About October 13
October 13, 2024 is the 287th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 79 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 108 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 13
- 54 –Roman Emperor Claudius is poisoned to death under mysterious circumstances. His 17-year-old stepson Nero succeeds him to the Roman throne
- 409 –Vandals and Alans cross the Pyrenees and appear in Hispania.
- 1307 –Hundreds of Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into a “confession” of heresy.
- 1582 –Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1710 –Port Royal, the capital of French Acadia, falls in a siege by British forces.
- 1775 –The United States Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy).
- 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.
- 1881 –Revival of the Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations.
- 1884 –Greenwich, in London, England, is established as Universal Time meridian of longitude.
- 1915 –The Battle for the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos in northern France, World War I.
- 1917 –The “Miracle of the Sun” is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.
- 1918 –Mehmed Talat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I.
- 1923 –Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey.
- 1946 –France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
- 1962 –The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Cat 3 hurricane. Winds measured above 150 mph at several locations; 46 people died.
- 1972 –Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains, near the border between Argentina and Chile. By December 23, 1972, only 16 out of 45 people lived long enough to be rescued.
- 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 is obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C.
- 1990 –End of the Lebanese Civil War. Syrian forces launch an attack on the free areas of Lebanon removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.
- 1992 –An Antonov An-124 operated by Antonov Airlines registered SSSR-82002, crashes near Kiev, Ukraine killing 8.
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