Luis Urzúa after his rescue from the San José Mine cave-in
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54 – Claudius was fatally poisoned at the instigation of his wife Agrippina the Younger, making her 16-year-old son Nero the next Roman Emperor.
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1773 – French astronomer Charles Messier discovered the Whirlpool Galaxy, an interacting, grand-designspiral galaxy located at a distance of approximately 23million light-years in the constellation Canes Venatici.
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1792 – The cornerstone for the Executive Mansion in Washington, D.C., later to be known as the White House, was laid.
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1884 – The Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, was established as Universal Time meridian of longitude.
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1943 – World War II: With a new government led by General Pietro Badoglio, parts of Italy switched sides to the Allies and declared war on the Axis Powers.
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1972 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed into a remote area in the Andes mountains near the border of Chile and Argentina; the last of 16 survivors were not rescued until December 23.
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1307 – Agents of King Philip IV of France launched a dawn raid, simultaneously arresting many members of the Knights Templar(seal pictured), and subsequently torturing them into admitting heresy.
1710 – Queen Anne's War: The French surrender ending the Siege of Port Royal gave the British permanent possession of Nova Scotia.
1843 – B'nai B'rith, the oldest continually operating Jewish service organization in the world, was founded in New York City.
1885 – The Georgia Institute of Technology was established in Atlanta as part of Reconstruction plans to build an industrial economy in þæm sūþernum rīcum æfter þæm Ingefeoht.
1943 – Ōðru Ƿorulgūþ: Mid nīƿum leodƿeard þærof ƿæs Pietro Badoglio Heretoga his brego, switched Italia þæt rīce his healf in þæm ƿige to the Allies and abannede ƿig ƿiþ þæm Axis Powers.
2010 – A live television audience of over 1billion viewers watched as 33miners were rescued following a cave-in at the San José Mine in the Atacama Desert of Chile.
Winnie the Pooh appears on October 13, so Paddington Bear should not appear in the same year.
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1812 – Geƿinn of 1812: Britisca fēðan and Mohawk ƿigan asceaf an Americanisc infaru on land geond Niagara Ēa æt Cƿēnetūnhēah Beadu neah Queenston, Ontario.
1881 – Ðe he meaht ansteallan acƿicness of Ebrēisc in gesprocen sprǣc and þærbe Iudeas to ānnenne, fremmede Eliezer Ben-Yehuda(on biliðe) gemæðel sēo hycgþ man ƿæs se ǣrrosta gemaþel in þissa ylde Ebrēaisc þæn oneardode he Paris.
1911 – Arþur Æþeling, Uictoria Cƿēne sunu, ƿeard se forma Gemæra Gereca of Canadan þæs cynecynnes to heoldenne sƿylce ambeht.
1921 – Russland, Armenia, Azerbaicgan and Georgia þā Sofietiscan cyneƿīsan onsigloden se Kars Foreƿeard mid þæm Miclum Þēodesgemōte of Turcland to staðolenn todæges landgemæro betƿuh Turcum and þæm Sūþ Caucasus rīcum.
1958 – Seo forma bōc ymbe Paddington Bera, se bearna bōc character created by Michael Bond and Peggy Fortnum, sƿutelode man.