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On this day - October 13
54 — Roman emperor Claudius dies from poisoning under mysterious ...
409 — Vandals and Alans cross the Pyrenees and appear in Hispania.
1269 — The present church building at Westminster Abbey is ...
1307 — Hundreds of the Knights Templar in France are arrested at dawn ...
1332 — Rinchinbal Khan becomes the Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor ...
1399 — Coronation of Henry IV of England at Westminster Abbey.
1644 — A Swedish–Dutch fleet defeats the Danish fleet at Fehmarn and ...
1710 — Port Royal, the capital of French Acadia, falls in a siege by ...
1775 — The Continental Congress establishes the Continental Navy ...
1792 — In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States ...
1793 — French Revolutionary Wars: Austro-Prussian victory over ...
1812 — War of 1812: Sir Isaac Brock's British and native forces ...
1821 — The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is ...
1843 — In New York City, B'nai B'rith, the oldest Jewish ...
1881 — First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer ...
1885 — The Georgia Institute of Technology is founded in Atlanta, ...
1892 — Edward Emerson Barnard is first to discover a comet by ...
1903 — The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, ...
1908 — Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and ...
1911 — Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the ...
1915 — First World War: The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks ...
1917 — The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an ...
1921 — Soviet republics sign the Treaty of Kars to formalize the ...
1923 — Ankara becomes the capital of Turkey.
1943 — World War II: Marshal Pietro Badoglio announces that Italy has ...
1944 — World War II: The Soviet Riga Offensive captures the city.
1946 — France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
1962 — The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a ...
1972 — The flag of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, was officially adopted.
1972 — Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains. ...
1972 — Aeroflot Flight 217 crashes outside Moscow, killing 174.
1976 — A Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano Boeing 707 crashes after takeoff from ...
1976 — The first electron micrograph of an Ebola virus is taken at ...
1977 — Hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181 by the Popular Front for the ...
1983 — Ameritech Mobile Communications launches the first US cellular ...
1990 — Syrian forces attack free areas of Lebanon, removing General ...
1993 — At least 60 people die in eastern Papua New Guinea when a ...
2010 — The mining accident in Copiapó, Chile ends as all 33 trapped ...
2013 — A stampede occurs in India during the Hindu festival Navratri, ...
2016 — The Maldives announces its decision to withdraw from the ...
2019 — Kenyan Brigid Kosgei sets a new world record for a woman ...