TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: OCT 13
0054 Nero succeeds his great uncle Claudius, who was murdered by his wife, as the new emperor of Rome.
1307 Members of the Knights of Templar are arrested throughout France, imprisoned and tortured by the order of King Philip the Fair of France.
1399 Henry IV of England is crowned.
1670 Virginia passes a law that blacks arriving in the colonies as Christians cannot be used as slaves.
1773 French astronomer, Charles Messier, discovered the Whirlpool Galaxy. Also known as Messier 51a, the galaxy is about 30 million light-years from Earth.
1775 The Continental Congress authorized the construction of a naval fleet.
1792 President George Washington lays the cornerstone for the White House.
1812 At the Battle of Queenston Heights, a Canadian and British army defeats the American who have tried to invade Canada.
1884 Greenwich in London established as the universal time meridian of longitude
1904 Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams is published.
1943 Italy declares war on Germany.
1947 “Kukla, Fran & Ollie” premieres
1957 Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra introduced the Ford Edsel on an hour long special.
1958 Paddington Bear Makes His Debut
1960 3rd presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood & Kennedy in NY. the men appeared behind podiums in similar-looking television studios, Kennedy in New York City and Nixon in Hollywood. The moderator and three panelists sat in a third television studio. There was no handshake at the end of the encounter. (https://www.ocregister.com/2020/09/24/60th-anniversary-the-first-presidential-candidates-debate-on-television/)
1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes Mountains, near the Argentina-Chile border; only 16 survivors (out of 45 people aboard) are rescued on Dec. 23.
1976 Dr. F.A. Murphy at Center for Disease Control obtains the first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle.
1980 Unprovoked slayings of 6 blacks in Buffalo, NY
1987 1st military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf)
1995 Walt Disney World Resort admitted its 500-millionth guest.
1998 The National Basketball Association (NBA) canceled regular season games, due to work stoppage, for first time in its 51-year history.
2010 After being underground for a record 69 days, all 33 miners trapped in a Copiapo, Chile, mine are rescued.
2012 Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was shot at and injured. Oficial reports suggest that he was mistakenly shot by the military.
REFERENCE: HISTORY.NET, ONTHISDAY.COM, TIMEANDDATE.COM, INFOPLEASE.COM, FACTMONSTER.COM, SCOPESYS.COM, ON-THIS-DAY.COM, THEPEOPLEHISTORY.COM
