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 -
Seal of the Knights Templar -
Whirlpool Galaxy -
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda -
Luis Urzúa after his rescue from the San José Mine cave-in
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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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 |
| 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. | refimprove section |
| 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. | date not in article |
| 1881 – Determined to bring about the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language as a way of unifying Jews, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda had what is believed to be the first modern conversation in Hebrew while living in Paris. | unreferenced section |
| 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 |
| 2010 – A live television audience of over 1 billion viewers watched as 33 miners were rescued following a cave-in at the San José Mine in the Atacama Desert of Chile. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1307 – Agents of King Philip IV of France launched a dawn raid, simultaneously arresting many members of the Knights Templar, 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.
- 1911 – Prince Arthur, a son of Queen Victoria, became the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent as well as the Prince of Great Britain and Ireland to hold that position.
- 1921 – The Soviet republics of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia signed the Treaty of Kars with the Grand National Assembly of Turkey to establish the contemporary borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
- 1958 – The first book featuring the English children's literature character Paddington Bear, created by Michael Bond and Peggy Fortnum, was published.
Notes
- Winnie the Pooh appears on October 13, so Paddington Bear should not appear in the same year.
October 13: Thanksgiving in Canada (2014); Health and Sports Day in Japan (2014)
- 54 – Claudius (bust pictured), the first Roman emperor to be born outside Italy, died mysteriously, most likely by poison administered by his wife Agrippina.
- 1710 – Queen Anne's War: The French surrender ending the Siege of Port Royal gave the British permanent possession of Nova Scotia.
- 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".
- 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.