Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on October 13 throughout history.
Brigid Jepchirchir Kosgei is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specialises in the marathon. She won the 2018 and 2019 Chicago Marathons, the 2019 and 2020 London Marathons and the…
Kenyan Brigid Kosgei sets a new world record for a woman runner with a time of 2:14:04 at the 2019 Chicago Marathon.
The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is an archipelagic country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean, near the s…
The Maldives announces its decision to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations.
On 13 October 2013, during the Hindu festival of Navratri, a stampede broke out on a bridge near the Ratangarh Mata Temple in Datia district, Madhya Pradesh, India, killing 115 pe…
A stampede occurs in India during the Hindu festival Navratri, killing 115 and injuring more than 110.
A mining accident began on 5 August 2010 with a cave-in at the San José copper–gold mine in the Atacama Desert, 45 kilometers (28 mi) north of the regional capital of Copiapó, in …
The mining accident in Copiapó, Chile ends as all 33 trapped miners arrive at the surface after a record 69 days…
Six magnitude 6.0 or larger earthquakes struck the Markham Valley region of Madang and Morobe provinces in Papua New Guinea of October 1993. The first and largest of the sequence …
At least 60 people die in eastern Papua New Guinea when a series of earthquakes rock the Finisterre Range, triggering…
Michel Naim Aoun is a Lebanese politician and former general who served as the 13th president of Lebanon from 31 October 2016 to 30 October 2022.
Syrian forces attack free areas of Lebanon, removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.
Ameritech Mobile Communications, LLC was the first telecommunications company in the U.S. to provide cellular mobile phone service to the general public. Cell service became publi…
Ameritech Mobile Communications launches the first US cellular network in Chicago.
Lufthansa Flight 181, a Boeing 737-200 jet airliner named Landshut, was hijacked on 13 October 1977 by four militants of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine while en…
Hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181 by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
A micrograph is an image, captured photographically or digitally, taken through a microscope or similar device to show a magnified image of an object. This is opposed to a macrogr…
The first electron micrograph of an Ebola virus is taken at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Dr. F.…
Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano (LAB), internationally known as LAB Bolivian Airlines, was the flag carrier and principal airline of Bolivia for much of the 20th century. It was founded on …
A Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano Boeing 707 crashes after takeoff from El Trompillo Airport in Santa Cruz de la Sierra,…
Aeroflot Flight 217 was a non-scheduled international passenger flight from Orly Airport in Paris to Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, with a stopover at Shosseynaya A…
Aeroflot Flight 217 crashes outside Moscow, killing 174.
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was the chartered flight of a Fairchild FH-227D from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Santiago, Chile, that crashed in the Andes mountains in Argentina on 13…
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains. Twenty-eight survive the crash. All but 16 succumb…
The flag of Okinawa Prefecture is a white field charged in the center with the prefectural emblem, which consists of three circles stacked on top of each other. The two inner cir…
The flag of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, was officially adopted.
The Columbus Day storm of 1962 was a Pacific Northwest windstorm that struck the West Coast of Canada and the Pacific Northwest coast of the United States on October 12, 1962. Typ…
The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Category 3 hurricane, with winds above 150 mph. Forty-six…
A constitutional referendum was held in France on 13 October 1946. Voters were asked whether they approved of a new constitution proposed by the Constituent Assembly elected in Ju…
France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
The Riga offensive was part of the larger Baltic offensive on the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place late in 1944, and drove German forces from the city of Riga.
World War II: The Soviet Riga Offensive captures the city.
Pietro Badoglio, 1st Duke of Addis Ababa, 1st Marquess of Sabotino, was an Italian general during both world wars and the first viceroy of Italian East Africa. With the fall of th…
World War II: Marshal Pietro Badoglio announces that Italy has officially declared war on Germany.
Ankara is the capital city of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of over 5.3 million residents in its urban center, out of 6 million reside…
Ankara becomes the capital of Turkey.
The Treaty of Kars was a treaty that established the borders between Turkey and the three Transcaucasian Soviet republics, which are now the independent republics of Armenia, Geor…
Soviet republics sign the Treaty of Kars to formalize the borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
The Miracle of the Sun, also known as the Miracle of Fátima, is a series of events reported to have occurred miraculously on 13 October 1917, attended by a large crowd who had gat…
The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Portugal.