What are the important events that happened on October 13? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

October 13: Facts & Myths About This Day

October 13 is the 286^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 79 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 30, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,338,560 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaoctacontahexagon’ day.

Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 127 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,679 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

October 13 Historical Events

• 409 –
  Vandals and Alans cross the Pyrenees and appear in Hispania.
• 1582 –
  Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1915 –
  The Battle for the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos in northern France, World War I.
• 1917 –
  The “Miracle of the Sun” is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.
• 1944 –
  World War II: Riga, the capital of Latvia is occupied by the Red Army.
• 1967 –
  The first game in the history of the American Basketball Association is played as the Anaheim Amigos lose to the Oakland Oaks 134-129 in Oakland, California.
• 1972 –
  An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-62 crashes outside Moscow killing 176.
• 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 is obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C.
• 1999 –
  The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).

Who were born on October 13?

• 1566 –
  Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (d. 1643)
• 1925 –
  Lenny Bruce, American comedian (d. 1966)
• 1932 –
  Jack Colvin, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1948 –
  Lacy J. Dalton, country singer
• 1963 –
  Scott Andrew Mink, American convicted murderer (d. 2004)
• 1967 –
  Javier Sotomayor, Cuban Athlete
• 1970 –
  Rob Howley, Welsh rugby player
• 1971 –
  Hitesh Modi, Kenyan cricketer
• 1981 –
  Taylor Buchholz, American baseball player
• 1992 –
  Aaron Dismuke, American voice actor

Who died on October 13?

• 1282 –
  Nichiren Daishonin Japanese spiritual figure (b. 1222)
• 1841 –
  Patrick Campbell, British naval officer (b. 1773)
• 1890 –
  Samuel Freeman Miller, American jurist (b. 1816)
• 1904 –
  Pavlos Melas, Greek military officer (b. 1870)
• 1905 –
  Sir Henry Irving, the first British actor to be knighted (b. 1838)
• 1966 –
  Clifton Webb, American actor (b. 1889)
• 1968 –
  Bea Benaderet, American actress (b. 1906)
• 1987 –
  Kishore Kumar, Indian singer (b. 1929)
• 1988 –
  Mike Venezia, American jockey (b. 1945)
• 2002 –
  Stephen Ambrose, American historian and biographer (b. 1936)