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Events on the 13th of October in history

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13 Oct 2054 Roman Emperor Claudius is poisoned to death under mysterious circumstances. His 17-year-old stepson Nero succeeds him to the Roman throne.
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13 Oct 0409 Vandals and Alans cross the Pyrenees and appear in Hispania.
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13 Oct 1213 Battle at Steppes-Bishop Pierrepont and Louis II beat Henry I of Brabant
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13 Oct 1307 French King Philip IV convicts templars because of heresy
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13 Oct 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.
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13 Oct 1332 Rinchinbal Khan, Emperor Ningzong of Yuan becomes the Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, reigning for only 53 days.
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13 Oct 1483 Rabbi Issac Abarbanel starts his exegesis on the Bible
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13 Oct 1492 English Admiral Poynings fleet occupies Lock
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13 Oct 1501 Maximilian of Austria and Louis XII sign Treaty of Trente
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13 Oct 1534 Alessandro Farnese elected as Pope Paul III
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13 Oct 1582 Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
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13 Oct 1629 Dutch West Indies Co grants religious freedom in West Indies
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13 Oct 1644 A Swedish–Dutch fleet defeats the Danish fleet at Fehmarn and captures about 1,000 prisoners.
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13 Oct 1659 General Major John Lambert drives out English Rump-Government
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13 Oct 1660 Denmark King Frederik III makes coup
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13 Oct 1702 Dutch / English troops occupy Luik
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13 Oct 1710 English troops occupy Acadia (Nova Scotia)
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13 Oct 1710 Port Royal, the capital of French Acadia, falls in a siege by British forces.
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13 Oct 1760 Russian / Austrian army evacuates Berlin
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13 Oct 1773 The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier.
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13 Oct 1775 The United States Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy).
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13 Oct 1775 Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet
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13 Oct 1792 In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
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13 Oct 1792 Washington lays cornerstone of the Executive Mansion (White House)
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13 Oct 1812 Battle of Queenstown Heights, British beats US attempt to invade Canada
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13 Oct 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.
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13 Oct 1812 Battle of Queenston Heights
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13 Oct 1843 In New York City, Henry Jones and 11 others found B'nai B'rith (the oldest Jewish service organization in the world).
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13 Oct 1843 B'nai B'rith founded in NY
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13 Oct 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.
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13 Oct 1845 Texas ratifies a state constitution
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13 Oct 1860 1st aerial photo taken in US (from a balloon), Boston
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13 Oct 1863 Skirmish at Blountsville, Tennessee (50 casualties)
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13 Oct 1864 Battle at Darbytown Road Virginia (337 casualties)
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13 Oct 1864 Battle of Dalton, Georgia - surrendered
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13 Oct 1864 Maryland voters adopt new constitution, including abolition of slavery
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13 Oct 1870 Gustav Mahler (10) gives his 1st public piano concert
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13 Oct 1881 Revival of Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations
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13 Oct 1881 First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
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13 Oct 1884 Greenwich, in London, England, is established as Universal Time meridian of longitude.
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13 Oct 1885 The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, United States.
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13 Oct 1892 Edward Emerson Barnard discovers D/1892 T1, the first comet discovered by photographic means, on the night of October 13–14.
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13 Oct 1899 7000 lay-offs black mine workers of South Africa reach Natal
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13 Oct 1902 Arna W Bontemps noted Poet and librarian of Fisk University
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13 Oct 1903 Pirates beats Pilgrims (Red Sox) 5 games to 3 in 1st World Series
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13 Oct 1911 Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor-General of Canada of royal descent.
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13 Oct 1913 Explosion and fire in Universal Coal Mine, South Wales
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13 Oct 1914 Belgian regime forms at St. Adresse at Le Havre
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13 Oct 1914 Boston Braves sweep Philadelphia Athletics, 1st sweep in World Series history
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13 Oct 1914 Garrett Morgan invents and patents gas mask
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13 Oct 1914 Pro-German Boers begin opposition of British authority in South Africa
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13 Oct 1914 In Major League Baseball's World Series, the Boston Braves defeat the Philadelphia Athletics, 4 games to 0, at Fenway Park in Boston, completing the first World Series sweep in history.
