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| October 13 is the 287th day of the year. There are 79 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 1307 On Friday, October 13, as a birthday surprise for their Grand Master, hundreds of Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into "admitting" heresy. |
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| 1792 1st Old Farmer's Almanac is published, but without pictures of hot, old farmers |
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| 1843 B'nai B'rith is born in NY and circumcised a few days later |
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| 1884 Meantime in Greenwich, the universal time meridian of longitude is established years before Einstein figures out that time and space are relative |
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| 1903 Victor Herbert's "Babes in Toyland" premieres in New York City. The auditions were enlightening. |
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| 1917 The "Miracle of the Sun" is "witnessed" by an estimated 70,000 ‘shroom and peyote eaters in the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal. Guess you had to be there. |
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| 1923 Angora (Ankara) becomes capital of Turkey at rate of $3 per wabbit |
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| 1936 Gas leak explosion rips out section 12 of Cleveland Stadium–happily their season was over before the All-Star break. |
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| 1970 Angela Davis is arrested in New York City |
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| 1983 Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois. |
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| 1985 "Sunday in the Park with George" closes at Booth New York City after 604 performances |
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| 1987 US Navy uses trained dolphins for the first time on a military mission in Persian Gulf. |
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| 1988 Shroud of Turin, revered by many Christians as Christ's burial cloth, is shown by carbon-dating tests to be a fake from the Middle Ages. Recent critical methodological review raises questions about this conclusion, however. So, it's still a maybe. Watch this space for further developments. |
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| 1996 "Big" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 193 performances |
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| 2010 The 2010 Copiapó mining accident in Copiapó, Chile comes to an end as all 33 miners arrive at the surface after surviving a record 69 days underground awaiting rescue. What happens underground stays underground, capische? |
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| 1233 Jaques de Molay, probably gay French 23rd and last (known) Grand Master of the Knights Templar |
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| 1912 Cornel Wilde [Kornel Lajos Weisz], Slovakian-born US actor |
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| 1966 Jose Angel Llamas, Mexican actor |
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| 1968 Alex Ferns, Scottish actor |
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| 1970 Lance Gear, gay US pornographic actor |
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| 1970 Zeb Atlas [Andy Bick], gay US pornographic actor |
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| 1971 Sacha Baron Cohen, English comedian/Ali G/Borat/Bruno |
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| 1971 Todd A. Kovner, US actor |
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| 1974 Branden Williams, US actor |
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| 1977 Antonio Di Natale, Italian soccer player |
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| 1982 Ian Thorpe, Australian Olympic gold medal swimmer |
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| 1985 Ross Edgley, English water polo player turned model |
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| 1988 RJ Danvers, gay US pornographic actor |
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| 1966 Clifton Webb [Webb Parmalee Hollenbeck], gay US actor (Laura, Razor's Edge), becomes the man who never was |
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| 2002 Keene Curtis, gay US actor, starred in original Broadway production of Annie, gets touched by an angel |
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| 2008 Guillaume Depardieu, French actor (Pola X), tries it once upon an angel. |
