About October 13
October 13, 2025 is the 286th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 79 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 127 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 13
- 54 –Roman Emperor Claudius is poisoned to death under mysterious circumstances. His 17-year-old stepson Nero succeeds him to the Roman throne
- 409 –Vandals and Alans cross the Pyrenees and appear in Hispania.
- 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.
- 1332 –Rinchinbal Khan, Emperor Ningzong of Yuan becomes the Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, reigning for only 53 days.
- 1582 –Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1773 –The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier.
- 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.
- 1892 –Edward Emerson Barnard discovers D/1892 T1, the first comet discovered by photographic means, on the night of October 13–14.
- 1915 –The Battle for the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos in northern France, World War I.
- 1917 –The “Miracle of the Sun” is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.
- 1918 –Mehmed Talat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I.
- 1923 –Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey.
- 1944 –World War II: Riga, the capital of Latvia is occupied by the Red Army.
- 1946 –France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
- 1970 –Fiji joins the United Nations.
- 1972 –An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-62 crashes outside Moscow killing 176.
- 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.
- 1977 –Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.
- 1983 –Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois.
- 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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