October 13

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[edit] Births

1925 - Lenny Bruce, sometimes controversial American comedian (died 1966)
1941 - Paul Simon, American musician and songwriter

1925 - Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister

[edit] Deaths

54 - Claudius, Roman Emperor
1706 - Iyasus the Great, Emperor of Ethiopia
1812 - Sir Isaac Brock, British general (killed in battle)
1869 - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (b. 1804)
1890 - Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court justice (born 1816)
1909 - Francisco Ferrer Guardia, Spanish free-thinker
1917 - Florence La Badie, pioneer actress
1919 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer (born 1857)
1945 - Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate tycoon
1955 - Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (born 1897)
1966 - Clifton Webb, actor
1968 - Bea Benaderet, actress
1974 - Ed Sullivan, television personality
1979 - Rebecca Clarke, composer and violist
1990 - Le Duc Tho, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (born 1911)
2002 - Stephen Ambrose, American historian and biographer
2003 - Bertram Brockhouse, Nobel Prize-winning Canadian physicist
2003 - Joan B. Kroc, American philanthropist

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54 - Roman Empire emperor Claudius I dies after being poisoned by his wife Agrippina.
1307 - All Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into "admitting" heresy.
1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1775 - The United States Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy).
1792 - In Washington, DC, the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
1812 - War of 1812: Battle of Queenston Heights - On the Niagara frontier in Ontario, Canada, United States forces under General Stephen Van Rensselaerof are repulsed from invading Canada by British and native troops led by Sir Isaac Brock.
1843 - In New York City, Henry Jones and 11 others found B'nai B'rith (the oldest Jewish service organization in the world).
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.
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: Baseball player 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: 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.
1995 - Microsoft releases Windows 95.
1999 - The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
2003 - The Public Library of Science commences publication of an open-access scientific journal, PLoS Biology.

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