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13 October, 2003
The Public Library of Science commences publication of an open access scientific journal, PLoS Biology.
13 October, 1999
The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
13 October, 1993
Captured American Pilot Mike Durant is filmed in an interview in captivity by a CNN camera crew.
13 October, 1990
End of the Lebanese war. Syrian forces launch an attack on the free areas of Lebanon removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.
13 October, 1983
Ameritech Mobile Communications (now Cingular) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois.
13 October, 1977
Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.
13 October, 1976
A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground). 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..
13 October, 1972
An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-62 crashed outside Moscow killing 176. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains, in between the borders of Argentina and Chile. By December 23, 1972 only 16 out of 45 people lived long enough to be rescued.
13 October, 1971
1971 World Series: The first night game in World Series history is played at Pittsburghs Three Rivers Stadium between the Baltimore Orioles and Pittsburgh Pirates.
13 October, 1967
The first game in the history of the American Basketball Association is played as the Anaheim Amigos lose to the Oakland Oaks 134-129 in Oakland, California.
13 October, 1960
1960 World Series: Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski becomes the first person to end a World Series with a home run, as the Pirates beat the New York Yankees, four games to three.
13 October, 1958
Burial of Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII on the 41st anniversary of the "Miracle of the Sun".
13 October, 1946
France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
13 October, 1944
World War II: Riga, the capital of Latvia is seized by the Red Army.
13 October, 1943
World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.
13 October, 1923
Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey.
13 October, 1918
Mehmed Talat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I.
13 October, 1917
The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.
13 October, 1892
Edward Emerson Barnard discovers D/1892 T1 (Barnard 3), the first comet discovered by photographic means, on the night of October 13-14.
13 October, 1890
The Delta Chi fraternity is founded by 11 law students at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
13 October, 1885
The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
13 October, 1884
Greenwich established as universal time meridian of longitude.
13 October, 1881
Revival of the Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations.
13 October, 1870
The Kappa Kappa Gamma fraternity is founded at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois, by six pioneering women.
13 October, 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.
13 October, 1843
In New York City, Henry Jones and 11 others found Bnai Brith (the oldest Jewish service organization in the world).
13 October, 1812
War of 1812: Battle of Queenston Heights - As part of the Niagara campaign in Ontario, Canada, United States forces under General Stephen Van Rensselaer are repulsed from invading Canada by British and native troops led by Sir Isaac Brock.
13 October, 1792
In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
13 October, 1775
The United States Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy).
13 October, 1773
The Whirlpool Galaxy was discovered by Charles Messier
13 October, 1582
Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
13 October, 1492
Columbus and his crew land in the Bahamas
13 October, 1307
Hundreds of Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into "admitting" heresy.
13 October, 1282
Nichiren Daishonin, founder of the Nichiren School of Buddhism, dies. His ashes are interred at Taisekiji Temple.
13 October, 409
Vandals and Alans crossed the Pyrenees and appeared in Hispania.

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