October 13

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on October 13. From 1900 until now. October 13 is under the sign of Libra. Famous birthdays on this day include Margaret Thatcher (1925), Sacha Baron Cohen (1971) and Yves Montand (1921). Several movies were released around October 13 over the years, such as The Prestige in 2006 directed by Christopher Nolan and Persona in 1966 directed by Ingmar Bergman.
But much more happened on October 13 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

RC Saints - translation (1163) of Saint Edward the Confessor; memorial of Saint Gerald of Aurillac
Roman festivals - Fontanalia: festival dedicated to Fontus
French Republican Calendar - POche (Peach) Day, twenty-second day in the Month of VendTmiaire
Also see October 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
John Peel Day - A day celebrating the life and influence of the late John Peel.
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Events

2018 War in Afghanistan: A motorcycle rigged with explosives is detonated at an election rally in northeastern Afghanistan, killing at least 14 people, including civilians and security forces. (ABC News)
2017 Human rights in the Philippines: A group of civil society organizations, "among them groups working on human rights, youth and drug policy reform," have demanded that Apple Inc. remove from its App Store games it said violated the tech firm's guidelines and promoted violence and killings commonplace in the Philippine Drug War. (Reuters)
2016 Yemeni Crisis (2011–present): The U.S. military launches Tomahawk cruise missiles from the USS Nitze against Houthi-controlled radar sites in Yemen following two incidents in which, according to U.S. military, missiles were fired on United States Navy vessels in the Red Sea. (Reuters), (NBC News)
2015 Syrian Civil War, Russian involvement in the Syrian Civil War: Two shells hit the Russian embassy in Syria's capital Damascus, as hundreds of pro-government supporters rallied outside in support of Russian airstrikes. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov described the shelling as "a terrorist act." (BBC)
2014 Iraqi insurgency (2011–present): Three bombs explode in Shi'ite areas of Baghdad killing at least 30 people. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
2013 Syrian civil war:: Gunmen kidnap seven workers from the International Committee of the Red Cross from northern Syria. (Fox News)Opposition activists say Syrian army tanks killed 11 civilians including 3 children in a crossfire incident during the battle for the city center of Daraa. (Haaretz)
2012 President of Mauritania Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is shot. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (Deutsche Welle)
2011 A US drone attack in Pakistan's North Waziristan region destroys a Haqqani network militant compound, with four people reported killed. (AFP via Google News)
2010 The 2010 Copiapo mining accident in Copiapo, Chile comes to an end as all 33 miners arrive at the surface after surviving a record 69 days underground awaiting rescue.
2009 The planned 200 million US$ rebuilding and expansion of Stockholm's central library, built by architect Gunnar Asplund, is cancelled. (SR)
2008 The Dow Jones Industrial Average rebounds 936.42 points, nearly doubling the largest daily point gain in history, bringing the index back above 9,000 points. Stocks worldwide add more than US$1.7 trillion in value, based on a record 9.3 percent gain in the MSCI world equity index.
2007 At least nine people die and 8 people go missing as a result of torrential rain in and around Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. (AFP)
2006 Record Snowfall in Buffalo, New York and surrounding metro area leaves up to two feet of heavy wet snow, three people dead, damaged trees, and over 400,000 residents without power.
2005 The United Nations is to evacuate some staff from Sudan's West Darfur state because of an increase in violence. U.N. officials said that the violence had hindered aid access to 650,000 refugees in the region. (Reuters)
2004 The People's Republic of China rejects an offer by Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian to begin a peace dialogue, deriding the offer as "meaningless", and accusing Chen of making "an open and audacious expression of Taiwan independence" by explicitly stating that the "Republic of China is Taiwan and Taiwan is the Republic of China". (VOA)
2003 2003 occupation of Iraq: New draft resolution being circulated at UN aims at getting international aid. The resolution sets a deadline for initial steps, if only for a transitional step, toward restoring Iraqi sovereignty, giving the Iraqi Governing Council until December 15 to develop a timetable for writing a constitution and holding elections. The Bush administration proposes that the United Nations recognize the Iraqi Governing Council as a unit that ''ampquotwill embody the
