October 13 specials.. 54 - Nero suceeds Claudius to become Roman Emperor 409 - Vandals and Alans crossed the Pyrenees and appeared in Hispania . 1213 - Battle at Steppes - Bishop Pierrepont & Louis II beat Henry I of Brabant 1282 - Nichiren Daishonin , founder of the Nichiren School of Buddhism, dies . His ashes are interred at Taisekiji Temple . 1307 - French King Philip IV convicts templars because of heresy 1483 - Rabbi Issac Abarbanel starts his exegesis on Bible 1492 - English admiral Poynings fleet occupies Lock 1501 - Maximilian of Austria & Louis XII sign Treaty of Trente 1534 - Alessandro Farnese elected as Pope Paul III 1629 - Dutch West Indies Co grants religious freedom in West Indies 1652 - Prince of Condé flees Paris 1659 - Gen - major John Lambert drives out English Rump- government 1660 - Denmark king Frederik III makes coup 1702 - Dutch / English troops occupy Luik 1710 - English troops occupy Acadia ( Nova Scotia ) 1716 - Hungarian Emperor Karel VI s troops occupy Temesvar 1724 - Jonathan Swift publishes last of Drapier s letters 1760 - Russian / Austrian army evacuates Berlin 1773 - The Whirlpool Galaxy was discovered by Charles Messier 1775 - Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet 1792 - Old Farmer s Almanac is 1st published 1792 - Washington lays cornerstone of Executive Mansion ( White House ) 1812 - Battle of Queenstown Heights , Brit beats US attempt to invade Canada 1843 - B nai B rith founded ( NY) 1845 - Texas ratifies a state constitution 1860 - 1 st aerial photo taken in US ( from a balloon ) , Boston 1862 - Bismarck s Blood & Iron speech 1863 - Skirmish at Blountsville, Tennessee ( 50 casualties ) 1864 - Battle at Darbytown Road Virginia ( 337 casualties ) 1864 - Battle of Dalton , GA - surrendered 1864 - Battle of Harpers Ferry , WV ( mOSBY s Raid) 1864 - Maryland voters adopt new constitution, including abolition of slavery 1870 - Gustav Mahler ( 10 ) gives his 1 st public piano concert 1871 - The Delphic Fraternity is founded as the Delphic Society at the State Normal School in Geneseo , New York . 1881 - Revival of Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben - Yehuda & friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations 1884 - Greenwich established as universal time meridian of longitude 1885 - The Georgia Institute of Technology ( Georgia Tech ) is founded in Atlanta , Georgia . 1890 - The Delta Chi fraternity is founded by 11 law students at Cornell University in Ithaca , New York . 1893 - Vigilant ( US ) beats Valkyrie II ( England) in 9 th America s Cup 1899 - 7000 lay - offs black mine workers of South Africa reach Natal 1902 - President Roosevelt threatens to start using army troops to work coal mines struck since 12 may ; this brings the owners to agree to abide by a Commission of Arbitration 1903 - Pilgrims beat Pirates 5 games to 3 in 1 st World Series 1903 - Victor Herbert s Babes in Toyland premieres in NYC 1913 - Explosion & fire in Universal Coal Mine , South Wales 1914 - Belgian regime forms at St Adresse at Le Havre 1914 - Boston Braves sweep Phila A s , 1 st sweep in World Series history 1914 - Garrett Morgan invents & patents gas mask 1914 - Pro - German Boers begin opposition to British authority in South Africa 1915 - Boston Red Sox beat Philadelphia Phillies , 4 games to 1 in 12 th World Series 1917 - Soviets accept establishment of Petrograd Military 1920 - World Series celebration in Wade Park brings out 50 , 000+ Clevelanders 1921 - NY Giants beat NY Yankees , 5 games to 3 in 18 th World Series 1923 - Angora ( Ankara ) becomes Turkey s capital 1924 - Wahhabietes under Ibn Saudi take Mecca 1930 - New German Reichstag opens with 107 NSDAP ers in uniform 1931 - Musical Everybody s Welcome with T / J Dorsey premieres in NYC 1931 - Noel Cowards Cavalcade premieres in London 1933 - JDJ Boularan s Tovarich premieres in Paris 1933 - Soccer team STEVO forms in Geesteren 1936 - Explosion caused by leaking gas rips out section 12 of Cleve Stadium 1937 - A recorded trace of snow in Central Park , NYC 1941 - Nazis kill 11 , 000 Jewish children / old people 1943 - Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany 1944 - Riga Latvia freed 1944 - US 1 st army begins battle of Aachen 1947 - Kukla , Fran & Ollie premieres 1947 - 1 st NHL All - Star Game: All - Stars beat Toronto 4 - 3 at Toronto 1949 - Touch & Go opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 176 performances 1953 - Burglar alarm - ultrasonic or radio waves- patented - Samuel Bagno 1954 - RP Smith / M Shulman s Tender Trap premieres in NYC 1955 - 1 st edition of L express publishes in Paris 1956 - WAGM TV channel 8 in Presque Isle, ME ( CBS / NBC / ABC ) begins 1957 - German Democratic Republic recalls OstMark & issues new currency 1958 - Burial of Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII on the 41 st anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun . 1960 - Third presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood & Kennedy in NY 1960 - Opponents of Fidel Castro executed in Cuba 1960 - Pirate s Mazeroski s bottom of 9 th lead off HR beats NY Yankees 10 - 9 in game 7 of 57 th World Series 1962 - Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opens on Broadway , with Uta Hagen 1963 - Beatlemania is coined after Beatles appear at Palladium 1963 - 15 th Ryder Cup: US beats 23 - 9 at East Lake Country Club ( Atlanta , Georgia , US ) 1963 - 9 th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright 1964 - At Plesman airport , Curacao , 125. 