Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 13
This is a list of selected October 13 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Templars being burned at the stake -
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Whirlpool Galaxy
Ineligible
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| 54 – Claudius was fatally poisoned at the instigation of his wife Agrippina the Younger, making her 16-year-old son Nero the next Roman Emperor. | already featured on June 9 |
| 1792 – The cornerstone for the Executive Mansion in Washington, D.C., later to be known as the White House, was laid. | already featured on November 1 |
| 1884 – The Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, was established as Universal Time meridian of longitude. | needs more footnotes, date not in article |
| 1943 – World War II: With a new government led by General Pietro Badoglio, parts of Italy switched sides to the Allies and declared war on the Axis Powers. | refimprove |
| 1972 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed into a remote area in the Andes mountains near the border of Chile and Argentina; the last of 16 survivors were not rescued until December 23. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1307 – Agents of King Philip IV of France launched a dawn raid, simultaneously arresting many members of the Knights Templar (seal pictured), and subsequently torturing them into "admitting" heresy.
- 1812 – War of 1812: British troops and Mohawk warriors repelled an American invasion from across the Niagara River at the Battle of Queenston Heights near Queenston, Ontario.
- 1885 – The Georgia Institute of Technology was established in Atlanta as part of Reconstruction plans to build an industrial economy in the post-Civil War Southern United States.
- 1710 – Queen Anne's War: The French surrender ending the Siege of Port Royal gave the British permanent possession of Nova Scotia.
- 1773 – French astronomer Charles Messier discovered the Whirlpool Galaxy, an interacting, grand-design spiral galaxy located at a distance of approximately 23 million light-years in the constellation Canes Venatici.
- 1843 – B'nai B'rith, the oldest continually operating Jewish service organization in the world, was founded in New York City.
- 1917 – At least 30,000 people in the Cova da Iria fields near Fátima, Portugal, witnessed the "Miracle of the Sun".
- 2010 – A live television audience of over 1 billion viewers watched as 33 miners were rescued (pictured) following a cave-in at the San José Mine in the Atacama Desert of Chile.