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On October 13, AD 54, the Roman emperor Claudius died in Rome. His adopted son Nero succeeded him as emperor.
Ancient accounts describe poisoning, but the cause of death is not stated as certain here.
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The Battle of Steppes was fought in Belgium on October 13, 1213 between Hugh Pierrepont, Bishop of Liège, and Henry I, Duke of Brabant.
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The Gothic church commissioned by Henry III was consecrated at Westminster. The ceremony also marked the transfer of Edward the Confessor’s remains to the new shrine.
October 13 in the Julian calendar, corresponding to October 20 in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.
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On October 13, 1307, agents of King Philip IV arrested Knights Templar across the kingdom of France.
The arrests were separate from the later dissolution of the order.
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On October 13, 1399, Henry IV was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
The coronation was separate from his accession to the throne on September 30.
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The Battle of Breadfield (Hungarian: Kenyérmezei csata, Romanian: Bătălia de la Câmpul Pâinii, Turkish: Ekmek Otlak Savaşı) was the most tremendous conflict fought in Transylvania up to that time in the Hungarian-Turkish Wars taking place on October 13, 1479, on the Breadfield Zsibód (Şibot) near the Mureş River. The Hungarian army was led by Pál Kinizsi, István Báthory, Vuk Branković, and Basarab Laiotă cel Bătrân. The result of the battle was an important victory for the Kingdom of Hungary and the Serbian Despotate.
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The War of the Jülich Succession, also known as the Jülich War or the Jülich-Cleves Succession Crises (German: Jülich-Klevischer Erbfolgestreit), was a war of succession in the United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. The first phase of the war lasted between 10 June 1609 and 24 October 1610, with the second phase starting in May 1614 and finally ending on 13 October 1614.
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The battle of Fehmarn took place north-west of the island of Fehmarn, now part of Germany, in the Baltic Sea. A combined Swedish fleet, with a large element of hired Dutch ships, defeated a Danish fleet and took 1,000 prisoners, including Ulfeldt, Benjamin Grabov and von Jasmund. The Danish admiral Pros Mund was killed in the battle.
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The siege of Kraków was one of the battles during the Swedish invasion of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Second Northern War / Deluge). Lasting for two and a half weeks, it started on September 25 and ended on October 13, 1655. The capitulation treaty was signed on October 17, and Polish troops marched out of the city two days later.
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The Recapture of Fort Zeelandia or the Seizure of Fort Zeelandia was a minor military action on the 13 October 1667 at the end of the Second Anglo-Dutch War in which an English force under command of Rear Admiral Sir John Harman assaulted and took by force the Dutch settlement and fortress of Zeelandia (present day Paramaribo) under Maurits de Rame.
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The Battle of Gegodog (also spelled Battle of Gogodog) took place on 13 October 1676 during the Trunajaya rebellion, and resulted in the victory of the rebel forces over the Mataram army led by the Crown Prince Pangeran Adipati Anom. Gegodog is located on the northeastern coast of Java, east of Tuban. Prior to the battle, Trunajaya invaded eastern Java and occupied Surabaya and other towns.
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The siege of Port Royal (5–13 October 1710), also known as the Conquest of Acadia, was a military siege conducted by British regular and provincial forces under the command of Francis Nicholson against a French Acadian garrison and the Wabanaki Confederacy under the command of Daniel d'Auger de Subercase, at the Acadian capital, Port Royal.
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On October 13, 1773, Charles Messier discovered the object now known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, or M51. Its companion galaxy was discovered separately by Pierre Méchain in 1781.
The 1773 discovery refers to M51a; the companion M51b was discovered later.
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The Continental Navy was the navy of the United Colonies and United States from 1775 to 1785. It was founded on October 13, 1775 by the Continental Congress to fight against British forces and their allies as part of the American Revolutionary War. In 1776, Commodore Esek Hopkins was appointed by Congress to command the navy.
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A joint committee counted the votes in Windsor and confirmed Thomas Chittenden’s re-election as governor of the Vermont Republic.
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A committee in Windsor reported that Thomas Chittenden had been re-elected in Vermont’s first gubernatorial election since becoming a U.S. state.
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On October 13, 1792, the cornerstone of the future White House was laid in Washington, D.C., marking the start of construction.
This was the start of construction, rather than the opening of the completed residence.
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In the First Battle of Wissembourg (13 October 1793) an Allied army commanded by Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser attacked the French Army of the Rhine under Jean Pascal Carlenc. After an ineffectual resistance, the French army abandoned its fortified line behind the Lauter River and retreated toward Strasbourg in confusion. This engagement of the War of the First Coalition occurred on the eastern border of France about 60 kilometres (37 mi) north of Strasbourg. After the siege of Mainz in which the Prussian army captured the city, the Army of the Rhine fell back into the Lines of Weissenburg, a position first fortified in 1706.
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The action of 13 October 1796 was a minor naval engagement of the War of the First Coalition, fought off the Mediterranean coast of Spain near Cartagena between the Royal Navy 32-gun frigate HMS Terpsichore under Captain Richard Bowen and the Spanish Navy 34-gun frigate Mahonesa under Frigate Captain Tomás de Ayalde. The action was the first battle of the Anglo-Spanish War, coming just eight days after the Spanish declaration of war.
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A committee in Rutland reported that Thomas Chittenden had won another term as Vermont governor. It was his last election before his death the following year.
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The Vermont legislature elected Isaac Tichenor for a one-year term after the September vote gave no candidate a majority.
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The 1807 Ohio gubernatorial election was held on October 13, 1807, in order to elect the Governor of Ohio. Democratic-Republican candidate and former Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court Return J. Meigs Jr. initially won the election against fellow Democratic-Republican candidates Nathaniel Massie and Thomas Worthington. However, it was determined by the Ohio State Legislature that Meigs did not meet the residency requirements in order to take office as Governor of Ohio.