5 mm rainfalls ( record ) 1964 - Voskhod 1 crew returns 1966 - 173 US aircraft bomb North Vietnam 1966 - Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor , USN , becomes deputy director of CIA 1967 - CBS radio cancels House Party 1968 - Tinker Creek Gorge of Cleveland Metroparks is dedicated 1969 - 1 st time 7 people in space 1969 - Billy Martin ( 97 - 65 ) is fired as manager of AL West - winning Twins 1969 - Soyuz 8 is launched 1970 - Angela Davis arrested in NYC 1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR 1970 - A man dies in a premature bomb explosion in Dublin , Republic of Ireland 1971 - 1 st World Series night game ( Pittsburgh 4 - Baltimore 3) 1971 - WTZH TV channel 24 in Meridian , MS ( CBS) suspends broadcasting 1972 - Hurry , Harry closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 2 performances 1972 - Aeroflot Il - 62 crashes in large pond outside Moscow, 176 die 1972 - Commish Bowie Kuhn allows Bert Campaneris to play in World Series 1972 - Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountains , ( passengers eat crash victims to survive , 16 of 45 rescued 2 months later ) 1973 - Jordan enters Yom Kippur war 1973 - Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in Emily in for Carol 1975 - 9 th Country Music Association Award : John Denver wins 1975 - Rock vocal Neil Young undergoes throat surgery 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 . . 1978 - US President Jimmy Carter answers callers questions on National Public Radio 1978 - Swaziland s new constitution promulgated bans political parties 1978 - Tiros N , US s 1 st third generation weather satellite , is launched 1978 - Graig Nettles at 3 rd makes many spectactular plays in WS game 3 as Guidry beats Dodgers , after trailing 2 games to 0 Yanks win next 4 1980 - 14 th Country Music Association Award : Barbara Mandrell , Emmylou Harris & George Jones wins 1980 - Unprovoked slayings of 6 blacks in Buffalo , NY 1981 - Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt 1982 - IOC Executive Committee approves the reinstatement of Jim Thorpe s gold medals from the 1912 Olympics 1982 - NJ Devils 1 st short handed goal- Don Lever 1983 - Ameritech Mobile Communications ( now Cingular ) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois . 1984 - Blackhawk Bill Gardner scores on 10 th penalty shot against Islanders 1984 - John Henry becomes 1 st thoroughbred to win $ 6 million 1984 - STS 41 - G mission ; lands at Kennedy Space Center 1985 - Sunday in the Park with George closes at Booth NYC after 604 perfs 1985 - Belgium premier Martens CVP wins parliamentary election 1985 - During NLCS , Cards rookie Vince Coleman is injured stretching before game as his left leg is caught in Busch Stadium s automated tarpaulin 1986 - 20 th Country Music Association Award : Reba McEntire wins 1986 - 25 th NY, NL appearance in World Series ( Mets vs A s ) 1986 - IOC announces baseball will become a medal sport in 1992 1987 - 1 st military use of trained dolphins ( US Navy in Persian Gulf ) 1987 - Costa Rican Pres Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize 1987 - West Indies score 4 - 360 in 50 overs in Cricket World Cup v Sri Lanka 1988 - Concert at Masada ends Israel s 40 th - anniversary fest 1988 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Naguib Mahfouz 1988 - Shroud of Turin, revered by many Christians as Christ s burial cloth , is shown by carbon - dating tests to be a fake from the Middle Ages 1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1989 - Bob Quinn resigns as NY Yankee VP / GM & replaced by Harding Peterson 1989 - Dow Jones down 190. 58 points 1990 - 1 st Russian Orthodox service in 70 yrs held in St Basil s Cathedral 1990 - Target Center in Minneapolis opens 1991 - Blue Jay Cito Gaston is 1 st manager ejected in a playoff game 1991 - Minnesota Twins win AL pennant beating Toronto in 5 games 1993 - Greek government of Papandreou forms 1993 - Mighty Ducks win their 1 st NHL game 1993 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Kary Mullis & Michael Smith 1993 - Nobel prize for physics awarded to Russel Hulse & Joseph Taylor 1993 - Phillies beat Atlanta in NLCS 1993 - Captured American Pilot Mike Durant is filmed in an interview in captivity by a CNN camera crew . 1994 - Earliest start of Sheffield Shield season ( Queensland v Tasmania ) 1994 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Kenzaburo Oe 1995 - Joseph Rotblat awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1995 - Pamela Anderson Lee , rush to hospital with flu like symptoms 1996 - Big closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 193 performances 1996 - Annika Sorenstam wins Betsy King LPGA Golf Classic 1996 - NY Jet Nick Lowrey breaks Jan Stenerud NFL field goal record at 374 1996 - Yanks ( 3 ) & Orioles ( 3 ) combine to tie play off record of 6 HRs 1997 - Andy Green s Jet - powered car reaches record 749. 69 MPH 1999 - The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty ( CTBT ) . 2008 - HM Treasury infused £ 37 billion ( $ 64 billion, 47 billion euros ) of new capital - bailout into Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc , Lloyds TSB and HBOS Plc , to avert a financial sector collapse . 2010 - The 2010 Copiapó mining accident in Copiapó , Chile comes to an end as all 33 miners arrive at the surface after surviving a record 69 days underground awaiting rescue . 2012 - 15 people are killed by a market suicide bombing in Darra Adam Khel , Pakistan 2012 - Gerhard Richter s Abstraktes Bild sells for $ 34 million , the highest sold artwork by a living artist 2013 - 109 people are killed in a stampede on a bridge in Datia district , Madhya Pradesh , India
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