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13 Oct 1914 Boston Braves sweep Phila A's, 1st sweep in World Series history (World Series #11)
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13 Oct 1915 Boston Red Sox beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 1 in 12th World Series
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13 Oct 1915 The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos in northern France, World War I.
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13 Oct 1917 Soviet accept establishment of Petrograd Military
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13 Oct 1917 The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.
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13 Oct 1918 Mehmed Talat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I.
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13 Oct 1919 Race riot at Elaine Arkansas
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13 Oct 1920 World Series celebration in Wade Park brings out 50,000+ Clevelanders
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13 Oct 1921 New York Giants beat the New York Yankees, 5 games to 3 in 18th World Series
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13 Oct 1921 The Soviet republics of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia sign the Treaty of Kars with the Grand National Assembly of Turkey to establish the contemporary borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
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13 Oct 1923 Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey.
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13 Oct 1924 Wahhabietes under Ibn Saudi take Mecca
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13 Oct 1929 Plečnik unveils his memorial to Napoleon on the Square of French Revolution, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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13 Oct 1933 Soccer team STEVO forms in Geesteren
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13 Oct 1936 Explosion caused by leaking gas rips out section 12 of Cleveland Stadium
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13 Oct 1937 A recorded trace of snow in Central Park, New York City
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13 Oct 1943 Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany
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13 Oct 1943 World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.
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13 Oct 1943 Italy declares war on former ally Germany
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13 Oct 1944 Riga Latvia freed
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13 Oct 1944 World War II: Riga, the capital of Latvia is occupied by the Red Army.
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13 Oct 1944 US 1st army begins battle of Aachen
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13 Oct 1946 France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
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13 Oct 1947 "Kukla, Fran & Ollie" premieres
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13 Oct 1947 1st NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 4-3 at Toronto
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13 Oct 1947 "Kukla, Fran & Ollie" premieres
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13 Oct 1947 NHL All Star Game - All Stars beat Toronto Maple Leafs
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13 Oct 1949 "Touch & Go" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 176 performances
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13 Oct 1953 Burglar alarm-ultrasonic or radio waves-patented-Samuel Bagno
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13 Oct 1956 WAGM TV channel 8 in Presque Isle, ME (CBS / NBC / ABC) begins
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13 Oct 1957 German Dem Republic recalls East Mark and issues new currency
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13 Oct 1958 Paddington Bear, a classic character from English children's literature, makes his debut.
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13 Oct 1960 3rd presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood and Kennedy in New York
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13 Oct 1960 Nikita Khrushchev (PM USSR) bangs his shoe on table at UN
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13 Oct 1960 Opponents of Fidel Castro executed in Cuba
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13 Oct 1960 Pirate's Mazeroski's bottom of 9th lead off HR beats NY Yankees 10-9 in game 7 of 57th World Series
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13 Oct 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.
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13 Oct 1962 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens on Broadway, with Uta Hagen
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13 Oct 1963 "Beatlemania" is coined after Beatles appear at Palladium
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13 Oct 1963 15th Ryder Cup: US beats 23-9 at East Lake Country Club - Georgia
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13 Oct 1963 9th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright
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13 Oct 1963 "Beatlemania" is coined after the Beatles appear at the Palladium
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13 Oct 1964 At Plesman airport, Curacao, 125.5 mm rainfalls (record)
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13 Oct 1964 Voskhod 1 crew returns
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13 Oct 1966 Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, becomes Deputy Director of CIA
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13 Oct 1967 CBS radio cancels "House Party"
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13 Oct 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.
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13 Oct 1968 Tinker Creek Gorge of Cleveland Metroparks is dedicated
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13 Oct 1969 Billy Martin (97-65) is fired as manager of AL West-winning Twins
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13 Oct 1969 Soyuz 8 is launched
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13 Oct 1970 Angela Davis arrested in New York City
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13 Oct 1970 Fiji joins the United Nations.
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13 Oct 1970 Angela Davis arrested in NYC
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13 Oct 1971 WTZH TV channel 24 in Meridian, MS (CBS) suspends broadcasting
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13 Oct 1971 1st world series night game (Pittsburgh 4-Baltimore 3) (World Series #68)
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13 Oct 1972 "Hurry, Harry" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 2 performances
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13 Oct 1972 Argentine Fairchild crashes in Andesgebergte (rugby team eats crash victims to survive)
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13 Oct 1972 Commish Bowie Kuhn allows Bert Campaneris to play in World Series
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13 Oct 1972 Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountain, (12 of 23 rescue)
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13 Oct 1972 An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-62 crashes outside Moscow killing 174.