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The Battle of Queenston Heights was the first major battle in the War of 1812 and resulted in a British victory. It took place on 13 October 1812, near Queenston, Upper Canada (the present-day province of Ontario). It was fought between United States regulars and New York militia forces led by Major General Stephen Van Rensselaer, and British regulars, York and Lincoln militia and Mohawk warriors led by Major General Isaac Brock, and Major General Roger Hale Sheaffe, who took command when Brock was killed.
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Elections to the United States House of Representatives in Pennsylvania were held October 13, 1812 for the 13th Congress.
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The 1812 Ohio gubernatorial election was held on October 13, 1812, in order to elect the governor of Ohio. Incumbent Democratic-Republican governor Return J. Meigs Jr. won re-election against Federalist nominee Thomas Scott.
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On October 13, 1815, Joachim Murat, the former King of Naples, was executed by firing squad in Pizzo, Calabria.
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The 1818 Ohio gubernatorial election was held on October 13, 1818. Incumbent Democratic-Republican Governor Thomas Worthington did not run for re-election. Chief Judge of the Ohio Supreme Court Ethan Allen Brown defeated former member of the Ohio Legislature James Dunlap.
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The Stratagem of Peshawar was a campaign of the Durrani empire led by Azim Khan Barakzai against the Nawab of Amb, Mir Nawab Khan Tanoli. Azim Khan who was the half-brother of Dost Muhammad Khan, the King of Afghanistan. Azim Khan invited Mir Nawab to settle the dispute between Amb and Durrani, but Azim Khan was actually readying for a battle there.
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On October 13, 1825, Ludwig I succeeded his father, Maximilian I Joseph, as King of Bavaria.
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The 1829 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election occurred on October 13, 1829. U.S. Representative George Wolf, a Democrat, defeated Anti-Masonic candidate Joseph Ritner to win the election. Delaware County would continuously vote against the Democratic candidate for the next 157 years until 1986.
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The 1835 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election was among three candidates. Incumbent Governor George Wolf ran as an Independent Democrat. In the end Joseph Ritner won the election and became Pennsylvania's only Anti-Masonic governor.
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On October 13, 1837, French troops stormed Constantine and captured the city after fighting through its streets.
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The 1840 Ohio gubernatorial election was held on October 13, 1840. Incumbent Democratic Governor Wilson Shannon was defeated by Whig nominee, former U.S. Representative Thomas Corwin.
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On October 13, 1843, Henry Jones and eleven other German Jewish immigrants founded B’nai B’rith at Sinsheimer’s café in New York City.
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The 1846 Ohio gubernatorial election was held on October 13, 1846, in order to elect the Governor of Ohio. Whig nominee William Bebb defeated Democratic nominee David Tod and Liberty nominee Samuel Lewis.
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The First Battle of Masaya (11 October 1856 – 13 October 1856) took place in the small town of Masaya, northwest of William Walker’s filibuster capital, Granada. It was part of Walker’s efforts to dislodge the resurgent Allied Central American Army from its fortifications in Masaya, which lay within a day’s march of his capital.
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The 1857 Minnesota State Auditor election was held on October 13, 1857, in order to elect the first state auditor of Minnesota upon Minnesota acquiring statehood on May 11, 1858. Democratic nominee and former member of the Minnesota Territorial House of Representatives William F. Dunbar defeated Republican nominee Alexander P. Lane.
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The 1857 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election occurred on October 13, 1857. Incumbent governor James Pollock, a Whig, was not a candidate for re-election. Democratic candidate William F. Packer defeated Republican candidate David Wilmot and American Party candidate Isaac Hazlehurst to become Governor of Pennsylvania.
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The 1857 Minnesota lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on October 13, 1857, in order to elect the first lieutenant governor of Minnesota upon Minnesotan statehood on May 11, 1858. Democratic nominee William Holcombe defeated Republican nominee John Ide. This election's results were likely fraudulent, due to manipulation by the Dakota Land Company.
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The 1857 Minnesota secretary of state election was held on October 13, 1857, in order to elect the first secretary of state of Minnesota upon Minnesota acquiring statehood on May 11, 1858. Democratic nominee Francis Baasen defeated Republican nominee Lucius Stannard.
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The 1857 Ohio gubernatorial election was held on October 13, 1857. Incumbent Republican Salmon P. Chase defeated Democratic nominee Henry B. Payne with 48.67% of the vote.
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The 1857 Minnesota Attorney General election was held on October 13, 1857, in order to elect the first attorney general of Minnesota upon Minnesota acquiring statehood on May 11, 1858. Democratic nominee Charles H. Berry defeated Republican nominee George Nourse.
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The 1857 Iowa gubernatorial election was held on October 13, 1857, in order to elect the Governor of Iowa. Republican nominee Ralph P. Lowe defeated Democratic nominee Ben M. Samuels and American Party nominee W. T. Henry. Marking the first time the recently formed Republican Party won the Iowa Governorship. It was also the first gubernatorial election held under the 1857 Iowa constitution.
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The 1857 Minnesota gubernatorial election was held on October 13, 1857, to elect the inaugural governor of Minnesota. Democrat Henry Hastings Sibley was elected governor by only 240 votes, the closest gubernatorial election in Minnesota until 1962. A Democrat would not be elected governor of Minnesota again until 1898.
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The First Battle of Auburn was fought on October 13, 1863, between Union infantry and Confederate cavalry forces at the start of the Bristoe Campaign during the American Civil War. A Union infantry column stumbled upon a Confederate cavalry reconnaissance party and a short, inconclusive fight ensued. The Confederate cavalry withdrew in the face of the superior Union force, but a much larger body of Confederate cavalry under Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, attempting to raid a Union wagon train became entrapped by the column, forcing them to abandon the raid and hide in a ravine overnight awaiting Confederate infantry to come to their aid.
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The Battle of Bulltown was a small skirmish fought during the American Civil War near Bulltown in Braxton County, West Virginia on October 13, 1863.
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The Pennsylvania gubernatorial election of 1863 occurred on October 13, 1863. Incumbent governor Andrew Gregg Curtin, a Republican, was a candidate for re-election. Curtin defeated Democratic candidate George Washington Woodward to win another term.
