Daily Calendar for Tuesday, October 13, 2026

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Milton Hershey (Chocolatier and founder of The Hershey Company; died in Hershey, Pennsylvania) – 1945
Ed Sullivan (television personality) – 1974
Stephen Ambrose (historian) – 2002

Cornerstone of the White House was laid – 1792
The Jewish organization B’nai B’rith was founded – 1843
Several countries adopted the Greenwich longitude as the prime meridian – 1884
Boston Americans (now Red Sox) won first World Series – 1903
The Boston Red Sox beat the Philadelphia Phillies to win the World Series – 1915
William Golding’s novel, The Lord of the Flies, was published in New York – 1955
First World Series to end on a walk-off home run when the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the New York Yankees – 1960
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opened on Broadway – 1962
Expo 86 ended in Vancouver, British Columbia – 1986
The United States Navy Memorial was dedicated, Washington, D.C. – 1987
Stock market dropped 190.58 points in what was called the Friday the 13th mini-crash – 1989
A 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck central Oklahoma – 2010
Thirty-three miners trapped underground for more than 2 months were rescued, Copiapo, Chile – 2010
Actor William Shatner became the oldest person, at age 90, to travel to space – 2021

A snowstorm hit New York City – 1937
Project Cirrus: 80 lbs. dry ice released onto hurricane – 1947
Up to 2 feet of snow blanketed Buffalo, New York, and surrounding areas – 2006
A storm that started Oct. 12 comes to an end, having dropped 22.6 inches of snow in Buffalo, New York. – 2006