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13 Oct 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.
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13 Oct 1972 Aeroflot Il-62 crashes in large pond outside Moscow, 176 die
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13 Oct 1973 Jordan enters Yom Kippur war
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13 Oct 1973 Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Emily in for Carol"
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13 Oct 1975 9th Country Music Association Award: John Denver wins
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13 Oct 1975 Rock vocal Neil Young undergoes throat surgery
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13 Oct 1976 A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground).
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13 Oct 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.
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13 Oct 1977 Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.
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13 Oct 1978 President Carter answers caller questions on National Public Radio
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13 Oct 1978 James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King weds Anna Sandhu
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13 Oct 1978 Tiros N, US's 1st 3rd generation weather satellite, is launched
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13 Oct 1978 Graig Nettles at 3rd makes many spectactular plays in WS game 3 as Guidry beats Dodgers, after trailing 2 games to 0 Yanks win next 4
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13 Oct 1980 Unprovoked slayings of 6 blacks in Buffalo, New York
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13 Oct 1981 Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt
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13 Oct 1982 New Jersey Devils 1st short handed goal-Don Lever
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13 Oct 1982 IOC restores 2 gold medals from 1912 Olympics to Jim Thorpe
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13 Oct 1983 Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T Inc.) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago.
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13 Oct 1984 Blackhawk Bill Gardner scores on 10th penalty shot against Islanders
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13 Oct 1984 John Henry becomes 1st thoroughbred to win $6 million
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13 Oct 1984 STS 41-G mission; lands at Kennedy Space Center
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13 Oct 1985 "Sunday in the Park with George" closes at Booth NYC after 604 performances
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13 Oct 1985 Belgium Premier Martens CVP wins parliamentary election
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13 Oct 1986 20th Country Music Association Award
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13 Oct 1986 IOC announces baseball will become a medal sport in 1992
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13 Oct 1986 25th NY, NL appearance in World Series (Mets vs A's) (World Series #83)
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13 Oct 1987 Costa Rican President Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize
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13 Oct 1987 1st military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf)
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13 Oct 1988 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Naguib Mahfouz
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13 Oct 1988 Concert at Masada ends Israel's 40th-anniversary fest
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13 Oct 1989 Bob Quinn resigns as New York Yankee VP / GM and replaced by Harding Peterson
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13 Oct 1989 Dow Jones down 190.58 points
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13 Oct 1990 Target Center in Minneapolis opens
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13 Oct 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.
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13 Oct 1991 Actress Katey Segal suffers a miscarriage
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13 Oct 1991 Minnesota Twins win AL pennant beating Toronto in 5 games
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13 Oct 1991 Blue Jay Cito Gaston is 1st manager ejected in a playoff game
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13 Oct 1992 An Antonov An-124 operated by Antonov Airlines registered CCCP-82002, crashes near Kiev, Ukraine killing 8.
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13 Oct 1993 Greek government of Papandreou forms
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13 Oct 1993 Mighty Ducks win their 1st NHL game
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13 Oct 1993 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Kary Mullis and Michael Smith
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13 Oct 1993 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Russel Hulse and Joseph Taylor
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13 Oct 1993 Phillies beat Atlanta in NLCS
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13 Oct 1994 Earliest start of Sheffield Shield season (Queensland vs. Tasmania)
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13 Oct 1995 Joseph Rotblat awarded Nobel Peace Prize
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13 Oct 1995 Pamela Anderson Lee, rush to hospital with flu like symptoms
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13 Oct 1996 "Big, " closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 193 performances
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13 Oct 1996 Annika Sorenstam wins Betsy King LPGA Golf Classic
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13 Oct 1996 New York Jet Nick Lowrey breaks Jan Stenerud NFL field goal record at 374
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13 Oct 1996 Yanks (3) and Orioles (3) combine to tie play off record of 6 HRs
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13 Oct 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.
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13 Oct 2013 A stampede breaks out on a bridge near the Ratangarh Mata Temple in Datia district, Madhya Pradesh, India during the Hindu festival Navratri, killing 115 people and injuring more than 110.
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