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The 1863 Ohio gubernatorial election was held on October 13, 1863. National Union nominee John Brough defeated Democratic nominee Clement Vallandigham with 60.61% of the vote. The campaign was dominated by Vallandingham's May 5 arrest, conviction, and deportation for a speech critical of President Abraham Lincoln and the conduct of the American Civil War. He was nominated in absentia by the Democratic Party.
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The 1863 Iowa gubernatorial election was held on October 13, 1863, in order to elect the Governor of Iowa. National Union nominee William M. Stone defeated Democratic nominee James M. Tuttle.
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The Battle of Darbytown Road was fought on October 13, 1864, between Union and Confederate forces. The Confederates were attempting to retake ground they had lost to Federal forces during battles near Richmond, Virginia. Their efforts failed.On October 13, Union forces advanced to find and feel the new Confederate defensive line in front of Richmond. While mostly a battle of skirmishers, a Federal brigade assaulted fortifications north of Darbytown Road and was repulsed with heavy casualties. The Federals retired to their entrenched lines along New Market Road.
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The 1868 Nebraska gubernatorial election was held on October 13, 1868. Incumbent Governor of Nebraska David Butler, the Republican nominee, was seeking reelection. He was opposed by Democratic nominee James Ralston Porter, founder of J.R. Porter & Company.
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The 1868 Indiana gubernatorial election was held on October 13, 1868. Incumbent Republican Conrad Baker defeated Democratic nominee Thomas A. Hendricks with 50.14% of the vote.
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The battle of Châtillon, also known as the battle of Châtillon-sous-Bagneux, was a skirmish in the siege of Paris between France and North German Confederation in the Franco-Prussian War, took place on 13 October 1870. This is also considered the first battle in the history of the French Third Republic.
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The Battle of Sceaux took place during the Franco-Prussian War on October 13, 1870. In this battle, the German army under the command of General Jakob von Hartmann repelled the French army 's siege when Paris was under German siege, causing the French army heavy losses. Several other French breakthroughs in late 1870 were also broken by the Germans.
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The 1874 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on October 13, 1874, in order to elect the Governor of Arkansas. Democratic nominee and former Confederate States Senator from Arkansas Augustus H. Garland won the election as he ran unopposed.
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The 1874 Nebraska gubernatorial election was held on October 13, 1874. It was the last gubernatorial election held under the Nebraska Constitution of 1866. Incumbent Governor of Nebraska Robert Wilkinson Furnas did not seek reelection to a second term. The election featured Republican nominee Silas Garber, a member of the Nebraska House of Representatives, defeating Democratic nominee Albert Tuxbury, mayor of Nebraska City, as well as Independent nominee Jonathan F. Gardner and Prohibition Party nominee Jarvis S. Church.
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Parliamentary elections were held in Portugal on 13 October 1878. The result was a victory for the Regeneration Party, which won 97 seats.
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The 1885 Ohio gubernatorial election was held on October 13, 1885. Republican nominee Joseph B. Foraker defeated Democratic incumbent George Hoadly in a rematch of the 1883 election with 48.95% of the vote.
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On October 13, 1885, the Georgia School of Technology was founded in the United States. The school, later renamed the Georgia Institute of Technology, opened to students in October 1888.
Its founding in 1885 was separate from the start of classes in 1888.
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206P/Barnard–Boattini was the first comet to be discovered by photographic means. First observed by Edward Emerson Barnard in 1892, it was subsequently lost for 116 years until it was rediscovered by Andrea Boattini in 2008.
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On October 13, 1897, a parliamentary by-election was held in the City of Dunedin electorate after Henry Fish’s death. Alexander Sligo won the seat.
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The siege of Mafeking was a 217-day siege battle for the town of Mafeking (now called Mahikeng) in South Africa during the Second Boer War from October 1899 to May 1900. The siege received considerable attention as Lord Edward Cecil, the son of the British prime minister, was in the besieged town, as also was Lady Sarah Wilson, a daughter of the Duke of Marlborough and aunt of Winston Churchill.
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The Battle of Kraaipan was the first engagement of the Second Anglo-Boer War, fought at Kraaipan, South Africa on 12 October 1899. On the 11 October 1899 President Paul Kruger of the South African Republic in alliance with the Orange Free State declared war on the British.
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The Barkston Ash by-election, 1905 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Barkston Ash, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, on 13 October 1905.
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Margaret Ann Travers Symons (née Williams; 18 August 1879 – after 1951) was a British suffragette. On 13 October 1908, she became the first woman to speak in the House of Commons when she broke away from her escort into the debating chamber and made an exclamation to the assembly.
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The Actions of the Hohenzollern Redoubt took place on the Western Front in World War I from 13 to 19 October 1915, at the Hohenzollern Redoubt (Hohenzollernwerk) near Auchy-les-Mines in France. In the aftermath of the Battle of Loos (25 September – 8 October 1915), the 9th (Scottish) Division captured the strongpoint and then lost it to a German counter-attack.
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People gathered at Cova da Iria, where three children had reported religious visions. Some attendees said they saw unusual movements or colors in the Sun.
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The Treaty of Kars was a treaty that established the borders between Turkey and the three Transcaucasian Soviet republics, which are now the independent republics of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. The treaty was signed in the city of Kars on 13 October 1921.
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On 13 October 1928, Dong Zuobin began an excavation at Xiaotun near Anyang, China, for Academia Sinica’s Institute of History and Philology. The work began a series of investigations at the Shang site of Yinxu that recovered oracle bones and other archaeological evidence.
Start of the first excavation season; not the nineteenth-century recognition of oracle-bone writing.
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The Afghan Civil War of 1928–1929 was fought from 14 November 1928 to 13 October 1929. Rebelling, and subsequently governing Saqqawist (Saqāwīhā) forces under Habibullāh Kalakāni fought against various opposing tribes and rival monarchs in the Kingdom of Afghanistan, among whom Mohammed Nādir Khān eventually achieved a preponderant role.
The Afghan Civil War of 1928–1929 was fought from 14 November 1928 to 13 October 1929.
