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Events on October 13

• 1307 The members of the Knights Templar are imprisoned throughout France by Guillaume de Nogaret on the orders of King Philip the Fair.
• 1806 In Berlin, the Royal Prussian Institute for the Blind is opened under the direction of Johann August Zeune – Germany's first school for the blind.
• 1884 The International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C., establishes the prime meridian at the observatory in Greenwich. The protagonist is Sir Sandford Fleming.
• 1908 Fritz Haber files a patent application for the “process for the synthetic production of ammonia from the elements,” the basis of the groundbreaking Haber-Bosch process.
• 1945 The CSU is founded in Würzburg.
• 1961 Traffic psychologist Karl Peglau submits his proposal for the “East Ampelmännchen” in Berlin.
• 1962 In Germany, the ARD broadcasts the first episode of the American television series Bonanza.
• 1963 In Bobingen in Bavarian Swabia, the first mass-participation run in Germany takes place. 1654 participants take part in sporting activities in the Augsburg Nature Park – Western Forests.
• 1975 In Germany, the first regular issue of the comic magazine Yps is published. The issue enjoys particular popularity because of the gimmick included with every issue, often a toy, which sets it apart from other comic magazines for young people in the first decades of its publication.
• 1977 During its flight from Palma to Frankfurt, the Lufthansa aircraft Landshut is hijacked by the Palestinian terrorist commando Martyr Halimeh and taken to the Middle East. The hijacking lasts until the rescue operation by GSG9 on 18 October.
• 2006 As part of the Excellence Initiative, the Technical University of Munich, the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and the University of Karlsruhe are recognized as the first German elite universities.
• 2010 The 33 miners trapped underground in the San José mine disaster can be rescued.

Born on October 13

• 1866 Georg Groddeck, German physician, writer, and pioneer of psychosomatics
• 1867 Pierre Bonnard, French painter
• 1921 Yves Montand, French actor and chanson singer
• 1923 Inger Jacobsen, Norwegian singer and actress
• 1934 Nana Mouskouri, Greek singer
• 1950 Annegret Richter, German track and field athlete
• 1963 Thomas Dörflein, German zookeeper
• 1971 Sacha Baron Cohen, British comedian and actor
• 1971 Sebastian Fitzek, German writer and journalist
• 1993 Manuel Feller, Austrian ski racer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „13. Oktober“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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