Wednesday, October 13, 2010

October 13

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1. 1307 Hundreds of Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into a "confession" of heresy. Black Eyes Yes I Confess Black Eyes
2. 1362 The Chancellor of England for the first time opened Parliament with a speech in English. Amy Annelle The Birds Start Talking English A School of Secret Dangers
3. 1773 The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier. Badly Drawn Boy Whirlpool How Did I Get Here?
4. 1884 Greenwich, in LondonEngland, is established as Universal Time meridian of longitude. Electronic Time Can Tell Raise the Pressure
5. 1917 The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal. The Stylistics The Miracle The Best of the Stylistics
6. 1983 Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois. American Spring Had to Phone Ya Spring – Plus

(Historical facts about October 13 are from Wikipedia)

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