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On 13 October 1929, Walasse Ting, a painter, was born.
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Secretary of War George Dern signed the permit allowing the Justice Department to take over Alcatraz for use as a federal penitentiary. The formal transfer and the start of operations came later.
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The Islington North by-election, 1937 was a parliamentary by-election held on 13 October 1937 for the British House of Commons constituency of Islington North in Islington, North London. The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), Albert William Goodman, died on 22 August 1937, aged 57. He had held the seat since the 1931 general election. The result of the contest was a victory for the Labour candidate, Leslie Haden-Guest, who won with a majority of 1,296 over the Conservative candidate, former MP Sir Wilfrid Sugden. Haden Guest represented the constituency until he stepped down at the 1950 general election.
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The 1940 Bulgarian Cup final was the 3rd final of the Bulgarian Cup (in this period the tournament was named Tsar's Cup), and was contested between FC 13 Sofia and Sportklub Plovdiv on 13 October 1940 at Levski Playground in Sofia. FC 13 won the final 2–1.
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The Battle at Borodino Field was a part of the Battle of Moscow, on the Eastern Front of World War II. While referring to the battle in Russian, the Borodino Field is actually more commonly applied rather than just Borodino, cf. Georgy Zhukov ("...this division [32nd] was forced to cross the arms with the enemy on the Borodino Field..."). At noon on 13 October 1941, German Junkers and Messerschmitt aircraft appeared over the Borodino Field, site of the climactic 1812 French-Russian clash.
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The Battle of Lenino was a tactical World War II engagement that took place on 12 and 13 October 1943, north of the village of Lenino in the Mogilev region of Byelorussia. The battle itself was a part of a larger Soviet Spas-Demensk offensive operation with the aims of clearing the eastern bank of the Dnieper River of German forces and piercing the Panther-Wotan line of defences.
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The Battle of John's Knoll–Trevor's Ridge was fought from 12–13 October 1943 during World War II. The battle was part of the Markham and Ramu Valley – Finisterre Range campaign, which consisted of series of actions fought by Australian and Japanese troops in the Territory of New Guinea as the Australian 7th Division advanced through the foothills of the Finisterre Range from Dumpu towards Bogadjim, near Madang on the northern coast, following the capture of Lae in mid-September 1943.
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Black Friday is the nickname given by the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada to the date 13 October 1944. On that day, during World War II's Battle of the Scheldt in the Netherlands, the regiment's only overseas battalion attacked German positions on a raised railway embankment near the village of Hoogerheide after advancing across 1,200 yards of open beet fields.
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On October 13, 1945, fighting broke out in Medan between Indonesian youths and personnel of the Netherlands Indies Civil Administration, beginning the Medan Area conflict.
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A constitutional referendum was held in France on 13 October 1946. Voters were asked whether they approved of a new constitution proposed by the Constituent Assembly elected in June. Unlike the May referendum, which saw a previous constitutional proposal rejected, the new Constitution of 27 October 1946 was accepted by 53% of voters, and brought the Fourth Republic into existence. Voter turnout was 68%.
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On October 13, 1949, the Central Committee of the New Democratic Youth League of China decided to establish the China Children’s Corps nationwide. The organization was renamed the Young Pioneers of China in 1953.
The organization used the name China Children’s Corps when it was established.
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The Battle of Haktang-ni was a skirmish in which elements of the People's Volunteer Army attacked an advanced position held by the Belgium–Luxembourg Battalion along a ridge-line known as "Broken Arrow" or "Broken Arrow Hill" (Hill 391) between 9 and 13 October 1951.
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Operation Nomad-Polar was an Allied offensive during the Korean War.
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The 1956 Tasmanian state election was held on 13 October 1956 in the Australian state of Tasmania to elect 30 members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. The election used the Hare-Clark proportional representation system — six members were elected from each of five electorates.
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On October 13, 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon held their third presidential debate by television link. Kennedy was in New York City and Nixon was in Los Angeles.
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China and Burma signed a protocol in Beijing documenting the surveyed boundary and its markers. A joint commission had carried out the survey under the 1960 boundary treaty.
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The 1962 Invercargill mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method. Three-term deputy mayor Neil Watson was elected mayor, defeating former Legislative Council member and parliamentary candidate Thomas Francis Doyle.
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The 1962 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1962, elections were held for the Mayor of Auckland plus other local government positions including twenty-one city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.
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The 1962 Lower Hutt mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. The elections were held for the role of Mayor of Lower Hutt plus other local government positions including fifteen city councillors, also elected triennially. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.
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The 1962 Porirua mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. The elections were held for the role of Mayor of Porirua plus other local government positions including ten borough councillors, also elected triennially. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.
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The 1962 Dunedin mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1962, elections were held for the Mayor of Dunedin plus other local government positions including twelve city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.
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The 1962 Christchurch mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1962, election were held for the Mayor of Christchurch plus other local government positions. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.
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Vladimir Komarov, Konstantin Feoktistov and Boris Yegorov landed in what is now Kazakhstan after a day in orbit. Their spacecraft was the first to carry more than one person into orbit.
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The 1970 Nova Scotia general election was held on 13 October 1970 to elect members of the 50th House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. The Liberal Party of Gerald Regan won the most seats but were one seat short of a majority. It is the only election in Nova Scotia's history in which the party who won the popular vote did not win the most seats.
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Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was the chartered flight of a Fairchild FH-227D from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Santiago, Chile, that crashed in the Andes mountains in Argentina on 13 October 1972. The accident and subsequent survival became known as both the Andes flight disaster (Tragedia de los Andes, literally Tragedy of the Andes) and the Miracle of the Andes (Milagro de los Andes).
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Aeroflot Flight 217 was a non-scheduled international passenger flight from Orly Airport in Paris to Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, with a stopover at Shosseynaya Airport (now Pulkovo Airport) in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). On 13 October 1972, the Ilyushin Il-62 airliner operating the flight crashed on approach to Sheremetyevo, with the loss of all 164 passengers and crew of 10.
