Today in History - History - October 13th

1981Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt

1864Battle of Harpers Ferry, WV (mOSBY's Raid)

1862Bismarck's "Blood & Iron" speech

1975Rock vocal Neil Young undergoes throat surgery

19639th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright

54Nero suceeds Claudius to become Roman Emperor

1960Opponents of Fidel Castro executed in Cuba

1982IOC Executive Committee approves the reinstatement of Jim Thorpe's gold medals from the 1912 Olympics

1724Jonathan Swift publishes last of Drapier's letters

19759th Country Music Association Award: John Denver wins

1902Arna Bontemps, Louisiana, American poet (100 years of negro freedom)

1971Sacha Baron Cohen, Hammersmith, London, comedian/actor (Ali G, Borat)

1821Rudolf Virchow, Schivelbein, Pomerania, Prussia, German politician/anthropologist/pathologist (cell pathology), (d. 1902)

1962Jerry Rice, Starkville Mississippi, NFL wide receiver (San Francisco 49ers)

1956MLB player Roger Maris (22) weds high school sweetheart Pat Carvell at St. Anthony Padua Church

1941NFL halfback Red Grange (38) weds flight attendant Margaret Hazelberg

1987Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist (transistors, Nobel 1956), dies at 85

1945Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate tycoon (The Hershey Chocolate Company), dies at 86

1812Isaac Brock, English general (conquered Detroit), dies in battle at 43

54Claudius, Roman Emperor, dies of poison mushrooms at 63