigan, figure skater
- 1971 - Sacha Baron Cohen, comic
- 1978 - Jermaine O'Neal, NBA basketball player
- 1980 - Ashanti, pop music artist, USA
- 1982 - Ian Thorpe, swimmer
Deaths
1-1899
1900-1999
2000-2099
Holidays
October 12 - October 14 - September 13 - November 13 - more historical anniversaries
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