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The 1973 raid on al-Mazzah Airport took place on October 13, 1973, and was one of a series of bombing raids carried out by the Israeli Air Force deep inside Syria during the Yom Kippur War.
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The 1974 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final was the first All-Ireland final. It featured Tipperary and Offaly. Tipperary won the final by 2–3 to 2–2. Towards the end of the first half, Tipperary were leading by 1–2 to 0–0. However within minutes of the restart Offaly took the lead with a goal. Tipperary came back and, with about eight minutes to go, went ahead with a point from a free.
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On 13 October 1976, a Boeing 707, a chartered cargo aircraft operated for Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano (LAB) crashed shortly after takeoff at El Trompillo Airport, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, into a residential neighbourhood. All three crew on board were killed, along with 88 other fatalities on the ground, bringing the total up to 91. It is the deadliest air disaster to happen on Bolivian soil.
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Lufthansa Flight 181, a Boeing 737-200 jet airliner (reg. D-ABCE) named Landshut, was hijacked on 13 October 1977 by four militants of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine while en route from Palma de Mallorca, Spain, to Frankfurt am Main, West Germany. The hijacking aimed to secure the release of eleven notorious Red Army Faction leaders held in West German prisons and two Palestinians held in Turkey.
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Presidential elections were held in Egypt on 13 October 1981 following the assassination of President Anwar Sadat on 6 October. House of Representatives speaker Sufi Abu Taleb became acting president until the new president was elected. The vote took the form of a referendum on the candidacy of vice president and interim prime minister Hosni Mubarak.
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Ameritech Mobile Communications launched a commercial cellular telephone network in Chicago, the first in the United States.
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General elections were held in Belgium on 13 October 1985. The Christian People's Party emerged as the largest party, with 49 of the 212 seats in the Chamber of Representatives and 25 of the 106 seats in the Senate. Elections to the nine provincial councils were also held. The incumbent government was a coalition of Christian democrats (CVP/PSC) and liberals (PVV/PRL) led by Prime Minister Wilfried Martens. Following the elections, the same parties formed a new Martens Government. Guy Verhofstadt, PVV leader since 1982, was elected for the first time as representative.
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Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 13 October 1985. According to the Constitution of 1952 the elections should have been held every 4 years, that is in the spring of 1984, but since the internal political situation was still considered "unstable" even after the repealing in 1983 of the Martial Law, the Sejm voted to extend its own term at first indefinitely (on February 13, 1984) and then until August 31, 1985 (on December 3, 1984), fixing the elections to be held not beyond the end of 1985.
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The 1987 New Brunswick general election was held on October 13, 1987, to select the 58 members of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick of the 51st Legislature of the Canadian province of New Brunswick. The Liberal Party won power for the first time since 1967. They did so in a landslide, winning all 58 seats in the legislature.
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On October 13, 1988, Vice President George H. W. Bush and Governor Michael Dukakis held their second presidential debate at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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A leadership election for the Civic Forum party was held in Czechoslovakia on 13 October 1990. Václav Klaus was elected the leader of the party, defeating Martin Palouš. Election was held in Hostivař. Klaus received 115 votes while Palouš only 52.
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The War of Liberation (Arabic: حرب التحرير) was a sub-conflict within the final phase of the Lebanese Civil War between 1989 and 1990, in which the Lebanese Army loyal to General and Prime Minister Michel Aoun, appointed by previous President Amine Gemayel and headquartered in eastern Beirut, fought against the western Beirut-based Syrian Armed Forces and the Lebanese Army loyal to President Elias Hrawi and Prime Minister Salim el-Hoss, appointed by the Taif Agreement. Aoun launched several offensives against the Lebanese Forces in an attempt to establish his authority over East Beirut. The conflict culminated on 13 October 1990, when the Syrian Army stormed Baabda Palace and other strongholds of Aoun, killing hundreds of Lebanese soldiers and civilians and ousting Aoun, marking the end of the Lebanese Civil War.
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The War of Elimination (Arabic: حرب الإلغاء or War of Attrition, also known as the Aoun-Geagea War) was an inter-Christian military conflict within the final phase of the Lebanese Civil War as part of the War of Liberation which took place between January and October 1990. It was fought between the Lebanese Army, led by General Michel Aoun, and the Lebanese Forces, led by Samir Geagea.
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W.A.K.O. World Championships 1991 were the eight world kickboxing championships hosted by the W.A.K.O. organization. It was the third world championships to be held in London, involving amateur men and women from twenty-eight countries across the world. There were three styles on offer; Semi-Contact, Light-Contact and Musical Forms, and for the first time since Milan 1981, there would be no Full-Contact kickboxing competition at a W.A.K.O. world championships. Each country was allowed one competitor per weight division per category, although participants were allowed to participate in more than one category.
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Presidential elections were held for the first time in Kyrgyzstan on 13 October 1991. The only candidate was Askar Akayev, who received 95% of the vote. Voter turnout reported to be 89%.
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The 1991 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship final was the eighteenth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1991 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship, an inter-county ladies' Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland. Waterford had beaten Kerry in the Munster final to prevent a ten-in-a-row, and went on to beat Laois by seven points.
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Operation Gothic Serpent was a military operation conducted in Mogadishu, Somalia, by an American military force code-named Task Force Ranger during the Somali Civil War in 1993. The primary objective of the operation was to capture Mohamed Farrah Aidid, leader of the Somali National Alliance who was wanted by the UNOSOM II in response to his attacks against United Nations troops.
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Six magnitude 6.0 or larger earthquakes struck the Markham Valley region of Madang and Morobe provinces in Papua New Guinea of October 1993. The first and largest of the sequence measured Mw 6.9 and struck on 13 October; a Mw 6.7 shock occurred 12 days later. These earthquakes were centered beneath the Finisterre Range, north of the valley.
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Representing Japan, Chire Koyama defeated Deng Yaping in the women’s singles final at the Hiroshima Asian Games. Koyama had previously competed for China under the name He Zhili.
