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13-10-2007, 05:24 PM
Just doing a search on wikipedia and got thehome page up check out the on this day section as well as main templar section , some interesting results .
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409 - Vandals and Alans crossed the Pyrenees and appeared in Hispania. , those alans get everywhere whickers world anyone
1492 - Columbus and his crew land in the Bahamas
1307 - Hundreds of Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into "admitting" heresy.
1492 - Columbus and his crew land in the Bahamas
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 was discovered by Charles Messier
1792 - In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
1843 - In New York City, Henry Jones and 11 others found B'nai B'rith (the oldest Jewish service organization in the world).
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.
1870 - The Kappa Kappa Gamma fraternity is founded at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois, by six pioneering women.
1881 - Revival of the Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations
1885 - The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
1884 - Greenwich established as universal time meridian of longitude
1917 - The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 persons in the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal, Portugal.
1972 - An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-62 crashed outside Moscow killing 176.
1972 - Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains, in between the borders of Argentina and Chile. By December 23, 1972 all 16 survivors were rescued.
1976 - A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground)
1976 - The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle was obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C..
1983 - Ameritech Mobile Communications (now Cingular) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago.

gorana
14-10-2007, 03:13 PM
more interesting Oct. 13th thingies:

http://www.tnl.net/when/10/13
http://cgi.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease1.html
http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/this_day_in_history/this_day_October_13.php

G. :)