October 13th

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The October 13 is the 286th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 287th in leap years ), thus remain 79 days by year end.

Historic anniversaries
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Events

Politics and world events

54 AD: Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
1812: The Battle of Queenston Heights
1825: Ludwig I of Bavaria
1977: Route of the kidnapped Landshut
2006: Ban Ki-moon

economy

  • 1908 : Haber reports a "method for synthesizing ammonia from the elements", based on the pioneering Haber-Bosch process , the patent to.
  • 1914 : The American inventor Garrett Morgan receives a patent on the gas mask .
  • 1948 : In a planned action, the miner Adolf Hennecke drives a high-performance shift in the Karl Liebknecht hard coal works in Saxony , during which he exceeds the work standard by 387%. October 13 then becomes activists' day in the GDR .
  • 2008 : As part of the internationally coordinated action plan to defuse the financial crisis , European governments decide at the beginning of the new stock market week to help national financial institutions with more than 1 trillion euros. Almost all stock exchanges worldwide react with strong growth to the actions of governments and central banks . With a plus of 11.4% , the DAX recorded the highest percentage daily increase in its history and made up half of the losses of the previous week, while the Dow Jones closed with a plus of 936.42 points and thus the highest point gain in its history.

science and technology

1884:
The Royal Greenwich Observatory
1950: Lockheed Super Constellation

Culture

1830: Glyptothek (architectural sketch)
From 1975: Various YPS gimmicks
  • 1975 : The first regular issue of the comic magazine Yps appears in Germany . The magazine is particularly popular because of the gimmick that is enclosed with each magazine , often a toy that sets it apart from other comic magazines for young people in the first decades of its publication.

society

  • 1761 : The cloth merchant Jean Calas finds his eldest son hanged in his own house in Toulouse . However, the father is suspected of murder, for which he is later executed. Voltaire takes up the miscarriage of justice in 1763.
  • 1806 : Opening of the first school for the blind in today's Germany as the "Prussian-Royal Educational Institution".
  • 1916 : A cat tax is introduced in Dresden : the fee is 5 marks per year for the first cat, 10 marks for the second and 15 marks for each additional cat.

religion

Disasters

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .

Sports

Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .

Born

Before the 17th century

  • Claude de France
    (* 1499)

  • Katharina Opalińska
    (* 1680)

17th and 18th centuries

19th century

1801 to 1850

1851 to 1900

  • Lillie Langtry
    (* 1852)

  • Mary Kingsley
    (* 1862)

20th century

1901-1925

Margaret Thatcher (* 1925)
  • 1925 : Margaret Thatcher , British chemist, lawyer and politician, first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1926-1950

1951-1975

  • Christopher Judge
    (* 1964)

  • Sacha Baron Cohen
    (* 1971)

  • Katrin Wagner
    (* 1977)

1976-2000

Susan Thorsgaard (* 1988)

Died

Before the 17th century

  • Claudius
    († 54 AD)

  • Théodore de Bèze
    († 1605)

  • Christoffer von Gabel
    († 1673)

  • Nicolas Malebranche
    († 1715)

17th and 18th centuries

19th century

  • Joachim Murat
    († 1815)

  • Antonio Canova
    († 1822)

  • Maximilian I of Bavaria
    († 1825)

20th century

1901 to 1950

  • Hans-Jürgen Graf von Blumenthal
    († 1944)

  • Robert Lehr
    († 1956)

  • Paul Hermann Müller
    († 1965)

  • Ed Sullivan
    († 1974)

  • Walter H. Brattain
    († 1987)

1951 to 2000

21st century

Holidays and memorial days

  • Church memorial days
    • Théodore de Bèze , French reformer (Protestant)
    • Saint Koloman , Irish Martyr and Patron Saint (Roman Catholic)
    • Saint Lubentius , Irish priest, pastor and patron saint (Roman Catholic)
  • More information about the day

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the International Day of for Disaster Reduction on the website of the United Nations

Web links

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