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Operation Sana (Bosnian: Operacija Sana) was the final military offensive of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Armija Republike Bosne i Hercegovine – ARBiH) in western Bosnia and Herzegovina and the last major battle of the Bosnian War. It was launched from the area of Bihać on 13 September 1995, against the Army of Republika Srpska (Vojska Republike Srpske – VRS), and involved advances towards Bosanski Petrovac, Sanski Most and Bosanska Krupa.
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European elections were held in Austria on 13 October 1996 to elect the 21 Austrian members of the European Parliament.
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The 1996 Madeiran regional election (Portuguese: Eleições Regionais da Madeira de 1996) was an election held on 13 October 1996 to elect the 59 members of the regioanl legislative assembly for the Portuguese autonomous region of the Madeira The winner of the election in Madeira was, once more, the Social Democratic Party, and Alberto João Jardim was elected president of the Regional Government with an absolute majority for the 6th consecutive time.
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The 1996 Azores Regional Election (Portuguese: Eleições Regionais dos Açores, 1996) was an election held on 13 October 1996 to elected the 52 seats for the regional legislative assembly of the Portuguese autonomous region of the Azores. The Socialist Party, under the leadership of Carlos César, won with 45 percent of the votes, while their direct rivals, the Social Democratic Party, won 41 percent of the votes, although both parties tied in seats, each party winning 24 MPs.
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An indirect presidential election was held in the Parliament of Lebanon on 13 October 1998, resulting in General Emile Lahoud being elected President of the Lebanese Republic. By convention, the presidency is always attributed to a Maronite Christian. Under the article 49 of the Lebanese Constitution, a qualified majority of two-thirds of the members of the 128-seat Lebanese Parliament is required to elect the president.
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The 2001 Christchurch mayoral election was part of the 2001 New Zealand local elections. Incumbent Garry Moore beat talk back radio and television host George Balani.
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The 2001 Porirua City Council election was part of the 2001 New Zealand local elections, to elect members to sub-national councils and boards. Members were elected to the city council, the district health board and various local boards and licensing trusts. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.
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The 2001 Lower Hutt mayoral election was part of the wider 2001 New Zealand local elections. The elections were held for the role of Mayor of Lower Hutt plus other local government positions including eleven city councillors, also elected triennially. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.
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The 2001 Wellington mayoral election was part of the 2001 New Zealand local elections held at that time. Elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government roles. Kerry Prendergast, the former deputy mayor, was elected as mayor of Wellington replacing Mark Blumsky who had retired. This was the last Wellington mayoral election that used the first-past-the-post method.
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The 2001 Dunedin mayoral election re-elected Sukhi Turner as Mayor of Dunedin for a third term. This was the last Dunedin mayoral election that used the First past the post method.
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The 2001 Wellington City Council election was part of the 2001 New Zealand local elections, to elect members to sub-national councils and boards.
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The 2001 Hutt City Council election was part of the 2001 New Zealand local elections, to elect members to sub-national councils and boards. Members were elected to the city council, district health board and various local boards and licensing trusts. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.
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The 2001 Porirua mayoral election was part of the 2001 New Zealand local elections. The elections were held for the role of Mayor of Porirua plus other local government positions including thirteen city councillors, also elected triennially. This was the last Porirua mayoral election that used the First past the post method.
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The 2001 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 2001, elections were held for the Mayor of Auckland plus other local government positions including nineteen city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.
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The 2002 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Palais des Sports de Gerland in Lyon in France and was part of the International Series of the 2002 ATP Tour. It was the 16th edition of the tournament and ran from October 7 through October 13, 2002. Paul-Henri Mathieu won the singles title.
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Presidential elections were held in the Yugoslav province of Serbia on 29 September 2002, with a second round on 13 October. However, the result was invalidated because turnout in the second round was less than 50%. Fresh elections were held in December.
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Battle of Bhalubang was fought on 13 October 2003 in Bhalubang, Nepal, between the Kingdom of Nepal and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), as the current Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) was known at the time. It resulted in the government victory and about 40 soldiers died from both sides.
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Assembly elections were held in Maharashtra, India on October 13, 2004. The major alliances were the Democratic Front and the Bharatiya Janata Party–Shiv Sena alliance. Other parties contesting included the Bahujan Samaj Party, the Samajwadi Party, the Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Lok Janshakti Party. The election used 66,000 electronic voting machines to elect the assembly's 288 members.
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On October 13, 2004, President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry held their third and final presidential debate at Arizona State University in Tempe.
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On 13 October 2006, the Brazil national futsal team and Timor-Leste national futsal team faced each other in an international futsal match that was part of the 2006 Lusophony Games, hosted that year by Macau. Brazil defeated Timor-Leste 76–0, setting a world record for largest win in an international futsal match. One of Brazil's players, Valdin, scored 20 goals, which is another record.
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The 2007 Wellington mayoral election was part of the 2007 New Zealand local elections. On 13 October 2007, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government roles. Kerry Prendergast was elected for a third consecutive term as mayor of Wellington.
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The 2007 Invercargill mayoral election began on Saturday, 13 October 2007. It was conducted under the First Past the Post system using postal voting, and was held as part of the 2007 New Zealand local elections. The incumbent mayor, Tim Shadbolt, was comfortably returned to his position with 83% of the vote.
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The 2007 Christchurch mayoral election was part of the 2007 New Zealand local elections. On 13 October of that year, elections were held for the Mayor of Christchurch plus other local government roles. Incumbent Garry Moore retired in 2007 after nine years in the office. Bob Parker, previously mayor of Banks Peninsula, beat the Christchurch 2021 representative, Megan Woods, with a majority of 14,212 votes (13.73%).
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The 2007 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 2007, elections were held for the Mayor of Auckland plus other local government positions including nineteen city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.
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The 2007 Wellington City Council election was part of the 2007 New Zealand local elections, to elect members to sub-national councils and boards.
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The 2007 Lower Hutt mayoral election was part of the wider 2007 New Zealand local elections. The elections were held for the role of Mayor of Lower Hutt plus other local government positions including twelve city councillors, also elected triennially. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.
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The 2007 Dunedin mayoral election re-elected Peter Chin as mayor of Dunedin, New Zealand. The election was conducted under the Single transferable vote voting system.
