13 October

The **13t o October** is the 286t day o the year (287t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 79 days bidin.

## Events

* 54 - Murther o Roman Emperor Claudius.
* 1792 - Wirk stairts on the White House, the residence o the Preses o the Unitit States.
* 1825 - Ludwig I o Bavarie becomes King.
* 1884 - The Greenwich Meridian is decidit as the 0-degree line o longitude.
* 1898 - Breetish passenger ship "Mohegan" rams intae a reef aff Cornwall an sinks, killin 106 fowk.
* 1923 - Ankara replaces Istanbul as caipital ceety o Turkey.
* 1970 - Fiji jyns the Unitit Naitions.
* 1972 - An Aeroflot Ilyushin II-62 crashes naur Moscow, killin aw 176 fowk on baird.
* 1972 - A plane cairryin 45 fowk (incluidin a Uruguayan rugby team) crashes in the Argentine Andes. 16 survivors are foond months later.
* 1976 - A major plane crash occurs in Santa Cruz, Bolivie.
* 1994 - Kenzaburo Oe wins the Nobel Prize in Leeteratur.
* 2005 - Harold Pinter wins the Nobel Prize in Leeteratur.
* 2006 - Ban Ki-moon is electit as Secretar-General o the Unitit Naitions.
* 2006 - Muhammad Yunus an the Grameen Bank win the Nobel Peace Prize.
* 2010 - 33 miners are rescued frae the San José mine naur Copiapo, Northren Chile, efter ower twa month o bein trapped underground.
* 2016 - Bhumibol Adulyadej, King o Thailand for ower 70 year, dees agit 88.
* 2016 - Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize in Leeteratur.
* 2016 - Angus Robertson becomes deputy leader o the Scots Naitional Pairty.
* 2016 - The Maldives withdraw frae the Commonweel o Nations.
* 2017 - The Unitit States an Israel propale their withdrawal frae UNESCO.
* 2019 - Scotland are knockit oot o the 2019 Rugby union Warld Cup, losin 28-21 tae the hosts Japan in Yokohama.
* 2019 - Simone Biles becomes the maist successfu gymnast in the histerie o the Gymnastics Warld Champonships.

## Births

* 1713 - Allan Ramsay, Scots penter (d. 1784)
* 1797 - William Motherwell, Scots poet, antiquary an jurnalist (d. 1835)
* 1821 - Rudolf Virchow, German physeecian an politeecian (d. 1902)
* 1853 - Lillie Langtry, Inglis actress an mistress tae Edward VII (d. 1929)
* 1909 - Art Tatum, American jazz pianist (d. 1956) 
* 1921 - Yves Montand, Italian-French actor an sangster (d. 1991)
* 1925 - Margaret Thatcher, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 2013)
* 1931 - Raymond Kopa, French fitbawer (d. 2017)
* 1934 - Nana Mouskouri, Greek sangster
* 1941 - Paul Simon, American sangster-sangwriter
* 1945 - Desi Bouterse, Preses o Suriname
* 1946 - Edwina Currie, Inglis politeecian
* 1954 - Haitham bin Tariq, Sultan o Oman
* 1958 - Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi jurnalist (d. 2018)
* 1960 - Eric Joyce, Scots politeecian
* 1969 - Stephen Finnie, Scots fitbaw referee
* 1969 - Nancy Kerrigan, American feegur skeitcher
* 1971 - Sacha Baron Cohen, Inglis actor, comedian an writer
* 1977 - Antonio Di Natale, Italian fitbawer
* 1980 - Scott Parker, Inglis fitbawer
* 1982 - Ian Thorpe, Australian swimmer
* 1985 - John Dahlbäck, Swadish DJ an hoose muisic producer
* 1986 - Gabriel Agbonlahor, Inglis fitbawer
* 1986 - Jon Welsh, Scots rugby union player
* 1989 - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, American politeecian an activist

## Daiths
* 54 - Claudius, Roman Emperor (b. 10 BC)
* 1715 - Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (b. 1638)
* 1822 - Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor (b. 1757)
* 1858 - John Brown, Scots meenister an theologian (b. 1784)
* 1915 - Charles Sorley, Scots airmy afficer an poet (b. 1895)
* 1919 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Dens writer (b. 1857)
* 1936 - Godfrey Collins, Scots politeecian (b. 1875)
* 1945 - Milton S. Hershey, American entrepreneur (b. 1857)
* 1961 - John MacCormick, Scots lawer an politeecian (b. 1904)
* 1987 - Walter Houser Brattain, American pheesicist (b. 1902)
* 2003 - Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian pheesicist (b. 1918)
* 2008 - Guillaume Depardieu, French actor (b. 1971)
* 2014 - Agnes Owens, Scots novelist (b. 1926)
* 2016 - Dario Fo, Italian playwricht, writer an actor (b. 1926)
* 2016 - Bhumibol Adulyadej, King o Thailand (b. 1927)

## Halidays
* Naitional Polis Day (Thailand)