Historical events that happened today, October 13th, in history!

Here are some of the great historical events that happened today, October 13th, in history!

54	Nero succeeds his great uncle Claudius, who was murdered by his wife, as the new emperor of Rome.
1307	Members of the Knights of Templar are arrested throughout France, imprisoned and tortured by the order of King Philip the Fair of France.
1399	Henry IV of England is crowned.
1670	Virginia passes a law that blacks arriving in the colonies as Christians cannot be used as slaves.
1775	The Continental Congress authorizes construction of two warships, thus instituting an American naval force.
1776	Benedict Arnold is defeated at Lake Champlain.
1792	President George Washington lays the cornerstone for the White House.
1812	At the Battle of Queenston Heights, a Canadian and British army defeats the American who have tried to invade Canada.
1843	The Jewish organization B’nai B’rith was founded in New York City.
1845	Texas ratified a state constitution.
1849	The California state constitution, which prohibits slavery, is signed in Monterey.
1903	Boston defeats Pittsburgh in baseball’s first World Series.
1904	Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams is published.
1942	In the first of four attacks, two Japanese battleships sail down the slot and shell Henderson field on Guadalcanal, in an unsuccessful effort to destroy the American Cactus Air Force.
1943	Italy declared war on Germany, its one-time Axis partner.
1960	Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy participated in the third televised debate of the presidential campaign, with Nixon in Hollywood, Calif., and Kennedy in New York.
1960	The World Series ended with a home run for the first time as Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit a round-tripper in the ninth inning of Game 7 against the New York Yankees.
1962	“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” by Edward Albee opened on Broadway.
1981	Egyptians voted in a referendum to elect Vice President Hosni Mubarak the new president, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
1983	The Space Shuttle Challenger, carrying seven, the largest crew to date, lands safely at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
1998	The NBA canceled the first two weeks of its regular season because of a lockout.
1999	The JonBenet Ramsey grand jury was dismissed after 13 months; prosecutors said there wasn’t enough evidence to charge anyone in the 6-year-old’s strangulation.
2005	British playwright Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize in literature.
2006	The United Nations General Assembly appointed South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon the next U.N. secretary-general.
2008	The Dow Jones industrial average soared 936.42 points – it’s largest one-day increase – ending eight consecutive days of stock market declines.
2010	Rescuers in Chile pulled 33 men one by one to freedom 69 days after they were trapped in a collapsed mine a half-mile underground.

Today’s historical facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.

Historical events that happened today, October 13th, in history!