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The 13th Assembly elections were held in Maharashtra, India on October 13, 2009. The ruling Democratic Front (Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)) contested the elections against the alliance of Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Against the Third Front Known as Republican Left Democratic Front Polpularly known as RIDALOS. Voters elected the 288 members of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in newly organised assembly constituencies after the delimitation approved in 2008. The results were declared on October 22, 2009.
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The Haryana legislative assembly election, 2009 was held on 13 October 2009, to select the 90 members of the Haryana Legislative Assembly. Results were declared on 22 October 2009. Indian National Congress got 40 seats. Incumbent Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was reelected for second term.
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The 2009 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election took place in October 2009, concurrently with the assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana. The elections were held in the state for all 60 Assembly seats on 13 October 2009. The results were declared on 22 October 2009. Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu's Indian National Congress party came back to power in the state with an increased majority, winning 42 seats in the 60 seat Assembly.
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Rescuers brought the last of 33 trapped miners to the surface at Chile’s San José mine. The men had been underground for 69 days after a collapse.
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UFC 153: Silva vs. Bonnar was a mixed martial arts pay-per-view event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on October 13, 2012 at the HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Glory By Honor XI: The Unbreakable Hope was the 11th Glory By Honor professional wrestling internet pay-per-view (iPPV) event produced by Ring of Honor (ROH). It took place on October 13, 2012, at the International Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
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The 2012 Regional Council Elections (cz. Volby do krajských zastupitelstev) were held on the 12th and 13th of October in all administrative regions (cz. Kraje) of the Czech Republic, with the exception of Prague. The election was won by the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD), which received the most votes in 9 of the 13 regions despite experiencing a significant drop in voter share overall.
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The Battle of Maarat al-Numan (Arabic: معركة معرة النعمان) took place between the Syrian Army and the rebel Free Syrian Army for control of the strategically important town of Maarrat al-Numan in October 2012, during the Idlib Governorate clashes (June 2012–April 2013) of the Syrian Civil War.
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The 17th Busan International Film Festival was held from October 4 to October 13, 2012 at the Busan Cinema Center and was hosted by Ahn Sung-ki and Chinese actress Tang Wei, who is the first foreign celebrity to host the event. In this year's festival, a total of 304 films from 75 countries was screened, with 93 serving as world premieres and 39 serving as international premieres.
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The 2013 National Premier Leagues Grand Final was the first National Premier Leagues Grand Final. It was played on 13 October 2013 at KGV Park in Glenorchy between South Hobart and Sydney United 58. Sydney United 58 won 2–0 to secure their inaugural National Premier Leagues title.
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A leadership election was held in October 2013 to select Kevin Rudd's replacement as leader of the Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition. Bill Shorten was elected party leader, and Tanya Plibersek was later confirmed as deputy leader. The declared candidates were Bill Shorten and Anthony Albanese, who were both ministers in the outgoing Labor government. Nominations closed on 20 September 2013.
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Pilgrims were caught in a crush on a bridge over the Sindh River near Ratangarh temple in India’s Datia district.
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On October 13, 2015, the first episode of Minecraft: Story Mode was released digitally for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3.
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On 13 October 2016, jihadists from Ansar Dine ambushed Malian soldiers near Goumakoura, Mali.
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The October 2016 Idlib Governorate clashes were a series of violent confrontations between the Salafi jihadist group Jund al-Aqsa and the Syrian rebel group Ahrar al-Sham, supported by several other rebel groups. The two groups were previously allied during the 2016 Hama offensive, but sporadic clashes also occurred time by time.
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King Bhumibol Adulyadej, also known as Rama IX, died at Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok after a reign of 70 years.
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The Leyenda de Plata (2017) (Spanish for "Silver Legend") was professional wrestling tournament produced by the Mexican wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLLl; Spanish "World Wrestling Council") that ran from October 13, 2017, over the course of two of CMLL's Friday night shows in Arena México with the finals on October 20, 2017.
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The 2017 Vancouver International Film Festival, the 36th event in the history of the Vancouver International Film Festival, was held from September 28 to October 13, 2017. The festival's opening gala film was Mina Shum's Meditation Park, and its closing gala was Todd Haynes's Wonderstruck; during the festival, a special gala was also dedicated to Guy Maddin's film The Green Fog, with its score performed live in the theatre by the Kronos Quartet.
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Global Wars 2017 was a professional wrestling tour co-produced by the American Ring of Honor (ROH) and Japanese New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotions. The tour's four events took place on October 12 at Buffalo RiverWorks in Buffalo, New York, October 13 at Stage AE in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 14 at Express Live! in Columbus, Ohio, and October 15 at Odeum Expo Center in Villa Park, Illinois.
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A by-election was held on 13 October 2018, for the Dewan Rakyat seat of Port Dickson. The seat became vacant after the resignation of the incumbent member Danyal Balagopal Abdullah, a member of Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) and the governing Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition. This was the first federal by-election since the 9 May 2018 general election (GE14), which saw the first-ever change of federal government in Malaysia's history.
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The PFL 9 mixed martial arts event for the 2018 season of the Professional Fighters League was held on October 13, 2018, at the Long Beach Arena in Long Beach, California.
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The 2018 Supercoppa Italiana was the 22rd edition of the Supercoppa Italiana. It was contested by Juventus, the 2017–18 Serie A champions and Fiorentina, the 2017–18 Coppa Italia champions. The match was played in La Spezia at Stadio Alberto Picco on 13 October 2018 and Fiorentina won his first title. The match, initially scheduled for 25 August 2018 in La Spezia, was subsequently postponed by the LND to a date to be decided upon request by the companies involved.
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The 23rd Busan International Film Festival was held from 4 October to 13 October 2018 at the Busan Cinema Center. A total of 324 films from 79 countries were screened during the festival, including 115 world premieres and 25 international premieres. The DGK Award, which had been boycotted by the Director's Guild of Korea in 2016 and 2017, was reinstated during this edition of the festival.
