October 13<\/p>\n
54 \u2013 Roman emperor Claudius dies under mysterious circumstances and is succeeded by Nero<\/p>\n
1775 \u2013 The Continental Congress establishes the Continental Navy<\/p>\n
1792 \u2013 The cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion is laid by President Washington.<\/p>\n
1812 \u2013 During the War of 1812, Sir Isaac Brock’s British and native forces repel an invasion of Canada by General Rensselaer’s United States forces.<\/p>\n
1884 \u2013 The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.<\/p>\n
1885 \u2013 The Georgia Institute of Technology is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.<\/p>\n
1892 \u2013 While on staff of the University of California’s Lick Observatory,\u00a0 Edward Emerson Barnard makes the first discovery of a comet, Barnard 3 –<\/em>\u00a0later renamed 206P\/Barnard\u2013Boattini –<\/em>\u00a0by photographic means.<\/p>\n 1903 \u2013 The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.<\/p>\n 1976 \u2013 The first electron micrograph of an Ebola virus is taken at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Dr. F. A. Murphy.<\/p>\n 1983 \u2013 ‘Baby Bell’ company Ameritech Mobile Communications launches the first cellular network in the U.S. in Chicago.<\/p>\n 2012 \u2013 U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Ryan Savard is killed in action in Konduz Province, Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 13 54 \u2013 Roman emperor Claudius dies under mysterious circumstances and is succeeded by Nero 1775 \u2013 The Continental Congress establishes the Continental Navy 1792 \u2013 The cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion is laid by President Washington. 1812 \u2013 During the War of 1812, Sir Isaac Brock’s British and native forces repel … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60664"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96716,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60664\/revisions\/96716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}