History of October 13

 

History of October 13

History of today

Important events of this day in the history of the country and the world

Important events of October 13

• 1812 – War of 1812: Sir Isaac Brock's British and Native forces repulse an invasion of Canada by General Rensselaer's United States Army.
• 1821 – The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is publicly proclaimed.
• 1843 – In New York City, B'nai B'rith, the world's oldest Jewish service organization, is founded.
• 1881 – First known conversation in modern Hebrew, by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
• 1885 – Georgia Institute of Technology is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
• 1892 – Edward Emerson Barnard was the first person to discover a comet through photographic means.
• 1903 – The Boston Red Sox defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates in eight games to win the first modern World Series.
• 1908 - Margaret Travers Simmons reached the British Parliament and became the first woman to speak there.
• 1911 – Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.
• 1915 – World War I: The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos.
• 1917 – An estimated 70,000 people witnessed the "Miracle of the Sun" in Cova da Iria, Portugal.
• 1944 – About 300 Jewish laborers at the Sobibor extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland revolt, killing several SS supervisors and Ukrainian guards; Many prisoners were killed, and the camp was later destroyed.
• 1947 – A bomb explodes in the compound of the United States Consulate in Jerusalem, lightly injuring two employees and police blame it on the Arab underground organization Jihad.
• 1958 - Paddington Bear makes his debut in the children's book 'A Bear Called Paddington'.
• 1970 - Fiji gained independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1973 – American test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier.
• 1982 – Australian Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer Ian Thorpe was born.
• 2010 – The last miners trapped in the San José copper-gold mine in Copiapo, Chile are rescued after 69 days.
• 2012-Mauritania's President Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz was shot and injured.