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Senate elections were held in the Czech Republic on 5 and 6 October 2018 alongside municipal elections, with a second round held on 12 and 13 October 2018. The Conservative Civic Democratic Party (ODS) won the election with 10 seats. Governing parties ANO 2011 and the Czech Social Democratic Party were heavily defeated, winning only 1 seat each.
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The 2019 Chicago Marathon was the 42nd annual running of the Chicago Marathon held in Chicago, Illinois, United States on October 13, 2019. The men's race was won by Kenyan Lawrence Cherono in 2:05:45 while the women's was won by Kenyan Brigid Kosgei in 2:14:04, a world record by 81 seconds. The men's and women's wheelchair races were won by Daniel Romanchuk and Manuela Schär in 1:30:26 and 1:41:08, respectively.
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The 2019 Vorarlberg state election was held on 13 October 2019 to elect the members of the Landtag of Vorarlberg. The election was marked by major losses for the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), with all other parties benefiting as a result. The Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) each improved their vote share for the first time since 2004, though the former failed to regain the absolute majority it had lost in 2014.
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Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 13 October 2019. All 460 members of the Sejm and 100 senators of the Senate were elected. The ruling right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) won re-election to a second term retaining its majority in the Sejm. However, it lost its majority in the Senate to the opposition.
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The 2019 Budapest mayoral election was held on 13 October 2019 to elect the Mayor of Budapest (főpolgármester). On the same day, local elections were also held throughout Hungary, including the districts of Budapest which will determine the composition of the General Assembly. The election is run using a first-past-the-post voting system. The winner of the election will serve for a term of five years.
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A leadership election was held in 2019 for the Republicans. It was triggered by the resignation of Laurent Wauquiez and was won by Christian Jacob.
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On October 13, 2019, Tunisia held the second round of its presidential election, with Kais Saied and Nabil Karoui competing in the runoff.
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On 13 October 2020, jihadists from al-Qaeda linked group Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) attacked a Malian military base in Sokoura, Malian reinforcements attempting to relieve the troops at the base were ambushed by more jihadists at the bridge in Parou, with the ensuing firefight killing 12 civilians. The attack was the deadliest attack in Mali since Bah Ndaw took power in a coup in August.
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General elections were held in Saint Helena on 13 October 2021 to elect the 12 members of the Legislative Council. They were the first elections after a March 2021 referendum on changing the governance system of Saint Helena from a committee system to a ministerial system. Following the election, the island's first Chief Minister, Julie Thomas, was elected by members of the Legislative Council on its first session on 25 October.
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The Finnish series Mister 8 won best series at the Canneseries television festival. Pekka Strang also won an acting award for his performance in the show.
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The Iraqi presidential election of 2022 was held on 13 October 2022 to elect by indirect suffrage the president of Iraq for a four-year term. The position is largely ceremonial, with Iraq being a parliamentary system. Outgoing President Barham Salih was eligible for re-election, but was beaten in the second round by Abdul Latif Rashid.
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The election of the president of the Senate of the Republic who would serve through the Legislature XIX of Italy took place on 13 October 2022, over three weeks after the 2022 Italian general election. It resulted in Ignazio La Russa being elected president.
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The 17th Rome Film Festival took place from 13 to 23 October 2022 in the Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome. It became a competitive festival from 2022. The festival programme was unveiled by Paola Malanga, the festival's new artistic director, on 22 September 2022. It opened with The Hummingbird by Francesca Archibugi, preceded by short film Luciano Pavarotti, la stella by Gianluigi Toccafondo.
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The 28th Busan International Film Festival (Korean: 제28회 부산국제영화제) opened on October 4 at the Busan Cinema Center in Busan, South Korea. Song Kang-ho of Parasite fame welcomed filmmakers as host of the festival, while Park Eun-bin acted as the moderator of the ceremony, which was broadcast live on YouTube channel and Naver TV.
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The Vorarlberg state election of 2024 was held in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg on 13 October 2024.
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The 2024 Macanese Chief Executive election was held on 13 October 2024 for the 6th term of the Chief Executive of Macau (CE), the highest office of the Macau Special Administrative Region. Incumbent Ho Iat Seng, who was elected in 2019, declined to seek a second term for health reasons and finished his term on 20 December 2024.
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The 2024 Belgian provincial, municipal and district elections took place on Sunday 13 October 2024, four months after the simultaneous European, federal and regional elections.
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The 2024 Women's TEC Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the second edition of the tournament, which was part of the 2024 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Cornellà de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, between 7 and 13 October 2024. This year the tournament's prize money was raised to $100,000 and it was moved from August to October.
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The 57th Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia took place from 3 to 13 October 2024, in Sitges, Catalonia, Spain. Steven Soderbergh's psychological thriller film Presence opened the festival, while Alexandre Aja's survival horror film Never Let Go served as the festival's closing film. Austrian historical horror film The Devil's Bath, directed by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, won the Best Film award.
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The 2024 PASOK – Movement for Change leadership election took place on the 6th of October 2024, with a second round on the 13th of the same month, in order to elect the president of PASOK – Movement for Change. It was triggered on June 30, following internal pressure on the incumbent President Nikos Androulakis, regarding the coalition's mediocre performance at the 2024 EU elections.
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Jannik Sinner defeated Novak Djokovic 7–6, 6–3 in the Shanghai Masters final. The win gave Sinner his seventh ATP Tour singles title of the 2024 season.
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The 2025 Tuscan regional election took place in Tuscany, Italy, from 12 to 13 October 2025. In line with polls prediction and the region's left-leaning status, the incumbent president Eugenio Giani of the centre-left coalition was re-elected to a second term with 54% of the vote, compared to the 41% of centre-right coalition candidate Alessandro Tomasi.
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The 63rd New York Film Festival took place from September 26 to October 13, 2025, in New York City, presented by Film at Lincoln Center. Luca Guadagnino's thriller film After the Hunt was the opening film. Jim Jarmusch's anthology drama film Father Mother Sister Brother was the festival's centerpiece. Bradley Cooper's comedy Is This Thing On? was the closing film.
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