2002 2002 Bali bombings: U.S. President George W. Bush amongst many others has condemned the perpetrators of the Bali car bombing of October 11. The death toll has now risen to at least 187.
1999 The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
1996 Big, closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 193 performances
1995 Joseph Rotblat awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1994 Earliest start of Sheffield Shield season (Queensland vs. Tasmania)
1993 Greek government of Papandreou forms
1992 An Antonov An-124 operated by Antonov Airlines registered SSSR-82002, crashes near Kiev, Ukraine killing 8.
1991 Actress Katey Segal suffers a miscarriage
1990 Target Center in Minneapolis opens
1989 Bob Quinn resigns as New York Yankee VP / GM and replaced by Harding Peterson
1988 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Naguib Mahfouz
1987 First military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf).
1986 20th Country Music Association Award
1985 Sunday in the Park with George closes at Booth NYC after 604 performances
1984 John Henry becomes first thoroughbred to win US$6 million.
1983 Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois.
1982 IOC restores 2 gold medals from 1912 Olympics to Jim Thorpe
1981 Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected President of Egypt
1980 Unprovoked slayings of 6 blacks in Buffalo, New York
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
1977 The Atari 2600 game system is released.
1976 A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground).
1975 9th Country Music Association Award: John Denver wins
1973 Jordan enters Yom Kippur war
1972 Hurry, Harry closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 2 performances
1971 1st World Series night game (Pittsburgh 4-Baltimore 3)
1970 Angela Davis arrested in New York City
1969 Billy Martin (97-65) is fired as manager of AL West-winning Twins
1968 Tinker Creek Gorge of Cleveland Metroparks is dedicated
1967 CBS radio cancels House Party
1966 Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, becomes Deputy Director of CIA
1965 Congo President Joseph Kasavubu fires Prime Minister Moise Tshombe and forms a provisional government, with Evariste Kimba in a leading position.
1964 At Plesman airport, Curacao, 125.5 mm rainfalls (record)
1963 Beatlemania is coined after Beatles appear at Palladium
1962 At the Riverside International Raceway in California, the Los Angeles Times Three-Hour Invitational Grand Prix race is held. 1963 model production Corvettes make their racing debut, as does the Ford-powered Cobra. Finishing 1st overall is the Mickey Thompson #119 black Corvette Z06, driven by Doug Hooper. He averages 84-mph over the 250-mile course. The 260-ci Cobra leads by about one mile after one hour of racing when its rear suspension fails.
1960 Nikita Khrushchev (PM USSR) bangs his shoe on table at UN
1959 In Hamlet, Indiana, USA a building is hit by a falling meteorite.
1957 German Democratic Republic recalls the East Mark and issues new currency.
1956 WAGM TV channel 8 in Presque Isle, ME (CBS / NBC / ABC) begins
1953 Burglar alarm-ultrasonic or radio waves-patented by Samuel Bagno.
1949 Touch & Go opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 176 performances
1947 Kukla, Fran & Ollie premieres
1946 France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
1944 Riga Latvia freed
1943 Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany
1937 A recorded trace of snow in Central Park, New York City
1936 Explosion caused by leaking gas rips out section 12 of Cleveland Stadium
1933 Soccer team STEVO forms in Geesteren
1924 Wahhabietes under Ibn Saudi take Mecca
1921 New York Giants beat New York Yankees, five games to three in 18th World Series.
1920 World Series celebration in Wade Park brings out 50,000+ Clevelanders
1919 Race riot at Elaine Arkansas.
1918 Mehmed Talat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I.
1917 Soviet accept establishment of Petrograd Military
1915 Boston Red Sox beat Philadelphia Phillies, four games to one in 12th World Series.
1914 Belgian regime forms at St. Adresse at Le Havre
1913 Explosion and fire in Universal Coal Mine, South Wales
1909 An agreement by Germany, Italy and Switzerland gives the Germans and Italians access to the Gotthard Rail Tunnel.
1903 Boston wins its first of seven World Series titles, beating Pittsburgh at their home park, Huntington Avenue Grounds.
1902 Arna W Bontemps noted Poet and librarian of Fisk University
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