Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 13
October 13: Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah in Judaism begins at sunset (2006)
- 54 - Claudius was fatally poisoned by his wife Agrippina the Younger, making her 17-year-old son Nero the next Roman Emperor.
- 1307 - Thousands of members of the Knights Templar (seal pictured) were simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair and subsequently tortured into "admitting" heresy.
- 1843 - The Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, the oldest continually-operating Jewish service organization in the world, was founded in New York City.
- 1917 - An estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria fields near Fátima, Portugal witnessed "The Miracle of the Sun."
- 1943 - World War II: With a new government led by General Pietro Badoglio, parts of Italy switched sides to the Allies and declared war on the Axis Powers.
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